Alt text: Trojan Horse meme, Steam Deck bringing Linux to Windows gamers

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  • 7355608@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Firstly: I feel seen.

    Secondly: it’s working, SteamOS is so nice. I haven’t been this interested in Linux since the XP to 7 transfer. And I think imma’ actually do it this time.

    • plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 days ago

      Same. I didn’t realise it at the time but the steam deck led to the media PC, which led to the laptop and finally the gaming rig fell. I dual booted but haven’t gone back in so long i am now eyeing up the windows disks to get more space.

      Today I found Organic Maps, which seems a nice FOSS alternative to Google. Freedom feels good.

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      7 days ago

      I’m in the same boat. I am really not interested in Windows 11 at all, especially after using it at work. My primary hesitation has been video game playability in the past but the steam deck has really expanded how many games are playable on Linux and I also play a lot more games on consoles than I did a few years ago

      • maniclucky@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        I was you. I installed Mint and the only issue I had was with a hard drive that was being shared by both systems (dual booting) that had all my games on it. It was a symlink issue.

        Bite the bullet. The startup time alone is worth it.

        • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          I’m probably going to do a trial run of Bazzite on my secondary computer to see how much does and doesn’t work and make my decision based on that