Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).
Probably could’ve made it but I haven’t picked a distro. I’m planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.
- Garuda (Arch-based)
- Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don’t trust it for some reason)
- Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)
- CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)
- Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)
I’ve tried bazzite, nobara and cachyos
Bazzite is fantastic if all you care about is gaming. I have three devices that will do little more than just gaming that have it and it’s fantastic for HTPC gaming if you like controllers. (My partner uses it on desktop and finds it fine and never gets in the way of what she wants to do)
I tried nobara on a laptop that i planned to do a little bit of everything on but for some reason i had a difficult time with it. I landed on cachyos because I’ve had some experience with arch and felt much more comfortable with it.