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Gamers Nexus might start including Linux gaming tests in their hardware reviews (youtu.be)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

SteamOS is going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting. I reckon there are quite a few people who are waiting for its release before trying Linux.

Does SteamOS even have functional desktop, or is it just Steam big picture wrapper thing?

[–] Giloron 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, but it is also set up as an OS image.

I think there is a process for persistence, but without some effort, changes are lost for OS updates.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Changes aren't lost on update. If you enable a sudo user/password, and make changes to the system that way, those changes can be lost when applying the new system image.

Its an immutable Arch-based distro and you have full readwrite to your home directory and all config, settings, and files within persist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Even the stuff in the "immutable" section isn't necessarily wiped, it's more that there is a strong chance changes may be overwritten. I'd definitely make no guarantees to anything stored on the immutable sections of SteamOS.

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