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)

BTW I have an AMD CPU and GPU. Figured I should’ve mentioned that.

  • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Well if you’re daily driving Kubuntu and wants an Arch-based distro go for it, CachyOS is really popular these days.

    I think it made sense for Valve to go with Arch for a custom Hardware with console-like experience cuz they can tweak it and optimize it in depth but for a desktop PC you won’t have big difference from a gaming perspective.

    I’m not 100% sure about this but I think you could copy/backup the file that create all the non-steam link and metadata if you make the switch to another distro. But you’ll have to do some research I guess.

    • Tenderizer78@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I looked it up and as far as I can tell there’s no way to get the itch io launcher to recognize games restored from a backup. Though even on Windows that launcher is garbage and buggy, I’d almost rather use my browser if not for the updates.

      I’ll look into CachyOS on YouTube, but it seems very finely tuned with not a lot of room for error. Or maybe give up and go with Bazzite like a normal person. With my outdated PC (especially CPU) I could, very rarely, need the performance boost.