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)