If they like how SteamOS worked, then go with Bazzite. I’ve used Linux for nearly 3 decades now. At the end of the day, we could nickle and dime the differences and the pros and cons. I don’t think it’s worth it. Bazzite will be familiar enough, and you can add Bottles to handle other game launchers. That will give you the most kitchen appliance like device.
Dude, the knock-on affects from this video will be huge.
100% agree. Good point.
rclone is pretty reliable. That’s how I back up my nextcloud to two different object storage sites. I have Nextcloud dockerized on a VPS in the cloud (among other dockerized services for selfhosting). Been syncing nonstop for 3 years now. I also used rclone to sync all my files from OneDrive directly to my VPS block storage. Rclone is a very underrated utility.
I would assume BBT’s. (Big Black Titties)
It’s a random sampling of devices. That’s why looking at the English only numbers are more consistent. Sometimes the randomness is heavily skewed to China, and sometimes has very little China. See here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#languagesanchor
… and what I heard was we cancelled it.
That might have been true. There were actually two phone teams at Intel working with the same hardware. WinPhone and Android. Our budget came from the Android budget, as they had already been funded and working on the Android version for 6 months already. It came time to demo the phones and our WinPhone could make calls, get internet, and connect to wifi. The android phone could only boot. So the Android team took back what remained of the budget, because it was felt that more Android phones would sell. The WinPhone was put on pause. Then, the android team ran out of budget and the whole thing was scuttled, including WinPhone. I bet MSFT was doing Intel a solid by not trashing Intel because it’s Android team dropped the ball. Props to MSFT for that.
Anyway, yep, I am fully linux and fully team red now.
Same. And I’m never looking back.
Yeah man, have code in Win8, WinPhone, and Win10. Bet you didn’t know Intel had a WinPhone device. Of course, Intel cancelled it. I definitely avoid mega corporations now. Won’t even take their interviews. The small company I work for now, they said, “Can you make this integration in 8 months”, I said yes. Two months later, all done and deployed to production. Everything is much easier when you can actually talk to other teams and submit PR’s you need.
I’m with you. I’ll never work for another big corporation. The have no interests in making good products. All Intel did was use their money to artificially keep AMD from selling chips. Which is crazy, Intel pretty much did everything first. Now they do nothing.
haha, I was a Windows Kernel dev for Intel. What a shit show. Both companies would fuck each other over. So many times. We would start project, get Microsoft to buy in. Microsoft would pull in a bunch of engineers to support it, 3 months later, we cancel on Microsoft. Or Microsoft does the same thing to us, I get pulled on to a team to support Microsoft, 3 months later, Microsoft cancels. No wonder those two companies are imploding. Good riddence.
Bazzite is great. I tried it out for gee whiz. I don’t use it because I use my PC for dev work. Bazzite is purpose built for gaming. If that’s what you use that machine for, then I’d say it’s a good move. But really, you’ll be just fine for gaming if you stick with a standard distro too. I’m on Ubuntu now, but plan to move the second Pop!_OS hits beta.
Yep, they aren’t trying to figure out what games, one manually adds to the Steam library.
I’ve played WoW on Linux for twenty years. Blizzard has always said they unofficially support Linux. Occasionally the Blizzard launcher will have an issue, but Blizzard fixes it right away. All that to say, you should 100% have high expectation for WoW on Linux.
I use bottles to run Blizzard games with the latest Soda runtime. But as others mentioned, it’s probably the integrated gpu that’s getting selected. If you didn’t use the automatic installer, (Lutris, bottles, etc., all have auto installers) for the blizzard launcher I’d suggest going back to that. But likely it’s just the gpu selection.
I don’t know why this is being downvoted
Oh quit your whining. Stop making excuses.
Honestly I thought the Steam Machine V2 would drop this summer. It would really be a great time for it. Definitely take some pressure off Valve to release a Steam Deck 2. I’m holding off not building my own console just in case.
It’s not in the kernel. It just comes a long with the kernel. You can compile any of the drivers as modules. Back in the day when you had to fit your kernel and boot loader on a 1.44MB floppy. We would save space by compiling most of the drivers as modules and then they would get loaded into kernel space on boot. Now a days, a 100MB kernel is not a big deal when systems have Gigs of ram and harddrives are in the Terabytes. They keep the driver code with the kernel code mostly for the reasons that @dafta gave. When I was a Windows kernel dev for Intel, Microsoft did the same thing. That’s how you get inbox drivers. As a Windows kernel dev for Intel, it was our goal to get our drivers inbox’d with Microsoft so their developers would be responsible for maintaining the driver code, as well as testing, when ever there were changes to the Kernel that affected drivers.
short answer: There is generic support already in the kernel. It’s up to the game controller MFG to use that standard. Also, the generic controller standard probably doesn’t support a lot of the new features, so it makes sense to have a driver to support the extra features of the controller.
longer answer is way too long.
Nobody is expecting them too. That’s all in your own head.
Average users don’t install OSes. They don’t care about OSes. Nobody would ever expect an average user to even think about looking for a gaming distro. I think you need to retune your idea of what an average user is.
Well, at least you got that far. Imagine if you tried migrating to MacOS.
Just pick something. They are all free (nearly all of them), so you can always install something else pretty easily. Spend some time to get your feet wet and get the lay of the land. After a week or two, you’ll probably have a really good direction on what you actually want. You can also run them as live oses, so download a few with different Desktop Environments you think are interesting and test them out. Then install one.