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  • Stefano Prenna@lemmy.stefanoprenna.comtoLinux@lemmy.ml•SteamOS as your daily driver?
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    5 months ago

    So, I’ve been using my Steam Deck as my main driver for more than a year. While there are options to install software without having those removed when you update (steamos-btrfs, nix, distrobox), you can just boot another OS from an external drive.

    I have WinesapOS on a SD card so I can use SteamOS without restrictions (and there are other options like Bazzite that others have mentioned).

    So far, I have not found anything that was not possible on my machine, because, well, it’s a computer with an Arch distro on it!

    Something that I read elsewhere, not in this thread, is about limits when it comes to work with external peripherals. Now, I can tell you that I use an external Bluray player, printer, scanner, drawing tablet, floppy drive reader (to make images of floppies), azeron pad, programming esp32, work with sound with a Creative GC7, and I’m not sure I’m missing anything. My SteamOS is great!

  • Stefano Prenna@lemmy.stefanoprenna.comtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I finally nuked windows
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    8 months ago

    I remember when I did the switch in 2008 and never looked back. I had a similar experience where across a few years I have been trying different distributions and finally settled on Lubuntu. Years have passed and different machines as well. Now my main driver is a Steam Deck with his Arch based OS and a secondary pure Arch on a sd card for more specific tasks.

    Linux made my life more comfortable and relaxed, without even mentioning secure. My family uses Linux now, Windows is long dead.

    We are free.