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Steam Deck

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[–] pathief@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (10 children)

I understand that people are hyped about a Linux distribution developed by a company they really care about. However, please be aware that SteamOS is focused at being an (almost) exclusive gaming OS with very limited hardware support. It doesn't support NVIDIA video cards, for instance.

Steam already runs perfectly fine in most generalist distributions and you'll have a wonderful time if you install them.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days ago (7 children)

It doesn't support NVIDIA video cards, for instance.

Rather NoVideo doesn't support their video cards on Linux

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

~~No, their Micro-compositor was written exclusively for AMD cards.~~ The SteamOS setup just borks if you try to install it with nvidia. People coming from Windows won't really care who is to blame, they'll just be baffled it doesn't work.

It makes sense since steam deck only has AMD cards. SteamOS is targeted at gaming devices, not as a generalistic distribution.

[–] frazorth 1 points 4 days ago

It works on Intel.

Are you sure about your statement?

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