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Even gamers nexus' Steve today said that they're about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It's happening, y'all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

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[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I tried their iso on a mini PC yesterday and uhh... not so good.

Installed mint and had steam running in 15 minutes after the disappointment tho.

[–] vritrahan@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Where did you find a SteamOS 3.0 ISO?

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] vritrahan@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

That is SteamOS 2.0 which is nearly a decade old.

[–] pinpin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] pinpin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh man that's the old SteamOS 2.0 from 2015.

Valve completely rebased and revamped it in 2022 for the steamdeck. Steam OS 3.6 is the current version and only available for the steamdeck.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This is the version based on Debian, which is ~10 years old.

The new one is based on Arch.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

How nice of them to just leave it up there.