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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Linux is good, the core OS has been great for a long long time (decades). It's just the desktop environment situation that has sucked, and, of course, gaming before proton.

If you want to play games Bazzite actually does work pretty well. I went back to Fedora though and I literally spent hours trying to fix issues with just the Steam flatpak (it was overwriting my controller mappings every open). If you're a gamer just stick with Bazzite.

I think I'm destined to for NixOS though, as my least favourite thing about linux is doing sudo fooctl enable bloopblorp and having no clear log/information about what exact state the system is in.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

You should install Steam on your distro's native package manager, it's always better than flatpak since it doesn't have to deal with file permissions.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Debian, sudo apt install steam-installer.

[–] witness_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

I had issues with the steam flatpak, but installing it directly works. Same thing happened with slack and my browser.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Installing steam through flatpak seems like a terrible idea to me.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Then why is it a flatpak?

And it was a terrible idea, but on atomic distros it's that or adding it to the os tree.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fedora is not an atomic distribution. I use fedora and I have Steam, it works.

Then why is it a flatpak?

I don't know, I imagine there is some use case. The fact that a flatpak for a software exists does not mean that flatpak is the best installation option.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fedora atomic is atomic though