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[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago (12 children)

I don't think steamos is a great choice for a general purpose OS....yet

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Probably not but maybe I'll be able to play a game. Old laptop. Old Games. New OS. See what happens.

[–] just2look@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Both bazzite and CachyOS are built for computers and will likely work better for a laptop than SteamOS. And they both have gaming focused builds. I haven't tried Bazzite in a while, but CachyOS has easy to understand instructions on how to install their gaming package.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Appreciate the suggestions, probs check them out afterwards. I just wanna do it for the shits n gigs

[–] just2look@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Totally understand that. I have tried a bunch of different Linux builds to see what I like. So certainly won't begrudge your explorations. And I haven't tried SteamOS on any of my machines because it didn't have a desktop build when I was last playing around with new builds. CachyOS has been great though. Everything works well on my machine, and its been easy to use as a daily driver.

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