Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won’t run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don’t mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

    • Moonrise2473@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 years ago

      There’s no official installer for steamos, only a recovery image for the steam deck. Then, some people in their free time hacked that image to allow installing on other hardware (except Nvidia GPUs) but imho not very easy

      • teruma@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        3 years ago

        Huh? the first thing that comes up when I google SteamOS is DIY install instructions.

            • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
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              3 years ago

              This is an old version which was for SteamOS devices, the Steamdeck has a completely revamped OS which has not that much in common with the old one.

              That SteamOS used Debian as base, the new SteamOS 3 Arch with countless of adjustments to make the usage of the Steamdeck a joy.

              I really wouldn’t install the old SteamOS as of now, there are countless of better alternatives out there and maybe they will release SteamOS 3 for custom devices in the future.