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Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds (kotaku.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What would be the advantage of installing it on a laptop? Can't you just run steam on Ubuntu or whatever and use Big Picture mode?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Personally I can't run steam and a game on a my laptops. They're good enough to run games like subnautica and stalker on wine but steam requires like 1gb of RAM and runs like shit.

Edit: on older Ubuntu lts versions, not 24

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hm so SteamOS uses less resources that the steam app? I assumed SteamOS was just a streamlined way to run Steam?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

SteamOS 3 is Steam big picture mode inside of gamescope (a standalone wayland mini compositor), without your KDE desktop running in the background. You still have bluetooth, wifi and whatever other background processes running, but if you want to use a video editor, use your terminal or something else not on Steam then you have the option to boot out of gamescope session and into desktop mode from the 'Power' menu option. In game mode you still have to deal with Steam being a webapp but with no other desktop programs running, aside from the game you're playing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

OK, so the comment above mine is misleading. The difference in resources would be small as my DE and Compositor use negligible resources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Wouldn't it be the opposite if SteamOS is lighter? I'm already running things like i3 but having even more stripped out sounds like it might be something. Maybe I'm misunderstanding