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LTT warnning: I Can’t Keep Waiting for SteamOS! - Linux Gaming Update 2025 (www.youtube.com)

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If Linus were to visit Mount Everest, he'd reach base camp, spend the next day criticizing the sherpas, calling them foolish for taking the well-established path, and insisting that a direct line to the summit is obviously the best option.

Bazite has solid onboarding, hardware support (including Nvidia and AMD), and, dare I say, even printer support. All things he complains about in this video. But then again, what do I know? I'm just a sherpa.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Alright I watched the video and besides it being what you'd expect from a typical LTT video, I don't see anything that'll get me to raise a pitchfork.

He's talking about SteamOS from the POV of the average gamer, who he calls "Joey Mainstream". I'm starting to wonder how many people on this site regularly talk to none Linux users/gamers?

I also brought this up in another post a while back, Your average gamer doesn't care about open-source, privacy, software, corporate overreach, etc. They just want software OS made by a corporation they trust. Most of these people probably only know of Linux from memes about needing a PHD to install a web browser.

Also should point out I personally do care about all the things I mentioned before. And I think mainline/non-SteamOS Linux is already great for gaming. I'm just pointing this out as the general consensus from most people I talk to who a line with the "average gamer".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of these people probably only know of Linux from memes about needing a PHD to install a web browser.

And Linus has a tendency to feed into that misunderstanding instead of fixing it

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

Yeah I agree with you most the time.

I was gonna give him credit for talking positively about the Discover app store, but he also made the whole flatpak vs native package thing sound way more complicated than it really is...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would expect LTT to do the bare minimum of research. There are a lot of videos on youtube talking about Bazzite as a great option to install SteamOS on the desktop that i'm sure "Joey Mainstream" could've seen

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

He did mention a handful of them "SteamOS like" distros at the start, and hopefully he covers Bazzite in the future.

But as I said before your average gamer wants a Valve backed up OS because they trust Valve more than open source devs they hardly know of.

I would like more people to try distros like Bazzite but just getting people to try any form of Linux is still a stepping stone imo.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Linus is such an insufferable tool. Let him stay on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

He just needs more of that Honey dosh to calm down with

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After the situation with his former employee (i forget her name) coming out and exposing how toxic of a work environment that company is, i completely stopped watching (not that i was a regular viewer before) and do not give their vids the slightest bit of my time

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Madison I think

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, Madison was the one. They were hilarious in the video where they won a free computer but when she came to actually work for the company, it was apparently a much worse experience.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

You know, for a guy named after Linux, he sure is annoying

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

This guy has such a punchable face.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Dude, if you put in a nvidia card and the only thong you see is a glitchy mess, I wouldn't call that solid support

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I just started watching the video and.. I do agree, but worth adressing, isn't it? Majority of desktop computers do have nvidia gpu after all.

I do wish nvidia would get their shit together, I am dualbooting with win10 and arch (kde/wayland/nvidia), with preference on arch. But man, when their shit breaks it's dire. My work laptop with amdgpu works so much better... but I can't game on that system, can I x) (edit: also, shhh, SHHHHHH. games work, but I shouldn't)

edit: done watching, as far as I can tell (caveat: I am slightly beer'd up) nvidia issues didn't come up. Not that they're not a thing, but... did you actually watch the video?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I have dual boot available (win10 - bazzite/gnome/nvidia) and haven't had to boot the win10 partition since the first week I set up the bazzite one.

I have very few problems, just intermittent weird graphics glitches after waking from suspend. Occasionally for whatever reason the 2 monitors I have plugged into the RTX 4070 will rapidly flip between joined (ie two separate displays) to mirroring display 1 on display 2, and sometimes flashing a black screen on display 2. The 3rd screen plugged into the mobo rarely gets involved in whatever is going on.

I think that's possibly a Wayland / nVidia thing but is extremely rare to happen on a fresh boot so has been pretty easy to workaround.

The only Windows thing I miss is the VoiceMeeter audio mixing app from VB-Audio which was far superior to anything i've found so far that I can get working on bazzite. One thing about the linux audio that really annoys me is how each time some audio plays - eg every next youtube video its on a new audio stream and ignores the previous volume level I had set. But very first world problems :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sorry to hear that. My 1080 works just fine and I use it daily, but that's using the legacy navidia drivers. I assumed the newer cards with the newer driver would be in a better state. What card do you have?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

The glitchy mess is with SteamOS 3, the post is saying Bazzite has solid Nvidia support.