I earliest I expect a Steam Deck 2 to come out would be in middle 2025

• Take Steam Deck
• Wipe OS and install Bazzite/Nobara
• Install Heroic Launcher / Non Steam Launcher
• Install games from them

Nuclear apocalypse happens and internet is down

• Get ISOs of games in a USB drive
• Plug it into the deck and install

Hi there, just a small correction. Compared to existing linux distros, it’s slightly different. Steam OS is an immutable OS, which means you can’t edit the root partition (Like you can’t edit the C:\ drive in Windows). This is both good and bad.

Good -> Users can’t mess up their device while trying to mess around with it. Updates are smooth because Valve knows the previous state of the OS.

Bad -> It’s bad only for extreme power users as it’s not fully customizable. You can’t run your own kernel, install certain build packages to do some advanced stuff. But this is a tiny tiny bad.

Overall, Steam OS is great and I believe will be the gateway for the general PC crowd.

Steam Deck + USB type C dock + HDMI cable + bluetooth controller. You’re done

You mean to say that my great-grandson can finally play Destiny 2 on Linux? Sweet!

The only pure linux issue that I have faced in the last few years are due to Wayland. And it’s not an issue, it’s just the legacy application has not yet embraced Wayland yet. Otherwise it has been smooth sailing for me.

I respect your sacrifice

I haven’t seen many mentions of Nobara but you can try it out.

It’s essentially a gaming-centric version of Fedora. I was in your position a few weeks back and decided upon thing. Latest drivers and packages.

If you notice carefully towards the end, the cat sniffed the air and went right. It sniffing means he got the location of his pals. So the community position on this is that he found his friends. 🥰

You need to create an account to use the Playtron OS. That’s a big no-no for me

Whitelist and an autobackup mod

I was discussing this a few months back; an immutable fs is way more secure for gaming compared to Windows.

I have a question for you, coming from a long time Linux user. How do you decide which car to buy? There are so many options, each have their own mileage, comfort, capabilities. Would you say it’s difficult buying a car?

Temple OS : Excuse me?

To add to your explanation

• most people have the specialized Windows plug. Microsoft has invested a lot of money in making sure people ONLY have access to the Windows plug
• Linux provides the same electricity signal that people need (maybe even better) but since people’s Windows plug don’t work on Linux’s wall socket, they get the impression that Linux doesn’t supply electricity.
• WINE is just the adaptor which people put on their Window’s plug. Now it easily fits on the Linux wall socket.

If I remember correctly, the only thing WINE has “copied” are the function calls and signatures (which are the adaptors as mentioned in the other response). The function implementation is completely original.

Microsoft breaks bootloader and nixes Linux partition

Microsoft: “patch seems to be working as intended”

Hi there, I can see that the thief is currently using the device. Will it be possible to send a link via my friend saying “Yo bro, check this meme. This girl is crazzyyyy <link>” which, once clicked, gets the GPS coordinate?

For example, it’s possible via browser to get the location of a device. Can the same thing be done on Linux? I can create a simple nginx webserver on my spare server but unsure about how to proceed.

Google and Apple worked together to provide cross device notifications

One of the rare instances of collaboration where it actually matters.

Somehow this news flew under the radar for me