Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS - eviltoast
  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    It doesn’t support NVIDIA video cards, for instance.

    Rather NoVideo doesn’t support their video cards on Linux

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      2 days ago

      No, their Micro-compositor was written exclusively for AMD cards. The SteamOS setup just borks if you try to install it with nvidia. People coming from Windows won’t really care who is to blame, they’ll just be baffled it doesn’t work.

      It makes sense since steam deck only has AMD cards. SteamOS is targeted at gaming devices, not as a generalistic distribution.

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        3 days ago

        This thing?

        https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

        It runs on Mesa + AMD or Intel, and could be made to run on other Mesa/DRM drivers with minimal work. AMD requires Mesa 20.3+, Intel requires Mesa 21.2+. For NVIDIA’s proprietary driver, version 515.43.04+ is required (make sure the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter is set).

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          3 days ago

          It borks when you try to install SteamOS. It does not work. Bazzite just added beta support for nvidia, so check that out if out really want something as close to SteamOS as possible.

          Or just use a generalist distribution because gaming on Linux is in an amazing state right now. Install steam, boot games.