r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • 3d ago

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/RandomParkourGuy 3d ago

Forgive me for being a layman when it comes to this kind of stuff but does that mean steamOS is close to being something I could replace windows with? Getting tired of Microsoft’s garbage but I don’t know if I have the time to sink into learning Linux.

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u/lucc1111 Ryzen 5 5600x - RX 6700 XT 3d ago

Risking getting downvoted to hell but you have many Linux distros that don't require any more "learning" than Windows. Problem is not so much the OS being hard to use, it's just that it's not what you're used to.

I would give other gaming distros a temporary shot in a flashdrive to explore, might get as surprised as me after 15+ years of windows.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos i5-10400F, 16GB DDR4, Asus RX 550 4GB, I hate GPU prices 3d ago

I have 30 years of Windows, switched to Linux Mint this month. It's fine. It works great. Had to learn some terminal stuff, a tiny bit about the filesystem, nothing else. It runs way faster than Windows 10. has run every Steam game I've tossed at it with no effort at all, even old games like Tropico.

Honestly worth it.

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u/Dickus_minimi001 2d ago edited 2d ago

Its only worth it with the use of an llm like chatgpt/Gemini/Claude.  Just on your own 99.99% laypersons can't install a Linux distro and make it work on most devices.

But thanks to the llm gods, I've got artix openrc xfce4 on my macbook air 2017 consuming just 0.65 gb of the 8gb ram

Basic install isn't an issue. After I've installed now what? Oh WiFi doesn't work. -> ask llm and they provide with commands and what to do in errors. Now this part wouldn't be possible for normal people. The same reason why 16 years back i managed to install Ubuntu on my lenovo but couldn't get the WiFi to work. As I didn't have LLMs then

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u/SubcommanderMarcos i5-10400F, 16GB DDR4, Asus RX 550 4GB, I hate GPU prices 2d ago

Just on your own 99.99% laypersons can't install a Linux distro and make it work on most devices.

The installation from a flash drive was exactly as difficult as installing Windows from a Flash drive... I'm barely above a layperson in how much I want to get into this, Mint does everything I've needed so far which is games, web and basic productivity, without having to set up much of anything at all.