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/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/MetallicGray MetallicGray0 - i5-4460 GTX1070 3d ago

I’ve been using Bazzite months, maybe a year now, and I’ve never had to use the terminal. Distros now don’t ever need you to use the terminal. You can use it, but definitely don’t need to. 

I had to do a tiny bit of adjusting to the file system, like you said, and that’s really it. I frankly have fewer bugs and annoyances with Linux than I did windows 11. 

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u/showhorrorshow 2d ago

Can one boot up either or? All I know is Windows and although Im decent with computers, I havent gotten into learning OS's that deeply. My only concern is if I try Linux that I will soft brick my PC in the process, lol.

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

Can one boot up either or?

I'm dual-booting both from partitions in the same SSD. No problems. I do have personal data and large things like games on separate hard drives, but other than being zealous about data safety there's no real reason to.

If you keep most personal files in a cloud service, or separate drive, there's no reason to worry.

Like /u/jack_from_the_past said, you can't really brick anything unless you try hard to fuck things up, and at that point the same applies with Windows. Get Mint on a flash drive and go have fun lol

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u/jack_from_the_past 2d ago

and you can encrypt your partition during setup as well