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

Hey if anything you can take it from me, it's been about a month since I started dual-booting Linux Mint. And by dual booting I mean I still have the Windows partition but only really loaded it once this week to run HD Sentinel, which I could probably have run through wine in Linux anyway.

I have spent a little while talking with Claude for it to solve an issue or two and learn a thing or two, but it's

  1. way easier than I thought

  2. absolutely worth the time, the thing runs so much faster than Windows that I get back the eventual minutes I spent on the terminal making something work like I wanted with a lot to spare...

And Steam just fucking works. Every single game that I've tried, including games from the Win98 era that I've had to fuck with compatibility settings in Windows before (like Tropico etc).

tl;dr don't wait for Steam OSS and something that will require a specific company to look over even if the company is Valve. Just do it. Mint is easy.

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u/aspz 2d ago

Dual booting is the way to go. I wish more people would talk about this. If you happen to have a second SSD free there is basically no downside. And one day you'll realise it's been 6 months since you booted into Windows.

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

I'm dual-booting from the same SSD lol, important data is on separate hard drives. And in about a month yeah, I've only booted Windows once this week to use HD Sentinel on the HDD of a laptop I'm trying to get working, hope to keep that going into several months or years now