it’s likely that Microsoft will also attempt to move anti-cheat vendors out of kernel space

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The closest thing to SteamOS is ChimeraOS. Though it sounds like you’re mostly referring to Plasma, which is the desktop environment (DE) AKA the graphical user interface (GUI), and can be installed with just about any distro. ChimeraOS looks like it only comes with GNOME, which I personally prefer anyway.

It is very friendly until you need to do something other than very basic things, at which point you’d better be prepared to become very familiar with the terminal.

Bazzite is the new hotness though, and it’s what I use, because it comes with a variety of customizations out of the box, and the ujust commands can greatly simplify a lot of common tasks that are otherwise far more complicated. Only downside of that is that it mostly only supports flatpaks and appimages, .deb and .rpm are the most common package formats and those have to be installed in containers, which comes with all the fun complications of containerization and sandboxing.

You might give GNOME a try though if you want to play around with something different. I much prefer it from an aesthetic perspective. Plasma is essentially made to look like Windows and GNOME more resembles MacOS.

Be aware that when using these distros that some games will recognize your device as a Steam Deck and apply some fucked up graphics tweaks that severely limit performance. You can undo them with a simple launch argument but it’s super frustrating until you figure that out. Protondb is your friend there.

If you want Arch there is ChimeraOS

Nothing

you can do this with any pc

Not with SteamOS you can’t

I see. It’s easier to ask them to enforce existing laws than to make new ones.

And the US market isn’t?

Is it a dumb question to ask why so many Americans are advocating for UK/EU legislation?

There’s a vast different between “a part made in China” and “made by Chinese companies”.

I think it’ll be a while until we get a hand held experience like the steam deck but with AAA capable hardware.

That will never happen. Physically larger devices are always going to be more performant. And AAA titles will just increase the demands of games accordingly.

Is the Steam Deck performance struggling with new AAA games?

It did that on day 1. It’s a mobile device. You have to temper your expectations.

I’m guessing/hoping not because most game developers would optimise the games for the Switch 2 and Xbox Series S which have similar performances as the Deck.

The XBOX is not going to have similar performance. The Nintendo is actually quite a bit more performant. But more importantly the games on these devices are going to be specifically designed and optimized to run on a specific piece of hardware.

I think 30 fps (consistent) is perfectly fine, and I don’t mind medium details.

It obviously depends on the game but newer AAA titles are going to struggle to hit 30FPS on 800p/low.

If you want something with more performance you should get the Legion Go (non S) or Ally X and run Bazzite on it.

Should I wait for the next gen?

Valve is very quiet about these things. I don’t think anyone saw the OLED model coming. There were no leaks or rumors. Just boom, one day there it was. So probably no one knows and anyone who says they do is probably lying.

I joke. Apple has gotten a lot better about giving options in recent years.

Netflix has games?

Options? Apple? Seems unlikely…

It’s possible Meta is trying to recoup their losses by selling hardware to MS.

I have no idea how but they auto-renewed mine as well. If I wasn’t the type of person to pay close attention to my finances I wouldn’t have noticed.

That’s being said, it was very easy to cancel and refund the purchase.

I mean among other reasons, yes. A lot of shady shit going down now like removing Denuvo for reviewers and then adding it back on launch day.

I’ve not found that at all. Usually there are significant improvements in the following weeks/months. Recent examples are DOOM and SpiderMan II.

Everyone is not you

Massively unsuccessful games like… checks notes League of Legends. World of Warcraft.

These games are both about as old as Steam itself. Their playerbase was created in a different market.

Am I supposed to be sad that E fucking A failed to install their shareholder value store on my computer?

No, you’re just supposed to recognize why it failed.