Valve is making its SteamOS Linux distribution compatible with more desktop hardware, including Nvidia graphics, so you can build your own Steam Machine.
Valve is making its SteamOS Linux distribution compatible with more desktop hardware, including Nvidia graphics, so you can build your own Steam Machine.
Honestly, the arguing about distros is a big reason I don’t move to Linux. I want something well supported and going to stick around, but all I ever hear are new names come up every 5 minutes and I can’t help but assume contributors are just dropping off left and right for other distros.
Steam being an actual company behind a distro gives at least an impression of support stability because they have a economical incentive to kind of keep it going.
Is any of this actually true? No, and I know in my heart of the cards it isn’t, but choice paralysis is getting real, and 30k distros to choose from don’t help.
If you pick one of the core distros like (Fedora/Centos/RHEL/SuSE) or (Debian/Ubuntu) they have been around for decades and will be around for decades more. You don’t have to pay attention to whatever trendy new Linux distro of the week has just come up.
Yeah I was the same way. When you express that there’s too many options, and you don’t feel confident in selecting between them, a Linux enthusiast will always answer with a couple of options as if it is the final answer. Then someone always responds to that comment saying why the options are wrong and suggests others. Then someone else comments saying “Just use one of the ones that…” and doesn’t even stick to a specific distro but rather assumes you have the background knowledge to interpret and move forward based on a few key features.
Eventually I just went with Mint and it went pretty well. Maybe I’ll switch, but the first try is the hardest and now I’m over that hurdle. Took years longer than it should have to start because people can’t help but argue in every comment chain.
It’s definitely more attractive to use SteamOS because we know it’s an OS being designed for our general use case by a company that will support it meaningfully (as it already has been with Proton), and will continue to support it for a while. I’m sure a lot of users will switch OSes after a while, and existing Linux users should support the “first step” move to SteamOS knowing this.
It’s probably not the best possible OS choice, but considering no one can agree that any option is the best choice, that doesn’t really factor into the decision.
Red Hat, Canonical and Novel aren’t going anywhere. That’s fedora, *buntu and Suse.
Canonical (Kubuntu) and Red Hat (Fedora, I suggest the KDE variant) are very big and old companies if that’s what you want.
I would say debian is more equivalent to red hat being a core distro with no upstream while ubuntu (wierd to me you use kubuntu) uses debian as its upstream.
Debian is too slow with updates for gaming. Idk why not having an upstream is desired, SteamOS has Arch as an upstream. And I was suggesting Red Hat the company and Fedora KDE the distro.
Why is it weird to prefer Kubuntu? Ubuntu is just not as good, it pushes Snaps harder, and it uses GNOME which I don’t like either. I just like Kubuntu a lot more than Ubuntu, and I think many other gamers would agree. Also SteamOS uses KDE Plasma, so it’s the same (except Kubuntu is more up to date, especially with Backports)
I think Kubuntu should be the more popular one, and Ubuntu should be the one that is weird to say.
Not the person you are replying to, but it’s interesting to suggest Kubuntu without mentioning Ubuntu.
I would like the momentum to shift away from Ubuntu and towards Kubuntu as its replacement, because Kubuntu really is better
Its not wierd to prefer kubuntu. I don’t prefer ubuntu or redhat its just that if your talk long time distros redhat and debian are some of the originals and ubuntu and such use them as a base like bazzite does with redhat. I say ubuntu because its the original and core canonical prodcut where as kubuntu is a variation. Your preferences were not wierd to me just the examples for someone worried about linux things not having a long enough and active enough history included an original, long term, core distro and then a more modern one that is downstream a core one. So it was a bit disparate.
Oh they were looking for long term companies like Valve. So I suggested 2 companies.
SteamOS is not a long term distro yet (especially considering v1 is not the same distro even though it has the same name)
Oh I can see using ubuntu over debian then. Still I would have went suse with redhat as they were really the two big enterprise ones. suse was actually the first linux in the aughts were a guy at my workplace through it on a laptop and basically everything worked. I mean it needed more specific drivers to be at its best but it was functional out the gate which was a big deal then.
I run both of those (Kubuntu on the desktop, Fedora KDE in a laptop) and either one is a good option.