Thanks Liam

Great video liam!

[ 2022-11-02 07:51:27Z ] 👍 3

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you very much :)

Hopefully we do hear about the SteamOS 3 installer soon. I've been holding off on using HoloISO because I have some concerns about how going from that to the official SteamOS 3.0 will go.

Thanks Gaben.

Liam hear me out please, you need to buy a spare NVMe drive, and a nice but not too expensive enclosure for it. And the moment SteamOS drops for everyone you post a video where you installed it on this external fast but not to expensive drive, and boot from it on a few computers :D Good content, hopefully you would do this video if you think it can make the money back for you

People use Ubuntu because of a rep that its easy to use and well supported. It is true its widely used enough that the support is often very good, so people can get solutions to issues fast. Everyone I know well that uses Ubuntu have barely (if ever) tried anything else.

[ 2022-11-02 10:44:48Z ] 👍 0

I use Ubuntu on Desktop because I use it on the server side and it's just convenient for me. Hell, I was doing the same thing when I was using just FreeBSD. LOL. 😂

Super interesting, I wonder how much this will change when the 6800u starts becoming a bit more the norm. I plan (when I receive it) to put holoiso on the GPD Win Max 2

Always good to hear about more people discovering freedom

Flatpak runtime at %5.71 is also interesting. It keeps growing.

As soon anti-cheat systems are brought to steamOS and I can play my FPS and MMO games, I'll be ditching windows entirely. Valve really is onto a winner here.

[ 2022-11-02 13:08:34Z ] 👍 0

@@ransacked all we need is for the anti-cheat to work on linux, and proton will do the rest. It's highly probable it will happen at some point.

[ 2022-11-02 12:46:20Z ] 👍 0

@@techmouse. many? Last game we've gotten to be supported is shatterline and that's not even 100% supported we have to use work arounds to play it. Hopefully we get another or a few more big games soon.

[ 2022-11-02 12:44:58Z ] 👍 0

@@welshmouse mw2 is never going to work on linux unless they create linux version and I seriously doubt Activision will create a userspace version for their most profitable game.

[ 2022-11-02 09:59:21Z ] 👍 1

@@techmouse. Thanks, I'll keep an eye out. I think the main ones I'm looking for are insurgency sandstorm and MW2. Although to be honest until I can reliably expect 99.9 percent of games to work, I can't really replace windows. My hope is the popularity of the deck, and the soon to be released ISO tool, will mean that the anti-cheat makers will natively port to linux. At that point, there will be nothing keeping me tied to windows.

is there a prompt on steamdeck to share your userdata with valve? or is it automatically?

[ 2022-11-02 09:34:14Z ] 👍 0

@@techmouse. yeah in my desktop I have seen the prompt.. but in steamos? is it the same message?

[ 2022-11-02 09:26:19Z ] 👍 0

prompt

I think Ubuntu is the most popular for the same reason Windows is so dominant, it's the only distro normal people know about and they do not check out alternatives. We see the exact same problem in elections where most normies just vote for the established parties without much thought.

the steam deck was what convinced me I could make the jump to linux and it's been going pretty great! gaming is always the thing that kept me tied to windows. huge difference compared to when I tried ~12 years ago. so far three months running Pop and I'm learning more and more about how linux works and I don't think I ever want to go back.

[ 2022-11-14 18:27:17Z ] 👍 0

A lot of Linux Distro's have shitty names. I can live with OpenSuse, SteamOS and Arch but Pop or Mint? Gimme a fucking break.

[ 2022-11-12 20:16:10Z ] 👍 0

@Drick what are the benefits of doing so tho?

[ 2022-11-08 00:36:30Z ] 👍 0

@Drick thanks. I think I'm good for now tho.

[ 2022-11-06 06:56:38Z ] 👍 3

same, a couple minor pieces of software I cant get running on linux and cant find an alternate but not having to put up with windows bs has more than made up for it.

Honestly, I've been itching for a while to build a custom PC capable of gaming. Mostly because it's fun to make custom builds. But I've been holding because PC gaming has become obnoxiously expensive. SteamOS for desktop could be the thing that pushes me to go ahead and do it.

[ 2022-11-02 16:38:59Z ] 👍 0

@@tropicalfruit4571 I think games prices is a non issue if you can wait. Used market is a thing and so are sales. For the idea that upgrades are cheaper than buying a new gen console, It’s highly situational. Right now the best PC we own is an AM4 platform. I could pop in an R7 5800X3D and an RX 6800 and it would be a great gaming PC. In my country that’s a grand…

[ 2022-11-02 16:16:16Z ] 👍 0

@@DavideDavini Ah well, maybe someone else will find it helpful then. But I still stand by what I said, initial cost is higher for PCs for long term PCs are cheaper. And I've built PCs that were rather low quality but better than what I had at the time, and also PCs where price cutoff was "just not go too crazy" and yeah, building a nice PC is expensive but for just getting into PC world with a serviceable machine it's competitive with consoles pricing; it's just a bunch more work.

[ 2022-11-02 16:07:22Z ] 👍 0

@@tropicalfruit4571 I appreciate the sentiment but I’ve been building custom PCs since the 90s. Not to mention custom servers for work. :) Plus been playing videogames for even longer, but that’s beside the point. Not that I can’t learn something new about it, of course, but I kinda know what I’m talking about. Also, if I may. Building a PC from scratch is stupid expensive and consoles are way, way cheaper than a reasonable PC build. Even factoring in games. Especially now with PS+ and GP. In my country at least. Although, the US seems just slightly better. Other places I don’t know 🤷‍♀️. PS. I can’t stand Windows. There’s no worry I would ever buy it at all. 😂 Cheers and happy gaming.

[ 2022-11-02 15:47:47Z ] 👍 0

I'd say it's a common misconception that the "PC gaming is expensive". The GPU market is absolutely fucked but here's a tip, if you're not willing to sell a kidney for a new GPU try to find a relatively recent used card and buy everything else new. Something like RTX2080 will not have been used a lot (unless someone mined on it) and it's still a decent card. The rest is really not that expensive, proper good CPU is 300 bucks and that's 2nd most expensive part in a PC. The trick is to go for the good stuff but the state of art stuff. It will all come out to be more than a console but keep in mind that games are cheaper. These days you pay 70-80 dollars for new releases on consoles but on PC you can et those games on sale easily. The not brand new games you can probably buy a key for for smaller price if there are no sales on Steam. Another tip is NEVER buy windows and office from microsoft, just never ever. Go to any website that sells windows for cheap, get a code for 5 bucks and be on your way. If you're buying laptops or pre-built PCs ask them to not include windows too because that costs ridiculous amounts of money. I thought about the games pricing on consoles too and came at a conclusion that if I bought a PS5 and 17 games for it it would all come out costing around as much as I paid for my PC parts new. For most people it would be PS5 and 8-9 games (I have a little bit of an over the top PC) which honestly is ridiculous. I have 150 games on Steam, more games outside of it, 80% of them bought on sales and some time ago when I had less games I counted it all up to see how much I spent on Steam and for what was then a 100 games collection it was a laughably low number. I also like to think that while I use my PC mostly for media consumption everybody has to do some work on a computer every now and then, it's the 21st century after all, so why buy a console AND a laptop, which is what people tend to do, when you can buy a PC and have both in one box. Many people don't even need more than 60fps and that's really easy to achieve these days. If you have an itch for PC gaming ask someone you know that knows PCs or even find somebody on reddit if you have no PC friends and ask for guidance, I'm sure they would show you a reasonable price-performance ratio machine.

its great

personally the steam deck has brought me back to pc gaming. i have a decent gaming rig but rarely used it to play steam games i was mostly using it for downloading roms watching movies surfing the net etc. i was using a odroid go advance and a pixel 3 in a razor kishi for emulation. since i got the stam deck ive been using it at least 5 days a week and it has brought me back to my steam library. using it for emulation, replaying old games and i even got a few new games this month. they really hit a home run with this handheld

[ 2022-11-04 16:44:54Z ] 👍 2

Yeah same boat. It’s hard to beat playing wherever I want. In bed, on the couch, while taking a poo. So much better than tied to the desk.

[ 2022-11-02 15:12:34Z ] 👍 2

Same boat as you, decided not to upgrade my gaming PC some time ago and chose to go with a ps5. Now I'm playing the steam deck all the time and back to buying new games. Still using my old computer to stream Ms flight sim to the steam deck at 800p (decent framerate on an rtx 2060 at 800p)

over all gpu data AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405 0.32% people running steam os at 0.24% so thats 0.08% on windows. very save to say steam OS is a hit but its steam hardwere survey and not to be tursted.

[ 2022-11-02 13:07:57Z ] 👍 1

@@gamingonlinux the safe thing to say is with the data is most people are getting a steam deck and keeping steam os on it.

[ 2022-11-02 13:06:46Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux "but its steam hardwere survey and not to be tursted."

[ 2022-11-02 12:52:54Z ] 👍 1

An interesting point, although we can't just assume that though, it could be people running other Linux distributions on it (which I have 100% seen people do).

Again: the popup doesn't work (for me) I got the popup and it disappeared before I could touch anything. So the last 2 times it didn't work, but that's more than a decade of not working at all ;-).

I got xcloud running this am, love this platform ❤❤❤ Valve

I do the hardware survey often

SteamDeck make people see linux can play window game. Before this most gamer dont believe linux can play games pretty well. Thank you Valve & Steam. Time Linux gaming to raise and we can choose other Os than Window for gaming. We need Epic & Gog linux launcher. If Microsoft say they want to compete maybe a linux Gamepass launcher.

[ 2022-11-03 07:31:02Z ] 👍 0

There is 3rd party linux launcher. It mixes your gog and epic games.

Seeing as Valve think about SteamOS as an OS for the living room i think SteamOS won't come out at least until the Steam Deck ui isn't out of the beta for the desktop Steam client.

Can we get even higher? ;)

Activision is the last big publisher with incompatible anticheat software. If we can lobby them hard enough to get ricochet ported to linux that's ALL the current and future call of duty games playable :) They've already said it's a no for writing the kernel driver for Anticheat (for now) but they've also said they wont penalise workarounds. For now, Windows is growing less and less necessary for a full PC gaming experience :)

[ 2022-11-02 15:49:33Z ] 👍 1

thank god for that, I'm tired of windows' shenannigans

As for Ubuntu - Not surprising since it's the most stable and easily the largest brand name under linux. They have faults, but if I wanted to get a family member onto linux it would likely be through Ubuntu or a distro based on their distribution.

I still have to duel boot for now as certain game mods I like only work in windows at the moment but don’t think it will be too long until go Linux only …… it’s getting there

As others in the comments, I moved to Linux on my main rig, also because of the Deck. I've been using it on/off for a while, not because I dislike Windows as such, but I am tired of Microsoft trying to push me towards an "eco system". So far it's been a pretty good experience.

The Steam Deck got me back into Steam after years of being idle - but it's unsuited for many of the types of games I like to play due to the small screen. Releasing SteamOS officially for linux desktop would seal the deal; being able to play older games I can't on the mac because they're 32 bit, and windows games I can't because LOL windows on linux makes spending money with Steam (and the Humble Bundle!) far more attractive than it's been in the past.

I didn't know installing windows was even an option. However, I'm enjoying learning about linux and there's a workaround for everything I have wanted to do so far so I'm fine with how it is. Actually Marvel SNAP doesn't run yet but that the only nono I've come across so far.

[ 2022-11-03 02:05:34Z ] 👍 0

The SD's BIOS is unlocked so you can install any OS, just like a computer. Because that's what it is 😉

Steam Deck pushs wine (proton) gaming, not linux gaming.

I have both a Fedora desktop PC and a Steam Deck. I'm sure we're going to slowly see more and more people jump to Linux, as many haven't due to gaming. Fedora works surprisingly well, with only a need to install the Nvidia proprietary driver if you're running Nvidia hardware. The work done on Proton has made things so much easier. I've been playing games like Elden Ring on my desktop since launch, with almost no hitches. Thanks Valve. :) I even play OW2 on my desktop via your "bottles" video. Amazing how well WINE works with it. Go Tux! :)

Think other game developers would benefit by developing a native launcher for their service and post in through valve, thus increasing sales.

A lot of people forgot that Gabe helped start Microsoft so if anyone can bring Linux to the mainstream it's him and Valve

[ 2022-11-03 12:20:50Z ] 👍 0

Today I learned. Thank you!

Linux is amazing I've been using it as secondary os for a long time.. I wanted to get away from windows I've fully converted to Linux because gaming for me has outperformed windows in every way. I've tested Linux and have been distrohopping to different distros for a while to find the best one for me.. I've settled on fedora Gnome and I love how intuitive it is. I've tested windows and Linux side by side and Linux keeps showing it's performance. I even have an rx6700xt AMD GPU and I love the open source drivers. Good years for Linux and I can see Microsoft losing users over the next few years

it's not just the steam deck. Other handheld manufacturers are also planning to use linux because they have seen the optimizations in the steam deck. One I can think of right now would be aya (makers of aya neo handhelds)

what about fifa 23 on linux??? will ea fix it

[ 2022-11-03 21:16:17Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux jeez doesn’t look good for those games or for me

[ 2022-11-03 21:13:45Z ] 👍 0

@@TOMSWAINE1 yes that also has a kernel level anti cheat but a different one

[ 2022-11-03 21:03:17Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux thanks for the response. Will that be the same case with the new call of duty game?

[ 2022-11-03 20:33:20Z ] 👍 1

Nope. It uses Windows-based kernel anti-cheat, it won't get fixed.

It's not really surprising. People usually uses the original operating system on there computers, because it's the easiest way. On PC people are mostly just lazy.

I use different operating systems for different jobs. Kali Linux for pen testing. Ubuntu on my server for web server and GIT server. Windows for Music/Video Production and gaming and now Steam Deck for Gaming as well. There is no need to become tribal about the OS you use. Use what works best for your needs. Linux has been around since 1991 and doesn't have any specialist apps. If you only use your computer for browsing and word processing, you can probably get away with Linux or Mac. If you want to do anything specialist. You are definitely going to struggle.

I love the progress Valve has brought to Linux in general. Its huge!

best thing I've bought in years, YEARS!!!!! GabeN the Game changer

Gaming is the only reason I need to ditch windows. Got to love Steam for making it happen.

I already so my gaming future with linux a few months ago and then Gabe came and conquered with the steam deck when I saw the potential , I threw my money at the Deck (bought it) immediately.

I used Ubuntu Linux in 2010 and 2011, and while I thought it was cool, the fact that I couldn't run most of my software ruined the experience for me. So I left when I went to high school because my hard drive that dual booted Linuz died in late 2011. When I came back in 2018, I almost gave up for good, because GNOME 3 was so much worse than GNOME 2 or Unity that Ubuntu had used before (as a former Windows user) that it was very diffcult to use. But I'm glad I stuck with it, and in 2021, with the announcement of Windows 11, I made the jump over to EndeavourOS, and I've been on that distro ever since. The fact that most of my software (as a software developer) just works with tools such as Bottles and Wine, and now almost all of my games work with Proton, means I probably won't be back to Windows anytime soon. In fact, why settle for a bad clone of KDE Plasma when I can use the real thing? And why should I left Micro$haft be in control of my experiences when _I_ could be?