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Gamers Nexus might start including Linux gaming tests in their hardware reviews (youtu.be)

submitted 2 days ago by azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

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[-] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 10 points 2 days ago

SteamOS is going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting. I reckon there are quite a few people who are waiting for its release before trying Linux.

Does SteamOS even have functional desktop, or is it just Steam big picture wrapper thing?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 24 points 2 days ago

It uses KDE for that

[-] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Yep. What I was meaning, will SteamOS boot right into KDE and be a computer operating system first, or boot into big picture mode and be a gaming system first.

[-] solarisfire@mast.solarisfire.com 1 points 1 day ago

@PetulantBandicoot @bdonvr It's more advanced than a "Steam Big Picture Wrapper thing". When you're in gaming mode it runs it's own gamescope window manager, etc. In desktop mode it's full plasma with KWin. I'd expect it would boot into gaming mode first, with desktop as something you can switch to.

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