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Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically.
(lemmy.ml)
Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).
~~Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.~~
- ~~Garuda (Arch-based)~~
- ~~Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)~~
- ~~Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)~~
- ~~CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)~~
- ~~Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)~~
~~BTW I have an AMD CPU and GPU. Figured I should've mentioned that.~~
I'm running bazzite on my new 5080 build. I've only tested one game so far. Pop OS seems like a good distro too.
PopOS is a distro famous for it's Nvidia support. I'm on AMD so that's not a concern for me. Also System76 develops PopOS and they're squarely American so I'm hesitant to partake with them.
EDIT: Though it installs with full disk encryption by default, and I appreciate that even if I would probably disable it on what will be my dedicated gaming desktop.