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Has anyone tried out SteamOS?
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at the end of the day, steamos is still linux which runs steam, just (AFAIK, and on steamdeck) immutable, which is probably not something you want on desktop (or you do, I'm not here to tell you how to computer).
Just the default steam/valve vendor decorations don't make games run any better, imo.
I'd just keep to a regular distro for a general use pc.
edit: but, yea, I've seen people run eg. video editors etc on steamdeck, so it does work as a regular pc too, if you really want to.
The gamescope micro compositor does make games run better. You can obviously run that on others distros as well, but on SteamOS it's out-of-the-box.
Is SteamOS immutable though? I thought that was just Bazzite.
Yes, SteamOS is an immutable version of Arch (Bazzite is immutable Fedora)
I don't know of the version that'll be available (when ever that happens), but on steamdeck it is.
ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS#Features (yea yea wikipedia and lack of citations..)