Why openSUSE is the perfect OS for handhelds (media.ccc.de)

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The Steam Deck has revolutionized the gaming handheld market. With the Linux-based immutable SteamOS, Valve has fostered an active community developing mods and alternative systems for this platform. Other manufacturers distribute Windows-based mobile consoles. However, time and time again it has been shown that they lag behind Linux in terms of software support.

But how easy is it to bring a Linux distribution, say openSUSE, to the Steam Deck?

In this talk, a prototype based on openSUSE's open technologies and infrastructure will be presented, which is already (almost) fully functional on the Steam Deck and many other devices.

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[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 17 points 1 week ago

good if they're gaming on old hardware I am sure. Mint lacks modern feature enablement and it baffles me that people keep recommending it

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah, I'm on latest hardware (4080) and did a bunch of tests recently. Mint was the best along with PopOS. A lot of distros like CachyOs or Bazzite have a lot of great enhancements but they break so often without easy rollbacks that a layman shouldnt use them. Mint has a driver manager and can install KDE if you want with no breakage. Bazzite and CachyOS couldnt even run many major titles due to driver breakage and not having an easy way for a layman to rollback. (I could do it, though a layman would hate it). Whereas PopOS and Mint both ran major titles without any configuration.

I don't know of any 'bleeding edge' distros with driver managers, I might ask about that though.

[-] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

What about nobara? I'm currently using Mint but considering Popos. Any advice? I just want whichever distro works out of the box with no tweaking. I'm the type to just wanna turn on and play. I have to reinstall my mint due to tweaking which I did myself. Advice?

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My notes said I tried nobara but they werent very detailed, I assume it wasnt great? Manjaro is one of the ones I didnt test, along with Garuda. I tried Fedora base and Arch base and they didnt work out of the box with most games.

[-] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

My wallpaper and lock screens reset every time I restart. It borked my dual boot and now when I boot in the boot menu I have Fedora and Bazzite. No more windows. I still see it in the partition so I guess I just got to recover my windows. The install was a pain in the ass getting an error every time. So far on install I had to remove my old Linux mint EFI and rewrite a new one for bazzite. Gaming has worked no issues but its not been the smoothest transition. I kept getting an error code fatal error message. Had to terminal in to fix it before it would install. Had I known it was gonna be this much of an issue id have reinstalled mint which is a breeze just plug and click.

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