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I'm just so sick of Microsoft and Google. But there's two things holding me back:

  1. I wanna play Steam games on my PC

  2. I am just an amateur hobbyist, not a tech wizard

Is there any hope for me?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Bazzite. Set it and forget it. 2mo on my new PC build, has only ever had bazzite. Runs like a dream.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The fact people suggest anything fedora based to new users is even more baffling then suggesting pure arch.

Fedora loves to just randomly destroy itself every so often. Hell they are currently thinking of doing it right now!

If your going to do a gamer distro like bazzite as a gamer your objectively better off just going with cachyOS.

It's literally the same base as steam OS, has half the problems. And wont just implode because fedora decides to change something stupid yet again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

even my parents and grandparents are on bazzite which massively reduced my family tech support work, but it seems like fedora is indeed being fedora again and discussions are for dropping 32 bit which would be troubling for gamers still.

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