Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Bazzite is basically SteamOS for desktop. Linux is highly flexible in general though, it's not that important which one you pick most of the time.
I would also like to recommend Zorin for new Linux users, it's super easy to windows users to swap to and have a good experience.
Yeah, great idea, just recommend them the 2. worst OS ever
Zorins advertising, that it can run just like Windows, just sets the User up for failure. Also its Apps are a mix of bleeding edge and Debian 11. it dosent even give you security fixes right away because you have to buy their pro version
I know of some businesses that have actually ditched windows for Zorin, and I set my aging parents up with it and they've been pretty happy with it so far.
So it seems to do well enough as a windows alternative based on those personal observations. I haven't heard about them witholding security patches though.
Does Zorin develop their own tools/patches or what do they bundle as office and creative suite in their Pro version?
Here's a list of some of the software bundled, although it doesn't include everything as far as I know.
I don't personally use it, and I've been pretty hands off with my parent's installs of it after the initial setup, soi can't really answer either of those questions based on my personal experience of it.