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Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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To be clear, this question is for general PC use, and not only gaming.

Desktop mode on my Deck has easily become my favorite PC experience in a very long long time, and I use it more docked as a PC than for gaming. I've used Windows and Apple my entire life before now, so I have zero experience with Linux, other than the Steam Deck, but the OS is incrediby friendly to newcomers, and I'd say it's essentially a modern and polished version of Windows 95.

So what would you recommend as a similar experience for desktop?

Edit: I should probably add that I'm an artist and designer, and play around with Blender and 3D modeling stuff, and maybe even some game dev at some point. So Adobe support, and GPU Blender support would be superfantastic.

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[–] octoshrimpy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One thing to be aware of in Linux is the fragmentation of where packages can be installed from.

Default package manager? Differs across distro-bases: rpm, apt, pacman, apk and more. Cross-distro? Flatpak, snap, appImage. Install on "wrong" distro? Distrobox and others.

Oftentimes one package is packed up for multiple managers and you'll see a giant list of red and green in their github showing where you can and can't find it, but it's still worth being aware of it.

There are frontends that unify a handful of these but I wish there was a better option. Also inb4 standards.xkcd

With that said, getting started in Linux I recommend immutable images, only because you can't tweak it so hard it borks. And afaik updates will always "just work". I quite liked bazzite for that.