I put in £30 early on almost a pound per year at this point

Bluefin and Auroa are for you, changed how I program and organise, our you can make your own template and just pop everything you’re missing in the containerfile similar to how nix pkgs works

Distrobox isn’t really an option I went with for day to day, I’d use it to keep my projects and dependencies under control. Flatpak was fine, app image was fine, I actually spun up my own template after a bit https://github.com/Sirico/bazzite-dev. Beyond adding a couple of programs and theming, I couldn’t see why I’d need to be in the files silverblue/ublue lock off.

I’m now on nix because I have a lot of stuff to do at work that I was playing about with bluefin for, but nix has more support etc. Knowing that hitting the power button will get me to the desktop every morning bar a hardware issue is for me the biggest win. Making something I can just update throughout a whole fleet and doing it all within GitHub or code is a game changer. So for me immutable are no different to convent distros great for basic stuff like you said browsing etc and good for the high-end stuff it’s this middle ground where people have to learn a new way of doing something it feels like it falls apart I think.

You mis-read or I wrote it badly, I think Bazzite is awesome for everyday desktop (see my post history) Steamos isn’t as it stood when it was an unofficial release as it was purely designed for the deck so it would do things like overwrite settings when it updated. Bazzite was the steamOS for normal everyday desktop and non-deck builds for me.

A friend’s response to me yet again trying to push Linux on them, all unprovoked:

“Windows is getting increasingly shit. I’ve had a login problem for most of the year on my work machine where the cloud stuff won’t sync. I can’t even use Notepad now because it’s cloud-connected. I have to use Excel in the browser for similar reasons. I’d love to be able to move to Linux for everything, but I also cannot be fucked to maintain a Windows machine let alone a Linux one haha.”

This is exactly the kind of person SteamOS is going to capture, I think. The same way, Mint helped kill that whole “my operating system is my hobby” vibe.

I’ve not used SteamOS as a desktop. I own a Steam Deck, but I do think SteamOS is nearly there as an everyday user platform. It’s just a bit more aggressive with settings resets and data overwrites compared to something like Bazzite, which makes it not great for full desktop use yet. I’ve deep dove into nix this month and been making my own tools to bounce off the way NixOS works, like tests before switches and auto uploading to GitHub made a little webui control center etc. I could see Valve doing something similar with their OS to overcome current SteamOS’s issues and improve things for an end user

Windows dominated desktop development for years, and Macs did the same in the creative world. So a lot of developers naturally know those systems best. Linux has always had the problem of fragmentation, different distros and different library versions all pulling in slightly different directions, which makes it harder to target reliably. That’s why things like the Steam Deck or Ubuntu LTS matter so much, because they give developers a stable baseline instead of chasing down tickets caused by someone building with the wrong version.

Tools like containers and Flatpak have improved the situation, but the underlying complexity is still there. When a studio doesn’t have the time, budget or experience to handle that, the Linux port is usually where the cracks show. The ones that tend to get it right are teams with stronger engineering depth, which is why you often see the better native ports coming from studios behind RPGs and sims where crossplatform work is already part of their pipeline.

No worries, hope you find somewhere that suits you. Just for future chats if you’re genuinely curious, try to ease up a bit and be more polite. You came across more contrarian than conversational, so I matched that energy while still giving you what you asked for.

It’s common knowledge that games like Apex Legends blocked Linux access or deployed an anti-cheat that previously was fine, that then players got bans for. Source: I’m taking you to Reddit, deal with it https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1iszbmu/games_that_banned_linux/

EA forums https://forums.ea.com/discussions/apex-legends-technical-issues-en/re-linux-players-getting-banned/5573054

Fairlight 84 https://steamcommunity.com/app/1928420/discussions/0/600788619628804058/

Overwatch https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/09/14/caution-playing-overwatch-on-linux-may-get-you-banned/

Fuck me you’re needy, it was a light-hearted comment, if you spent any time in the Linux gaming space, I wouldn’t have to spoon-feed you a joke. Have a good one.

No I’m not explaining what the one is :D

Linux machines get banned instead of support.

Despite Linux growth Mac is constantly better supported by Devs.

Best we can do is Mac support and blocking Linux

Weird response, mate. It doesn’t seem like you read what I said. I’ve already said I’ve blacklisted Nintendo, as in, I’m not buying their stuff any more. That’s moving on.

When I say I’m invested, I mean I follow the gaming industry as a whole and made a gaming pie on 212 for fun. It’s not some emotional attachment to Nintendo, it’s just interest in the market.

This is my last reply, because you’re just being contrary instead of actually talking about the points raised. So it’s just going to drift off topic and bloat the thread.

“Hilariously out of touch.” I love doing these petty over effort responses, so here we go.

My comment about indie games beating AAA increasing over the years is pretty easy to show. At the time of this comment Palworld has the 3rd highest player peak of all time on Steam at 2,101,867.

The peer release for pokemon Z-A sold 5.8 million. Palworld has sold 25 million.

“But Palworld came out first.” This is an early access indie game that has possibly beaten, or at least matched, Game Freak’s flagship. Judging by the complete lack of effort and the poor quality of Z-A, that flagship is sinking fast.

Source: https://steamdb.info/charts/?sort=peak
Click “About” and you’ll see that the top ten over the last year have been dominated by indies or small studios. This isn’t just the PC scene either.

The age demographic is objectively older. Nintendo themselves (yes, six years ago, but still their data):

“According to our latest data, we have seen that the ratio of players in their 20s and 30s has risen for Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon compared to past Pokémon titles for Nintendo 3DS.”
Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/170201_2e.pdf

More recent (2021):

Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2021/211105e.pdf

A more recent take, though not official:
Source: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/nintendo-says-i-pokemon-i-players-are-now-older-than-ever

Accusing me of being in an echo chamber when I’m actually invested in Nintendo is wild. I put my money where my mouth is, so I do this weird thing where I trawl through their PDFs, look at the market as a whole, follow the trends and form my opinion based on that.

Have a good weekend, everyone!

They don’t seem to realise how much this has cost them. Post-Iwata Nintendo was already going to struggle, and they’ve just doubled down with the same arrogance in a market where a $6 game beating a $60 one is becoming more and more common.

My second console was an NES when I was 7. I’m in their biggest demographic, and Pokémon’s biggest demographic too – one that isn’t growing, by the way.

The Switch is the last one I would’ve been willing to buy. They’re another brand that thinks they have automatic access to my purchasing choices, and another one I’ve personally blacklisted based on behaviour. With emulation, we’d always say “yeah, it’s a dick move,” but you can at least understand it, even if they have no intention of releasing some of their most-wanted backlog or letting you transfer your digital ROM purchases. But going after indies just for showing them up as complacent, fat dragons trying to patent “mid”? Lawsuit or not, get fucked.

I’m not the only one, either. I think the only people left are those who see Nintendo as video-game iPhones and autopilot into a purchase, and the diehards who have dedicated Amiibo rooms.

Currently gold on protondb: hopefully that only improves

Uk Goverment this is fine 🔥

Been looking to start this series when I get some serious down time

Tpm, secure boot. I was starting to be interested in the return to bf3-4 I’ll stick to Arma and squad.

Rust based linux

Weird how entitled publishers have become, you don’t automatically get peoples money because “gaming”. Something is only worth what people can buy it for learn it one way or another.