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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

Because of how good Proton has become, I'm considering dropping Windows and switching to Arch for gaming at my next upgrade.

Two players developing improvements to Steam OS and Proton can only make things better.

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I was thinking of using Bazzite. I use Arch for my work install and have been using Arch for personal use since 2015 with Windows dual boot for gaming. Bazzite/UBlue has really surprised me and if I didn't have an Nvidia GPU I think I would've already migrated completely away from Windows with Bazzite. Container based OSes with immutable root are the future IMO.

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Bazzite is great, I've used it for a good while and it's never let me down. Have it on my deck right now, in fact!

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm tempted to switch to my deck to Bazzite, but I also have everything set up exactly how I want it right now and it seems like a huge pain to set everything up again.

I also know that anytime valve announces a new deck feature update I'll immediately want to check it out.

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Totally fair. On the updates, it's a fedora based rolling release of sorts so you get kernel updates way earlier and steam updates just as regularly as vanilla on top, pretty sure it follows the preview branch by default. I remember back when I installed it I had the new color vibrancy slider months before 3.5 hit and the new mesa with smaller shader cache sizes and whatnot too.

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