[Windows] can make the experience crippling for non-technically minded users
Wild seeing this in an article talking about Linux.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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It's very often true, though. Windows has pretty graphics, but doing anything technical that doesn't work out of the box is fucking obscure.
What do you mean, the registry is a perfect piece of software, crystal clear on how or why it works the way it does !
Yes, I agree!
Who would want to enable cycling through application windows on the taskbar via graphical settings in KDE Plasma, when you can just press Win+R, enter regedit.exe, get administrator privilages, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced and add a new 32-bit DWORD named LastActiveClick with the value of 1 in Windows.
Elementary users are probably looking away now, all embarased... mainly because they don't have a minimize button, to hide the shame. Not without screwing around with dconf, that is :)
Not even too technical stuff. Settings which a slightly advanced user might need or want to change are freaking spread out across 3 different applications. Good luck finding it through the their amazing search.
Me: Ask for default browser setting Windows: Excuse me, did you mean to search for Bagels Near Me?
Linux works better on appliances than Windows does, and this is really just one of those areas where you can see it in action. Great to see another OEM jump on the wave -- it benefits the whole market.
Good to hear! My main gripe with steamdeck alternatives is that steam os is just so much better than whatever goofy flavor if windows they ship in.
I think thats cool to see SteamOS on more hardware.
https://ayaneo.com/article/806
Here is from their website which also says "AYANEO NEXT LITE comes pre-installed with the SteamOS gaming system for the first time".
Interesting.
Anyone know the status of Valve "generalizing" that? Or is the idea going to be that ayaneo will work on a delay as they swap out drivers and all the other "immutable" stuff?
You can install SteamOS on your PC. As long as ayaneo's handheld can run Linux, it should be able to run SteamOS.
https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown
There is also HoloISO which is based on Steam Deck's version of SteamOS: https://github.com/HoloISO/holoiso
Please don't use that guide. That's the old 2.x line of SteamOS which hasn't been updated since 2019 and is based on a very old version of Debian. The SteamOS that the deck uses is 3.x and has also moved from Debian to Arch. Valve really needs to update that page.
If you want to build your own SteamOS machine, take a look at something like HoloISO (https://github.com/HoloISO/holoiso) which is built on the current branch of SteamOS with the deck-exclusive OS/hardware items swapped out for standard kit.
Man, I didn't know HoloISO is the only way to get the Arch-based SteamOS 3. I thought it's a custom fork like Proton vs Proton GE.
Yeah. valve have George Foreman syndrome. That is the old SteamOS that was used with Steam Machines. You can tell because it is based on debian rather than arch
I would actually be shocked if ayaneo were trying to pull that scam (and the promotional stuff definitely looks like modern steamdeck version of big picture).
SteamOs is built on?
Arch linux + KDE
It's built on Arch, and jt uses KDE Plasma as the desktop environment. The game mode is all custom.
Arch
This aged well