`SteamOS 3 proper will come out sometime after launch (and even then it may not work on your toaster

SteamOS 3 proper will come out sometime after launch (and even then it may not work on your toaster).

SteamOS 3 proper will come out sometime after launch (and even then it may not work on your toaster).

SteamOS 3 proper will come out sometime after launch (and even then it may not work on your toaster).

SteamOS 3 proper will come out sometime after launch (and even then it may not work on your toaster).

On the SteamOS install page from early 2022. But it's coming soon!

AAru I don't care for dual boot, but it's the easiest way to convince people to try i...

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:16 PM

I know, I'm just fanatically anti windows

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:16 PM

very biased source is me

VValerie `SteamOS 3 proper will come out sometime after launch (and even then it may not ...

ValerieOP•8/15/24, 12:17 PM

While Steam Deck is fully capable of dual-boot, the SteamOS installer that provides a dual-boot wizard isn't ready yet. This will ship alongside SteamOS 3 once it's complete.

While Steam Deck is fully capable of dual-boot, the SteamOS installer that provides a dual-boot wizard isn't ready yet. This will ship alongside SteamOS 3 once it's complete.

From october 2022

bq•8/15/24, 12:17 PM

I wish all the redditors and whatever would stop saying that a liveUSB is bad because "USB isn't fast enough"

bq•8/15/24, 12:17 PM

liveUSB is better than dual boot for safely trying things

Bbq I wish all the redditors and whatever would stop saying that a liveUSB is bad be...

ValerieOP•8/15/24, 12:17 PM

I used bazzite from a USB SSD for like 3 months lol

bq•8/15/24, 12:18 PM

I know, right? Yesterday I saw a thread where someone convinced a poor noob that all USB drives had flash that would get destroyed by the writes

bq•8/15/24, 12:18 PM

meanwhile here I am with an nvme SSD in a USB enclosure

bq•8/15/24, 12:19 PM

seriously tho, if you want to get people to try the thing, let them liveboot it easily

bq•8/15/24, 12:19 PM

like Tails

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:19 PM

Every time I have to set up a Windows PC, the experience gets worse. Ads, force installed apps, requiring Microsoft accounts (and i'm aware there are ways to get around these things, but it's more effort and time). I made my mother buy a Macbook so she'd quit getting malware and needing me to fix her damn Windows laptops.

Aru•8/15/24, 12:19 PM

I know that the LGO couldn't run Bazzite well off an external SSD, but that was a Lenovo hardware issue.

Bbq like Tails

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:19 PM

Nobody should be booting Tails to see what desktop Linux is like.

KKamquat Every time I have to set up a Windows PC, the experience gets worse. Ads, force ...

Aru•8/15/24, 12:20 PM

I install Linux for relatives, or tell them to get a Chromebook

Aru•8/15/24, 12:20 PM

Usually that fixes everything lol

bq•8/15/24, 12:20 PM

you can ventoy almost anything, but bazzite doesn't have such an image

AAru I install Linux for relatives, or tell them to get a Chromebook

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:20 PM

My mom uses a bunch of graphic design software, so that was kind of a non-starter.

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:20 PM

hence, macbook

KKamquat My mom uses a bunch of graphic design software, so that was kind of a non-starte...

Aru•8/15/24, 12:21 PM

Makes sense, I had assumed it was something like that.

Aru•8/15/24, 12:21 PM

Thankfully for most people, a browser + printer is all they need

bq•8/15/24, 12:21 PM

it's a bell curve

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:21 PM

My mother is also 68 years old, so it took some convincing and 2 instances of malware encrypting all her shit to get her to switch

bq•8/15/24, 12:21 PM

the low end and the high end can use linux

bq•8/15/24, 12:22 PM

low end "what is 3d modeling". High end "I prefer Blender over Maya"

bq•8/15/24, 12:22 PM

middle... not happy

Bbq low end "what is 3d modeling". High end "I prefer Blender over Maya"

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:22 PM

Honestly the biggest issue at the high end for that is 'But we NEEED CUDAAAAAA' and Nvidia+Linux being... not great

asen23•8/15/24, 12:22 PM

bazzite live image are coming:SoonTM: tho right?

KKamquat My mother is also 68 years old, so it took some convincing and 2 instances of ma...

CSW1984•8/15/24, 12:22 PM

Hah I'm still fighting this. Between her temu addiction and having 10 different "coupon bars" malware in her browser, my mother is like a living example of that one Friends episode...

Aru•8/15/24, 12:23 PM

It's the "not quite power users but knows enough to be dangerous" that is have trouble with Linux

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:23 PM

Immutable Live Image?

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:23 PM

seems... not needed?

Aru•8/15/24, 12:23 PM

The installer itself does suck though

CCSW1984 Hah I'm still fighting this. Between her temu addiction and having 10 different ...

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:23 PM

Oh ugh that'd be awful

CCSW1984 Hah I'm still fighting this. Between her temu addiction and having 10 different ...

Aru•8/15/24, 12:24 PM

Ultimatum: Chromebook or no tech support from me

AAru The installer itself does suck though

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:24 PM

Yeah Anaconda is pretty

Aru•8/15/24, 12:25 PM

As much as I'm not a fan of ChromeOS, it's perfect for users that have a tendency to accidentally shoot themselves in the foot with Windows.

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:25 PM

still a vast improvement over 30+ 3.5" floppy disks back from when I was a teen installing Slackware on my 486 laptop tho

AAru As much as I'm not a fan of ChromeOS, it's perfect for users that have a tendenc...

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:26 PM

I don't mind it, though if the US Gov't does antitrust chop up Google it'll be interesting to see what happens with ChromeOS

Aru•8/15/24, 12:27 PM

ChromeOS is the closest thing we have to a mainstream Linux distro

bq•8/15/24, 12:27 PM

what? No, Android

Kamquat•8/15/24, 12:27 PM

Yes but I don't know how much money Google is directly making from ChromeOS and Android, I think most of the 'profit' from those is more from them funneling people towards google services/ads