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I'm just so sick of Microsoft and Google. But there's two things holding me back:

  1. I wanna play Steam games on my PC

  2. I am just an amateur hobbyist, not a tech wizard

Is there any hope for me?

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[–] seralth@lemmy.world -1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The fact people suggest anything fedora based to new users is even more baffling then suggesting pure arch.

Fedora loves to just randomly destroy itself every so often. Hell they are currently thinking of doing it right now!

If your going to do a gamer distro like bazzite as a gamer your objectively better off just going with cachyOS.

It's literally the same base as steam OS, has half the problems. And wont just implode because fedora decides to change something stupid yet again.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It may be baffling to you but honestly I’ve had no issues and you clearly know more about the subject than I do. I just wasn’t aware of any of what you mentioned, though I certainly am not calling it into question.

As somebody who is pretty good with computers but is by no means a coder/programmer/engineer of any sort, I’ve just been very happy with bazzite 🤷‍♂️

I have not seen those problems, but I’ve also only been on it for a couple of months. I will keep an eye out for that and keep cachyOS in mind.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

even my parents and grandparents are on bazzite which massively reduced my family tech support work, but it seems like fedora is indeed being fedora again and discussions are for dropping 32 bit which would be troubling for gamers still.