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1173 points davikr | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.282s | source
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mojoe ◴[12 Nov 25 18:03 UTC] No.45903447[source]▶
Steam is the only reason I have a Windows desktop, I'll probably just get one of these next time I want a hardware refresh (which admittedly will probably be many years).

Interesting that it uses KDE Plasma for the desktop

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lordleft ◴[12 Nov 25 18:17 UTC] No.45903671[source]▶
I like SteamOS a great deal, though it's not my daily driver (yet). I'm curious if people will begin to use it as a daily driver and thus expect Valve to be an OS developer on top of creating software for their gaming hardware. That's a different set of expectations and I wonder how they'll navigate it.
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1. mhitza ◴[12 Nov 25 20:45 UTC] No.45906392[source]▶
I've used SteamOS as a daily driver for half a year. Immutable distros have limitations and my distrobox images failed to work after a SteamOS update.

If you're ok with running work stuff in a separate VM within SteamOS, that works great. Using Geekbench I saw only a 5% cpu performance penalty. Io takes a bigger hit, but that wasn't a blocker for me as I was intending to run VMs with encrypted storage anyway (which adds even more latency) but still a good experience for my work.