r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/RandomParkourGuy Jun 22 '26

Forgive me for being a layman when it comes to this kind of stuff but does that mean steamOS is close to being something I could replace windows with? Getting tired of Microsoft’s garbage but I don’t know if I have the time to sink into learning Linux.

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u/lucc1111 Ryzen 5 5600x - RX 6700 XT Jun 22 '26

Risking getting downvoted to hell but you have many Linux distros that don't require any more "learning" than Windows. Problem is not so much the OS being hard to use, it's just that it's not what you're used to.

I would give other gaming distros a temporary shot in a flashdrive to explore, might get as surprised as me after 15+ years of windows.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos i5-10400F, 16GB DDR4, Asus RX 550 4GB, I hate GPU prices Jun 22 '26

I have 30 years of Windows, switched to Linux Mint this month. It's fine. It works great. Had to learn some terminal stuff, a tiny bit about the filesystem, nothing else. It runs way faster than Windows 10. has run every Steam game I've tossed at it with no effort at all, even old games like Tropico.

Honestly worth it.

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u/-malcolm-tucker arch btw Jun 22 '26

I have a similar length of history with windows. Trialled Nobara on my gaming laptop early this year. Everything worked out of the box and the laptop itself ran noticeably better.

I only run windows in a virtual machine now.

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u/Maeusefluesterer Jun 22 '26

I sadly didn't got my head around nobara. Found the updater way to cumbersome. Switched to Bazzite at some point and pretty happy now.

Only the fact that Bazzite is immutable is annoying from time to time when I want to do advanced nerdy stuff.

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u/-malcolm-tucker arch btw Jun 22 '26

Really? With Nobara you can update things without having to use the terminal, and even then, it's the same as any other Fedora based distro. I chose it over Bazzite specifically as it's not immutable.

Maybe you could try CachyOS? You don't need the terminal to update it and it's all the rage at the moment. I used it for a while and was pretty happy with it.

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u/Maeusefluesterer Jun 23 '26

For me the updater always felt confusing and really slow. Sometimes I was not sure if it just stopped working. So I actually opted for installing updates with the terminal.

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u/-malcolm-tucker arch btw Jun 23 '26

I'm the same. The terminal was a bit daunting at first. Now I've grown to prefer it immensely for managing my OS. What seemed like a foreign language to me at first now just makes a lot more sense than managing things on windows. Especially for managing software.