Railcar8095 @ Railcar8095 @lemm.ee

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Bazzite as HTPC and you can do that already, if you want to test your dream.

Except SteamOS, as I discovered when I needed it badly.

Still, I'm sticking to SteamOS on the deck and Bazzite for the desktop.

Without 25 observations at least we cannot draw conclusions

I've seen brand new installs of XP. An ancient process works there, so if they need a new deployment, XP it is.

No internet and minimum user interaction though

Given this explanation, I am amazed I was able to use an iPad after having an android tablet. I had to pick new apps! Relearn the settings! In a different hardware!

I'm honestly proud of myself. Thanks.

"I mean, there are millions of people with motive. Which one in particular we will hopefully never know"

That obituary might make a nice t-shirt.

Man, I sure hope somebody does something about it.

"Stitches aren't covered by your plan. Have you tried dying?"

Did they see a healthcare CEO dead on the street and thought "this is the right moment to fuck with people"?

Working class doesn't have the money to change to machine either.

So, what's the advice that you would give you working class? Pay, pirate or learn?

It's already dead, we might as well.

My desktop is Bazzite and my htpc is Aurora (the non gaming version of Bazzite), so I have to agree with you haha

I feel like the haters didn't get the joke.

Their computer didn't come with sense of humor pre-installed, and it's too hard to do it themselves.

Currently, you're right. But it's a bad move, I think, moving forward for valve.

They have already confirmed they want steamOS to be a distro everybody can install on any computer. Being more limited than most distros is going to make it a hard choice to pick. On the deck, it's fine tuned to that hardware. What is going to offer that Bazzite won't replicate a few months afterwards, while offering a better general OS experience?

I think that just having layers and a recovery partition that can restore the system while preserving steam games (even if removing all configs) would increase the appeal a lot.

Working class people at large don't know about these alternatives,

You mean only the elite know about Linux? Preposterous!

*proceeds to clean monocle

Jokes aside, it might be a good time to teach and learn. Or pay, or have less security moving forward.

It was a staple of the "working class" to be resourceful, to know to repair stuff. It's on Microsoft best interest that you change the computer, that you pay another OEM license, that they can drop support for older hardware... And this will happen again with windows 12.

I'm very interested on a longer explanation of this take, considering how many people use Linux as a replacement for windows.

And if the argument is "not everything that runs on windows works on Linux", remember that can be said with windows vs Mac, iOS vs android and even windows 10 vs windows 11.

Love Linux and steam deck, but AS IS, steam os is a horrible choice for a desktop general use computer.

It's immutable without layering, so there are things that you can't install/keep after an update. Case and point, printers. You can't print, period. Valve knows, they don't need a gaming device to print so they don't care.

Hopefully they will do something about this, but I don't hold my breath for 2025

The CPU is due to instruction set requirements. The first version of W11 is technically compatible (with hack to pass the checks) with older CPUs than the newer versions. And it's not Gusty's guaranteed that there ones that currently can run it will do it after a few updates.

I hate it, and they could have done things to allow more compatibility, but it's not without a technical reason.

... This is bait right? You want somebody to tell you there's a simple and free solution, and then you're going to say it's a bad solution?

FINE! I'll bite: Pirated copy of Windows Enterprise LTSC. It's less useful, more resource hungry, privacy invasive and has worse support for older hardware than Linux though.