I don't know why Brodie feels the need to defend every new "cool" thing, from Wayland to Cosmic and Rust.Bro is coping and seething about some arguement he had with a guy who is critical of how wayland is being implemented.
To me the whole time I was watching this. I could only think of this.
Works well for me. It has good out-of-the-box compatibilty with Steam Proton, since both EndeavourOS and SteamOS are based on Arch Linux.
Every time I open Invidious and search anything related to Wayland, this guy comes up as 90% of the results. Shill doesn't even begin to describe it. It's so fucking annoying.
Proton and WINE are both completely distro-agnostic. Unless you are running some insane shit
Absolute Slackware chad, I've been meaning to fuck with it a bit. How's the init and package management?
Old versions were. It's been Arch based since the 3.0 release that came with the 1st Steam deck.
SteamOS was initially based on Debian... a decadish ago. It then went essentially defunct with the failure of the Steam machines. Then brought back with the Steam Deck release with SteamOS v3, which is based on Arch linux. They haven't released the SteamOS v3 ISOs for general usage which is why the SteamOS links still talk about Debian. They were supposedly going to release the v3.0 for your standard x86/64 hardware but they still haven't for whatever reason.
I've had compatibility issues between different kernel versions before, so you really never know.
Part of me wonders if they ever will, considering that many of the people in their target audience are normalfags who have never installed an OS before.
I suspect that the whatever reason is that while Arch Linux is really good when you are targeting one or two unique hardware configurations, it's a bit different when you have to target every gaming PC in existence. Might as well make the UI a package you can install yourself
I am a happy EndeavourOS gaymer. It just werks and as long as I don’t use wayland (in fairness, I haven’t tried it since it was forced on me). My nvidia card and 3 monitors causes me zero issues.
It uses SysvInit and I manage all the packages myself. There are some programs that can be added to your system that help manage them such as sbopkg and sboui. There is also a bit of voodoo with rpm2tgz or deb2tgz if you need some Fedora or Debian packages.
The expectation of SteamOS on desktop is incredibly high. There are a lot of comments on Steam Deck related stuff of people who expect it to be a drop-in replacement for Windows but without the bloat. Which is simply impossible and you will eventually have to use the terminal to fix breakages, even if SteamOS is immutable. I sure had to when trying to use the Steam Deck as a desktop and flatpaks didn't want to update via Discover.
Knowing the fact that SteamOS was designed to be run on specific hardware (Steam Machines, Steam Decks, possibly ROG Allies soon™), it's a bit foolish to think it'll always works without any user tinkering. I say that but people have been installing specialised media/retrogaming distros on spare PCs for a long time already.
Half the time it doesn't even work properly on hardware it was made for https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tnwohy/anyone_figure_out_how_to_reset_default_display/
At least distro tube sometimes is willing to say things that are a bit against the grain sometimes.
Wine even has some implementation on apple iirc.
