Not sure if you're joking or just uninformed, but gaming on linux, even with cancer that Nvidia is pushing out, has been great for a while now, especially with Proton (the thing Valve is pushing out to give Linux support to Windows-only games)
I know gaming on Linux works good and iirc the steamdeck runs on arch but the games i play dont work, so its just a me problem. Im not really good informed though.
I myself was not aware that SteamOS is based on arch.
I guess we're all silly people, that's all.
Been using Linux as main driver for a while now, since I got pissed about Windows eating 10gb of my ram while idle (cpu at 2%, GPU at 0%, no viruses, I checked), and never looked back. Only real kick in the balls is some multiplayer games which I can live without, and the convenience of Word/Office suite. Sure, I can use Libre office or Google docs, or even web version of Office, but it's very inconvenient and misses some features that I need for my studies.
since I got pissed about Windows eating 10gb of my ram while idle
Do you not understand how ram caching works? Windows isn't "eating" that ram, it's holding it as a disk cache. It's much faster to pull from ram than the disk. Plus there's runtime application data that doesn't need to be written to disk. If at any point a program needed that ram it would be flushed and available without you even noticing.
Yeah, unfortunately, no. I run a resource-intensive program, and the ram is still being used by windows processes, while my game is chugging. I researched this, and it's just a big fuck you - only solution was to move to Linux for me.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '24
Soon enough it will be a linux exclusive feature*