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Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by udev4096 »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #103
cyberrock wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly SteamOS doesn't support full disk encryption, which is inexcusable for an OS used on a portable device, that some also use to remote access their desktop (through Steam Link/Moonlight).

It doesn't need to, if your disk supports OPAL2 - just set the password in BIOS and encrypt the drive, it's fully transparent to the OS and as a bonus, there's virtually no performance hit unlike software-based encryption like LUKS.

The question is, does the stock SSD support OPAL2?

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by udev4096 »

cyberrock wrote: post #67
haunter wrote: post #21

As much as I love Bazzite at end of the day it's still a custom distro and every single day there is a chance they just close the project down and move on. Happened to so many distros in the past, this is not out of question. I’m not saying “big corporate” distros are better but personally I'd rather stick to something more mainline. Hopefully Valve will release a general version of SteamOS with Steam Machine coming…

Sadly SteamOS doesn't support full disk encryption, which is inexcusable for an OS used on a portable device, that some also use to remote access their desktop (through Steam Link/Moonlight).

I personally don't keep anything sensitive on steam deck or heck, any device related to "gaming". Modern games are nothing but spyware and even more reasons if you are pirating

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by ThatPlayer »

thenthenthen wrote: post #200
smolder wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, game companies are simply unwilling to pay for the talent and man hours that it takes to police their games for cheaters. Even when they are scanning your memory and filesystem they don't catch people running the latest rented cheat software.

Cheating is a social problem, not a technical issue. Just give the community dedicated server possibility (remember how back in the days games used to ship with dedicated server binaries?) and the community can police for free! Wow!

Yes, because players want to spend time moderating other players instead of playing the game. Sounds fun!

Community servers literally invented anti-cheat. All current big name anti-cheats started as anti-cheats for community servers. And admins would choose to use them. Game developers would see that and integrate it. Quake 3 Arena even added Punkbuster in a patch.

Modern community servers like FiveM for GTAV, or Face-It and ESEA for CS2 have more anti-cheats, not less.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by udev4096 »

LelouBil wrote: post #2

Great distro ! I have been using it for the last 2 years on my Framework laptop 16 without any issues. I even have a "fork" of sorts that adds Hyprland + all of my "desktop" config, which I think as being part of the OS. I really think immutable distributions are the future of linux desktop, and maybe distributions that use OCI images, beacause they are a lot easier to work with than say, NixOS for example. If you wa…

Immutable is very good for new linux users but I personally don't like the restriction and find rpmostree extremely slow to install literally anything. It does make sense to use immutable distros in routers, firewall, etc

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by EliteGadget »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #117
Night_Thastus wrote: post #104

For anyone interested in some gaming benchmarks, Gamer's Nexus (a reputable source with good methodology) has some numbers here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovOx4_8ajZ8 Based on their results, it sounds like there's still quite a way to go Linux gaming/Proton (ie: very inconsistent frametimes on Nvidia hardware), but it's definitely been taking steps in the right direction.

That's mainly an nVidia issue. On AMD, Linux is actually faster and more stable compared to Windows.

That just isn't true. While it is very good now, it is not faster and more stable than Windows. I have performance issues on Linux that just don't happen on Windows.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by snapplebobapple »

It's also the best distribution for jellyfin media player because it's trivially easy to get the jellyfin client to autostart in kde and it's not that hard to get it auto updating and rebooting nightly. This distro plus an intel n150 mini pc (aoostar n1 pro is decent) and a flir dongle and the flir remote is a big win.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by EliteGadget »

These sort of derivative distros seem to be aimed at Windows 11 Refugees.

I am not a fan of these derivative distros and I would always recommend using one of the mainline distros e.g Debian, Arch, Fedora etc.

I am using Debian 13 for gaming and the most difficult thing I had to install was a backports kernel which improved performance in some games, in other games it made no difference at all.

Installing Steam and Lutris takes about 5 minutes and it yet another distro for what amounts to installing some applications. I find the biggest issues on Linux gaming is the applying individual workarounds in Steam, and getting wireless controllers to behave properly.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by Covenant0028 »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #127
sbarre wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: given all the companies and people working on anti-cheat systems for the last 20+ years of multiplayer video games, don't you think it would all be server-side if it could be, by now?

No, because most companies will make decisions based on time/effort/profitability, and because client-side anticheat is stupid simple and cheap, that's what they go with. Why waste their own server resources, when they can waste the user's?

So it is the company prioritising their bottom line at the expense of their customer's computers. More simply, they move cost from their balance sheet and convert it into risk on the customer's end.

Which is actively customer-abusive behavior and customers should treat it with the contempt it deserves. The fact that customers don't, is what enables such abuse.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by lukan »

udev4096 wrote: post #220
ffsm8 wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mmh, you definitely misremember that > As much as I’d like this change to happen, it’s too soon. This change would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely right as Fedora is starting to make major headway in the gaming space. > I’m speaking as it’s founder, if this change is actually made as it is written the best option for us is to just go ahead and disband the project. Now, whenever you would've actually shut down…

Mmh, you definitely like to cause drama by putting words in someone's mouth

Do you claim his quotes are not real?
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