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  • Steam Machine

    If the Steam Machine really takes off, I see way more people moving to Linux on their main rigs and laptops, and in turn making companies stop ignoring it, if it becomes a massive success I imagine:

    • Mainstream games like FIFA supporting Linux
    • Apps like Affinity Studio being distributed through Steam officially supported via Proton.
    • Epic games will be the last company to keep ignoring Linux.
    • Valve adopting Waydroid for SteamOS (for Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, etc)
    • NVIDIA will redouble their Linux efforts.
    • Greatest than ever VR support in Linux

    Steam Frame

    • Lots of Linux apps will work on Android desktop mode, like LibreOffice, Inkscape, etc.
    • Linux phones will receive a lot more maintainers and funding.

    Steam Deck

    • Android apps on the Deck via Valve’s Waydroid
    • Steam Deck 2 on ARM

    Other

    • New use cases for ARM will motivate RISCV to speed up it’s growth.
    • KDE & Arch will receive more funding from Valve
    • More contributions to the Kernel
    • More Linux developers
    • Increased security for Linux
    • Flathub will grow





  • I would go with Aurora or Fedora Kinoite. Atomic + KDE is unbreakable and easy for Windows casuals.

    The only thing I dislike about Aurora is the illustrations baked into the distro. SDDM & Bazaar have them and can’t be changed. But it’s a freaking awesome distro.

    I use it daily on my work laptop through an external USBC M2 NVME caddy. Today I had to move to a new work laptop and I just plugged it to the new one and that was it, my OS and all my stuff on my new work laptop in just a few seconds. No downtime. No drivers to update. Nothing.

    The laptops have their factory Windows untouched. No warranty is void. IT is happy and I get to use Linux at work.

    Plus, I can plug the drive to my home desktop PC running Bazzite and open files as if it was a regular thumbdrive.

    This setup makes me so happy.