tbf i didnt recognize any the names but reading about each one was like “oh yeah that thing, i knew about that”.

i think the effect would be to further muddy the discourse

i know but it’s a thread full of windows gamers and that’s more or less the important takeaway for them. i know there’s a lot more to it than that.

no.

SteamOS is based on Arch, which is what I’m running right now.

Arch comes with the kernel, a package manager, some generic drivers to get you started, and a CLI. That’s it. Zero bloat. You then add what you need/want on top of it.

It’s not “stripped down”, it’s not hobbled for the sake of extra performance, it actually has more system components than my daily driver. You can get ahold of the recovery ISO and go install it on any box, it’s not really super specialized beyond supporting video games.

hell i have a friend who slaps steamos on everything anymore because it works out of the box everywhere and does everything just fine. it’s absolutely not some hobbled abnormal linux, it’s a fully featured OS that does everything just fine.

“De-bloating” and “stripping down” are things Windows users do, because Windows is bloated and fucky and awful. That’s just not a thing on Linux dude.

this is the funniest thing i’ve read all week. Arch comes with the kernel, some generic drivers, BASH, and the package manager. there’s nothing to strip down, the only way to start with less is to download the kernel and roll your own from scratch.

yes, it’s a desktop OS. it’s literally arch linux. i have a friend who slaps the steamos recovery image on every pc now and just uses it as their go-to daily driver.

yeah it took me a while, it’s an awful graph and i haven’t had coffee yet

Finally an extra 3 1/2 hours of… dead cells? 3 more hours of… FPS? the hell is this graph?

iirc the original SteamOS for the SteamBox was Debian-based (like Ubuntu), i think they switched it to Arch since it moves a bit faster and offers a bit better compatibility.

why is fps labeled with hours and minutes? what is “dead cells” and why is it also labeled hours and minutes?

edit wow i was even more confused about it than i thought. what a terrible graph.

ITT everyone’s fine with minimods harassing people and leveraging vague civility rules to get swears censored.

what you see is pushback against someone whining at me about a swear word in a comment, in a space with no rules about swearing. tone policing isn’t fucking nice either, but only i got modded.

I said there’s no rule against swearing, and there’s not. The context is that some other user inboxed me to chastise me for gasp swearing on the internet, and this is was my reply to that. Is it rude? Yes. Is it ruder than the tone policing that prompted it and that was allowed to remain up? I don’t think so.

i’d argue tone policing swear words completely unprompted in a space with no rules about it either way is way ruder than a mildly condescending pushback

okay but know that the effect of that is that is to help protect Hasbro’s trademark. it’s what they want from you.

Then you should use it as generically as possible so that the trademark becomes unenforceable. Brand dilution is a thing, it’s why Alphabet doesn’t want you using “google” as a verb, and why your mom was actually based for calling your Playstation “a nintendo”.

It would be, if that were what happened. What actually happened is someone on a trans instance with a non-binary identity (who, i might note, had the username dragonfucker, afaict extending that term to drag’s gender identity is an embellishment) uses neopronouns, some people got butthurt about it and argued with drag about drag’s identity being “real”, and the admin rightfully drew a line in the sand about misgendering people.

The tl;dr is this dude got told not to intentionally misgender people whether he thinks someone’s identity is valid or not, and he lost his shit over not being allowed to gatekeep queer people on a queer instance and left of his own accord.

what’s even more fun is how i got banned from blahaj.zone’s c/transgender for saying hexbear is extremist and they decided to frame that as “calling trans people extremist”.

It’s all too common when anti-phrenology people don’t understand phreno101.

oh look yet another warmed over “DAE the kids r bad” talking point that i’ve been hearing literally since i learned language.