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Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

Show me a stable windows desktop.(The same applies to Windows.)

[–] hellofriend 2 points 6 days ago (10 children)

I mean, Windows is undeniably more stable than certain linux configurations. Nothing will ever be 100% stable, but if you compare Windows to basically any rolling release distro, Windows is gonna be more stable. That's just the nature of the two things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

You say it's because of configs etc., i.e. problems caused by the user. That is a serious difference. You should also narrow it down to SteamOS, Garuda, Bazzite, CachyOS or one of the other distributions designed for gaming. After all, these are also experiencing the most growth in gaming from people leaving Windows behind.

Windows and stable? So blue screens during OS installation are stable? Windows didn't catch on because it was stable. It stole the most important thing and then the dirty gag contracts where Intel and Nvidia were also involved. That's the only reason why this trickery has prevailed. Windows is and always has been rubbish, but MS knew how to damage competitors and secure a monopoly position. Windows and stable are a joke.

Every OS was programmed by humans and contains errors. This does not apply to just one OS or the other. In addition, faulty software also runs on faulty hardware. From this point of view, stable is no longer possible with today's CPUs, even if you counteract this via microcode.

[–] hellofriend 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Literally read past the word "configurations" and you'll see that I'm talking about how a distro is configured by its maintainers AKA the meta level, not fucking dotfiles. Grow a brain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

That's why I mentioned certain distributions afterwards. But thinking doesn't seem to be one of your strengths. If you are going to compare then only with distributions that focus on gaming. Everything else is completely idiotic with the huge variety of distributions available. Of course it's easy to choose a completely different one and then make mimimi... but you don't try to install current games in ms-dos, for example... that would be just as much of an inane comparison.

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