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I was forced into using SteamOS because my puter broked. Can i just install it on my desktop after it's fixed? Can i make a regular Linux as plug-and-play as steamos? (hexbear.net)
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I'm not completely illiterate on the subject of Linux i used to mess around in highschool with turning old PC parts into functional machines

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[–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

You can install packages from fedora's repositories or loose RPM files by using rpm-ostree install and they will exist as if they were installed imperatively as they are layered on-top of your operating system image.

I can answer any questions that you have. Sorry for being flippant with my first reply.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    No worries! I ended up just getting so frustrated with trying to figure it out and just having the console return a web link to a guide that may as well be Babylonian to me, so I'm currently installing CachyOS.

    Also it seems like Bazzite hated my multi monitor setup of 1440p 21:9 and a 4k 16:9 display located 10 meters away in a different room. PLM does this weird flickery bullshit and if I try to maximize a window on the ultrawide monitor, it would just left justify a 16:9 window and leave 1/5 of the screen showing only desktop.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Experimentation is good, CachyOS allows for using the AUR for any sort of package you'd need vs. needing to containerize everything on bazzite. The multi-monitor setup and flickering could be a KDE-specific bug.

    Unfortunately you still have to read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plex

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    The multi-monitor setup and flickering could be a KDE-specific bug.

    negative they can't make me use GNOME, I've been using Plasma for 20 years .

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Accept your GNOME masters, they know best friend-visitor-3 goblin-dont-care

    But if you have a Nvidia GPU then it's probably that (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA). I had an Nvidia GPU and that monstrosity would completely fry my display after a suspend that I would have to restart my computer and Nshittia has not fixed it in 4 years.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I think Gnome is really pretty and minimalistic, it feels like a great laptop DE to me. But I kinda treat my desktop like a workstation when I'm not gaming and I really like the KDE Human Interface Guidelines. They just work really nice for my brain, so apps feel a lot more intuitive to use than GTK apps tend to.

    Material Design 1 and 2 also really worked nice for my brain, I miss when it was prevalent. Play Music was so much nicer to use and look at than Spotify is.

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