I just add it to and launch it through Steam…

This is why I have a desktop for gaming and a laptop for everything else.

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Can’t be too much, considering Bazzite and Chimera already did it years ago. Maybe it doesn’t have the level of polish that Valve wants.

Linux gaming may have a high bar to learn

I disagree. 99% of the time I just click the play button and that’s it. Which is honestly more than I can say for Windows.

I took mine apart and just cut out the rumble motors. Bonus is it makes the controllers lighter.

Steam Play just enables you to launch Windows games on Linux with Proton.

I don’t know anything about accessibility but I will say you can run any distro with any Desktop Environment (GNOME, KDE, Plasma, etc).

Bazzite is really hot right now, both for general use and also gaming.

It’s a Fedora-based distro that benefits from their Atomic updates. None of this you need to know or understand.

Currently you’re required to tinker with each game to get them to work well

I don’t tinker with any games. And I play a lot of them. I just hit the launch button. Depending on distro you may have hit “enable steam play” first but that’s about it.

His past experiences weren’t an indicator of how much he likes Linux. Just how complicated it is.

LTT was talking about it on the last WAN show also. I’ll dig it up later and post, or you can just look up the time stamps.

and have run into nvidia issues with Bazzite and a 3070 previously.

As have I. And everyone else I know. Nvidia sucks on Linux because they don’t care.

given nvidia having a better performance to cost ratio

Uhhhh no? Think you got that the wrong way round.

Regardless, I would pay a lot more just to avoid the issues of Nvidia on Linux. It’s just not something I want to deal with.

Best advice I have is to return them and get some 2.4Ghz controller from 8BitDo or similar.

What motherboard?

Is your antenna connected?

It’s semantic

I do not think this word means what you think it means

You can play Fortnite using Xbox Cloud for free.

Is it really worth dealing with Windows’ bullshit to play a native version of a bad competitive shooter from a shitty company, with a controller? It’s not like you can play it offline either.

you can install Epic Games Launcher on your steam deck.

Yes but you don’t need to and shouldn’t. HGL is a much better experience with way more options.

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Doesn’t seem like a bad idea but Steam Deck + Xreal Air is what I would (and did) choose over something like that. That way I have the option of using the glasses but they’re not strictly necessary.

Also the 8840HS makes the same mistake as other handhelds with almost zero regard to battery life.

Not to mention the software.

I hate to say it but this just seems like a bad idea doomed to fail from inception.

Hope I’m wrong.

Linux laptop with Nvidia? Pass.