Steam Machine Prices Announced
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You could install steamos on your machine if you're using an amd gpu and check it out. I heard it needs its own drive though.
I'm on Nobara which is pretty close I think to Steam OS if I tell it to boot into the gaming mode. I've been on Linux for approaching two years for games now. I didn't end up using the gaming mode (the Steam console type thing) because it was just too finicky to set up for all my GOG games, my emulation, if I want to web browse, the headset I don't use a ton, etc.
It's there though, and if you're a Steam-only PC gamer it's quite nice. I've had almost zero special configuration required for Steam games on Linux. I've spent most of my setup time setting up obscure old games, many of which Windows fights too, or setting up emulators.
I'm dual boot with something like a 250GB Win 11 partition that honestly I can't remember the last time I booted in to. I'm close to a full Linux gaming evangelist at this point. I love I never have to screw with GPU driver updates and the AMD control panel and such garbage.
For my GoG games I install them in desktop mode with Heroic, and then Heroic has an option to add them to Steam. After doing that, I can launch them from the Steam Deck's gaming mode. It's still a hassle, but a minor one.
I've been doing it with Lutris. I'm sure with a little tweaking I could make it work. I think I just ended up not messing with it anymore. It's a TV PC but I was already set up for years for TV-front gaming. I can totally play KB/M games on it if I want, comfortably. So messing with the gaming mode was just a novelty at best. I also tried Bazzite first, then Arch, before settling on Nobara for the last year or so and I'd kinda gotten used to being past that.
I do need to play with Heroic someday. I've never cared too much to have a mega game launcher though. I actually prefer my emulators to stand alone in particular.
I think of Heroic as more like my GoG launcher, I know it can do other things but I don't really do any of that.
The important thing, to me, is that it handles GoG achievements with no further fuckery. Even when I launch a game via the shortcuts it makes in Steam.