3 ms·
Mmh, I've always wanted my gaming PC to run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles that could have been used for my game. Oh well, if I didn't want tha
by xzjis 11mo ago
Mmh, I've always wanted my gaming PC to run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles that could have been used for my game. Oh well, if I didn't want that, I could just consider using a Steam Machine, which Valve just announced.
- daedrdev 11mo agofor real
- dralley 11mo agoHonestly you don't need Valve hardware or SteamOS to make Proton work really well
- mrbungie 11mo agoYou don't, but oh boy, the experience is worth it. Bazzite[1] has it quirks but it mostly works fine in desktops. [1] https://bazzite.gg/ https://bazzite.gg/
- p1necone 11mo agoImo if you just have a regular desktop PC, use Ubuntu/Fedora, not a dedicated 'gaming' distro. Bazzite's good as a stand in for steam os on non Valve handhelds, but Steam and Proton work just fine on a regular boring Linux distro.
- giobox 11mo agoI mostly agree, with the caveat the Bazzite is also a good option for PCs that spend their life permanently connected to a TV as a gaming box. It makes for a great big screen sofa experience too vs using typical Linux distro desktop UIs or Windows. Roll your own Steam Machine, essentially.
- Gigachad 11mo agoBazzite is a lot less messing around though. Stock standard fedora doesn't have the drivers needed for modern xbox controllers. Doesn't have a controller usable interface, etc. If your PC is connected to a TV than Bazzite is a much better experience.
- nandomrumber 11mo agoDebian / Fedora are riddled with features gamers will never need.
- reactordev 11mo agoSo is windows. The point being that you can have your cake and eat it too with a stable distribution, proper drivers, proton and Steam.
- p1necone 11mo agoI'm making an assumption that most HN commenters aren't using their PC only for games.
- tapoxi 11mo agoBazzite is just Fedora Kinoite with some tweaks for gaming, like automatically including Nvidia drivers. I've joined the Kinoite kult since it's much easier to deal with an atomic system.
- bsder 11mo ago> Mmh, I've always wanted my gaming PC to run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles that could have been used for my game. Wasn't that the whole point of Windows Update? To accustom us to have something burning 100% CPU all the time instead of the task you actually want to do?
- xp84 11mo ago> run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles Hey, that's not fair, won't this eat up GPU cycles? ;)
- Traubenfuchs 11mo agoBoth!
- kijin 11mo agoNot if it uploads all your data to the cloud and analyzes it there!
- xp84 11mo agoIsn't this opt-in? How does this hurt you?
- passwordoops 11mo agoBecause at some point it won't be opt in
- ryandrake 11mo agoEverything about modern Windows is coercive, or ends up being coercive. You can't even shut down your PC without it forcing you to update Windows. It lets you skip for a while, then after some time, the only options are to Update and Reboot or Update and Shutdown. Totally disrespectful of who the actual owner of the computer is. You have to yank the power plug out to shut down your computer safely.
- 1718627440 11mo agoRun it in a VM and just roll the update back.
- nick486 11mo ago>Update and Shutdown and if you pick that, there's a high chance that it will reboot and leave your pc running anyway.
- xp84 11mo agoI think they just finally fixed that one :)
- hulitu 11mo ago> Isn't this opt-in? How does this hurt you? Thanks. Added to canonical list of "Famous last words". /s