Debian GNU/kFreeBSD was definitively a thing.

Too bad it’s not available via RSS.

It’s not a podcast then. Podcast is a type of media delivery mechanism, not any recorded conversation.

You can install an Arch image as well. Distrobox should work fine with these OCI images: https://github.com/archlinux/archlinux-docker?tab=readme-ov-file#arch-linux-oci-images

The only time you might “tinker” with gaming is when you want to install, say, an emulator or Heroic from the Discovery store (flatpak) to play your non-Steam games, all of which is optional.

Playing games from outside Steam is less tinkering in Bazzite than SteamOS because Bazzite supports those out of the box. I don’t have a Bazzite install in front of me right now but IIRC it comes with Lutris preinstalled. On SteamOS that’s an additional installation step.

Hopefully the maintainers of RetroDECK compile an ARM version until then: https://github.com/RetroDECK/RetroDECK/issues/1195

FYI: https://github.com/Detanup01/gbe_fork

Still gets updates, unlike original Goldberg

Also SteamOS runs Docker containers out of the box just fine because it ships podman.

tbh i havent bothered to attempt gaming on anything other than the steam deck.

At worst you need to install Steam on other distributions and then compatibility is no different than on SteamOS (on equal hardware, of course) because Steam runs its games inside standardized containers since some time.

SteamOS ships both podman and distrobox.

distrobox create --image registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/leap:16.0 --name opensuse to install openSUSE, for example, then distrobox enter opensuse to use it. If you like rolling releases, install and then execute opensuse-migration-tool to upgrade to Tumbleweed or Slowroll.

I haven’t had to fuck around with any game.

Noodle probably only knows Linux from fiddle distros and now thinks that SteamOS is the only one that works out of the box which is just not true. There are plenty of mainstream options like Bazzite.

I just use openSUSE in a Distrobox container on mine. Installation has a needless pitfall because for whatever reason installing TW directly is broken but installing Leap and then using opensuse-migration-tool works fine.

I’m using this container to evaluate Slowroll.

Support the vast majority of titles with minimal friction right out of the box.

Games run via Steam Linux Runtime which is the same across all Linux installations of Steam.

I don’t want to have do dick around and tweak shit when I want to relax with a video game

If you need to “tweak shit”, you have not fully compatible hardware (NVidia or so), something SteamOS won’t solve because it’s just a regular Linux distribution.

I want to be able to slap an OS on a PC and have it be Steam Deck But Bigger.

You already can. The SteamOS recovery image is explicitly for other systems as well since quite some time. People use it on the Framework Desktop, for example, even though the devices list does not feature that PC.

Don’t expect ever formal support for any hardware where Valve cannot control the drivers. They’ve been fucked by proprietary platform holders in the past, they don’t want to repeat this again. So either your hardware is fully supported by upstream kernel/Mesa drivers (which SteamOS already ships because it’s just another Linux distribution with absolutely not magic dust) or SteamOS will likely never work on those.

What do you expect it would do that other mainstream distributions don’t?

most ARM gpus only support OpenGL ES

Steam Frame uses Qualcomm:

Android should be closest to native and more stable than Proton because Lepton is based on actual Android Open Source code, not 3rd party reverse engineering of Windows APIs.

by your bloody metric

It’s not my metric, I merely repeated what I remembered from one of the interviews and my astonishment from hearing what I heard.

If you “wasted christmas”, that’s your metric, not mine.

they advertise the fact that it can run half life alyx natively tho

Where? I watched an interview where the guys only said that they hope to make it happen and it would stream off a PC otherwise and that they were looking into a Aperture Desk Job sized game.

The Valve reps said in some interview that the cannot even promise HL Alyx running natively on the Frame and that’s their homegrown flagship VR title. You’d think Valve would design hardware tailored to do that.

Atomic distros have a set-back of having to deal with Package Layering in the case of those that aren’t found on Flathub. That’s a bit outside of the wheelhouse of a non-tech savvy person.

Today’s non-tech savvy persons usually want Chrome, VLC, and Steam. Yes, there are exceptions but I set up Linux PCs for a few people with unsupported Windows versions recently and they are just fine with that because all they do is to access web services from Chrome, playing back the occasional downloaded media file, and some games.

the seemingly endless random named things

When you dig down for a bit, you’ll even find out that Bazzite is merely the gaming flavor of “Universal Blue” and the generic desktop (without gaming stuff installed) is called Aurora.