i know but it's a thread full of windows gamers and that's more or less the important takeaway for them. i know there's a lot more to it than that.
no.
SteamOS is based on Arch, which is what I'm running right now.
Arch comes with the kernel, a package manager, some generic drivers to get you started, and a CLI. That's it. Zero bloat. You then add what you need/want on top of it.
It's not "stripped down", it's not hobbled for the sake of extra performance, it actually has more system components than my daily driver. You can get ahold of the recovery ISO and go install it on any box, it's not really super specialized beyond supporting video games.
hell i have a friend who slaps steamos on everything anymore because it works out of the box everywhere and does everything just fine. it's absolutely not some hobbled abnormal linux, it's a fully featured OS that does everything just fine.
"De-bloating" and "stripping down" are things Windows users do, because Windows is bloated and fucky and awful. That's just not a thing on Linux dude.
this is the funniest thing i've read all week. Arch comes with the kernel, some generic drivers, BASH, and the package manager. there's nothing to strip down, the only way to start with less is to download the kernel and roll your own from scratch.
yes, it's a desktop OS. it's literally arch linux. i have a friend who slaps the steamos recovery image on every pc now and just uses it as their go-to daily driver.
yeah it took me a while, it's an awful graph and i haven't had coffee yet
Finally an extra 3 1/2 hours of... dead cells? 3 more hours of... FPS? the hell is this graph?
iirc the original SteamOS for the SteamBox was Debian-based (like Ubuntu), i think they switched it to Arch since it moves a bit faster and offers a bit better compatibility.
why is fps labeled with hours and minutes? what is "dead cells" and why is it also labeled hours and minutes?
edit wow i was even more confused about it than i thought. what a terrible graph.
it's so weird to me that the hate for TLJ (easily the best of the sequels, and imo better than any of the prequels) is so strong but the reaction to and criticism for RoS (the worst SW movie to date by a WIDE margin) are and remain extremely tepid.
Also they did my girl Rose Tycho dirty af and I'm still salty to this day.
Tolkien has some very dense prose and it can be tough to get through. The Silmarillion's even moreso, it reads like the King James Bible. I think what really kills it though is how influential it's been on the genre. So much is derivative of LotR that it no longer feels "fresh", kind of the same way The Beatles were mind-blowingly innovative at the time but now it all just sounds really generic and well-worn. You're bang-on about Star Wars too, I like Star Wars quite a bit but it goes groundbreaking movie (ANH), goated classic (ESB), schlock (the rest of the movies).
i was invited to a viewing party for a GoT season premier. i had never seen any of the show before and had no idea what i was in for beyond "gritty fantasy show". they all talked it way up, told me it was "sex and violence the TV show" and how much i would love it.
it was so so so boring i thought it would never end. i'm baffled why it's popular.
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in addition to the various iterations on "reddit didn't invent puns", I think it bears pointing out that this place is a reddit imitator, built to be an alternative to reddit, by and for disaffected redditors, with a userbase comprised of people who either switched from reddit or use them side-by-side. i think you should adjust your expectations.