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Check out Bazzite. Works pretty well on Desktop in my opinion.
At this moment in time, Bazzite is just straight up a better experience than SteamOS. Fedora backend with rpm-ostree is way better than what Valve has going on. And for Steam Deck, GNOME just makes more sense for touch interfaces.
Yeah, I was puzzled why Valve chose KDE to be the default desktop for a touchscreen device. Ultimately though I figured they just wanted a Linux desktop that would be more familiar to Windows users.
I would bet the main reason is that KDE is way more willing to accept features and contributions outside of the typical use case than Gnome is.
The default software selection, especially when SteamOS 3.0 had launched, clearly showed that they picked a setup they wanted to use for themselves (my setup is heavily customized by now but I clearly remember VIM having been set as default text editor). If Valve was interested in Desktop Mode being primarily for touch use, they could go with Plasma Mobile instead of Plasma Desktop. Plain Gnome without any extension is not good to use as either desktop or handheld. The Gnome developers can't even make up their mind which shell to use for touch devices because they literally have two competing ones (Phosh and Gnome Shell Mobile).
You guys are using the touchscreen? You know there's a perfectly serviceable trackpad you can use, right?
The trackpad is the only way to really use the desktop, but if the touchscreen was better KDE still wouldn't allow a good touchscreen experience.
Bazzite defaults to Plasma for Desktop Mode just as SteamOS. According to https://universal-blue.org/images/bazzite/installation/ Gnome is only the 4th installer choice.
Can confirm, been using it since....launch almost. Was on Ublu Kinoite Main38 when F38 went into beta.
I'm not even sure if you're taking the piss or that's a real thing
To clarify: I was using Fedora Kinoite 37 already:
When I stumbled upon Jorge's YouTube videos and his excitement for the Univeral Blue project made me just have to join/try it out.
So when the beta for Fedora 38 went live, instead of rebasing Kinoite to 38, I rebased to Universal Blue 38:
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/kinoite-main:38(The
kinoite-mainimage since I have an AMD GPU)Now I'm on Bazzite 39 Desktop:
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:latestThe Full Image List:
NVIDIA Images:
Honestly it's a better out of box experience than even a chromebook. Except it's Fedora. With lots of extra goodness and tweaks.
I really like what ublue is doing and I recommend anyone check it out. But I feel like most users won't understand the jargon used to describe ublue. Images, container, cloud-native are all terms that might overwhelm new users.
Them being enthusiastic about how ublue works is awesome though and people who understand the terms can easily understand what it's about. My two cents.
I've been loving it on desktop, personally
Welp, there go my weekend plans.