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Seen a few times bazzite has been mentioned, but just have seen another user say they have OpenSUSE installed.

I'm not sure what the benefits of these options are, especially non-steamOS ISOs?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hi there, hello, it's me, OpenSUSE guy. My main motivation was to get full disk encryption and an unlocked root drive. I also wanted to run Plasma 6 on Wayland, install most of my applications natively instead of as flatpaks. I also hated how I had to jump through hoops every time I needed a VPN connection.

Recently I also found out that it helped me in downgrading my BIOS to employ a workaround for a memory problem because I strongly suspect that they did absolutely nothing when I sent my unit in for that.

And I also wanted to do it just because I could.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Hey! You did prompt my question, no offense :p I'm a fellow Open SUSE tumbleweed user on Desktop, but was surprised to see it mentioned in this context. Thanks for sharing!

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t full disk encryption just slow everything down? Seems like a bad idea for a gaming system

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nah, games only hit the disk when they're loading stuff which is expected to be slow anyways.

Plus I think all modern processors have special chips for cryptography stuff which makes it almost free.

Edit: And apparently the good folks over at Cloudflare have improved that even further. Got to remember to test this when I've got the time. With any luck it's enabled by default.