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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Most of my Arch experience is with SteamOS, but thankfully it does seem that once you get your desktop environment running it’s pretty easy to deal with software there via the graphical package manager, though I’m not really doing anything crazy other than some add-on packages for Minecraft, Emu and the like.

    I’ve been a pretty strong supporter of Debian, but I’ve definately run into issues where Stable = behind on the packages needed for the hardware/software I want, whereas Ubuntu’s continual pushing of Snap and intrusive BS is just irritating. I often end up with Mint for the more-decent-than-Debian but mostly snap-free experience, but for my next hardware cycle I am considering Arch given most of the “support” documentation mentions running on such.




  • I just installed SteamOS on a mini PC that costs about half what the Steam Machine does (and less than the Deck under current pricing), and runs on an AMD 7840HS with 32GB of RAM in a form-factor that’s the size of 3 stacked pieces of bread.

    While that APU is likely powerful than the Steam machine’s with its dedicated VRAM, I did test a few games and it definitely outperforms the Deck and the higher system RAM makes it potentially more versatile than either.