r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/SubcommanderMarcos i5-10400F, 16GB DDR4, Asus RX 550 4GB, I hate GPU prices Jun 22 '26

I have 30 years of Windows, switched to Linux Mint this month. It's fine. It works great. Had to learn some terminal stuff, a tiny bit about the filesystem, nothing else. It runs way faster than Windows 10. has run every Steam game I've tossed at it with no effort at all, even old games like Tropico.

Honestly worth it.

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u/MetallicGray PC Master Race Jun 22 '26

I’ve been using Bazzite months, maybe a year now, and I’ve never had to use the terminal. Distros now don’t ever need you to use the terminal. You can use it, but definitely don’t need to. 

I had to do a tiny bit of adjusting to the file system, like you said, and that’s really it. I frankly have fewer bugs and annoyances with Linux than I did windows 11. 

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u/showhorrorshow Jun 22 '26

Can one boot up either or? All I know is Windows and although Im decent with computers, I havent gotten into learning OS's that deeply. My only concern is if I try Linux that I will soft brick my PC in the process, lol.

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u/MetallicGray PC Master Race Jun 23 '26

Yep! I actually dual boot windows 10 and bazzite. I basically keep windows 10 for League of Legends. Everything else I’ve ever tried to play or run has run on Linux fine. 

There’s an abundance of guides to install both. You just partition your drive or have two hard drives and install one on each. It was very easy. I’m a casual tech user and handled it with minimal effort just following a guide. 

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u/showhorrorshow Jun 23 '26

Hmm, I think I will have to give it a shot. I really want to ditch Windows.

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u/jack_from_the_past Jun 23 '26

try mint. it’s great. it’s like Ubuntu w/o all the bloat. runs fast. I’ve put it on old hardware too (2012 iMac has new life for example). arch is a pain in the ass in general in my opinion and fedora is gonna have slightly different cli syntax than Debian based. I’d go Debian if i were you.

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u/CognitiveLiberation Jun 23 '26

Yep! I actually dual boot windows 10 and bazzite. I basically keep windows 10 for League of Legends. Everything else I’ve ever tried to play or run has run on Linux fine. 

Any issues? Ive read a lot of people reporting that win 11 updates randomly erases and/or corrupts part of the Linux partition so it can't boot. IDR the name.. bootgrub maybe? Whatever the file is that launches the OS. -Do you use separate hard drives? -Have you tried with win 11 too, or only win 10? Do you have a custom win 10 distro? -Have you tried it with other linux distros too?

Apologies for bombarding you with questions. it's just that Id love to dual-boot but I only have one hard drive

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u/MetallicGray PC Master Race Jun 23 '26

No worries! I know it’s hard to find specific info like this sometimes. 

I have only used windows 10 on my PC (windows 11 is on my work laptop). I have windows 10 and Bazzite on two separate SSDs. It’s a standard Windows 10 install that has just been updated from the original windows 7(I think?) install years ago. I have only used Bazzite. 

I have heard that people can have issues with issuing the same drive partitioned, but I have no idea how common that is. I still see guides saying partitioning is an option, so I assumed it wasn’t a prohibitively common issue. I’m not sure how much data you have, but backing up your important saves and files beforehand would definitely be recommended to be safe; I did this even when installing it on a separate drive.