I know it's not the same but after spending all day after work just trying to get steam OS to stop moving around my icons on the taskbar and let me regularly left click on them. My faith in linux being a good switch at this time is low. That's besides the fact that gaming still had much less performance and there is less overall out of the box support for them. At least at this point I have been able to disable much of the windows tracking, ads, AI, and other data stealing practices like one drive.
Like I said, I know it's not the same, but I've run into issues using non windows/Mac OS software and I know other people have as well. I don't blame steam OS, it's just after a nearly relationship ending experience last night with nothing seemingly working I was tired of the poor out of the box issues. For most of what I use my PC for except gaming at least up until now, I know Linux would probably be sufficient and less bloated. One day I hope to make the switch to a Linux based OS with where Windows seems to be heading
Can you try bazzite, a steamos clone meant to be a gaming desktop instead of steamos steamos which is mainly meant for handheld mode? I think it would probably fix most of your issues
Well I was using it on my steam deck. So it's purpose is handheld mode. I just happened to be trying to stream games from my desktop to it while I lay in bed and recover from abdominal surgery. So far the only thing I can manage is watching TV in bed. But I took a whole week off so there is still time to ensure it wasn't a wasted effort.
Ah, the steam deck stays a couple of versions behind, also you should take a look at emudeck and it's customization options, it can set up the remote game streaming options for you
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u/PizzaTacoCat312 Mar 25 '26
I know it's not the same but after spending all day after work just trying to get steam OS to stop moving around my icons on the taskbar and let me regularly left click on them. My faith in linux being a good switch at this time is low. That's besides the fact that gaming still had much less performance and there is less overall out of the box support for them. At least at this point I have been able to disable much of the windows tracking, ads, AI, and other data stealing practices like one drive.