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Just did the opposite. Decided it’s time for Linux on desktop. Better for programming. Better for AI.

Bet being that I can get most games to work on it - that was the sticking point. (Thanks to Valve I think it’ll work out)



I recently gave this another go, and was pleasantly surprised that I could install Steam easily, the nVidia card was detected and driver installed, and I quickly installed the "Resident Evil 4" remake with awesome performance and no glitchiness

Then I rebooted my system and found that Steam had broken Gnome and I couldn't log in and had to go into safe mode and debug from the command line. 1 hour in, 1 thing installed.

I'll try again in 10 years.


I do not play games. I quietly celebrate each time my Linux-certified Fedora laptop successfully wakes up from sleep.


What distro was this on?

Installing Steam breaking GNOME sounds wild.


I'm sorry but "Steam broke Gnome" makes no sense. This is like the person who says they installed Firefox and it broke the internet.




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