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minus-squarejollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoWhat would be the advantage of installing it on a laptop? Can’t you just run steam on Ubuntu or whatever and use Big Picture mode?
minus-squaremhague@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 hours agoPersonally I can’t run steam and a game on a my laptops. They’re good enough to run games like subnautica and stalker on wine but steam requires like 1gb of RAM and runs like shit. Edit: on older Ubuntu lts versions, not 24
minus-squarejollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·47 minutes agoHm so SteamOS uses less resources that the steam app? I assumed SteamOS was just a streamlined way to run Steam?
What would be the advantage of installing it on a laptop? Can’t you just run steam on Ubuntu or whatever and use Big Picture mode?
Personally I can’t run steam and a game on a my laptops. They’re good enough to run games like subnautica and stalker on wine but steam requires like 1gb of RAM and runs like shit.
Edit: on older Ubuntu lts versions, not 24
Hm so SteamOS uses less resources that the steam app? I assumed SteamOS was just a streamlined way to run Steam?