• Mark with a Z@suppo.fi
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    8 hours ago

    Gabecube is very nice and open compared to a normal console, but if you’re coming from a pc, it’s the opposite in some ways. I personally would not want an os built around an online login.

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      3 hours ago

      The OS is not built around any login. It just boots straight into Steam by default. This is the experience consumers expect from a console. But of course you can just exit it, and since it’s Linux you can even disable it entirely.

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        6 hours ago

        You can have immuability without loosing tinkering possibilities. I do that on NixOS.

        The more I learn the more I don’t want flatpaks on my machine so of course I am requiring something else than SteamOS or bazzite.

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        4 hours ago

        Require? I’m pretty sure you can get to desktop without, but how about big picture and gamescope? I’ve never seen steam ui without logging in.

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        5 hours ago

        I don’t know if the OS exactly requires an online login, but it basically boots into the Steam client, and that won’t do you much good without a Steam account.

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          5 hours ago

          Yeah this is incorrect the OS doesn’t require a steam login to work. You can bypass the steam login at boot if you want to and only need it to play steam games.