Seen a few times bazzite has been mentioned, but just have seen another user say they have OpenSUSE installed.

I’m not sure what the benefits of these options are, especially non-steamOS ISOs?

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    Hi there, hello, it’s me, OpenSUSE guy. My main motivation was to get full disk encryption and an unlocked root drive. I also wanted to run Plasma 6 on Wayland, install most of my applications natively instead of as flatpaks. I also hated how I had to jump through hoops every time I needed a VPN connection.

    Recently I also found out that it helped me in downgrading my BIOS to employ a workaround for a memory problem because I strongly suspect that they did absolutely nothing when I sent my unit in for that.

    And I also wanted to do it just because I could.

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      7 months ago

      Wouldn’t full disk encryption just slow everything down? Seems like a bad idea for a gaming system

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        7 months ago

        Nah, games only hit the disk when they’re loading stuff which is expected to be slow anyways.

        Plus I think all modern processors have special chips for cryptography stuff which makes it almost free.

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      7 months ago

      Hey! You did prompt my question, no offense :p I’m a fellow Open SUSE tumbleweed user on Desktop, but was surprised to see it mentioned in this context. Thanks for sharing!