(Asking this whilst we temporarily have some sufficient executive function, time, energy, spoons, and motivation 😅)

Any of y'all tried using SteamOS as a primary OS?

Where Windows 11 is rapidly and increasingly enshittifying, we're curious whether it is currently -- or might become next year -- a viable replacement

For context, we:

• Are not a coder or dev, and haven't ever worked in an IT-based job or field.
• Consider ourselves an intermediate user.
  
  • i.e., we can troubleshoot issues, research problems for solutions, follow guides, etc.

  
  

• Don't have any experience of any Linux-based distros on a primary desktop.
• Can use a terminal or command line, but only ever if no decent GUI is available.
• Are a neurospicy mess 😅

We'll probably want to test it in a virtual machine environment... once we've found one that's free, ideally open source, and not at all aligned with evil corporations (especially Oracle).

Genuinely asking, but no reply guys please 🫶🩷

#AskFedi #Windows11 #SteamOS #Linux #GenuinelyAsking

Edit: Thank you for all replies and thoughts so far! Spoons are fading, so can't reply to all, but very much appreciate all thoughts, including the suggestions of Linux Mint or Arch Linux as Linux alternatives. We'll check out ElementaryOS too when we've got more spoons.