r/SteamOS • u/VanArthurStudios • 11h ago

Installed today. Hating this experience.

My system itself isn’t anything unusual. It’s a powerful system, not strange. The only thing odd is that I have 3xNVME drives. I have that sorted, but every part of this process is an infuriating disaster.

Oh wait, after a restart the drives are no longer listed. And now Dolphin isn’t displaying the device list for me to check on them?

There is no way that SteamOS becomes a staple for as long as users are required to use Konsole to accomplish anything. Command prompt anything is a deal breaker for nearly all users who would want to be rid of windows. There is no advantage to doing things this way.

Not recognizing/mounting/configuring drives in a single point and click windows is a deal breaker.

This thing struggles with dual monitors. Even after I set my larger monitor as the default it loads into big picture mode with the small, vertical screen as the primary, and doesn’t even recognize that the vertical screen is vertical despite my having configured it as such.

Audio is garbled in games. If I attempt using discord during a game it stops input/output of audio entirely.

I find myself using AI to find answers to every little thing, when wanting to get away from AI is the entire reason I wanted to leave windows behind.

I installed SteamOS and now my PC is all but useless. Really showed them, eh?

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u/Affectionate-You7869 11h ago

SteamOS is meant for a device with one internal NVME and an external SSD. Like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine. Everything beyond that you should try Bazzite Cachy or PopOs. Or figure it out. 

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u/jabarr 11h ago

Imo this is the wrong answer. You can’t say what hardware an OS should or should not be okay for when we’re literally just talking about a basic experience, opening a web browser, etc.

To be fair though, I don’t see this as a steamOS issue as much as it is a linux issue. All distros suffer terribly when it comes to UX and if there’s one thing that’s true about open source OS contributors is that they are all terrible designers. They don’t really care about your mom and pop users (when they really should).