Quoting: Jewgeni Filippowitsch IwanowskiIt’s far from perfect, especially with an XBox One wireless dongle which sometimes isn’t detected at boot or doesn’t connect with the gamepad.

This is usually an issue with USB power delivery. Try different USB ports on your computer and update your BIOS.

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Quoting: Jewgeni Filippowitsch IwanowskiIn the future I'd like to see native support for that Xbox One USB dongle as soon as the new kernel driver is mature enough.

ChimeraOS has supported the Xbox dongle for a long time now using xow. It works much better than bluetooth.

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Quoting: lesssterWould like to switch to GamerOS, but the last time I tried it, it was incapable to use more than one hard disk. Does anymore know if this has been fixed already? (my system has a small SSD to boot from plus a huge HDD to install games on it.)

There has been no developments yet in this area. It is not impossible to set this up though. You would need to install the OS and then modify `/etc/fstab` manually.

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Quoting: gojulThis distro is based on Arch. Isn't it risky for gaming ?

GamerOS is based on Arch, but the way it works is for every release we take a snapshot of Arch, test it and release it.
That way you get the latest stuff, but avoid any instability. Releases usually happen every 1-2 months.

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Quoting: pbDoes it update automatically? Because I have on the kids' pc and they can't play Minecraft today, doesn't start. Coincidence?

[edit] I checked the system info and indeed it's version 23. So how do I fix it? Anyone with a similar problem?

This is unfortunately a problem with flatpak. When you update your Nvidia drivers as happens with a GamerOS update you need to uninstall and re-install the Minecraft flatpak and any others that require GPU acceleration.

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I could see this perhaps working if it was able to pick up and play the already installed Windows games on the user's system. The problem then becomes making sure Steam doesn't download the Linux version over top of the Windows version, which is what would happen today, but that is probably easily remedied. Not to mention the reported issues of running games from an NTFS drive.

In any case, running an OS and games off of a USB stick is going to be a very poor experience and likely turn people off if anything.

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Quoting: pbI'll answer myself. It's not possible to use Stadia or GFN on GamerOS, because, like SteamOS, it only has the internal Steam browser, with no way to install Chrome or Chromium, so neither of the services work. My overall experience with installation and 3h usage of GamerOS has been rather terrible, worse than SteamOS anyway. With the system being read-only I had no way of modifying any launch settings, such as mounting another disk, where I have all the games installed. I'm sure it's better than SteamOS in subtle ways, such as newer drivers and more games working, thanks to compositor fixes (like Dead Cells), but for me it's fundamentally broken, it might have been the first way I had a worse experience with a Linux distro than with Windows. :neutral:

That is inaccurate.

It is possible to use Stadia and also probably GFN through Chromium installed via Flatpak. The downside is the Flatpak version of Chromium cannot access gamepads. For some reason native Chromium fails to run on GamerOS and Google refuses to let you login via Steam's built-in browser.

Sorry to hear you had a poor experience with GamerOS. /etc is read-write so you can definitely add additional disks. We are looking into ways to make that kind of use case work out of the box. The goal of GamerOS is to be a plug and play system, sometimes that means sacrificing some use cases, at least in the short term.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeArch (and any rolling distribution) would be much more difficult from a support position though. It's the same reason why people don't use Arch in the enterprise, sure it'd be great to have all the new things, but we want stability over new features there. The same would be if you're a company that is going to be supporting a 'console' operating system. It's also why historically open source operating systems have been locked down before becoming production consoles.

While GamerOS is technically based on Arch, it does not use pacman. GamerOS uses an independent image based atomic update system similar to ChromeOS or other embedded systems. We test each image before pushing it out and every install is bit-for-bit the same. The result is bleeding edge combined with stability. It is not a desktop distro, but essentially a locked-down OS purpose-built for couch gaming.

Yes, the underlying libraries included in the OS will change, but Steam games are supposed to use the Steam runtime. You can't keep things pinned down forever, SteamOS proves that. SteamOS is "stable" but has terrible game compatibility these days since new games come out and even old games get updated. Proton has lots of problems on SteamOS and recent versions of emulators can't even be compiled for it anymore. The argument for "stable" really doesn't hold up.

GamerOS includes a growing list of work arounds for any games that do end up having issues.
I am quite confident that GamerOS has the best out of the box game compatibility of any Linux distro by far and it will only get better.

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