Q: New to linux, is steam os an ok pseudo casual distro?
Q: New to linux, is steam os an ok pseudo casual distro?
I want to get some experience with Linux before win 10 goes end of support. I won't be using this machine for work. Gaming primarily but also 3d printing and possibly some light piracy. Is there any reason not to install steam os?
Thanks in advance kind and wise nerds in my phone.
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Well I personally think having to read documentation ,manually set up sudoers and add repos is worse for the first impression than installing a distro that mostly just works.
FYI: If you leave out root password on install, it instead sets your user up with sudo privileges.
How can a new user know that? Same with the domain name that Debian installer asks you to enter.
It says so on the installer page where you are asked to enter a root password.FWIW: I'm not arguing for or against Debian as a beginner friendly distribution. Just mentioning that you don't have to set up sudo manually.
I installed Debian at least 3 times and don't remember ever seeing that message.
It has for sure been there for at least a decade now. I think most people autopilot through OS installs.
manually set up sudoers
You just install
sudoand add yourself to thesudogroup, or do you thinksudoshould be available to all users of the system by default?What repos do you need to add? If you don't want to add a repo just download a release and chuck it on
$PATH(same for anappimage) or compile it yourself./configure; make -j$(nproc).I'm happy mint or pop or whatever exist, I don't care which distro or even OS you use, but the above is beginner linux (including reading docs).
Nonfree is usually something people are going to want to enable (Nvidia, Steam, Media codecs, etc)
You can install a nonfree image, but a person could argue that needing to know which image is needed is already more advanced than other distributions.