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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds (arstechnica.com)
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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So everything you are saying agrees with me. People are just upset that I said the OS was designed for handheld game consoles

[–] Statick@programming.dev 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

What you're saying is false though.

You can read about what kernel SteamOS is using. The kernel itself is only like ~150MB, there isn't really a need to slim it down. I think, if anything, Valve contributes to the mainline kernel for linux.

Proton is the "fine-tuning", the OS is just Arch Linux with a paint job.