SteamOS for PC Users?
Is there any chance that we are able to get a fully ready out of the box functioning Linux Distribution with Steam OS running, fully supporting Direct3D Audio, EAX, natively speaking to Creative Soundcards and fully processing audio with the dedicated Soundchip, like Windows XP did etc?

Im currently trying to deal with Linux, Arch directly lost me due to Windows DOS Design, Ubuntu doesnt work on my ASRock Motherboard etc.

I find it personally very interesting how a Bootstick with an slowmo SD Card is 10 times faster at opening a Browser and using Youtube, than Windows 11 on a PCIe 4.0 NVMe card installed.

Are there any chances that Linux can get the required pushes in order to throw and leave Windows Bloatware any time soon?

Let alone the massive Audiolag in the AudioAPI Windows runs with since Vista is annoying me to hell. The bottom line quality of that entire Audiostack that causes 50-300 milliseconds of lag in any Audio playback and the lack of 128/256/512 Audiochannels drives me Nuts.

Even old Windows XP games that may run still on Windows 11 act like laggy trash.

In general the entire Windows Operating System is Anti Gaming, it even lags at the most basic functions such as Browser usage and it is hell about time to get rid of it but someone has to make a proper Gaming Operating System and i dont see a widespread uncommunicative Linux i do what i want community able to ever make the transition possible.
Only a big company like Valve is capable of taking a spot and removing Windows from the Market, as it takes tons of money and support to make it fully compatible with the many devices, including even oldest DirectX Compability such as Dx6 etc. for those oldschool games that we still play.

Also in Terms of Anticheat the Linux Distríbution also would require a Shutdown and make things inaccessible so Games arent flooded with Cheaters and DMA Card users anymore.
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SteamOS is a semi-immutable arch with KDE and bigpicture+gamescope running by default and some things that are exclusive to a handheld, like battery and performance overlay. Just get bazzite or cachy or even fedora silverblue.

There might be some hardware incompatibilities with linux, but it will still be the case if steamOS is released for PC--there's no way to fully support every single configuration.
I've got Debian Testing running on my laptop and I've never had any problems running Steam or Steam games on it.
You can install it, but there are better distros for traditional computers.
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