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After having the Steamdeck, I switched to OpenSUSE tumbleweed with KDE along with my brother at the start of February. We are both moved our gaming machines over from Windows and it has been a great experience, even running the latest triple A titles.

Yast gives a very nice GUI approach to a lot of configuration OpenSUSE. It really feels like the missing Windows Control Panel of Linux.

He is running Intel/Nvidia the only issue we had was some kind of missing grub command when attempting to boot the liveusb. Nvidia even offers opensuse an official repo for their proprietary drivers!

I am running AMD/AMD and the experience was pretty plug and play. The only issue I have is an odd one, my 7900xt randomly gets its memory clock stuck at the lowest power mode. This puts its memory clocks around 200mhz after a period of idling, which makes the system feel unusable. Even launching a game doesn’t switch it out of this power state so they either crash or run at very low frame rates. Changing the refresh rate of my display to any value appears to fix it so I just cycle between options. I’m sure there is some kind of config option I’m missing somewhere. Other than that slight nuisance I can pretty much play anything thanks to Valve and Proton.

The new Big picture mode is also incredible and I find myself moving my desktop over to the TV more and more.