Random Thoughts

[Ravenshire]

A word of warning if you have an Nvidia 40xx video card. The Linux Kernal may not yet be updated to drive it. In that case, you can use the motherboard's on board video until you can get the proper Nvidia Linux driver installed. It's fairly easy and pretty straightforward, even if you have to compile from source as I did. There are loads of tutorials for it. Mint should have a place in the settings where you can select to use proprietary drivers but, YMMV.

ETA:
The latest Steam OS (in all honesty it's a fork, but compatibility is there) is now available here. It's an Arch Linux fork, but being developed for Steam, by Valve, (then translated for desktops/laptops) it will probably run steam games better than a Debian system. When I get time, I have a spare SSD partition to give it a spin on.

Thanks for the head's up. I've just checked and it's not that graphics card. It's a gaming laptop rather than a custom built PC, so not the latest and greatest graphics card, if that's what that is.

And yeah, deal, you can be the guinea pig on Steam OS I think I'd best stick with Linux Mint to start with, if nothing else so my dad can help me set it up. I'm not as tech savvy as I used to be... I guess that's a result of the complacency that using Windows breeds

Currently running a backup of my Debian system from a live disk of the latest, greatest steam OS (holoiso). Since Windoze no longer resides on that machine at all, Ima test drivin' the Arch Linux based Steam system. The latest kernel update in Debian fixed my kernel panic at boot, but broke a bunch of my games.