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Is there a distro that brings a console-like experience to systems with Nvidia cards?

I’ve also heard about ChimeraOS. How do all the different gaming focused Linux distro compare?

The full SteamOS experience is pretty tied up in Linux' open source graphics stack, moreso than regular Linux desktop environments because Valve built it for high performance on the Steam Deck's AMD GPU. Nvidia's proprietary driver has traditionally done its own thing and has been quite incompatible with things targeting the open source stack. So it's hard to replicate the Steam Deck experience on Nvidia, no matter the distro.

That said, over recent years Nvidia has made some efforts to improve compatibility. Just a few days ago Bazzite announced a Steam Deck beta image for Turing and later Nvidia cards [1]. It's too early to run though if you want the seamless experience you get on Intel and AMD, and progress mostly depends on Nvidia and Valve, but I hope they get there.

[1]: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/new-bazzite-deck-nv...

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