• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Remember that valve main product is a proprietary third party software launcher that doesn’t share much with what linux stand for. With this hardware to me it looks like they are trying to make a console out of a pc.

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      1 day ago

      And yet, with Proton they’re one of the biggest contributors to Linux adoption in the past several years. They’re allowing millions of users to cut the last string that was binding them to Windows

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        1 day ago

        And yet, with Proton they’re one of the biggest contributors to Linux adoption in the past several years.

        They are also routing million of users through a proprietary third software launcher. Don’t forget that steam was built on and fueled the windows ecosystem for two decades.

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            10 hours ago

            Most people don’t really use windowns because they like it but because of the third parties applications that only run on windows, so yea you can point the finger at third parties.

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              6 hours ago

              Most people don’t really use windowns because they like it but because of the third parties applications that only run on windows

              Most techies, maybe. MAYBE. Linux has not been anywhere near user friendly enough over the past 2 decades to be remotely usable by normal people. Not a chance.

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                Linux has not been anywhere near user friendly enough over the past 2 decades to be remotely usable by normal people. Not a chance.

                This hasn’t been true for at last a decade. Go ahead and install linux and windows and let us know which one is easier to get and install.

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                  I main Linux. I’ve been using it for over 2 decades. I’m speaking from personal experience when I say that if you think Linux was mainstream ready prior to the last few years, you have no idea what the average pc user is incapable of.

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              10 hours ago

              If only a giant corporation like steam made their own Linux based OS and poured huge resources into an open source compatibility layer(maybe even call It proton) that would move more people to Linux and even create more incentive for third party developers to have Linux versions of their applications because of the growing market sjare of end users using linux that would be exciting… 👀👀👀

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                9 hours ago

                Had valve not made its own linux based OS they would had to release this machine with windows preinstalled. Microsoft is valve competitor.