Quite ironic, isn't it?
>>108703044Valve actually released and marketed a prebuilt (Steam Deck) that everyone can buy.
>>108703044True. I used Windows 11 for an hour and that convinced me to install Linux.
I have never seen a PC that ships with Linux Mint in a store. It's all either Windows PCs, Macs or Chromebooks.
>>108703044Normies don't know what the Deck runs on.Normies still aren't swapping to GNU/+Linux.The 5% Market-Share on Steam is literally just Deck + 0.5% might be actual Desktop PCs running Linux.Nobody cares, man, nothing changed, Deck is just Deck, nobody is swapping to anything.
The main way to have a PC with desktop Linux is still to install it yourself. If you've never installed an OS by yourself and you don't know what you're doing, you can still accidentally erase your SSD at the partition screen and lose all your personal files. That would create a sour taste in a lot of people.
Mac, Linux, and Windows don't matter anymore, everything runs on the Chromium APIs now.
>>108703100I contributed to that 5% share after being fed up with Windows 11. Two other people I know switched too. I should have bit the bullet a while ago. I love being in control of my Linux PC without Bill Gates' cocks in my throat.
>>108703044>>Who actually did>Steam DeckSold as well as the Wii U.>Steam OSNobody uses that>Windows 11Nope>TPM 2.0As far as I know is supported as far back as intel core gen 6
>>108703044You forgot these. Chromebooks were the best-selling Linux laptops of the 2010s and probably still are in the 2020s.
>>108703159Don't they run some reatrded android thingy?
>>108703171ChromeOS is based on Gentoo. They're planning on merging it with Android but I don't think that has happened yet.https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ChromeOS
>>108703044No one likes using Windows, they just use it because it has killer apps and backwards compatibility. Valve made gaming on Linux possible (though a bunch of famous multiplayer titles are still unplayable). Now it just needs an excel replacement and Photoshop (or Photoshop-like enough).No, LibreOffice and GIMP aren't on that level.
>>108703044Well it's not surprising, there's positive motivation and negative motivation, it's used in marketing too.
>>108703044Linux will never replace windows expect for old pc that have to only browse the web or use office and enthusiasts that use it on their desktop because they like tinkering with it.Even if there is a distro that makes all the games works somehow the majority of people will stay on windows because they don't use the pc to play games only but for other stuff too and that other stuff 99% of the time is compatible (Or much easier to use) with Windows only.They will never>Yeah bro I want to play some games i will boot on linux but I have to boot on Windows later to do some stuffIf the cattle doesn't use Linux it will never replace Windows and games alone aren't worth the switch to Linux.
>>108703192>No, LibreOffice and GIMP aren't on that level.One of my gripes is that LibreOffice doesn't really have a good mobile app for editing documents on the go like Microsoft Word, Google Docs and Apple Pages. Collabora Office is based on LibreOffice and it was endorsed by the LibreOffice project as the go-to app for editing OpenDocument files on mobile devices but the Android app in particular is very buggy to the point of being unusable.Apparently there was some intense drama that recently broke out between The Document Foundation and Collabora a few weeks after TDF announced that they were reviving the LibreOffice Online project for the web and Collabora, who also makes a web editor called Collabora Online based on LibreOffice didn't like it and things got so bad that the two orgs severed ties which really isn't great for the LibreOffice community. So now I'm pretty much losing hope for the Collabora Mobile app improving in the near future.I guess I might have to choose between Microsoft Word and Google Docs for mobile editing now.
>>108703260Games and involvement of Valve provided the technology for compatibility, and encouraged the community to adopt cross-distro standards. Though gaming by itself or building a customized supercomputer is not enough for widespread appeal.Normie adoption requires pre-installed vendor machines; they just want a polished UI regardless of what is under the hood. The majority of their PC activities on a web browser. Nearest term maybe if the EU boycotts Windows, or at least mandates that alternatives to Windows are offered to consumers.People don't like to install OS, but if the option is there, those who order computers/laptops online would be incentivized to try out a Linux distro, since they would be saving themselves a $50-100 Windows Home/Pro tax, and they can easily pirate a Windows ISO later if the distro sucks. With Linux Desktops becoming viable, and the marketshare getting rapid and respectable growth, this would be the next frontier.
>>108703100normies don't buy Steam Decks, they buy Switches. They think it's just a Valve branded handheld gaming PC just like the ROG Ally
>>108703100deck and steamos are only 25% of that number
>>108703159Calling Chromebooks Linux is like calling android Linux. We all know it's not exactly true
>>108706143ChromeOS is literally a Gentoo-based GNU/Linux distro.
>>108703044Valve helped but people are also testing other distros.
>>108703090That is because the manufacturers and OS companies have contracts to keep only their products on store shelves. If big box stores started stocking Linux devices next to windows ones and priced the Linux variants lower since they dont need to buy a Windows license, there would be a lot of people who would buy it just to save money.
>>108706143Yet most Linuxfags seem to say that regardless....
>>108706620Only when it benefits them when having the n-th argument with Windows users about why Linux is superior. That's when they use Android as an example Linux is king as they'll always do the kernel semantics if you didn't explicitly say "GNU/Linux distros with desktop environments targeting x86 PC's" or something along those lines.
>>108703100>The 5% Market-Share on Steam is literally just Deck 0.5% of that migth be linuxYou can separate the two metrics retard
>>108706243Every time I bought a new laptop that came with Windows preinstalled I got a refund for Windows. Most people don't know that's an option.Dell used to sell laptops and desktops where you could choose FreeDOS as the OS, and later they added Ubuntu. Their laptops also had better screens than the competition. My Dell Inspiron 640m had a 1440x900 screen in 2005 when most HPs and Lenovos had 768p screens. It was so unusual, that on Slackware (9, iirc) you had to use a pre-boot script that set the resolution correctly.Does Dell even exist any more?
>>108703100You're crazy if you think one out of twenty people using steam own a steam deck
>>108706759>Lienus>invested into Framework>shilling Framework>/g/tards shilling Lienus just because Windows badgegg
>>108703292Google docs just works, and ironically is easier to use on a linux system as well than fucking around with word compatibility in LibreOffice or the likes. Here's to hoping that in the coming months/years the EU will step it's game up to develop non-American FOSS big tech alternatives. Save me mommy Ursula!
>>108707662>Shilling google
>>108707667Instead of mocking give me a better alternative and I'll use it.
>>108703100and that's a great thing i don't want morimes to infest gnu/+linux
>>108706759Source tells me framework is stable.
