It’s not the gotcha that they think it is. Increasing share of Linux, steam deck or not is progress. Any development or considerations made for the SteamDeck and its Arch based OS benefit the non SteamDeck Linux gaming scene too.
Mostly a stab at Reddit PCMR, Lemmy PCMR has a different vibe.
Isn’t that how most laptops are sold? People use Windows on them because they ship with Windows?
True, but there isn’t really much of a discussion of users moving TO windows, as using windows is, on a broader scale, the de facto default.
I’m curious how the linux share would be today if no PC ever was sold with a preinstalled OS.
I was going to argue against this but you have a point.
I was originally going to call out the Linux laptops selling worse, assuming that people were more comfortable with Windows.
But Chromebooks sold a LOT. So maybe the average consumer doesn’t care as long as the laptop is easy to use.
People count Chromebooks as ChromeOS even though it is Linux.
ChromeOS is not counted as Linux for the same reasons Android isn’t counted as Linux and MacOS isn’t counted as BSD. Those are proprietary, locked-down operating systems. It contrasts with what is broadly understund as Linux, meaning Linux distributions that adhere to some kind of FOSS philosophy.