The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: "Gamers use Windows because of its' user experience not our de facto monopoly."
Next Image: Duff CEO with Windows-Logo in front of a "Out of Business" sign. Subtitle: "30 minutes after SteamOS is released"
Edit: Yo, I'm not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew's UX sucks ass.
Does steam deck not run Steam OS..? What the Deck was meant to do is irrelevant, the OS it comes with and the OS mentioned in the OP in no way shut Windows down
Sure, but the real goal is to get gamers off of Windows. We dont give a shit what the corpos use. SteamOS has a massive possibility to do that.
I feel like we're having two different conversations.
The OP is acting like as soon as people "have the option" to switch to something else, they will, and Windows will be dead. SteamOS, however, has been a thing for a couple years now, and easily configurable Linux distributions for even longer, so saying that Windows is dead 30 minutes after release isn't really wishful thinking, it just... Didn't happen.
Your argument is that SteamOS has potential to upset the gaming OS market, which I'm not at all disagreeing with.
My comments had nothing to do with "what corpos use", I'm talking about Steam's user statistics. Over 90% of steam users are on Windows, and that's with the incredibly popular Steam Deck taken into consideration.
Let it be clear that I'm not at all a Windows fanboy, I fucking hate the OS. I use it because I'm too lazy to set up Linux, and a few games I play are known to not work. Something SteamOS can change, but not something it already has.
We are talking sideways a little bit. OP's joke won't come true. But SteamOS has the potential to begin shipping on prebuilds if this traction keeps up. Why pay for a Windows license when we wanna game, y'know? In company time, thats a blink of an eye. Microsoft should be doing something, they are, but its not really going to matter. If this game focused OS jumps to desktop and is good. It has the potential to take over the PC gaming market. Especially if it makes everything Just Work. We're probably on the same page in reality. Its not exactly there yet. But if there is gonna be a year of the Linux desktop. I'd put my money on Valve igniting it.
Linux Mint: Exists
Windows: Still king
Point: Made
I think you're kind of right. For now anyway.
It won't make any difference until Valve releases SteamOS for general consumption on more than a handful of handhelds
Mint, Bazzite, Pop... Options exist, users don't care. If you don't get the professional world off Windows, you're not getting the personal world off Windows because people don't want to figure out two OS when they have a hard time figuring out one.
What exactly do you do on your PC my friend?
I'm not really sure why it's relevant to this conversation? But mainly game, homework, and 3d modeling stuff.
I assume you grew up having an Xbox?
I grew playing with a computer on the first Pentium generation, the only reason I tried to get Linux to work is one game that runs better on it because of shaders issues, when I'm done playing it I'll probably delete my Linux partition.
Which distro did you try?
Bazzite then Mint, GPU issues with the first one, wifi issues with the second one.
Pop os and kde neon were so easy no issues mint is ok but im not a fan of the retro look. I had fun messing with the immuntible nix but like it was a little overkill for me. I'll have to suffer at work for windows unfortunately but im done at home. Linux does everything I need without having a.i. , spyware, telemetry, uninstallable apps and ads shoved in my face with every update.
Funny how I don't have any of these things on Windows either.
You running LTE, pro, or home?
Pro with English UK language pack, never had any of the shit people complain about.
Ah maybe because you are "located" in Europe. You have much sticker laws regarding these things. The telemetry and spyware are still running in the background though just not as in your face.
"located" is right since I'm in Canada
What's funny about the telemetry stuff is that unless you don't go on the Internet at all then you don't escape it with Linux.
All anyone can do it their best. I watched a guy at the airport try like 3 open shadey Wi-Fi's at the airport just to send a pic to Facebook. -shivers
I'm not sure where that assumption comes from, or again it's relevance to the conversation, but I had a couple platforms growing up. Most of them were hand me downs. My earlier childhood was spent on a PlayStation 2, and my teen years were shared between the 360, Wii, and my shitty laptop.