Given many new handhelds coming on the scene and general disinterest of Microsoft to support the market, do you think SteamOS will take place of default OS the same way Android did on phones some time ago?

  • ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org
    121·
    1 year ago

    The only reason people use Windows is because they don’t choose it. Imagine if every PC sold had a Linux option and a Windows option that cost an extra $100. What do you think people would buy?

    I think they would buy windows, because the software they need to do their job only runs on windows.

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      because every pc runs windows, if more and more pcs default to linux even more apps gonna support it

    • frathiemann@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      Most people that by a console or a laptop in a store don’t even know what an operating system is. If you would just put linux on all consumer machines, no one would question it and if they do, the seller would say “It is a new version”

      • ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        And then when they get home and none of their very specific programs that only work on windows run on linux (like photoshop, or microsoft office, or something similar), they’ll come back to you and ask what is wrong with their computer.

        • frathiemann@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          95% of people do not need spific software. They need a webbrowser and a software for writige emails and letters. That is why every store ist trying to sell them chromebooks. For the 5% that come back and say that their conputer is not working just say sorry and give them a windows machine and a giftcard for the inconvenience. Overall the store should still make money dooing so. After all, that is what they are dooing with chromebooks at the moment

    • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
      11·
      1 year ago

      Because they have assimilated the name. If the name didn’t catch on, tbe situation would be very different.