• markon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Actually… The Steam Deck runs on Valve’s custom Arch Linux. To say there is no steady userbase is simply not true.

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        1 year ago

        Touché. I would like to counter that with “Not a desktop though” and end my turn with “wine required to use company software”

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          Between Microsoft’s open source Vulcan enhancements and Valve’s everything else enhancements both being contributed upstream, “Wine required” doesn’t have quite the same punch it used to.

          Pours myself a shot for having to thank Microsoft

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            1 year ago

            It is very true. Nobody buys a steamdeck to be a desktop replacement. Nobody does work on a steamdeck. It might theoretically work, but most steamdeck owners game on it and thats it.

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        1 year ago

        What a dishonest argument. They’re using a curated overlay for Linux that mostly hides the Linux part from them completely. The fact that there’s a “Desktop Mode” doesn’t change the fact that 99% of Steam Deck users aren’t in Desktop mode.