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Re:X12 by kelnos on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:51PM (#34976653)
A little weird to classify the Steam Deck as a "personal computer". It's a special-purpose handheld gaming device that just happens to run Linux & Wayland under the hood.

While I wouldn't call Android phones "personal computers" either, they're much closer to being the "most popular Linux PC" than a Steam Deck is.

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Re:X12 by messe on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:56PM (#34976692)
I did say "arguably".

I mean more in the sense of the hardware it uses, i.e. it's PC-compatible (x86) hardware that runs a desktop linux distribution by default.

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Re:X12 by dormento on Thursday March 02, 2023 @01:21PM (#34999568)
The Steam Deck is literally a PC, no doubts about that. It's even more "P" than many other "C"s, like most Apple hardware for instance. But I think that the notion that it somehow validates Wayland as mature tech is kinda weak.

It appears that the justification for switching to Wayland in many distros (just like systemd before it) was so that the devs could actually abstract away work on these components and invest time into their flagship features (WM, filesystems, shells, look & feel, the works). For what its worth, looks like this was achieved.

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Re:X12 by nine_k on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:56PM (#34977298)
At least it's closest to a "Linux distro" software-wise.

(Otherwise Android phones would be the most widespread Linux devices with a powerful GUI.)

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Re:X12 by mepian on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:41PM (#34977670)
The Steam Deck is not locked down, unlike e.g. the Nintendo Switch.
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