Re:Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
by arp242 on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:49AM
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"Steam Deck" is clearly not "Desktop Linux", just like Android isn't, or PlayStation isn't "Desktop FreeBSD". It's reasonable to make these distinctions. No one was talking about "operating system kernels".
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Re:Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
by red_trumpet on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:56AM
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Yes, Steam Deck is Desktop Linux. It runs a Linux Desktop[1], which you can easily switch to.
[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-use-desktop-m...
Re:Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
by ghusto on Friday August 04, 2023 @01:16PM
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My TV runs WebOS. So I'm a WebOS user? Nobody will care that it can run in desktop mode, until people start using that as their daily driver. Spoiler: That's not a thing that will happen.
Re:Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
by emerongi on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:00AM
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If KDE isn't Desktop Linux, I don't know what is.
It's not "vanilla", but so isn't Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora Sericea, or whatever else. The underlying stack is the same, there's just customizations on top.
Re:Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
by arp242 on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:49AM
(#37001656)
You can run all sorts of things on all sorts of things, but the Steam Deck clearly isn't a desktop machine, and isn't intended or widely used for desktop type stuff. This seems so obvious I don't even know how to explain it. "Yes, but technically ..." isn't meaningful.