• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They don’t sell all-purpose computers, they sell gaming systems that run Linux underneath. The regular user never has to interact with the OS

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      2 months ago

      They also don’t sell that many of them.

      Some quick googling says that Valve has sold nearly 4 million decks, which is pretty good.

      Lenovo sold ~62 million computers last year alone. And they only make up ~1/4 of global market share

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      2 months ago

      I guess all valve has to do is release steam machines again and then what? Suddenly the year of the Linux desktop isn’t here?

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        2 months ago

        We’re talking about regular users having Linux as their operation system, not what happens under the hood of specialised machines. Steam machine user doesn’t run Linux, they run Steam.

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          2 months ago

          They don’t run Windows they run Explorer.

          Linux is a kernel. They run Linux.

          Or do you mean “they don’t run KDE/Gnome/LXDE”?

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            What I mean, they don’t interact with the OS. They only interact with Steam app, and it basically doesn’t matter what it runs underneath. When we’re talking about users adopting Linux it doesn’t count.