• imecth
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    6 months ago

    Does it matter where it comes from though? Do you think regular folks are like: “i’m gonna play on my WINDOWS MACHINE”? They just use whatever came pre-installed.

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      76 months ago

      Well, yeah, exactly. All the people showing up as Linux because they are just using the consolified Steam interface on their Decks aren’t exactly renouncing Windows and vowing to install Arch on their desktops forevermore, they’re just using the custom interface that came in the box.

      • prole
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        16 months ago

        Again, only one data point but you basically just described me exactly

        • MudMan
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          Sure, but you’re an outlier. All of us in this conversation are massive outliers. I mean, we’re on Fedi alternatives to Reddit, for one. We’re talking in a Linux Gaming subreddit of a niche derivative of Reddit.

          It’s not like we don’t have numbers. We’re the 0.8% of the market that has a Steam Deck, and from that you’re part of the 0.4% of it that also migrated another computer for one reason or another. And that’s out of Steam, which has about as many users, give or take, as the Nintendo Switch, not orders of magnitude more. We’re a fraction of a fraction of a fraction.