Quoting: dubigrasuThere was the Steam Machine assembled and delivered by Valve themselves (the one I personally like to call the "real" Steam Machine, I'd love to have one of those)

I can't remember that at all, do you have a link for me?

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Quoting: BOYSSSSSThis is one of the biggest misconceptions the Linux community has that makes Linux very unfriendly to new users.
You think that it's easy for a newbie to search the whole internet (Linux wikis, forums etc.) for a command that will need to be put in the terminal to run something. And at the same time you think it's hard for anyone to find a button in System Settings or Launcher Menu.
It's the opposite! You even have a search bar to help you with finding things.

That's the biggest misconception Linux newbies have when getting help with Linux. We're not giving you text commands because we consider it easier (well, most of us). It's because text commands are way more compatible across distributions, desktop environments and such. They are easy to tell and easy to just copy and paste. The results are as well easy to show.
All that way more than
* find out what DE they are using
* find out how the GUI there would be working
* tell them where and what to click
* tell them again where and what to click because they did it all wrong
* try to understand their description of what didn't work
* etc.
Instead:
* give command
* read result

Everything is fine with GUIs, everything is fine with showing newbies GUIs when you're sitting next to them. But GUIs don't work well over net internet.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhat's annoying about Windows is mostly all the Xtra Proprietary-ness.

But you do realize that most of people do not care about that? We may, but most of the folks just want to get their job done.

Well, he was talking about what annoys people that are annoyed. Yes, some people dont' care.
But second, I don't think you'll find many people who are happy about what Purple listed (and you cut out)...

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe way if you're not using Microsoft Edge as your browser (and who does?) it will keep on badgering you to start. The way it keeps popping up weird notifications that sound like something dire but if you think about it for a while is actually just them complaining that you set your settings not to hand over all your data. The other popups that are basically just incomprehensible and almost certainly irrelevant, but which sound like your computer is on fire or something.

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Quoting: CatKillerThis is a fallacy, btw. If you're not into computers, you're only looking skin-deep. "This is the Internet, this is the app store, this is the update button" is all they need to know. Linux is the ideal grandmother OS. It's the Windows Power Users that have the hardest time; they're very familiar with the entrails of Windows and freak out about Linux' guts being different when they try to poke at them.

Yes, I think the people having most problems with Linux are the ones who think they know everything about computers, when in fact, they only know enough stuff to get around with Windows. And those are, how could you call it?, "offended" by Linux. "How can it be me, the super hacker, cannot easily do everything with Linux (without learning)?!? Linux is bad!" That's also where anti-Linux trolls are often coming from (like the one trolling for years, how's their name, Mercano or the like?).

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Quoting: kuhpunkt... didn't do himself any favors when he just made the claim without any evidence.

... he could have brought it up in the lawsuit. He didn't.

Reminds me of... something. Someone. Just cannot remember what it was..... Ah, nevermind.

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Quoting: GuestIs momentum picking up, or was July a particularly impressive month for news? Maybe it's a bit of both. In any case, I didn't realise just how much was going on until this was all summarised.

Well, article 1 Steam Deck, 2 Steam Deck, 3 Steam Deck, 4 the only porter company left giving up on (hopefully only one) port, 5 Steam Deck, 6 Steam Deck...

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI wager a hefty chunk of Linux users do not allow the survey because "oh no, privacy!"

I'm not sure. I could also imagine Windows users say "No, why would I?!?", while Linux users, having eagerly waited for their vote, scream "Hell yeah!". At least I did! ;)

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Quoting: flesk

The question in my mind is: why are we seeing a sudden surge?

It's because I've started gaming a bit again, after a long hiatus.

Welcome back! ;)

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Quoting: kuhpunktIsn't the Steam Deck also just a Steam Machine? It's a PC with SteamOS preinstalled.

It's a Steam Machine... with huge parts of the Steam library working, dedicated hardware people can aim for, and for mobile gaming. So... rather no. :)

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI wonder how long ago it was that there were just 1,204,000 total people playing video games of any sort.

Seventies.

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