There's always arguments across many angles on what exactly Linux needs to succeed to become more mainstream and the answer, as we've long said, is pretty simple.

The biggest push may indeed come from the Steam Deck. A PC in a handheld form factor, that allows you to hook it up to a monitor for a full KDE Plasma desktop experience. Very exciting. If we see a lot of people enjoy it and the Steam Deck is a success, you can be almost guaranteed that more devices will come along and slap SteamOS 3 on it and then also have a KDE Plasma desktop available.

  • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    One thing that is a problem in pre-installed systems with Linux, is that the majority of people that buy those do so for the smaller price and just proceed straight up to take them to a tech-savvy person to install Windows. Here in Brazil there are even some places that fix computers that do so for free for people (and obviously install pirated versions of W10)