It’s not the gotcha that they think it is. Increasing share of Linux, steam deck or not is progress. Any development or considerations made for the SteamDeck and its Arch based OS benefit the non SteamDeck Linux gaming scene too.
Mostly a stab at Reddit PCMR, Lemmy PCMR has a different vibe.
Does it really matter? How many Windows users’ usage just launch a browser and use that, aren’t they effectively not “using” Windows per se?
The point is that these people don’t care of might not even know it’s Linux in the background, the Deck could auto launch Steam in full screen mode from Windows for all they know.
Hell, I’m tech savvy and I honestly don’t care that it’s Linux based, I would have bought it no matter the OS running in the background, for me it’s basically a game console, anything that needs a regular OS I do from my PC.
I would even have preferred to have it run a modified version of Windows because of the 100% compatibility with my library (I’m expecting a portable Xbox to come out at some point and to be exactly that).
My point was twofold: that the type of user that wouldn’t care about it being Linux or not just wouldn’t care either way, and that making a distinction based on… intent (?) is arbitrary. They’d have perfectly counted as Windows users if the Deck was a Windows machine, after all…