The problem is we’re looking at it as techies. Most people want to check their emails and browse the internet. That’s it. They don’t care about anything after that.
They don’t care about privacy or customisability or configuration. They want to push buttons and it does what they want.
Linux is not like that. There are too many choices all of which are basically the same to an average user. So they won’t bother.
Why use a system that supports a sub set of your games and requires configuration and choices when you can just push a button and double click an icon.
There’s almost no gain for the average user and a lot of drawbacks.
Have a Windows for gaming, going to switch to Linux once I can get a good deal on an external hard drive to back it up. Can confirm I’m making the switch because of the enshittification.
100%. The enshittification is accelerating. Which is leading people to Linux hopefully
Any moment now
Yeah, their momentum is no joke. This may accelerate the shift towards Linux somewhat.
Kind of the same story for the Fediverse.
I’m expecting that Steam on Linux is going to be what drives it.
The Steam Deck can be used as a Linux computer and almost a turnkey way for a manufacturer to build a Steam computer without Windows.
The problem is we’re looking at it as techies. Most people want to check their emails and browse the internet. That’s it. They don’t care about anything after that.
They don’t care about privacy or customisability or configuration. They want to push buttons and it does what they want.
Linux is not like that. There are too many choices all of which are basically the same to an average user. So they won’t bother.
Why use a system that supports a sub set of your games and requires configuration and choices when you can just push a button and double click an icon.
There’s almost no gain for the average user and a lot of drawbacks.
Have a Windows for gaming, going to switch to Linux once I can get a good deal on an external hard drive to back it up. Can confirm I’m making the switch because of the enshittification.
I’m in the same situation but also use windows for Ableton and protocols. My steamdeck has really convinced me that Linux is ready for gaming tho