My Windows friends and even normie friends are using Steam Deck with SteamOS just fine. You don’t have to be a Linux expert to use SteamOS.
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Clbull@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Every handheld outside of the Steam Deck, like the ROG Ally, Legion Go, and MSI Claw all use Windows, which can make the experience crippling for non-technically minded users.
Clearly this games journalist has never used Linux because despite the monumental efforts Valve have made to make thousands of games run on SteamOS and improve the UX through Proton, it is still an inferior experience to Windows for anybody that isn’t incredibly tech savvy and the kind of person that lives and breathes command lines.
But then again, what did I expect from an industry where people are genuinely paid to talk out of their butts about games.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
havocpants@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Since when do you have to live and breathe command lines to use SteamOS?
Yeah, there’s only one person talking out of their butt here.
Oh well, I guess if you have a problem with one verified game then we should all write off the entire platform then.
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I agree, for the lay person the steamos experience in the deck is great and has no issues it installs things it plays things, most people won’t need to open the desktop experience at all
SeekPie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have installed heroic (Epic Games games) and many other things without touching the terminal (also it’s read-only so…)
Andrenikous@lemm.ee 9 months ago
What is read-only?