I can see this partly being true in that it’ll be part of a dev’s toolkit. The devs at my previous job loved using it to do busy work coding.

AMD used to be a huge pain in the ass to get working, but that hasn’t been true for a while now.

My R9 390 was a huge pain in the ass to get working on any distro, but I think it was the last card before they fixed whatever issue it was.

My point is that the majority of steam deck owners are likely only vaguely aware of the existence of desktop mode, if they even know about it.

But, it’s really easy to assume that the communities that discuss Linux and the steam deck have the same knowledge that the general population does, but the truth is the majority of people just bought a gaming handheld to play games and will likely never leave big picture mode

Just because the deck has a full fledged Linux OS doesn’t mean that it is going to speed up Linux adoption. And Desktop mode isn’t exactly the best transition OS for laypeople.

Exactly. People on Lemmy think Lemmy users are representative of the general population when in fact even knowing about Lemmy means you have more technical knowledge than the average person.

I’d be willing to bet the majority of Deck owners don’t even know Desktop Mode exists.

It ships with Linux, but the majority of users aren’t going to be using anything other than steam in big picture mode.

Bro, you’re on a forum where most people have technical knowledge beyond that of a standard user.

The Lemmy population is by no means representative of the general population.

That’s kinda like saying Android is helping the mass adoption of Linux.

That’s not the point. A laptop should last more than a year.

It’s basically like a tiny virtual machine running locally.

I guess I shouldn’t have switched from CS to IT when we got to recursion (I can read it, but I can’t write it to save my life)

Fuck

You actually need proper documentation, though. I’ve had to read source code to discover or figure out how to use cli flags way too many damn times. (I’m not a real programmer, I just work on infrastructure).

Fapolicy would like a word.

I’ve often wondered about who discovered arcane symbols/rituals.

Like, did some prehistoric guy just sit there drawing in the dirt until something happened?