• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    They don’t sell all-purpose computers, they sell gaming systems that run Linux underneath. The regular user never has to interact with the OS

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      8 hours ago

      They also don’t sell that many of them.

      Some quick googling says that Valve has sold nearly 4 million decks, which is pretty good.

      Lenovo sold ~62 million computers last year alone. And they only make up ~1/4 of global market share

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      9 hours ago

      I guess all valve has to do is release steam machines again and then what? Suddenly the year of the Linux desktop isn’t here?

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        9 hours ago

        We’re talking about regular users having Linux as their operation system, not what happens under the hood of specialised machines. Steam machine user doesn’t run Linux, they run Steam.