• Soup@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    We’d get to watch Microsoft somehow destroy it, which would be as amazing as it would be awful. They really know how to make a great product terrible.

    Though, who am I kidding, they’d just close the entire thing down and expect people to switch to their store. That’s all capitalism’s “competition” is good for these days.

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      5 months ago

      i for one would find it absolutely hilarious if valve just closed microsoft as a “redundant” or “vestigial”

      big ole uno reverse card

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        5 months ago

        Let’s hope for a future where SteamOS ushers in the Year of the Linux Desktop and SteamOS replaced Windows everywhere.

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          hot damn… dare i to hope? dare i to DREAM? you know what, if anyone could get linux to be supported everywhere, it’d probably be valve.

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            5 months ago

            Take a look at bazzite. It is built upon the idea of a steamOS PC, and comes very close. It is also quite beginner friendly and idiot proof due to its architecture and the ability to roll back to a working version at any time, in case you brick something on accident.

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              5 months ago

              thank you for the suggestion! i tried linux mint years and years ago on a spare computer but i didn’t really get ‘into’ it enough to feel like i could be used to it… but it would be super cool if the passage of time and new developments may have produced an even more approachable experience

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                If you try it (which I very much recommend!), don’t be afraid to ask for help and further try not to be discouraged if the wrong type of person (eg “read the manual noob” type people) respond. The Linux community is full of both the most helpful and most elitist type of people, and an unfortunate amount of new users get scared away by the second group.

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                5 months ago

                As a recent convert from windows myself (about two weeks in) I can only recommend it. Almost everything including windows games worked right out of the box with minimal tinkering required, and setting up and configuring the system itself was even simpler than on Windows. It feels a lot like setting up a new smartphone as a comparison.

                Personally i just copied my important files and documents to a backup drive, prepared the install medium and then nuked my windows installation, but you may want to take a less drastic approach and create a test partition first to dip your toes in.

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        5 months ago

        Ah, I misread(the y in “they” is missing and I got thrown off haha)

        Dude that would be funny as hell and Microsoft fucking deserves it. They don’t make a single quality product; all they seem to be able to do is reskin a ‘90s Windows OS as a worse product for ten thousandth time and close competitors so they don’t need to do any real work.