Really, people want so much The Year of Desktop Linux, yet everyone is busy fighting each other for the last 25 years.
The "everyone will switch in droves into Linux" meme keeps popping up every time Windows sentiment is down, since the early 2000's.
But then nothing really happens, because Linux distros keep being for highly technical people, or those that happen to have free technical support from their children or grandchildren.
Without Proton Valve doesn't even have games for SteamDeck, as they failed to create a business case that even studios that already have games using the technology stack available on GNU/Linux, targeted to Android NDK, don't bother with porting their games.
When buying devices online like the Dell XPS Developers edition, the usual "works best with Windows" was still all over the place.
Year of Desktop Linux is already here, on WSL and Apple Virtual Framework, and those companies have no commercial reason to go beyond that, regardless of Internet wishes.
Really, people want so much The Year of Desktop Linux, yet everyone is busy fighting each other for the last 25 years.
The "everyone will switch in droves into Linux" meme keeps popping up every time Windows sentiment is down, since the early 2000's.
But then nothing really happens, because Linux distros keep being for highly technical people, or those that happen to have free technical support from their children or grandchildren.
Without Proton Valve doesn't even have games for SteamDeck, as they failed to create a business case that even studios that already have games using the technology stack available on GNU/Linux, targeted to Android NDK, don't bother with porting their games.
When buying devices online like the Dell XPS Developers edition, the usual "works best with Windows" was still all over the place.
Year of Desktop Linux is already here, on WSL and Apple Virtual Framework, and those companies have no commercial reason to go beyond that, regardless of Internet wishes.