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    Windows plays every PC game in existence

    There’s a surprising amount of older PC games that don’t work on Windows anymore, but work fine on Linux. I remember trying to play New Vegas a few years ago on Windows 10 and needing four separate mods just to get it to play properly, and even after all that it would still crash every 15-20 minutes. I’ve since played it all the way through on Fedora and SteamOS with zero tinkering and no crashes.

    It also allows you to use the device as a pc replacement via displaying the screen on a tv/monitor

    you can do this on steamos

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      you can do this on steamos

      Not with windows you can’t, which is the OS the overwhelmingly large majority of people want to use.

      There’s a surprising amount of older PC games that don’t work on Windows anymore, but work fine on Linux.

      There’s more that work and work better on Windows than Linux than there are the other way around though.

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        Not with windows you can’t, which is the OS the overwhelmingly large majority of people want to use.

        Most people don’t replace SteamOS on their device so I don’t think that’s true. Plasma is a perfectly suitable replacement for Windows unless you really need access to Adobe products or something.

        There’s more that work and work better on Windows than Linux than there are the other way around though.

        True but It’s a number that is shrinking every day. We are down to about ~100 games at this point that explicitly cannot work? I play a lot of games and I can’t remember the last time I tried to play a game and it didn’t work because I was on Linux.

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          Yeah I’m saying that with an Ally for example you essentially have a fully functioning windows pc, whereas with steamOS you don’t.

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          lol not everyone that likes a different OS is a “stan”. The meme in the OP is about windows on steam deck competitors. I’m pointing out why windows on steam deck competitors has lots of benefits. Why can’t you handle that?

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            i haven’t even personally seen any of these things. so no, I literally can’t handle that. i’m also very annoyed buy steam and valve, in general. but windows? windows is the worst.

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              i haven’t even personally seen any of these things. so no

              You’re not on many gaming forums then, especially not PC ones.

              Windows is the best PC operating system there is because basically everything is made for it and everything works on it.

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                i meant I’ve never physically been near one of these things, specifically the Steam Deck or its competitors.

                 You’re not on many gaming forums then, especially not PC ones.
                

                yeah, I’m not. i build my own, but i don’t need that toxic silly trash.

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                    i’m comfortable with windows and with linux. the hardware in all these things is interesting. so you want to go with proprietary software. love you for it.

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        the overwhelmingly large majority of people want to use

        you state this as fact yet my experience has been that people hate using windows for its UI on handhelds and only tolerate it because everything’s made for it. that’s not a shining point for windows, quite the opposite.

        the steam deck surpassed a million devices sold - so while over 50% of people probably still want windows, i wouldn’t say its an “overwhelming” majority. tons of people clearly like valve’s take on linux even despite its limitations