The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly

Post by happymellon » Sun, Apr 06, 2025, 7:11 PM UTC

dns_snek wrote: post #250

pjmlp wrote: post #248

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And kill Steam Deck just like they did with Netbooks, why get Proton translation of the real XBox experience. Gamers that reach out to handelds in Nintendo Switch numbers don't care about what OS their consoles use, and won't be buying Steack Decks "because Linux!".

They might not care which OS their consoles use but they probably care about whether their games cost $10 (Steam/PC on very frequent sales) or $80 (Switch 2), and whether they need to buy all of their games again with every generation.

They "don't care about what OS their console uses", but they do care about the shitty Windows UI because you can buy Steam Deck alternatives with Windows. And they are not selling because the Windows experience is terrible.

Linux doesn't have user experience rules, which is why Steam OS works.

Post by SXX » Mon, Apr 07, 2025, 8:02 AM UTC

lupusreal wrote: post #224

SXX wrote: post #156

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It's not like this is Steam fault. You can always return games you played under 2 hours no questions asked. Some people just like to buy stuff they dont need or hoard random things, but it's as old as humanity itself At leastrented digital games on Steam account dont contribute to global warming, waste problems and dont use tons of electicity to mint some tokens. I guess only major issue Steam really have to solve is…

When I was a kid, this pattern of over-purchasing video games was very rare. When you had to go to the store and buy a game, it was very uncommon for people to buy a ton of games and then never get around to playing most of them. Even when the stores had discount bins, people would usually buy just a handful at a time and then play them until boredom (or frustration) before going back to the store. The one exception…

Reason why people buy far more games by count on Steam is super simple. There are 80-90% discounts when on consoles there are no such discount.

Also games on Steam not tied to specific hardware generation, OS or account country. You can still play majority of games from 2010 and earlier even if they wasn't updated.

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