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Valve made the right decision (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Waffelson@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago

Can anyone explain anything in this meme? I don’t know the anime, I don’t know the symbols, all I recognize is the steam logo.

[-] anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 55 points 5 months ago

I don’t know the anime either, but the steam logo is walking away from the debian logo and then staring into the eyes of the arch logo. OP is saying that valve made the right choice by ditching debian (I thought they were using ubuntu, but that’s just a debian derivative with a bad UI on top) for arch as the basis for steamOS. For a gaming platform, I agree. You want the latest updates and software versions for gaming purposes (and proton/wine purposes), and they can hire employees to ensure they have tackled arch’s bleeding-edge instabilities before rolling the updates out to the general population.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

You know every time I think I understand enough about Linux to consider moving over an innocent post like this sets me back to square one.

[-] wahming@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Nah you're overthinking it. Grab a beginner friendly distro like Mint and just start using it. All this is fanboy talk that can be interesting but doesn't affect 99% of users.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 18 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it's not like most Windows users understand a lot about Windows, including how to install Windows, or what an operating system is.

[-] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 5 months ago

A concerning amount of Windows users say they're PC users.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 points 5 months ago

They're technically right, the best kind of right. That said, I too hate Microsoft leaning into this Apple marketing bullshit and trying to monopolize the term personal computer for Windows.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Although, you could argue that some of the modern computers that only support UEFI booting and no longer have BIOS booting support aren't actually PCs since the PC bios is a pretty big part of what traditionally defined a PC compatible system