SteamOS is an Arch Linux, basically, with some stuff pre-installed. The only big difference is that it’s installed in immutable mode, but even that is not a big deal

It’s not set in stone. They have money, they have demand. Scaling production is a bitch and a half, but it’s not impossible to do

It’s not a direct competitor, but they occupy the same niche while being a vastly superior product.

It’s a comparatively new product, but it’s not like it’s something unsuccessful. It’s attached to Steam, that everyone who ever had a computer knows about, and everyone has a couple of games there, it’s being talked about very positively everywhere, and they’re repeatedly gained positive reputation over pro-consumer practices they regularly employ, and they somehow evading being put on blast for the child gambling industry they operate.
They’re known among gamers, which is indeed niche crowd, but also a crowd that is important here. They don’t have the cultural grasp on humanity as Nintendo, or other two, but all of them shitting the bed constantly and publicly, while Valve is catching wins all over the place.

Not exactly, but overlap is significant. A bunch of people want Nintendo because they always did Nintendo and that’s all they know, a bunch of people know that switch is something that kids want and so they get one, sure. But a bunch of people want to play some games lying on a couch or riding a metro or sitting in a queue at a dentist, and those people will at least google what exists on the market. This is an overlapped audience, and for a lot of them steam deck will be the obviously better choice.

It already comes with Linux installed, and an emulator can be setup with five button presses and thirty seconds of waiting.
The base system is setup as immutable, but /home isn’t, so aur isn’t available out of the box, but flatpacks are for example

Also steamdeck is amazing, and a lot of people who want a handheld just chose that one

They operate in this weird world of endorsing complete freedom, but also being able to exclude some groups of people from enjoying the freedom. It gets easier to understand if you remember that they actually don’t care about integrity of their claims, or even validity of it.

That’s the fun thing: burden of proof isn’t on me. You seem to think that if we throw enough numbers at the wall, the resulting mess will become sentient any time now. There is no indication of that. The hypothesis that you operate on seems to be that complexity inevitably leads to not just any emerged phenomenon, but also to a phenomenon that you predicted would emerge. This hypotheses was started exclusively on idea that emerged phenomena exist. We spent significant amount of time running world-wide experiment on it, and the conclusion so far, if we peel the marketing bullshit away, is that if we spend all the computation power in the world on crunching all the data in the world, the autocomplete will get marginally better in some specific cases. And also that humans are idiots and will anthropomorphize anything, but that’s a given.
It doesn’t mean this emergent leap is impossible, but mainly because you can’t really prove the negative. But we’re no closer to understanding the phenomenon of agency than we were hundred years ago.

Yeah, the brick is enormous. But the keyboard looks too attractive to pass.

That’s the thing with our terminology, we love to anthropomorphize things. It wasn’t a big problem before because most people had enough grasp on reality to understand that when a script makes :-) smile when the result is positive, or :-( smile otherwise, there is no actual mind behind it that can be happy or sad. But now the generator makes convincing enough sequence of words, so people went mad, and this cute terminology doesn’t work anymore.

You’re attributing a lot of agency to the fancy autocomplete, and that’s big part of the overall problem.

I am waiting for my Unihertz Titan 2, it’s supposed to be a spiritual successor to the Key2

- also Jerry’s wife.

There is only one country that gives a flying shit about where your great-grandma allegedly came from, and that’s Israel. For every other country you’re not figuring out any options, you’re cosplaying.

Thank you! Sorry if I was sound harsh, wasn’t my intention

It’s not about snarkiness, I was just rubbed the wrong way by your “os is not everyday user friendly”, which you said because you did something that most everyday users don’t do, and which doesn’t usually happens even if they do.
I am easily triggered by stuff like that because this was the mantra for so many years, and despite not being true for more than a decade, still a very big hurdle in the way of Linux adoption. So, so, so many people would like to try switching to Linux but don’t even try because they heard from someone on the Internet that you need to compile drivers all the time, and since they can’t do that, they believe that Linux isn’t for them

So your point is because when you do obscure stuff you ran into obscure problems that require obscure solutions, the os is not everyday user friendly?

That’s not everyday user usage.

Just ask your favourite slop generator to shit a suggestion for you, it already replaced your ability to draw stick figures, something every person knows hownto do by the age of 7.
Or better yet, google a list of active distros and throw a fucking dice. Same amount of precision and intelligence, less wasted electricity and water.