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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27756512

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[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 155 points 4 months ago

Damn who imagined that gaming would be the topic that made the FOSS OSes relevant. I don't agree on all that steam does but, they really nail it with the Steam deck and Steam Os.

A lot of people have steam deck and it helps realize that GNU/Linux is an amazing OS.

On the other hand Microsoft and Apple are doing their best to try to give more reasons to switch.

[-] mactan@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 months ago

it's a very successful rebrand. people Ive talked to hate linux as a concept but will use a deck

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