Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoI don’t know, I think you’re clearly underestimating how many people would install Valve’s OS. The number of people with a Steam Deck that don’t know that what it’s running is a Linux distro is pretty high. The other piece to this is that it’s not just a forced Windows update for a huge chunk of users, it’s a forced device upgrade. Valve offering a free upgrade that negates the need to buy new hardware would absolutely capture people’s attention.
LocoLobo@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yes and no, people can still use win10, it just won’t receive patches anymore. And in this particular case, my best guess is, that most people would rather use and outdated OS for a long time, rather than changing the OS altogether. Not every game is on steam, also not every non game programm is easily available for Linux. Humans are lazy.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I don’t disagree in principle, but from what I’ve heard the full screen “buy a new computer” pop-ups are pretty bloody annoying!
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You’re forgetting that valve can also drop support for EOL versions of windows, which so far they have.
LocoLobo@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
True, but for example for Win7 they dropped support last year I think. So quite some time.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I think that was them drawing a line on eol windows. They cut both 7 and 8.1 at the same time. Could just be the policy now.
Part of me wants them to take the opportunity to push people to switch to Linux, the other part of me thinks that will be perceived no differently from msft’s badgering about win11.