there are already a lot of immutable Linux distros
Exactly. There are a lot, and that’s confusing for most people. The fact that people have so many choices makes them less likely to switch. Most people want ease, simplicity and convenience.
Yeah, one more with the name recognition, like you mentioned. People don’t know what Silverblue is, they don’t know what an immutable distribution is, and, frankly, I don’t think they’re interested in learning. But they know Steam. Sad, perhaps, but true.
If they aren’t interested in learning they will complain that MSO, Photoshop, Premiere doesn’t work as well. Nobody is helped, everyone is miserable. They can just stay in their walled garden or even migrate over to the golden cage aka MacOS.
they will complain that MSO, Photoshop, Premiere doesn’t work
That’s true. They will. But maybe if enough users switch to SteamOS, Adobe, and other software developers might port their software to it. That’s really the only hope for widespread Linux desktop adoption.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe more people will be willing to endure a learning curve for the freedom and openness of Linux, but I think that path to widespread Linux adoption would take a long time, if it happens at all.
Linux will really take off when Valve finally releases the desktop version of SteamOS.
Why would they do that?
Because of the name? Because there are already a lot of immutable Linux distros from which I really dig Silverblue or if you want KDE kinonite.
Exactly. There are a lot, and that’s confusing for most people. The fact that people have so many choices makes them less likely to switch. Most people want ease, simplicity and convenience.
And with SteamOS for Desktop there is one more. Yay…
Yeah, one more with the name recognition, like you mentioned. People don’t know what Silverblue is, they don’t know what an immutable distribution is, and, frankly, I don’t think they’re interested in learning. But they know Steam. Sad, perhaps, but true.
If they aren’t interested in learning they will complain that MSO, Photoshop, Premiere doesn’t work as well. Nobody is helped, everyone is miserable. They can just stay in their walled garden or even migrate over to the golden cage aka MacOS.
That’s true. They will. But maybe if enough users switch to SteamOS, Adobe, and other software developers might port their software to it. That’s really the only hope for widespread Linux desktop adoption.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe more people will be willing to endure a learning curve for the freedom and openness of Linux, but I think that path to widespread Linux adoption would take a long time, if it happens at all.
Isn’t it obvious? What Linux really needs is a big ol’ corporation to swoop in and give it a good PR boost. Worked really well the last time…
Then fill it with closed source blobs and turn the original platform into obsolity.