Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Jul 12, 2023

XDA claim they're a "leading tech publication".

They published an article titled: "Why I like Linux on my Steam Deck but not my desktop"

-> Uses tiny and basically unsupported obscure Linux distribution to make a case against it on the desktop.

-> Also thinks somehow Proton is only on Steam Deck?

Please, if you're going to publish a Linux article, get your writers to do more than 1 minute research into it.

Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Jul 12, 2023

There's this weird repeating problem of people expecting to instantly know how something works, despite basically never using it.

I see this everywhere, not just Linux. In this case though, I see articles like it still *all the time* and the big issue is just to get clicks.

Show threadJanne MorenJul 12, 2023

@gamingonlinux
The expectation is there because, frankly, for the most part it's true.

When did you last crack open a manual for your smartphone, fridge, car, TV, phone app or game console? Designers have spent untold hours over decades making this largely possible.

PCs - including Windows and osx - really stand out here, in a bad way.

Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
@jannem I've looked up how to do things on my iphone quite a lot actually, same with a lot of things - people assume too much of themselves
Jul 12, 2023 at 10:18amWeb
Show threadJohn Wyatt 🐧Jul 12, 2023
@gamingonlinux @jannem yeah phone and even mac os x is a bad example. I struggle now with how to do simple file operations on Mac. They hide things a lot these days.
Show threadJanne MorenJul 12, 2023

@sageofredondo @gamingonlinux
I specifically included Windows and OSX as problematic, along with Linux.

The PC platform requires a whole different level of non-obvious knowledge to even get started, far more than, say, smartphones, the next most difficult device we have.