a good product is the best advertising. make linux usable as a daily driver, and people come flowing in from the shithole that is windows.

Linux is a usable daily driver if you’re tech savvy enough. Some distros are even kind enough to be daily driveable by non tech savvy, at least for the normal stuff.

At this point, it’s possible, but no normie is ever going to know what distros are easy and won’t be getting through an OS installation anyways.

It won’t get more normie than SteamOS, it is literally console kind of simplicity with the option to switch to a full blown DE.

Is it really really easy to install? Several distros are extremely smooth experiences if you don’t have completely weird hardware to support, but their installation is still an actual OS install procedure. As easy as Windows to install, but almost no one HAS to install their Windows like with Linux.

You'd have to check one of the side-distros. SteamOS itself has no official installer yet, only available pre-installed on steamdeck.

There are distros that are organized to recreate it for normal installation though.

Yea, install availability and upgrades gone wrong are areas Linux needs a bit more progress, though I stand by that Linux is plenty good for daily driving once you’re staring at a GUI you’re comfortable with on the friendlier OS’s

I guess also app availability… Snap packs fucking suck and even normal package repos aren’t the simplest thing to deal with if something is only available in EPEL or some similar situation.

Though is that really unique to Linux? As soon as you do something outside of any normal program, it’s all wizardry to normies.