> Aim for the mainstream. The SteamDeck, or HP Dev One are not marketed as "Linux machines". Very few people buy a product for the tech alone, but rather as a m

> Aim for the mainstream. The SteamDeck, or HP Dev One are not marketed as "Linux machines". Very few people buy a product for the tech alone, but rather as a modern gaming or developer workstation if the experience is good. Well, we really screwed the pooch on that one with our Linux-computer-for-end-users. It was originally "kubernetes in a box!", and as the author points out, didn't sell outside of that niche. I am conflicted about the next line though: > provide a product that simply does its job easier and faster than the competition Well, sure, but... Isn't it a computer? Is it not a dream machine? (https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine) Does a bicycle simply "do its job better" than a horse? We're building https://pibox.io https://pibox.io and boy is it a hard wire to walk: it's a server - we want it to be as capable as any SRE's home-rack (sans the horsepower), but we also want it to be end-user friendly and not require tech skills. We're absolutely not there yet, most of our users are engineers, but I do have my dreams, and they've been pulled off before: A more or less easy to use box that helps regular folks get things done but also puts a proper 'dream machine' into the world. Thank god Apple, NeXT, or even Microsoft didn't just ship "a product that simply does it's job". They shipped computers - and in the muddled and unsellable space between "it's a really spiffy typewriter" and "it can do anything", the modern world was born. Linux devices these days are more like appliances than 'bicycles for the mind'.