If you gave someone who's only frame of reference was a PS4 or Switch a PC handheld running a dual boot setup with Windows and a desktop-oriented Linux distribu

If you gave someone who's only frame of reference was a PS4 or Switch a PC handheld running a dual boot setup with Windows and a desktop-oriented Linux distribution, it would baffle them to the point where it would end up left in a drawer. You're not looking at the market from outside of your own perspective, the friction points for others aren't going to be the same as they are for you. We're talking about people who don't know what a partition is, who don't understand what drivers are. Not that I don't sympathize, when I want to play games I don't want to deal with that shit either. Bazzite has gamescope-session, I'm fairly sure CachyOS does too, so they have most of the same UX advantages when used that way. How does KDE Plasma smooth over bumps like games running in Windows mode? You can just alt+enter right? Well, provided you know the shortcut key to open the onscreen keyboard, and know the shortcut key, or even know any of that is possible in the first place. Even a small thing like that ends up being a problem if you aren't knowledgable about gaming on a PC. Then you get weird edge case games like Katamari Damacy Reroll which starts in Windowed mode and won't even let you change it until you play the tutorial, it's kind of a shitshow... on everything but gamescope-session. The goal of Steam Deck and SteamOS in general is to provide a user experience as streamlined and seamless as a console. It mostly succeeds and a big part of that is that there's no need to deal with a PC UI. I mean, I like KDE Plasma just fine, if I have a keyboard and mouse, I'm using it right now, but if I'm holding a handheld gaming machine I simply don't want to deal with that, I want to select my games and have them play with minimal jank. I know from experience, from doing this handheld PC gaming thing since I bought an OG GPD Win, all of the problems.