Steam Deck Proof Of Linux Rise And Windows Decline

valve recently announced that they're getting into the handheld gaming business they're designing a device that really is meant to compete against the nintendo switch but not really it's it's really more than what the nintendo switch is because the nintendo switch is a handheld gaming device but the valve steam deck is actually going to be a portable computer it's actually going to be a pc and it's going to run a desktop operating system on that handheld device it's going to run arch linux which is a fantastic gnu slash linux operating system one of my favorites and i really think this is an important time in history because i think with this new device that's going to ship and it's going to be very popular because when valve announced the steam deck you know their servers basically melted down from people trying to pay them a deposit to get you know in front of the line for when these devices are finally released so there is a ton of interest in this device and one of the cool things about this is you're going to see millions of people buy this device that have no idea what linux is but they're going to have a computer that is actually a full computer that runs linux you know it's not running windows it's not running mac os it's not running chrome os it's running a completely free operating system gnu slash linux in this case it's going to run the distribution arch linux since i've been using linux as a desktop operating system i've seen really two major events that i think really helped us gain popularity where we had really huge spurts of growth the first one was around 2006 to 2008 and that was the rise of ubuntu ubuntu became the desktop linux operating system really for most of linux's early life you know the first 15 years of linux as a desktop operating system most people just kind of assumed it was a server operating system because that's what linux really is right it runs millions and millions and millions of servers all around the world the internet basically all the websites you visit they're all running on linux servers and you know ubuntu kind of changed the game a little bit because now all of a sudden you had a desktop linux operating system that's what ubuntu was designed to be and it got people to actually take linux seriously it got me to take linux seriously as a desktop operating system and that's how i got into linux and millions of others around 2006 to 2008 you know that really was a good time period for us to gain adoption and then the next big event that i think really got people to take linux seriously as a desktop operating system was late 2015 valve announced steam on linux because before valve had steam on linux we really didn't have that many games on linux there were a few free and open source games that people you know designed specifically to run on linux but most of your big aaa games are all proprietary software and by proprietary software companies and they only write these games most of the time to run on windows that's the only operating system they write their games for sometimes they write them for console devices as well but you're never going to get a game that runs on windows to run on linux at least we didn't think that would ever be the case but valve made it happen they had steam on linux announced late 2015 and then very quickly all of a sudden they started working with the wine team wine it's kind of a windows emulator is technically not an emulator but it allows you to run windows software sometimes on linux and valve paired up with the the wine team and they eventually got thousands of windows only games that could actually be played on linux so now like 90 of the games that you play on steam on windows you can also play on steam on linux and for a lot of people you know that we're holding out you know i have to keep my windows machine around for gaming you know steam on linux really was the last thing that was the missing piece right that was the missing piece of the puzzle but there's still a few holdouts out there because there's still you know 10 percent of the games out there that you play on windows still just don't work even on steam on linux with wine and proton but valve is working very hard to get those last few games working and now with the steam deck being announced i think this is the last piece of the puzzle because they want to make sure 100 of their library the steam library plays on that device which runs linux so this is it right all the games all the games on steam will eventually run on linux and so if you're a gamer this is a great time to consider switching to linux because this handheld device especially if you buy the steam deck it's going to run a linux operating system wouldn't it be great if your desktop computer also ran linux or your laptop because i think you know that windows is not a privacy respecting operating system windows is constantly spying on you it has a key logger built in it's tracking every key press it's scanning all the files on your system it's doing all kinds of nasty stuff to you because there's a company behind it that makes money from data mining you you know it data mines you so it can sell that information usually to companies that want to advertise to use send you targeted ads and things like that it's just not a good experience not the to mention the fact that windows is is not fun to use it's it's not a great operating system it's really compared to all the other modern desktop operating systems windows really does lag behind really the only reason people stay on windows is because they feel like they have to because the software that they have to run only runs on windows well you know what there's thousands and thousands and thousands of pieces of software that run on linux you just run linux software when you move to linux instead of running windows software it's like i've been a linux user now strictly a linux user for about 14 years and most of the programs i use on a daily basis most of them i couldn't run on windows because they're designed to run on linux right the software developer wrote that program to run on the linux operating system linux software doesn't run on windows but i don't complain about it right if i if i had to use a windows computer i'm not going to complain oh my goodness all my linux software doesn't run on windows i'm going to go find some windows software that would do the job for me and that's the same thing you guys have to do if you want to make the switch to linux find linux software that does what you want to do because i promise you like the artwork for the channel audio editing video editing everything i do to make these videos is all done with free and open source software that is designed to run on linux and really when i hear from people saying they can't move to linux from windows it's because of software reasons there's really three things the first one is games we've got that taken care of right within the next year the steam deck will ship and steam on linux will be able to play 100 of the steam library so that scratch that off the list that doesn't matter anymore the second one most common when i hear is microsoft office now i understand most people you know if you work in a office environment you know typically you're required to use microsoft office but with the rise of web-based clients you know office 365 you just run it in a browser which means you can run it on any operating system on the planet right so unless there's a real need for you to have a desktop-based microsoft office suite which of course you need windows to run you can run microsoft office 365 on linux so if that works for you you've got that covered the third most common thing i hear people say is they can't switch to linux because of the adobe creative suite there's nothing we can do about that unfortunately adobe has no interest in ever porting their software to linux right and if adobe doesn't want to write a linux desktop client for photoshop and premiere pro and things like that it's never going to happen it would be very difficult for linux people to make that happen right as the creator of the software has to make that happen and adobe is very anti-linux so they don't really see linux as as being something that they can make money off of as far maybe there's just not enough of us yet maybe one day we'll eventually get there but for right now if you really had to use the adobe products on a daily basis for work then you probably would have to keep windows around at least dual boot keep a windows partition to do your work for for the adobe stuff and then maybe move over to linux when you actually want to do you know your standard desktop computing stuff web browsing and things like that i would definitely rather do things like online baking for example i would rather do that on a linux operating system than windows because just the security of the linux operating system now as far as the steam deck goes i'm not much of a gamer so i don't know if i would purchase one for myself you know because these are not cheap devices they range in price i think from like 350 to about 600 depending on what kind of storage you get in it but you know even though i'm not a gamer and probably a lot of you linux users especially many of you are not hardcore gamers that doesn't matter we should support valve in this w we need to make this a success because you know if this is a success and they can get every single game that runs on windows to also run on linux that's a win and maybe you know they could also keep working on wine and proton and eventually get things like i don't know microsoft office the desktop client to run in wine or some of the adobe products to work in wine i think that's eventually where we're heading i think eventually valve is gonna sell stuff other than just games in their store right they want some of this other software that used to only run on windows or mac now to run on linux so what i'm thinking about doing is i may purchase one or two of these devices for gifts you know i've got young nieces and nephews give them to to your your nieces or nephews if you've got young children or grandchildren give it as gifts birthday gifts christmas gifts you know help this product succeed because i think really this is going to be a game changer this is going to be one of those major events that all of a sudden we see a massive spurt in growth again as far as new users coming from windows over to linux i see too many journalists out there all these articles about the steam deck and none of them mention how damaging the steam deck is going to be to windows every single article that talks about the steam deck running linux you know that's great and all but they leave it at that they don't ever talk about how millions and millions of people are now going to be running a good news linux device a computer and they talk about how the steam deck you know could really pose problems for nintendo because it's a competitor to the nintendo switch i don't think the steam deck and the nintendo switch are really competing because the steam deck is going to be a proper computer where the switch isn't plus if you're a nintendo fan you like the nintendo games you know the catalog of games that nintendo has you're going to keep buying nintendo products right i don't think the steam deck is going to run nintendo out of business that's not going to happen i do think though the steam deck is gonna cause serious problems for microsoft as far as the adoption of windows 11. i think a lot of people are gonna give linux a serious look now now before i go i need to thank a few special people i need to thank the producers of this episode and of course i'm talking about absi games james mitchell paul west comey alan chuck curt david dilling gregory heiko aryan alexander peace arch and fedor polytechnic scott stephen and willie these guys they're my highest tiered 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Keywords: linux, gnu linux, free software, open source, steam deck, linux distro, steam handheld, linux gaming, steam games, gaming pc, linux help, valve steam deck, steam handheld console, steam handheld pc, linux distro for gaming, linux distro reviews, linux distro for windows users, stream deck vs nintendo switch, steam deck vs pc, linux vs windows, switch to linux, windows 11, gaming on linux, steam on linux, steam on windows

Id: O5GIj4SY28E

Length: 12min 38sec (758 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 22 2021