Unlikely, cons0omers don’t buy ideology and don’t care about reason. They want to pay money and get complete product that is easy enough for person with not too many brain connections, not to just justify missing features for values.

Well, if you honestly think about it, Linux has always been tried by many of people that eventually went back to Windows because something wasn’t entirely straightforward. Don’t get me wrong, I love Linux, but I don’t blame people for thinking that. Trying Linux is very different than sticking to it. Linux is amazing OS for people who put at least some effort into learning it, but like it or not, it can be absolute pain for those expecting things to just work without any interest on why they experiencing issues. Given how many sets of hardware and peripherals people have, weird quirks, bugs and required workarounds aren’t unheard of. Maybe it’s just something very simple to fix for an advanced user, but normies will just run away.

Yeah, but we know that Linux people would cheer and praise those games if Linux support was suddenly added

Cuz you know, female orgasm doesn’t exist, it’s lefties’ conspiracy against normal male behavior /s

They said there’s still a lot of work for them to do with SteamOS before it’s usable on all PCs. I wouldn’t hold my breath especially if you’re on NVIDIA, especially if it’s older than RTX-es. Besides, when SteamOS is ready for general public, the desktop Linux experience is elsewhere regardless of the distribution.

Or even worse, a dialog window opens locking the rest of the application but it’s under other windows for some reason and I’m like wtf

You could’ve just ask ;)

To fix Xbox controller connect it to an Xbox console and update its firmware.

To fix some videos not playing in games, switch from stock Proton to GE-Proton, you can install ProtonPlus or ProtonUpQt from your desktop store for easy Proton installs, newly installed Proton versions show up after Steam restart.

Virus is just a program that tries to whatever its malicious intent is while being as minimal and portable as it gets. It it’s a ransomeare to encrypt all your data or a program that looks for passwords in your files, it can still be fairly successful when running through Wine. There is a chance through, that it assumes typical paths where Windows keeps files and if it never tries other drives than C, it will only affect Wine prefix and not your actual files.

You can run Bottles in Flatpak and cut out access to any of your files if you’re afraid it can be malicious

Torrent edition worked flawlessly with no need to tinker at all. Just saying