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Valve's plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows (www.pcguide.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

compile the software you want to use from source more often that is acceptable for the average user.

Wut? I've been using Linux in some form or another for years and that is greatly exaggerated even for back then

Linux is way too fragmented and trying to get up and running with basic apps requires way too much technical skill.

Um. WHAT. most distros are just some flavor of one of the handful of major ones, like Debian (Even Ubuntu is based on Debian). If it's a Linux application, it'll probably work on your distro. There's some other cases, like FreeBSD which isn't a Linux kernel, so things differ there, but it's unlikely you'll be running it at home unless you're venturing out of "average user" domain, like Arch for Linux.

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