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Well good luck with that. I'm sure the dozen or so Linux laptop gamers in the world will be ecstatic.

I mean why wouldn't you buy a machine incapable of sufficiently cooling itself under load, with an operating system for which only a small fraction of games run well, to play games? /S

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There are multiple Linux powered handhelds at this point that seem to have market traction, they are doing heavy lifting for laptops like this on the software side. I don't know any current figures and don't think quoting forecasts figures for 2027 is helpful.

I do think it's getting to the point where starting a game on a steam deck or holoiso is easier/requires less of a user than windows.

Anecdotally, every time I turn on a windows machine I'm inundated with updates. My machines using holoiso (steamos build for any x86 hardware) I just start up and they work (assuming no required game updates).

https://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/There-Are-Do...

I guess it depends on the ecosystem. For Steam Linux is more used than Mac OS X (still Windows is the most popular). https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/linux-surpasses-the-...

Likely the result of the SteamDeck almost exclusively though right?

What difference does it make?

Yeah because as everybody knows the steamdeck, which fits exactly your description, was a huge failure.

/s.

Lol. Steam deck is such a huge W - they even recently started the "Valve Certified Refurbished" program to satisfy the high demand. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamdeckrefurbished

> I'm sure the dozen or so Linux laptop gamers in the world will be ecstatic.

https://omdia.tech.informa.com/pr/2023/04-apr/omdia-steam-de...

And that’s only Steam Deck.

> only a small fraction of games run well, to play games?

?????

You mean most games from previous gen consoles and thousand PC games?

https://www.protondb.com/explore

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