Just sharing this really well produced video on Linux’s public perception (since this channel has suprisingly not a lot of subscribers)
Just sharing this really well produced video on Linux’s public perception (since this channel has suprisingly not a lot of subscribers)
I remember a post on reddit asking for a SteamDeck alternative because SteamDeck uses Linux, the guy never used the SteamDeck or Linux before… The way media treats Linux is really fucking important, maybe if Linux was from a big player like Android is from Google, people wouldn’t make such a fuss about it.
honestly the biggest problem with the media is. Linux represents the very thing corporate culture in those media empires just can’t fathom. the idea of cooperation for the greater good that Linux represents and not being 100% profit motivated. They just don’t get it and worse they see it as a threat. Microsoft can be a competitor to them but the idea of open source is a competitor to the whole system and that is a far greater threat to the people on top.
Doesn’t stop people from using Android.
The problem is that the Linux brand is tarnished by the Linux product. If you are making something for consumers, don’t use the word Linux.
In what way? Why? I’m not saying there aren’t hurdles. Like familiarity to get around. But for 90% of people and if they bought a piece of hardware designed to run Linux. It would fulfill their needs 100% of the time with very little problem.
Mainly falling apart around things like hardcore gamers. Which again are pretty Niche themselves as most gamers are on Console these days.
But they don’t know that. They only know “Linux is complicated nerd stuff”.
It’s about brand.
You may be echo chambering there a bit. Places like this many of us are pretty tech literate at a minimum. Go out on the street and ask random people their opinions. The answer you’re most likely to get back is “What?” Most have no knowledge or opinion unless they’re an acquaintance with someone who uses it. And even then it’s probably misleading or outdated.
Outside groups like us I’d hazard there is little brand let alone brand image issue. Though I’m open to being wrong.
Well, steam deck os is from valve, a big player.
The majority of users don’t make any fuss about it.
Steam OS is but part of the media as shown in the video, just call it Linux and Linux itself does not come from Valve.
Technically, the Nintendo Switch uses Linux, and Android is Linux, so its kind of absurd the pushback Steamdecks are getting from these people. They aren’t afraid of Linux; They are afraid of the posibility of running a terminal and interacting with a Desktop Environment that isn’t Windows or MacOS. Doesn’t make any sense.
It comes from valve as much as anyone. No distribution Developers actually develop Linux themselves in the same way Microsoft develops windows. Or to an extent the way Apple is building on top of BSD these days.
Linux comes from valve as much as it comes from Debian or Ubuntu, Arch and Redhat. Valve compiles their kernel the same as all the others do. So it’s no less Linux than any other Linux distribution is. And frankly with the work valve do on proton etc. They actually contribute a lot more to the underpinnings of the Linux ecosystem than most other distributions do.
This is, sadly, accurate. Telling someone to use an OS/platform that isn’t connected with a brand they recognise seems to send many people into a tailspin.
I’ll refrain from the obvious “They Live” cynicism…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXJI-G7ulsg
For those who got an immediate ear worm.
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Android is practically Linux (but is not GNU/Linux, somebody post the Stallman rant)
Yeah and no one puts Linux as downside in reviews for a new android smartphone.
Well most people don’t notice, and that is frankly a good thing. I care what kernel my phone is running, but I’m a fucking nerd.
I haven’t checked, but I bet iPhones are running Darwin, which is more Unix than Linux is