The article explicitly mentions their target audience, which is ordinary/casual gamers who would not want or expect a desktop mode on their console. They're basically targeting the console crowd. It's not the same audience as steam deck.
metaldream
joined 1 year ago
Since when are non-Steam games first class citizens on steam os? You have to enter desktop mode to launch them.
Most of your complaints seem very nitpicky tbh. Valve needs competition badly and I'm glad to see another company entering the Linux gaming space.
They did that for as part of a negotiation though. The less populous states refused to join the union without something like the Senate.
To me it's an outdated concept because states are much less independent now than they were back then. And we have a national identity that didn't exist during the revolution.