Linux has not been anywhere near user friendly enough over the past 2 decades to be remotely usable by normal people. Not a chance.
This hasn't been true for at last a decade. Go ahead and install linux and windows and let us know which one is easier to get and install.
Had valve not made its own linux based OS they would had to release this machine with windows preinstalled. Microsoft is valve competitor.
Most people don't really use windowns because they like it but because of the third parties applications that only run on windows, so yea you can point the finger at third parties.
You are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform that doesn't share much with steam or corporations like valve. If you understand the difference between lemmy and steam perhaps what i'm saying will make more sense to you.
Many people have no interest in replacing PC parts
Many people have no interest in replacing their car tires and they just want to drive but i'm sure they would be really pissed if once a tire bursts they would have to replace the car.
It is also very hard for them to do marketing selling third parties modular parts, it's much better for them to come up with a product.
If you want to swap your GPU, build your own SFF.
If you want to replace parts in your computer so that it doesn't became useless in 5 years or end up in a landfill when a piece break, build your own SFF
"Over 5,000 games released on Steam this year didn't make enough money to recover the $100 fee to put a game on Valve's store, research estimates"
They need their products to be as clean as possible to hook people into microtransactions and their proprietary platform. Valve is a for profit company and the ceo owns a fleet of mega yachts
Some time ago i passed near a famous e-commerce warehouse and the place was surrounded by a 4 meter tall fence and a moat.
If you care about the environment and are upset about corporations and their datacenters your best voting option is neither the red or blue party.
visa and mastercard should be free to do what they want with their services. Pick another payment method.
what matters is that right now linux is more user friendly than windows.