[ho_schi]

I've the users act right and use the package management and Steam, they will be fine. If the users decided to "save money" with warez, cracks and black market software they will suffer. And Antivirus software is available for Linux but only competent administrators use it, were needed.

[jeroenhd]

You don't need warez at all. For example, people might want to run Microsoft Office on the deck if they hook it up to a dock (which Valve will sell later).

You can't run Office on Linux, of course, but there are plenty of scripts you can download to set up a VM and do some remote desktop trickery (I've just recently gotten cassowary running on my laptop for exactly this use case).

It's the small touches like these that are the problem. Linux on the desktop, and especially Arch based Linux as is running on the Deck, eventually needs some kind of shell script to work around some kind of issue or lacking feature that people have come to expect from Windows.

Hell, even the "official" software stores will eventually become polluted because let's be honest, nobody guards Flatpak against malware and promising to make games run faster combined with a YouTube/Tiktok campaign will probably get enough installs to get plenty of hacked Steam accounts.

I've never seen an offering for Linux AV that doesn't require some kind of endpoint server setup. Most Linux viruses attack servers, and those seem to be the target of the Linux AV industry. ClamAV exists, but that's probably all you can say about that, it's not exactly difficult to evade.

[ho_schi]

The "I want it like Windows" people are an issue. Actually they were always? Old and bad behavior patterns. This hits the responsible people themselves. I'm feeling myself bad regarding using plugins from Github which aren't packaged by my distribution. And these plugin managers make it to easy :(

Regarding Flatpak (which I wish success) and Steam (which already has a lot success) I'm feeling more worried. They want grow and add stuff but actually must be a reliable source.