[isaacremuant]

You're being unfair to Linux if you think Windows doesn't do the same "you're not supposed to do that" every time you step out of a nice path. Or even with the nice path it'll suddenly decide it's time to worsen your experience to improve their marketing or data mining.

There's awesome Linux experiences out there and the Steam deck is starting to show what's possible giving varying levels of control.

We live in exciting times. The more choice, the better.

[pie_flavor]

On Mac, your apps reliably break. On Windows, they never break. It's not whether there's a right way and a wrong way, it's whether the right way stands at complete odds to how anyone actually wants to use the computer. Sure, Linux has a reasonable experience most of the time - that has nothing to do with Mac, and in fact has very little to do with Linux or its community either; Steam has nearly single-handedly made it work. The same way Windows tries to make it work, and the way Mac notably tries not to.

[koluna]

Steam Deck is nice, but let's not kid ourselves that it's anywhere close to what Windows has to offer. Most games in my Steam library still are not Steam Deck compatible, and chances are they never will either because they are too old or because they require new OS components that embed themselves around kernel APIs (separate conversation on whether that is good or bad).

Again - not necessarily saying that the Windows experience is ideal, but it's the absolute best out of the available options.