[AshamedCaptain]

But the Steam Deck is hardly desktop Linux. The users there usually wouldn't care less that you can't use it for desktop-y things (like taking screenshots...).

E.g. Linux mobile devices also usually "successfully" utilized Wayland, but failed big time in market share against whatever Android uses. The only thing this may prove is that Android is more popular.

[napkin]

Sure, you wouldn’t call the Steam Deck a Desktop. However as you pick apart its software stack, you’d be hard pressed to find a few parts that don’t also benefit the Desktop usecase. Valve delivered a device that mostly just works for gaming, and the improvements they’ve invested in also benefit Desktop users. I don’t own a Steam Deck, but I am a decades-long Linux desktop user, and Valve‘s success thrills me.

Btw I take screenshots often w gnome+wayland, it just works so I don’t even know how it’s implemented. Not sure if you were making a Wayland jab.