• godsammitdam@lemmy.zipOP
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    16 hours ago

    Cyberpower. iBuyPower. Even Starforge. There’s a bunch of builders out there to remove that “scariness.”

    It’s a personal choice, but if they were willing to spend 5-10 minutes to download something like Bazzite and click the 10 total clicks to install it, you’d achieve a console-like experience too.

    The information is out there, it’s just not forcefed to you because of a massive marketing budget.

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      11 hours ago

      Considering building a PC is too much, how do you figure that they will week out Linux, choose a distro, and successfully install it.

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        5 hours ago

        I’m not sure if you ignored both but:

        As the original commenter said, pricing of next gen consoles will be $1000+. Which puts pricing into PC ballpark.

        I said there are system integrators, always have been, to buy a prebuilt system.

        So “too much” both fiscally and laboriously aren’t true anymore.

        And I mentioned it, but choosing Bazzite is a locked down system. Installing it takes about 10 clicks of your mouse.

        They could ask a friend. Or google it.

        How braindead do you think people are? If they talk to anyone they’ll easily come across these ideas. Linux just jumped from 4% desktop usage to over 10%. So people aren’t completely gone. Enough friction and they’ll look for alternatives.

        If they play sports games I can’t help them though. They’re already on life support.