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I'm diggin' Valve beating Microsoft at their own game.
While I love Linux and truly believe in it's superiority, this isn't really a fair comparison, this distro has been tailored for like 3 machines, compared to Windows being for thousands of machines.
I think it's the other way around, thousands of machines are tailored for windows. Don't manufacturers create their own drivers for windows all the time?
In terms of raw numbers, I agree. That being said, SteamOS is accomplishing everything Microsoft had planned for with the original Xbox and more.
Oh yeah for sure
How does a general purpose distro like Bazzite compare to Windows/Steam OS on the Legion?
Not sure for the legion but the bazzite install on the Ally is amazing, it is again scoped for a small handful of devices. But I doubt I'll leave Bazzite anytime soon, I run a Fedora shop at home and I prefer Gnome to KDE plus I like the TPM control in Bazzite a lot
Why doesn't anybody bother with tailoring a Windows distro like this?
OEMs tailor windows as much as they can, but there's only so much you can do.
The non-S variant of the Legion Go is technically tailored for Windows, but the OS was never designed to fulfill this role. Only the Xbox version is capable of that.
I believe this is Microsoft plan with their fusing of Xbox and windows branding down the line