Microsoft attempted to address this with Windows 8, but by forcing touch interface styling to a desktop user they created a massive flop. Adding Windows Mobile trying to do it's own thing in 2015, and failing to gain market share by not investing enough early enough, and they were solidly outclassed. If they had hot the right points, we might have seen smooth Mobile Microsoft gaming 10 years ago.
What might be the real killer feature of SteamOS is the ability to run a Linux desktop. For $400 one can have both a mobile gaming console that can dock with their television and also dock with a traditional PC for other traditional uses.
- SteamOS already runs Linux desktop, at least on the steamdeck (it's just "switch to desktop" in the power menu). The default desktop environment is KDE plasma. Paired with a USBC laptop dock, you have an easily switchable desktop experience too.
  Hopefully they don't plan to change this!
  
  My bad. I read that it had to be enabled on the console.
  
  No worries! I agree it's a killer feature - hoping to pass the word along. Sorry if it came off as a correction, I meant it more as a "wait til you hear this too!"
  
  Just need a fucking printer support
  
  From what I've read, you just need to start the CUPS service.
  sudo systemctl start cups.service
  Start on boot:
  sudo systemctl enable cups.service
  
  For such a "stripped down" OS to fit in a 5GB / partition, it is very funny that they included printing but just left it turned off.
  
  5 GiB is plenty of space for a Linux root filesystem, at least if you move all writeable parts (logs, temporary files, etc.) to different filesystems. Unless you want to install LaTeX, then you probably need 15 GiB or so.
  However, CUPS has had a fair share of security issues (for instance https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/), so it is probably a good idea to have it disabled by default, unless the user needs printer support.
- Man I bought one of those windows phones, the Lumia 920 and boy did it suck. Had bugger all apps. I feel like I had it for nearly a year before I got sick of it. YouTube app was constantly borked and would crash frequently. The fb app once they got it going just felt like a shitty web app disguised as an app. And that was it, like they just released the phone OS and the Lumia series and just hoped devs would come across to the platform. One of the few times I tried to get off iOS and boy did it burn me hard. Hey at least the screen was strong enough to hammer in nails. So free hammer?
  
  I heard that the gesture navigation was amazing. Relying on you brand to coerce developers for nothin for them.
  
  Ah, it was. I’m still very fond of it’s UX and integrity.
  
  I picked up a cheap Lumia as the whole WinPhone thing was winding up. They were actually quite nice. The whole winphone project must have been too low-key for the usual Microsoft Management to stick their noses into, and left competent people running the show.
  If WinPhone had actually caught on, I'm sure that some asshole manager would have taken over and turned it into yet another Windows 11. But for a brief moment, MS made a good OS. With no apps.

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