Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Ubuntu Linux Killed The Commercial Desktop Distro" video.

elementaryOS Stan here. Pantheon is the definition of a DE that does its job and gets out of your way. It's for people who loved OSX but think macOS is waay too busy. The main problem with it right now is that the development team is tiny, and they're rebuilding the DE from the ground-up to work with Wayland, so the current stable version is still based on Ubuntu 22.04, while the Arch packages break fairly often. That said: elementaryOS 8 is nearing the finish line, and I'm pretty psyched to see how it compares to COSMIC Alpha.
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The thing is that Valve, moreso than even Canonical, benefit the most from widescale adoption—every copy of Steam running on a system is a built-in revenue stream, even from people like me who mostly plays flatpak games on his Steam Deck—and minimizing their dependence on Microsol's stack is a huge mitigation of an existential risk.
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I'm actually one of those people who pays for elementaryOS. I run it on three machines—including my work laptop—and I just wish I could donate my time to help with development as well. Brodie's point at the end of his Playtron video about FOSS not being free is a really good one.
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I'm curious what you mean by "strong gaming focus." Do you just mean, "comes pre-configured with Steam, ProtonGE, Lutris, Bottles, MangoHud, Gamescope, etc." do you mean, like, has an optimized kernel, or do you mean is essentially a FOSS console like SteamOS or Batocera?
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@yasamito Endeavour + Pantheon = :goat-turquoise-white-horns: if you can manage it—the packages are going through a ton of development right now with the upcoming release of elementaryOS 8, and it's not clear to me that their extras repo maintainer is actually testing anything before deploying.
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@nervaproject They'd prefer it. SteamOS doesn't make them any more money than Steam-on-Ubuntu does. And it's not like you can't use other game stores on the Steam Deck.
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