It’s not the gotcha that they think it is. Increasing share of Linux, steam deck or not is progress. Any development or considerations made for the SteamDeck and its Arch based OS benefit the non SteamDeck Linux gaming scene too.
Mostly a stab at Reddit PCMR, Lemmy PCMR has a different vibe.
I’ve noticed some posters in these communities have that toxic attitude of superiority and exclusivity–they simultaneously want people to use Linux, but also take pride in their “chops” and look down on people who don’t know as much. It’s along the same lines as those rude or hostile responses to more basic questions. I haven’t seen it as much here on Lemmy, fortunately.
It’s a bell curve. Believe me, after spending my entire work day doing Linux shit as a SRE/Devop/cloud engineer over the last 12 years of my career, the absolute last fucking thing I want to do when I stop working is fiddle with one more goddamn Linux issue before launching a game. True elites don’t give a fuck and just want to play the damn game. You can spot a poser the second they take it too seriously and bitch you out for running vanilla mint or whatever
100% this, the more you know about Linux the less you care about the distro. Realistically I use Arch because I’m lazy and the AUR and wiki are fantastic, but the company laptop came with Ubuntu and that’s what it will keep on running, I have servers running Debian, I’ve worked with devices running some flavor of Red hat, it’s all the same, and whenever I see someone trying to be elitist for running Arch I imagine a 15YO living in their mom’s basement thinking they’re cool because they managed to follow simple instructions.