Why are some in quotes?

I’m a software developer that releases for Linux. I know it’s a pain. I’m just in the camp of thinking we should fix it instead of giving up.

Please don’t do this

Hot take.

Lua is an industry standard for a reason. The syntax isn’t great. But the reference implementation of Lua is under 500kb, very easy to embed and very fast.

It really is a full desktop os. Not a bad one either.

The main limitations is hardware / driver support and proprietary software support.

Neither of those things are really a problem when you use it in an embedded system like a console though.

I bet they used freeBSD over Linux for licensing reasons.

they don’t want to deal with Linux or the Bash shell

I’m a professional software developer that runs Linux on all on my devices. So I could “deal with the bash shell” if I needed to for sure. But im not interested in doing anything but running games I bought on steam.

Not once have I even opened desktop mode on my steam deck for anything other than checking it out.

It’s completely possible to stay 100% in the main SteamOS environment which is basically “Big picture mode”.

Normal users literally would have no idea they are using Linux. It operates exactly how you would expect a handheld game console to operate.