This should be a lesson about providing a product versus providing a technology.
replyUbuntu is "like Windows but not" which is mostly relevant to people boycotting Windows. Steam Deck is "a gamebox" which people who already like games might want to buy. Bazzite is "a thing that turns your computer into a gamebox." Of course, people don't actually want gameboxes either - they want to play games - but it's a few steps closer.
No, but that is what they will ever get from OEMs selling PCs at computer stores used by normies.
replyAlso lets not forget those distros play Windows games, because hardly any studio bothers with native Linux games.
They play both, which is much better for adoption anyway? And it's contributed substantial improvements back to wine and other projects.
replyIt is hardly any different that saying gaming on Linux is great because MAME exists.
replyGame studios will keep buying Windows, using Visual Studio, and let Valve do the needful.
Additionally people keep acting as if Valve and Gabe will be around forever, they won't, none of us will.