> good luck getting the average person through the setup process.

an enterprising hardware manufacturer can take on the mantle, and be the trail blazer with a no-setup machine that works.

Personally, i would imagine something like framework laptop, and steam machine, are the best candidates.

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Gigachad 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is what the Steamdeck is. But it took an absolutely massive amount of work over a decade from valve just to get gaming working. No laptop manufacturer could afford to do the same for fixing wine for desktop software since they aren’t getting a cut of the software sales like valve does.

	▲	jacquesm 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's mostly because they didn't care before. It also took a massive amount of work to get gaming to work on windows.

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Ekaros 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How long would it take for some MBA to come there and say hey if we install this full of crap we could make multiple euros per unit... And then fill it with crap, spying and other things?

	▲	bmn__ 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Purely hypothetical, hasn't happened yet. The reason is that Linux system vendors are lead and staffed by people who are idealistic like the average Linux system customer. They know their clientele, they know it would be bad for business.