Lfrith

What I wrote might have been confusing, but I was trying say that places like lemmy may have view points that express preferences that aren't representative of the mainstream. Like how there may be more positive Linux comments on average per user.

But, that it doesn't necessarily mean the people expressing those views believe them to be representative of the mainstream. It is more just them expressing their thoughts.

However, people I found across social media can mistake what are simply individual opinions as general proclamations, and immediately jump to "Oh this person is claiming that their view point is one most people hold. What a bold claim." When all they were saying was I like turtles as opposed to most people like turtles.

I think this more people mistaking people expressing their preferences for a system and extrapolating that to meaning market share predictions.

Reword the question to do you believe Steam Deck will overtake Nintendo market share and you'd get different answers. Same with if you ask someone why is Linux better than Windows versus do you believe Linux can overtake Windows market share?

I find people on the internet have a hard time differentiating between people who are expressing preferences and people predicting market share shifts. People just see oh this person doesn't like Nintendo or Windows and must believe Steam Deck or Linux is going to be more popular.

I'd say its more people stating why they prefer the Steam Deck over the Switch than actually believing the Steam Deck would overtake the Switch. Challenge them to a bet and you'd see very few take it.

I think it is people mistaking people's preferences for market share predictions.

I picked up a Nintendo Switch because of it being a handheld. I wouldn't have picked one up otherwise, since I had skipped generations of Nintendo consoles preferring Sony due to Nintendo games being too high. But, with the Steam Deck where I don't even need to repurchase "Deck versions" of games the handheld component isn't a selling point of the Switch to me anymore.

Nintendo game prices seem too expensive not only to PC gamers, but Xbox and Sony gamers too. All the other platforms reward patient gamers with price drops even for first party titles, but for Nintendo sometimes they go up.

From the perspective of someone who's had Sony consoles spanning generations that is terrible pricing. I only picked up a switch because it was a handheld, but it isn't a selling point to me this time around due to the Steam Deck playing the same library of games I have on the PC.

Nintendo diehards will stick with it and it'll sell great, but I'll be going back to skipping Nintendo consoles for the foreseeable future.

Tuta doesn't support external email clients, but if you don't mind using it through the web or their app they have a free tier you can sign up for to see if you like it.

And for Americans who decide to immigrate to another country it is great to have multiple options that align more with their values they can seek shelter in and feel safe. So win win.

Likely stronger in the sense of being less at the mercy of one single powerful country. Sort of like the fediverse and it being ideal for multiple instances over one main centralized instance who's collapse or sudden policy changes can be incredibly disruptive. More distributed power over the long run will make alliances more resilient to unforeseen changes that occur.

I don't know if keemailme is better but that's another option from them.

Most important of all they compensate their employees like they are actual humans.

I wouldn't have started even dual booting Linux if it wasn't for Steam after being pleasantly surprised with my Steam Deck played most of my Steam library. It's the primary why I intend to get AMD gpu next time around for the better driver support, but that won't be for a few years.