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I guess my point is they made an easily accessible experience that is not frustrating to use for the average user which will help dispell the belief that linux is hard to use or that gaming is only for windows. They provided a console like experience and made it hard for normies to break it. You're free to install silverblue on the thing. Personally i'll probably re-image with arch later but for my use so far I haven't really have to change anything. I haven't run into an issue that couldn't be solved with a flatpak yet.
As a gaming OS it works great, I'm just talking about what they need to do if they want it to be a successful desktop OS. Their plans are to release it as such so I hope they put in the necessary effort before that, because it's severely lacking right now.