In practice, as most Linux users install their OS themselves, you can just download the OS and install it normally, unless they ban VPNs and all bittorrent and all linux download sites (which ofc would be up for other regions), too. Pretty bad for selling Linux laptops though, and who knows, maybe they go on to require all future devices to be locked down too.

Gamers are the majority of the desktop space

96% of US households have at least one computer. There are under 14 million steam users in the US. The math isn’t mathing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

EDIT: mobile being at 15.3% is all we need to see here

Surely we don’t count steam deck nor think gamers are a representative sample of computer users

it’s already grown from ~1% to ~6% within the last couple of years

Source?