I do think the time is right for a secondary OS competitor. MS has done pretty much everything possible to make people dislike Windows and if there is an alternative, I think people would shift to the alternative relatively quickly. The issue of course is that there isn't that perfect secondary OS to take advantage. MacOS is locked down to apple's ecosystem and Linux isn't user friendly enough along with drm and anti cheat issues. Both don't have as wide a compatibility as Windows does.
I do think if Valve really put in a big push to get users to use Steam OS as their primary OS, many users will give it a solid go and we know how strong word of mouth can be under the right circumstances. But Valve would need to commit the big bucks if they want to make a dent to really get developers to commit to Linux and Steam OS. But I don't think they want to do that cause if they did, the Steam Machine would have been the perfect introduction if the price was cheap enough.
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