Whats wrong with Xbox and PS?

You don’t know about BridgyFed?

It got popular because it’s excellent for gaming communities. Not for code base discussion.

What other purpose for reviews is there than signaling to others whether or not they should buy the game?

Giving a game bad reviews because of “lackluster gameplay” and DRM is malicious?

While it mentions malice in the first few words, I would argue many of their examples are not malicious, including the one given about the first known use of the phrase:

One of the first appearances of the term “review bomb” was in a 2008 Ars Technica article by Ben Kuchera describing the effect in regards to Spore, in which users left negative reviews on Amazon citing the game’s perceived lackluster gameplay and digital rights management system.

based on this article I’d say it has more to do with the organized nature of reviews. It even says:

Review bombing is a similar practice to vote brigading.

Can you elaborate on “sharing”?

Why would it ask you on desktop if the game was Steam Deck compatible?

Ugh, this discussion happens every time this topic comes up. There’s nothing about the phrase “review bombing” that implies the reviews are somehow illegitimate. It just means a large number of negative reviews in a short time.

Nah it’ll be handhelds first

The other distros I already mentioned are already more than “good enough for most people to use”. So I disagree.

Let’s say it’s not true, Valve can choose to release a distro that is mostly-complete and add additional features later or they can update it in secret for some strange reason while sitting on it…?

Roflcopter, they can do both of those things.

Power levels are changed via the quick access menu and input options are configured via Steam input, which doesn’t even have anything to do with the distro in question, it’s part of the Steam client.

Bazzite. Chimera. Nobara. HoloISO?

There are several.

Not hard enough that it hasn’t already been done for years by volunteers with zero budget.

And yet one sells 100x more than the other.

Steam has all of those as well.

Previous hardware mostly immediately flopped. Steam Deck has been seeing regular hardware and software improvements over the last several years.

If you’re waiting for Steam Deck 2, you’re most likely going to be waiting a while. Valve doesn’t do anything quickly or on a regular basis.

The Switch is none of those things and yet still manages to sell 100x more units.