android does it well, if you want "developer" mode that let's you have better control over your system you have to do some funny IT rituals you can only access by 1. knowing they exist 2. googling how to do it

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Steam OS has kind of the same philosophy too. Normal users can treat it like a switch, only ever downloading from steam, and have a perfectly intuitive experience. But power users still have the options to run other software, customize the os, and even outright replace the os.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

I love my Steam deck for this reason. I started out using it to replace my switch and now I'm easing my way into learning Linux.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

Although it's pretty easy to stumble upon some guide that you don't understand that gets you to enable dev mode. Not saying it happens a lot, but there's not a very high bar for the test for enabling dev mode.