the steam deck is not a laptop. the trackpads are used completely differently to a touchpad:
they’re used with two different thumbs - left for scroll, right for cursor
thumbs have a completely different range of motion than fingers, making circular scrolling comfortable
[conjecture:] the circular scrolling was influenced by ipod click wheels, which are held in the same way as a deck, but differently to a laptop
please don’t tell me you’re advocating for two trackpads on laptops, and a swirly motion for scrolling
The most common behavior is now what Steam Deck does and it defaults to neither in Desktop Mode.
Yes, Windows has the biggest market share among Windows users.
windows has the biggest market share on pcs and laptops.[^1] the comment wasn’t “kde should follow defaults from other linux distros”, it was "kde should follow the most common behaviour. windows market share outnumbers macos + linux + chromeos + bsd + opensolaris etc.; and mac also does this by default to my knowledge
The biggest driver to get Plasma in the hands of users is currently Steam Deck and that throws both conventions out of the window and defaults to actual presses to click and circular movement to scroll down in Desktop Mode.
not really. i love my steam deck, but it is a niche product. valve are understandably being cagey about how many units have been sold, but steam deck <<< switch <<< computers. most plasma adopters will be coming from windows.
[^1]: if you want the biggest market share on devices in general, i believe it’s android; which… also uses natural scrolling