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It’s already illegal in Canada, you can report them to the Competition Bureau. I don’t think its very well enforced though.

https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/deceptive-marketing-practices/types-deceptive-marketing-practices/ordinary-selling-price

Fortunately Valve publishes monthly hardware statistics so we can back claims with statistics. Linux comprises 2.89% of their surveyed share. Of that 28.31% are using Steam OS. Using the wayback machine we can check the statistics from last year. Checking the July 2024 results using the Wayback Machine shows Linux at 2.08% with Steam OS comprising 40.97% of that.

From that we can see that Linux is growing, while Steam OS is becoming less of a contributing factor to the Linux share.

For some reason it didn’t click how oversized the box is. More likely they ran out of smaller ones then, or some shitty algorithm said this was the “most economical” box.

Sometimes it’s due to the battery shipping label that’s required for lithium batteries. They need a box big enough to fit it as it’s a fixed size and needs to fit on one side of the box.