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Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage? (lemmy.world)
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[–] -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (18 children)

Well, the hypers have pushed technical distros like CachyOS to casual users, requiring them to go to terminal to install apps instead of pushing people toward user-friendly distros with GUIs that would make their computers and apps even easier to manage than on windows.

That's how we lose: by overestimating the tech-savviness of people and calling them stupid when they don't get it, as if everybody had a degree in computer engineering sciences.

We are the stupid ones. We are toxic.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    From what I've seen, casual users didn't have problems with the casual tasks in the terminal, but with some hot mess behavior of CachyOS, e.g. how the Python update was handled.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Still, the CachyOS hype killed the Linux hype.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    No it didn't. Most new Linux users are still going with distros like Mint or Bazzite.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Yet, the majority of influencer videos about linux during that period praised only CachyOS, and I bet most of them reverted back to windows when they got enough of their Matrix roleplay with the terminal.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    the majority of influencer videos about linux during that period praised only CachyOS

    Proof? Because the majority of ones I saw recommended Mint consistently.

    and I bet most of them reverted back to windows

    So no proof, just personal biases then.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    I've never understood the Cachy hype tbh. Nothing against it, but if you're going for user friendly Arch, Manjaro seems easier and has been around longer. And why hype Arch in general? Arch is Arch, but hyping it for new users is just a mistake. For moderate to experienced users, if you want to use Arch there's a specific reason, you don't need to be convinced. Does everyone just like feeling badass for picking hard mode?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately, yes, people love to despise others on artificial pretenses, missing the big picture which is the necessity to liberate as much people as possible from windows.

    Manjaro is a good entry point, yes! Bazzite seems very cool as well!

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah, I do have to say that the Linux community has been improving though.

    I tested Bazzite for a while, I liked it. I ultimately settled on Fedora KDE. I could see myself going back to Bazzite if I stop dual booting Windows for gaming and random programs. But...maybe by then I will have upgraded my GPU, and I'll be going AMD if so, and there's therefore less reason to go with Bazzite since I'll have proper AMD drivers no matter what. I could also envision openSUSE Tumbleweed if I wanted to live more dangerously but not go with Arch-based.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Oooh I see. I made mine full AMD to go full linux. (And I admit I went for Manjaro 10 years ago and never went back. Also very tempted to go for Bazzite) I hope the nvidia drivers will get better for linux, I've heard they made some great progress lately!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Computer engineering is typically hardware and low level software design which doesn't really fit the analogy you're going for.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Case and point right here with that correction.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    LMFAO, I do try to be friendly to noobs...but I am naturally a pedant and so when not dealing with noobs I let the pedant out a bit more. But I do agree with the sentiment that the power users are not welcoming.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    "ComPUtEr EnGiNeeRiNg Is TyPIcaLLy HardWAre AnD Low LevEL SOFtwAre DesiGN"

    Yeah, sure. J'en ai pas grand-chose à faire, puisque l'anglais n'est pas ma langue natale et que je fais de mon mieux avec ce que je sais, mais je désignais ce que tu désignes. Maintenant, démerde-toi avec la traduction.

    You've just made my point for me, man/woman.

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