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Linux Falls Hard on Steam After Record 5% Milestone (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 15 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Many people bounce back to Windows after their first attempt at running Linux.

Typically after experiencing a technical issue and either failing to find a resolution, or finding a resolution written in a way that assumes the reader is already familiar with Linux.

While some of the contraction may be noise I think the steam survey is large enough to be a decent representation.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Many people bounce back to Windows after their first attempt at running Linux.

    this was me from Vista to 10, swore every time i'd do it, endless dual boots with Ubuntu that lasted a couple days.

    3 years ago with 11 looming, I took the plunge and grabbed a new nvme, installed Mint, made sure it booted and I could use FF, then reformatted my Windows drive and installed LMDE and have been using that ever since. The rest of it I just muddled through, mostly still muddling though.

    First Windows was 3.1 at work, MS Dos prior to that both on top of Netware as the default IT guy but used an Amiga 1200 at home (from a C64, to Amiga 1000 to 1200.

    The CLI is bullshit as the default for near everything, it's not 1990 anymore. It should be there but eg the dick around I had installing Signal on my desktop as the Flatpak is some not authorized version , same with my VPN, what a fuck around needing Nord themselves to diagnose it, having the default boot drive fill up with what seems like a zillion kernels and need to delete them on my laptop etc etc

    still have zero chance of going back to Windows but I get the ipad generation steering away from Linux.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    That's like bouncing back to eating a turd sandwich because you've found a pit in your peach dessert.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    If you are a gamer, you don't care, me thinks, sadly so

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

    That was a valid reason 15 years ago, but wine/proton have gotten really really good.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    But still, from my very brief experience, sometimes it requires fiddling or game might just not work or crash here and there. Whereas games on windows just work. More or less. Remember, there are plenty of none tech savvy gamers out there who just want to play games.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Windows just plain doesn't work, more or less.

    Anytime a game goes fullscreen, it would mess up my desktop. Sometimes the screen would just be stuck black or the display resolution wouldn't revert properly with fullscreen. Heck, fullscreen was so broken that I avoided it as much as possible. Borderless windowed was the way to go, where it was available anyway (which is most newer games but more rare as you look at older titles).

    Actually, for fun, one of my friends was trying to install an old game from the era in a Windows 98 emulator to play it again because he couldn't get it to boot on 11. He spent hours and ran into so many issues, eventually giving up because it had no audio, wouldn't boot, etc. For fun, I tried the game's installer on Manjaro (through Wine) and it installed and booted with minimal issues on the first try.

    Where you'll have an easier time on Windows is pretty much exclusively with games that are hardcoded to only work on Windows, whether because of an anticheat or because of some kind of DRM. I don't play any titles like that, and every game I've run on Linux Just Works™. I'd probably just boot into Windows for those titles if I played them, but otherwise, the experience on Linux is just so much better.

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

    Windows isn't as bad as you think / remember it

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

    Windows 11 is unacceptable. Full stop.

    They had years to fix it and just kept making it worse and worse.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I do remember it as worse, when it was Windows 98 and Win 7 - not even taking about the horror that Win 8 resembled

    And coming back to it from time to time, because I need it for a stubborn program (really, Datalogic, get your shit together) or because I need to help family, it has gotten so much worse since that...

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