Same. You don’t realize how slow everything is on Windows until you run another OS on the same hardware. I mean, even unzipping a file is instant on Linux, while you’d be watching an animation of the unzipping speed on Windows. It’s insane the difference.

MuOS is fantastic, which handheld do you have?

Not in absolute terms :)

One of us!

Welcome!

Same! I'm about a month into properly running Mint Cinnamon ans it's been a lovely experience. Glad to be part of the team

I think it will more likely happen if windows kicks games out of kernel space.

Been playing ARC Raiders on Linux the past couple of days.

I read somewhere that Mac started to get more support for previously windows only apps once they hit 5% market share.

It’s been like a decade since I’ve read that, so who knows the source.

Cs2 and tf2 is already on here, idk what you're talking about

according to Google

huh? why would Google know more than Valve about this?

Very nice! Sable was actually the first game I played through on Bazzite myself!

Game's a bit janky (it was janky on Xbox too, when I played it there years ago, with exploration stuttering so badly I vowed to return on PC later), so it was a little stressful in that I wasn't sure if the issues were due to the game's code or something with Proton, etc😆

But overall a wonderful experience, and an impressive indie debut. I stuck with it until I had all masks this time around!

What are you talking about?

It's easy to forget what these "tiny" percents represent but steam has 132 million monthly active users, 3 percent of that means that we now have over 3 million linux players.

Did they add AI to the task manager too?

all I keep wondering is why I didn't try this sooner.

I think your experience is the most common way people first try Linux: most people first try Linux when they have a computer that is no longer valuable to them.

That was what happened to me. I had a Windows laptop that was running too slow for use, and a friend suggested setting up a Linux partition before I bought a new one. I did, and got another two years out of the laptop.

Now I see a lot of libraries and hackerspaces offering folks help doing this.

I understand that things have changed a bit since I first moved over to Linux - moving from Red Hat Linux to Ubuntu 'Warty Warthog' was such a revelation in overall user-friendliness and usability, back in the day. But upgrading my graphics card from an NVidia one to an AMD was a similar change. I might have only just installed the base operating system and a desktop environment and haven't got around to a web browser yet, but I've already got full hardware accelerated graphics - that's crazy.

Most distros now make the NVidia drivers a complete non-issue, I think? My 6600XT is requiring just a few too many compromises on new games, so I'll need something new too, sooner or later. I used to hold off on graphics cards updates until I could get something twice as good so that it was a noticeable upgrade, but I could buy a pretty decent second-hand car for all the ones which are 'twice as good' now.

An upgrade from a 1050 Ti shouldn't be such a problem. Well done on keeping it alive so long - I had a GeForce GTX 970 that would have been a similar age, but it let out its magic smoke years ago.

I’ve had 4 or 5 tough to solve problems with Mint Linux so far, and every time I start to get frustrated, I remember I no longer have to choose between “Yes” and “Remind me later” when I want “No”. After that I’m happy again.

People can get fed up all they want, if there's no alternative (wine/proton) then there's not a whole lot most people can do besides suck it up

its probably because of how awful gnome is and being able to use it as if it was intuitive is like being some kind of 4th dimensional leftie with a wireless robotic hand.

or maybe because kde is much easier to use coming from windows

I'm willing to bet decent money that there is overlap between users that always participate in the steam hardware survey and users who have permanently installed uBlock Origin and don't save cookies.