• Buffalox@lemmy.world
    38·
    4 months ago

    It’s nice to see that Linux is doing well on Steam.
    But with Steam deck being pretty successful, and showing that gaming on Linux is viable now, I kind of hoped for more.
    But as the AMD numbers showed for years after Ryzen came out, the inertia in the market is huge. And change takes time.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
      14·
      4 months ago

      My hope is that there will be an uptick at the end of support for Windows 10.

      I know I will really try to completely ditch windows at this time.

      • NeatoBuilds@mander.xyzEnglish
        8·
        4 months ago

        It’s better to try sooner. Dual booting as you figure things out like software replacement and what distro

        • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
          3·
          4 months ago

          Yes, i already installed a PoP OS in dual boot and tried things out.

          I will test games on it in the next months to prepare for Windows deletion. I just hope a game I really like won’t go out not working decently on Linux or I’m afraid I will lose my momentum/motivation.

          At the very least I intend to only boot windows for those game that really don’t work on Linux.

          • NeatoBuilds@mander.xyzEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Yeah i went down the same path about a year ago and ended up forgetting i even had a dual boot of windows. I ended up just wiping the windows drive and reinstalled popos as a raid0 across both drives for that little extra speed bump for loading.

            I don’t really play multi-player games but I haven’t come across anything not working from steam. The only issue I had was openRGB was detected by the insurgency sand storm anti cheat so I disabled it from launching on boot so my PC leds are just on default most of the time

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        There was clearly an increased popularity of Linux when Windows Vista and Windows 8 came out.
        IDK if Windows 11 is bad enough to make much difference. People were really pissed about Vista and 8 which helped Linux some.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 months ago

            That’s a pretty decent amount of time ago. I switched a bit earlier, when XP was still going strong. In 2005 when Ubuntu Breezy Badger came out. Goddam it was a good distro for the time, and it became my main OS. For years it was like free gifts when a new Ubuntu came out. In the early Ubuntu days, Ubuntu was way ahead of all the rest, and the forum was amazing.