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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I was naively telling myself "So many people hate 11, I doubt adoption has ticked up, and 10 will end up having extensions for support like 7 did, because no one wanted 8."

Then I saw the latest Steam Hardware survey. 11 is nearly even with 10 on installs. RIP.

Glad I've been cultivating a love for Linux the last several years and that I dual-boot my main box but run Linux alone on all my other boxes.

Because this is pushing me into using Linux alone unless there's a serious need for Windows.

[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Win 11 is going to push me to Linux for my main PC. My current PC doesn't meet the hardware requirements for Win 11 so I couldn't run it even if I wanted to.

The only question is if I'll need a separate windows machine for gaming.

[–] filgas08@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

it depends on what games you play. Some online games will not work because of the anticheat, others will require some tweaking and some will not boot at all. This is not very common but it can happen. even more rare is the developer release a new update for a native game and that update contains some windows exclusive dependencies and the game doesn't start. But most of the times proton works perfectly, even with non-steam games.

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