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Steam On Linux Ends 2024 With A Nice Boost To Its Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use At 74%
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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.
It's better to try sooner. Dual booting as you figure things out like software replacement and what distro
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.
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
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.
Vista was what pushed me to Linux originally, and I still haven’t gone back!
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.
I really miss Ubuntu from around that era, was by far the easiest thing to get up and running!
Win11 has arbitrary hardware reqs
Good Linux marketing IMHO
Yeah well, you can say anything and I wouldn't know. I haven't used Windows for 15 years, and Linux became my main OS in 2015.
I just ordered a new CPU and SSD, and I'm quite looking forward to making a new install, because my current system is running on a 6 year old installation. Although it's a rolling release distro, I can see there are desktop improvements I haven't got. Also I'll be going back to KDE, since they've fixed the hotkeys on numeric keypad issue. I'm almost giddy about it. 😀 😜
Even given that, I'd still think there would be an uptick in Linux market share, but only a small one. Certainly no "year of the Linux desktop" levels.
Do it