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They literally care about market share and money watch the magical adoption of server stuff anti chest if Linux takes off

Same experience here. People waiting for steamos don't know most good distros work how they think steamos is gonna. Games with kernel level anti cheat that are worth playing are few and far between. And fuck their communities for not rioting when their fellow members get removed from the game for no reason.

you can often get better performance on the same games with the same hardware.

Because there's a reason why Linux does not randomly use the disk like Windows does

My whole family largely uses Linux as our daily driver - ages - 40, 38, 18, 9, 7

The only one not running Linux is my 38 year old wife.

HOWEVER - my 9 year old got an occulus for Xmas, and suddenly we are dual booting and that's a real shame.

This is the main problem right now.

People want to return to a lighter simple Windows OS, but Microsoft is making that increasingly hard to access. The LTSC version of Windows 10 is close(No AI, No Ads, and minimal telemetry that can be disabled), but they dont sell it to the public unless you buy 5 copies, and ~~there is no LTSC version of Windows 11 yet.~~ looks like they finally released it a couple months back, but people are unhappy with it.

Linux offers an alternative, but compatibility is still a huge issue despite the impressive gains Wine and Proton have made in the last few years.

The reality is that if you have a Windows PC you can basically guarantee that you can install anything you might want(barring hardware limitations). You can often make that software work on Linux too, but there is always some tinkering involved and the general public doesn't want to deal with that, nor do they want to change to a FOSS alternative.

Maybe some people only use their computers to play games? I don't know. I've been wondering as well. Pretty much any modern distribution works fine.

A large amount of non-gaming work that people do on PCs these days is inside a web browser. A chromebook would do fine. In fact, a lot of IT departments prefer it because it's a locked down environment by default.

I can't even remember the last time I had to fuck around with a Steam game, all the ones I want to play just work

Steam on Linux already does exactly that. You hit play and that's it, exactly like on Windows. The rest is done for you automatically.

Tinkering might be required with a few non-Steam games and programs, but for the most part, they just work as well.

It's actually gotten a lot better over the last few years; Valve has been putting in a lot of work into making gaming "just work" through Steam. It's still a bit jank, but honestly all OSes are a bit jank.

If anyone in this thread is interested, I'd recommend giving Linux Mint a go. There's nothing really to lose.

Anyway, I'm done shilling Linux so I'll let you get back to your Simpsoning. :P

The first time you try Linux will have an initial learning curve. Just like the first time you tried Windows. But once you have everything set up the way you like and get used to it, you really won't find yourself having to troubleshoot very often. You certainly don't have to "dick around with every game install" either.

Copying my own comment from yesterday:

There was a comment thread in one of the Linux communities the other day talking about this mindset. Obviously the comments got a bit rude and unconstructive, but the point is that you can switch to something like bazzite now and most things will work pretty well, but if you're holding out until it's perfect then you'll be waiting forever!