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The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: "Gamers use Windows because of its' user experience not our de facto monopoly."

Next Image: Duff CEO with Windows-Logo in front of a "Out of Business" sign. Subtitle: "30 minutes after SteamOS is released"

Edit: Yo, I'm not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew's UX sucks ass.

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[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I probably will be giving Linux a shot this year, at the very least attempt a dual boot.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 6 hours ago

Y'all have no idea how true this is. I just finished building my OC and installed CachyOS (Arch derivative). Got Steam running incredibly easily. I can play both Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2 online multiplayer. The only tweak I needed to do was use a different version of Proton for Helldivers 2 (which would've been the default one, but Cachy has its own Cachy one).

I don't know when the last time y'all have tried to play games on Linux is, but it is genuinely trivial. Even Nvidia drivers are easy now.

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I just installed mint on a little gaming PC connected to my TV. Set it up to boot straight to steam with big screen mode. The only thing that is a small chore was installing xpadneo for my controller and downloading many many gigs of games into it.

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 29 points 16 hours ago

Year of the Linux ~~Desktop~~ Handheld

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 hours ago

I'm glad gaming has come so far but it still fuckin sucks. Waiting hours for shders to compile, all the bandwidth used to download those shaders. Then the game still runs like shit compared to windows.

Don't get me wrong. I still only use Linux and have for like 8 years. But that doesn't mean it's not shite. But I don't really game like I used to. My main issue is applications like Adobe and CAD software. We need that to support Linux

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 5 points 10 hours ago

Have you been playing the dead space remake? FreeCAD just made a big leap BTW (to be fair I was happy enough using it before, but I understand people's complaints)

[-] SamboT@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Hey so im not sure if this applies to you but ive been told to skip the shaders compile and it works just fine. I found that to be true for linux mint with steam. Apparently its not really doing anything? I could be wrong.

If you are talking about the dialog box that comes up before a game loads in steam.

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Ye. Sometimes it works if I skip but some games stutter like crazy without it

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 38 points 18 hours ago

I’ve considered Windows a toy OS for decades because the only use case anyone can legitimately make for needing to use it is to play games.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 10 points 13 hours ago

Among consumers, sure. But they also have put decades of effort into understanding how business buy and pay for software and computers.

[-] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 6 points 12 hours ago

Oddly enough, the rise of software as a service I think has led to Linux being a more viable option for business use. For my work, I'd still be personally missing MS Excel but that's because I hate LibreOffice Calc with a passion. I cannot understand some of their keybindings which are not changeable. But so much of what I use these days is just in web browsers.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, it's true. I don't think that's by accident either. The "evil" in Google's "Don't be evil" motto was at least somewhat inspired by Microsoft. Now, you can argue about how evil Google has become, but even very early on they saw Microsoft as a prime adversary. That meant not tying themselves to Windows in any way, and it also meant building a lot of capabilities into Chrome that made it so that people weren't tied to Windows. That has opened the door to SAAS being a thing that happens in the browser, and not in GUIs written in Visual Basic, or something that is tied to the MS platform, which means you're more and more able to do your normal work on Linux.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

I am able to run Linux in a M365 company, and whether Google or Microsoft had more influence on the current state of things, it IS nice that the whole suite works great right there in Firefox.

Member when instant messaging, email, and cloud file storage didn’t need to be deeply integrated into the OS? I member.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 13 points 16 hours ago

Ah, there's Adobe and maybe some 3D modelling software

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