• Buffalox@lemmy.world
    69·
    3 days 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
      33·
      3 days 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
        28·
        3 days ago

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

        • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
          11·
          3 days 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
            3·
            2 days 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
        9·
        3 days 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
            5·
            2 days 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.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            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. 😀 😜

          • Grangle1@lemm.ee
            2·
            3 days ago

            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.

    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
      12·
      3 days ago

      It would be unrealistic to expect a faster growth. The userbase already used windows and the global linux userbase is small. People don’t change habits so easily, and most still don’t see a reason to.

      • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        Linux is almost twice as big outside of gaming tho. In the Steam survey it sits at ~2%, whereas Statcounter has it at ~4%, based on browser data. Gaming actually lacks behind mainstream Linux adoption

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        IDK, Steam Deck is kind of a game changer, with SteamOS also getting a lot better. Kinda easy to say it is what it is in hind sight IMO.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I think the thing a LOT of people forget is that the majority of steam users aren’t hardcore do-nothing-but-gaming-on-their-pc types.

      If you do things that aren’t gaming, your linux experience is still going to be mixed and maybe not good enough to justify the switch: wine is good, and most things have alternatives, but not every windows app runs, and not every app alternative is good enough.

      Windows is going to be sticky for a lot longer because of things other than games for a lot of people.

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    22·
    3 days ago

    Last month, I switched from an all-AMD system to a 2+ times better all-AMD system and I couldn’t be happier! (okay, 32GB RAM and a bigger than 59W battery could’ve made me happier but I digress).

    I’ve been on AMD throughout my entire Linux journey and I’ve never had any issues related to that hardware.