Comment on Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61%
asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 5 months agoLast time I installed linux on a new machine (a month or so ago) installation was pretty fast, and it came with steam out of the box
Also you basically have to flip a single setting to make every game go through proton, a setting you don’t have to switch in windows sure, but again, steam was installed automatically for me
Mesophar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’s sad because even my friends that are knowledgeable in using Linux, or even a few friends that daily driver Linux, aren’t committed to gaming on Linux and keep a Windows box around for gaming…
I made the switch to fully Linux when I built my new PC, recently, and I haven’t had any more issues than I had encountered on Windows in years past. Maybe a little more configuration, but I very rarely stuck to default configuration with Windows, either.
Linux gaming has come so far in the last several years that it barely even feels different from Windows
asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
For me having a ton of issues with windows crashing right when the Steam Deck was announced basically gave me no other reasonable option than to go all in on Linux, it was a bumpy road at first (I had tried it a little, but didn’t really understand the system, and was a bit overconfident with some settings) but I was able to play basically everything I wanted to play without to much issue, and it’s only gotten easier sense
About a month ago I installed windows on an extra drive, becouse there are exactly 2 things that I can’t consistently get working to an acceptable level: VR, and a mod manager. Both have ways to get them to work, but with kind of glaring problems
And I gotta say, I did NOT miss windows, I can’t wait until mod managers are a solved problem on linux so I can just overwrite that drive and be done with it (VR too but that’s less of a concern lately)