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[Kacho]

Steam OS is already having a positive impact on Windows gaming so yeah, competition is always good

For sure. It's good to see Microsoft trying™ to improve on handhelds and the full-screen experience, but I suspect they will always lag behind SteamOS there.

Personally I don't see myself buying a Windows handheld or building a Windows Machine for my TV anytime soon. Valve smokes them there.

 

[Crayon]

I heard that Zorin distro had 780,000 downloads from Windows users in the space of a month. I wonder how other distros are doing? Could be it's actually massive and growing.. or turned a corner to a bright future?

The way I look at it, there are a bunch of people who could make the switch fine, but they have no real reason to. The best reason is that you just like it better. But you wouldn't know that unless you were purely just curious and tried.

There are tons and tons of people who could easily switch if they wanted to. They have the use case and they have the computer skills (really you should be above average to try), but without a decent reason to go through the trouble, there's no motivator. Windows 11 is actually providing some motivation to try something else.

 

[Poppinfresh]

The way I look at it, there are a bunch of people who could make the switch fine, but they have no real reason to. The best reason is that you just like it better. But you wouldn't know that unless you were purely just curious and tried.

There are tons and tons of people who could easily switch if they wanted to. They have the use case and they have the computer skills (really you should be above average to try), but without a decent reason to go through the trouble, there's no motivator. Windows 11 is actually providing some motivation to try something else.

That's pretty much what happened ot me.

I tired it, liked it, and I can't see going back to Windows on my gaming PC unless something releases that just won't run on Linux and isn't available for a console.

 

[simpatico]

With the latest round of kernel level anti cheat fuckery, I don't think Microsoft will do what it would take to make me stay on Windows. Basically the Dave's Garage Pro Mode with the ability to opt out of any and all telemetry. Hell I'll even go back to paying big bucks for it. It's been far too intrusive for a while and we're just getting less and less for it. Every UI change in the past 3 iterations worked against power users. I was going to set up dual boot over the winter holiday with Windows just getting a small partition for any extreme incompatibility. But I'm just raw dogging it so I push through.