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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.

 

[TheDreadLord]

As someone who actually uses Linux in my daily work, I just don't see it becoming a viable option for the mainstream PC market. The people hyping this probably never used a Unix-based system in a serious way. Android and iOS offer completely different user experiences, and macOS is the closest thing to being "easy" for regular users… Yet even macOS can get complicated once you step into more advanced uses.

 

[Topher]

As someone who actually uses Linux in my daily work, I just don't see it becoming a viable option for the mainstream PC market. The people hyping this probably never used a Unix-based system in a serious way. Android and iOS offer completely different user experiences, and macOS is the closest thing to being "easy" for regular users… Yet even macOS can get complicated once you step into more advanced uses.

Well.....that's what many have said. For Linux to more acceptable by more it will have to improve its interface. The options out there right now are predominately KDE and Gnome along with a few others, but none of them really wow anyone.

MacOS is great and easy, but tied to their own hardware so doesn't really help in this discussion.

 

[RickMasters]

I just....dont....see it happening.

 

[Kacho]

Fucking MacOS. My wife had a Macbook and it would do everything like Windows but be slightly different. Shit pissed me off!

It's like how we have standardized FPS controls and then some asshole puts aiming on R3. You motherfucker...