Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base

RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• ejizar@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Will not happen. Privacy conscious people who have evaded Microsoft don’t use Steam. Being closed source software, they collect huge amounts of data.

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sure it will, there are a ton of people who want to get away from the trash that is Microsoft and play Steam games, myself included.

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    • ejizar@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In your case Nobara is the perfect distro. It comes with steam preinstalled and has a lot of gaming tweaks. I used it as a daily driver a year ago, but it wasn’t something for me.

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      • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No worries here. I’ve been on EndeavourOS for 3 months now. Im just saying there’s enough crossover that I think the steam hardware survey will show the uptick over time.

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      • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Bazzite as well, which uses the Atomic backing, so it is more easily recoverable in case of an oops.

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  question: if i’m using steam in linux under wine, it counts as windows or linux?

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  • RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There’s a native client do I’m not sure why you would do that. I would guess that it would think it is running on Windows but I could be wrong.

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  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wine is a translation layer, not an emulator so you’ll likely appear in the Linux users list.

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