Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which is perfect for Linux. If it lives in userspace, it can be made compatible.

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• pool_spray_098@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is wonderful news!

  I’ve been using Linux full time for around 3 or 4 years. I just bought a Legion Go handheld gaming PC, which comes with Windows.

  I knew before I bought it that I was going to load Linux on it instead, but decided to check out the Windows experience a little out of curiosity first. Holy fucking shit, it was a shitshow. A buggy mess and terrible experience .

  And you hang out in the online communities for devices like this and you will see even totally nontechnical users who have no dog in the fight for a Linux bias are still vastly preferring the Linux experience. This is completely unprecedented.

  Anticheat is the only thing Microsoft has ‘‘going for them’’’ if you can even put it that way. Really starts to feel like Windows is toast.

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  • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s interesting, anticheat and the xbox game pass are the only things stopping me from changing my main OS over. Not many other reasons to keep it, really.

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    • Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I gave up game pass, i looked into paying more to be able to stream games from it… but i decided it just was not worth it… at some point the great deal is going to become shitty…

      I don’t regret dropping it and have just used steam…

      I also didn’t play games that had kernel level anti cheat… just never seemed worth it

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      • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can’t say the same, I enjoy some competitive games from time to time and would rather not maintain two OSs just for when I want to play one.

        For now, game pass is a great value. Once they inevitably raise the price and restrict things for pc users, I’ll gladly drop it. I’ll get a lot of value out of it until then though!

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