Definitely feels like it’s snowballing. From barely moving for like a decade after 2012 to really pumping after the Steam Deck came out. Hoping hardware shortages can be resolved well enough for the Steam Machine to hit. It’s the perfect form factor to me for my living room to finally make couch multiplayer comfortable for me and guests
Going to add one more PC in day or 2. The courier company is holding my PSU. GIVE ME MY PSU!!!
You bought a PC? In this economy?
I guess now is as good as time as ever, because they are only going to become more rare and expensive going forward. If you have the money for it of course.
Maybe, maybe not. I wonder if after the AI bubble pops (whenever that happens - crosses fingers) data centers will close and suddenly have to liquidate a bunch of assets. Kinda like what happened after the NFT crash.
The AI bubble bursting will probably cause a shitload of tech companies to go bankrupt and cause divestment in data centres, but it’ll be enterprise hardware mainly I think. Prices likely will fall as a second order effect. And the economy will probably also collapse as bad or worse than 2008. Lots to look forward to.
I got my not-quite-as-techy friend to switch, and they’re like a week in and already so pissed off about how bad windows was.
i gave all my friends pcs , perk of the job they all run mint . my friends parents pc was win10 and borked , asked them what they need pc for , web browser . mint . i dont even ask hahha . no complaints , my one friend thought it was windows.
I have the opposite experience. They want to hate linux so much that they complain about everything they have to do differently. I told them to just use windows please
I do most of my gaming on Linux now.
It’s better than macOS has ever been, and I’m playing less PlayStation than I used to.
There’s a lot of smaller games I’m enjoying, like Esoteric Ebb or Slay the Spire 2
For dummies like me, is the +3.1% of the total or just the subtotal of Linux machines?
To put it less crazy, is that a more than doubling of Linux since last time or lower, but still respectable 3% growth of Linux machines?
One is amazing and a beautiful omen, other is cool.
Yes it’s more than double.
I’ve been running games that advertise they run in linux for a few years, but only within the last 6 months or so started trying out made-for-Windows games, and it’s really incredible just how good the Proton compatibility layer is now. All of the games I’ve tried are at least playable - most run perfectly, a few are a bit slow, and some you have to tweak settings but there’s a big database of how to get different games to work at appdb.winehq.org. Not one of the games in my library don’t run on linux at all, other than a couple with kernel anti-cheats that I don’t play any more anyway.
I was dual-booting but a couple months ago I deleted my Windows partition and now I just run linux full time. If a game only runs on Windows, I just won’t buy it.
oh, proton and how it integrates has been that good for at least 2 years now
When this reaches 10%, that’s a critical mass and things will start ramping up a lot. We’ll see more native ports and compatibility will increase. Software companies care about 10% a lot more than twice as much as 5%
5% is kind of crazy already. We went from "almost 1% to 5% in not even a year
It is definitely going to rise even more these coming months as the Windows 10 ESU program reaches end-of-life in October this year.
“massive”
Linux users on Steam used to be a rounding error. It is relatively massive.