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Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (64 children)

If all you do is game, outside of a few key games (Destiny 2, uhh,couple others) the experience on Linux is better for many folks.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The success of Steam Deck has helped a lot. Prior to that Linux ports tended to be very perfunctory and they weren't tested or supported very well. I guess that now there are actual Linux gamers (via Steam Deck), that support has improved. That said, I think outside of Steam Deck and SteamOS, your experience of gaming is going to be extremely dependent on your GPU, driver support and a number of other factors. Things are far more likely to work well on Windows than they would for Linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I could drill down into the work that went into DXVK before Proton came about, enabling the Steam Deck, but that's a boring history lesson. I will concede that newer bleeding edge hardware is far more likely to be plug and play on Windows, but one of the leading reasons I transitioned was Windows removing support for the audio chipset on the motherboard for my Ryzen 1600. Every time I rebooted, I'd have to unpack a zip file and reinstall the audio drivers, it was maddening.

    In my experience (so, totally anecdotal), my hardware is stable longer on Linux than Windows.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    For flat games this is true, there is still work to be done for the VR side of things, even that has advanced by leaps and bounds in just the last 2 or 3 years

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Are there really people playing VR stuff regularly? I only know 2 people in my circles that bought equipment for it, and both of them got sick of it after a couple weeks.

    I don't know, what I've tried was fun for about 10 minutes, but that's about all I could take before the headache starts.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I have put over 9k hours of play time since i got my vive in 2018. usually play for about 2h at a stretch 7 times a week. VR has destroyed my ability to play flat games, I just can't put more than a half hour into them these days. Usually load a game, look at the main menu, may start the game then in a few mins, turn it off.

    I play mil sim, zombie shooter, vr mods of flat games I have enjoyed in the past like raft and The Forest.

    When I first started there was a time i couldn't play long but after a month 2h was no issue except for tiredness.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah that's the biggest reason I haven't pulled the trigger on a VR set.

    The pace of hardware for the last few years has been crazy rapid with almost zero thought given to non-windows OS's. The people working on reverse engineering drivers for headsets get one operable just in time for it to be out of date.

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