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Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's good to see people making a switch to Linux. But the real tell will be in finding out how many of those people actually stick long term.

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

    Dual booting will likely be a part of it, and microsoft will do whatever they need to make sure the bootloader is broken constantly.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    And that's exactly why my Windows install is locked away in VM hell. Fucked with my bootloader twice and I said never again.

    I even set up a custom boot option that autoloads the Windows VM and passes through all USB and auxiliary storage devices in a lightweight Linux environment, so other than the brief Linux boot log, it feels exactly like a native install, 10/10 recommend

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That possible for sure. But I don't see dual booting being as common as it once was. Owning an old spare computer is pretty common these days. Heck, you can even get a dirt cheap mini desktop off of amazon and a referb/used/spare monitor and have a completely fine old time messing around with different distros without a care in the world. And that's a far easier entry into Linux than dual booting anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Dual booting has always been a pain in the ass. Unless you're a multiplayer gamer that needs kernel level Anti-Cheat it's easier to just swap over and suffer the transition.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's a valid way too. It's just that a lot of people aren't really ready to dive in with both feet from the start. No matter how easy Linux has become or we might think its is. Change is scary and hard. And I think that's a problem that holds back many people yet today.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Its more about having the option. I'd be more comfortable going to linux if I knew that there would be a way to continue using something in a pinch, even if I just need to figure out how to fix it later.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Funny enough my reason for dual booting has nothing to do with anti-cheat I think, rather it's because a couple of my more graphically intensive games will randomly cause my entire system to completely freeze while I'm on linux and they don't on windows. (I also have a couple games that I would need to fiddle with wine to get them to work, but the primary motivation is the system freeze)

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