Bluewing comments on Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 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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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 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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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 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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[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 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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