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Linux Falls Hard on Steam After Record 5% Milestone
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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Many people bounce back to Windows after their first attempt at running Linux.
Typically after experiencing a technical issue and either failing to find a resolution, or finding a resolution written in a way that assumes the reader is already familiar with Linux.
While some of the contraction may be noise I think the steam survey is large enough to be a decent representation.
this was me from Vista to 10, swore every time i'd do it, endless dual boots with Ubuntu that lasted a couple days.
3 years ago with 11 looming, I took the plunge and grabbed a new nvme, installed Mint, made sure it booted and I could use FF, then reformatted my Windows drive and installed LMDE and have been using that ever since. The rest of it I just muddled through, mostly still muddling though.
First Windows was 3.1 at work, MS Dos prior to that both on top of Netware as the default IT guy but used an Amiga 1200 at home (from a C64, to Amiga 1000 to 1200.
The CLI is bullshit as the default for near everything, it's not 1990 anymore. It should be there but eg the dick around I had installing Signal on my desktop as the Flatpak is some not authorized version , same with my VPN, what a fuck around needing Nord themselves to diagnose it, having the default boot drive fill up with what seems like a zillion kernels and need to delete them on my laptop etc etc
still have zero chance of going back to Windows but I get the ipad generation steering away from Linux.
That's like bouncing back to eating a turd sandwich because you've found a pit in your peach dessert.
Windows isn't as bad as you think / remember it
Windows 11 is unacceptable. Full stop.
They had years to fix it and just kept making it worse and worse.
It is actually unusable. Like seriously unusable. I'm not even exaggerating.
for most people Windows is just a Chrome launcher. so it is "usable" ig
I do remember it as worse, when it was Windows 98 and Win 7 - not even taking about the horror that Win 8 resembled
And coming back to it from time to time, because I need it for a stubborn program (really, Datalogic, get your shit together) or because I need to help family, it has gotten so much worse since that...
If you are a gamer, you don't care, me thinks, sadly so
That was a valid reason 15 years ago, but wine/proton have gotten really really good.
20+ years ago I needed to know how to burn a CD before making the switch. I think WinXP was the last, I have use on a private PC.
All my windows use today is work related; no games there.