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Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11 (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 29 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Still using Windows 10, but after testing out Linux on the side last year I’ve come to the conclusion it’s ready. Other than anti-cheat being in the shitter once Win 10 is officially dropped for good by games I’m moving over to Arch.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    and with steam one can play even non-steam games that are "windows only" by adding non-steam game. Proton works for those too.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    not for the ones with the stupider anti cheats

    i gave up on R 6 long ago. but basically all other games are playable on linux. i become comfortable living by the moral code of 'if the game doesnt play on linux it doesnt exist'

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Windows decided to delete all my documents and files 2 weeks ago. Even though I removed them from one drive, windows put them all back in. So when their one drive failed. I lost everything. Like every icon on my desktop too. Thank god i had just backed up a couple weeks before so I didn't lose much.

    I was so pissed though that I immediately installed Linux Mint. Haven't looked back.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It’s all fun and games until you find that one specific thing you can’t live without that requires Windows lol. Hence why I typically have a low profile Windows 10 LTSC virtual machine set up on my Linux machines.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Linux only needs to hit a "small but not insignificant size market" for the large publishers to start supporting it. They won't support it if they lose money doing so, but if it continues to grow eventually they will lose money by not supporting it.

    Steam machine should provide another bump, just like steam deck.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    And issue is it needs to be a specific platform.

    From a game developer’s perspective (who isn’t a pro linux dev or anything), they can support a platform. They support Windows 10. Or Windows 11. They can support stock Ubuntu. They can support a SteamOS image.

    They cannot specifically support your personalized Arch config.

    Linux’s fragmentation has always been an issue in this regard, as they can’t legally support thousands of different possible system configurations.

    HOWEVER,

    I think supporting Proton + SteamOS would be very reasonable for a dev. That is a specific platform, its codebase and infrastructure can stay unified with the Windows version, and support for that would practically mean support in other Linux distros.

    And SteamOS by itself is getting big.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Agreed. And truly developers don't need to actually "support" Linux; mostly they just need to not intentionally block games from working.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Well, it would be massively, massively better if they did some basic validation and tuning in a Proton environment.

    Thousands of open-source-dev man-hours patching in hacky workarounds for Windows games not ideal; it'd be far easier for the game dev to fix things (or raise issues) from their end. And those Proton devs have better things they could be doing.

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