Still happily using Linux.
I did switch the DE to kde plasma because the cosmic desktop was giving games a lot of trouble. Opening in weird window sizes, mostly. I did some light trouble shooting but decided I didn’t care that much about the desktop environment, so I installed the 2nd one.
The Steam data is pretty noisy. We got a big spike two months ago and now the anomaly went away. The import part is to pay attention to the trend, something that is quite the oppose of “falls hard”:
Yeah it’s the toe of a sigmoid curve. We’re entering the early adopter phase roughly.
Funny to read this when I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years
I’ve been using it for about 8 years myself, but I think it actually is this time? It’s got a pretty obvious exponential increase shape, it’s just spread out.
We will be 80 and still looking at the charts going “It is the year of the Linux desktop yet?”
The year of the Linux desktop is already there for me. There is more and on a better foundation than I ever thought would happen when I started using it. Personally, I miss nothing.
Well aware that this isn’t the case for everyone.
Thats a positive trend and we still have the Steam Machine ahead of us. The writing is on the wall.
Which comes at the worst possible time price wise 🥺 damn AI bubble
It still sold out 🙂
What sold out?
Woops, the Steam Deck sold out. I bet the Steam Machine will to.
You had me shitting bricks. I’ll be damned if I don’t get my hands on a Gabe Cube and Gabe Goggles.
And I predict the Steam Frame will sell out as well. Unless they implement some unprecedented preorder system or something.
Sorry, that’s my fault. I haven’t had time to play games recently.
My fault, too. My Linux PC (which I use for 90% of things, including this post) doesn’t have Steam installed on it.
Ngl these numbers keep acting so wild I don’t know what to make of them anymore.
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.
Many people bounce back to Windows after their first attempt at running Linux.
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.
