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Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But it's apparently the easiest, since Valve is already working on it. You just need to shift a significant portion of technical users to Linux and the other use-cases will follow.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is gaming even much of a problem anymore on Linux now? All my problems come from NVIDIA or oculus BS, but not from proton or wine. Sounds like there isn't much to perfect anymore :^)

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Absolutely:

  • lots of games don't work
  • anti-cheat games in general still don't work, and that's a massive market
  • some games have terrible perf through Proton

That said, most games work fine on Linux, but the ones that don't are pretty popular.

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most anticheat isn't a technical issue though, it's just companies blocking Linux.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I never said it was. I said it's a problem that limits Linux adoption.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, i forgot about anticheat, i dont play MP sorry. I also can't tell when a bug is from NVIDIA or Proton, seems i conflated the two too much.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

No worries. I also don't play MP, so the vast majority of games just work for me. However, we're talking about broad market adoption, not you or me.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I'd say, having to install ProtonGE to make a game work is still quite a hassle.