The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: “Gamers use Windows because of its’ user experience not our de facto monopoly.”

Next Image: Duff CEO with Windows-Logo in front of a “Out of Business” sign. Subtitle: “30 minutes after SteamOS is released”

Edit: Yo, I’m not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew’s UX sucks ass.

    • Amon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      you can often get better performance on the same games with the same hardware.

      Because there’s a reason why Linux does not randomly use the disk like Windows does

      • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Back when I was still on an HDD the difference between NTFS and ext4 was night and day.

        I remember having the need to defragment my drive on windows every few months, or Batman Arkham Asylum would actually start to lag and stutter trying to load textures.

        Meanwhile World of Warships, another texture heavy game, would load significantly faster when I tried it on Linux because surprise surpsise, ext4 doesn’t fragment until your disk is nearly full.

        Windows honestly gg ez’d it’s way out of making a newer FS with the advent of SSDs, but there was a period of time where upgrading to Windows 8 would blow up your drive usage to 100% the entire time the PC was on.

        • Amon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          NTFS is imo even worse than exFAT because at least exFAT didn’t eat your disk alive

    • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      62·
      2 years ago

      My whole family largely uses Linux as our daily driver - ages - 40, 38, 18, 9, 7

      The only one not running Linux is my 38 year old wife.

      HOWEVER - my 9 year old got an occulus for Xmas, and suddenly we are dual booting and that’s a real shame.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Shit just works (mostly).

      That’s the “damning with faint praise” that has been the bane of Linux since slackware came on 500 floppies.

      Sometimes that “mostly” is just “oh, you have to do this simple thing that is in a FAQ once and then you’re golden”. Other times it’s “oh, that hardware isn’t supported, so I guess you don’t have a usable video card”.

      I think what many of us are hoping with when it comes to SteamOS is that a few of the remaining really sharp edges get sanded off. And, just maybe, there will be a tipping point where the smoother the experience, the more people use it, and the more people use it, the smoother the experience will be.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        Bro I had to spend 4 hours on forums trying to figure out why Windows won’t reboot into BIOS. It’s linked to the Fast Start option that won’t turn off without rebooting into BIOS.

          • Bassman1805@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            If you’d otherwise just be waiting for SteamOS to drop: Bazzite. It’s the closest thing to Steam OS, but with a better Desktop mode when you want to switch to that.

            • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              Easy doesn’t matter as much for me, since I’ve been using Linux for more than a quarter century, but stable is important. And, something that makes it easy to deal with the video card drivers sounds very nice.

              I assume that if it’s Linux that a system that is optimized for playing games could still be used as a web server, or to develop software. But, seeing as how my gaming machine is mostly used for gaming / web stuff, it would be nice to choose a distro with that as the focus.