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I was naively telling myself "So many people hate 11, I doubt adoption has ticked up, and 10 will end up having extensions for support like 7 did, because no one wanted 8."
Then I saw the latest Steam Hardware survey. 11 is nearly even with 10 on installs. RIP.
Glad I've been cultivating a love for Linux the last several years and that I dual-boot my main box but run Linux alone on all my other boxes.
Because this is pushing me into using Linux alone unless there's a serious need for Windows.
Win 11 is going to push me to Linux for my main PC. My current PC doesn't meet the hardware requirements for Win 11 so I couldn't run it even if I wanted to.
The only question is if I'll need a separate windows machine for gaming.
Yeah, gaming is the main thing holding me back from kicking windows completely to the curb.
I bought a Steamdeck a few weeks ago and one of the reasons was to see how well games play on a linux system. So far everything is working fine so I think I might actually switch to full Linux for my next computer.
It's mostly competitive multiplayer games that struggle to play on linux. Games with anticheat, especially. If you play mostly single player games or casual multiplayer, then linux should work fine for you.
I stream some fps games with anticheat and they just don't work on linux. It's the one thing keeping my dual boot windows partition installed.