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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I'm not going to Windows 11 or Linux. I found a copy of Windows 10 LTSC with support til 2027+.

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[–] nullroot 2 points 3 days ago

I just use Windows 10 v1809 ltsc, I'm good for a few more years.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I've been meaning to get a Linux VM spun up for testing games. I gather that I'll have some issues (i.e. blockers) with multi-player games and cheat-prevention, but I'd just as soon play single player games anyway.

I've been a Linux/Unix admin for 25+ years so I've no excuse other than convenience. But I'm done.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I'm sure you know this already, but for anyone who doesn't: If you want to know if a specific game will work under Linux, Proton DB is your friend!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This may precipitate a massive shift to Linux, especially for gamers.

I run it on the servers I administrate and recommend it to everyone, but I can’t switch until the get Adobe support. I NEED to use Adobe apps for work. At least macOS is UNIX and far better than Winblows.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

If they want to buy me a new laptop, go for it.

[–] kitnaht 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

I moved my wife's computer to Windows 11 because it was using a 12th gen Intel, and from what I had understood, the scheduler was better for the P-core/E-core nonsense.

Over the last year I've seen numerous popups, copilot being injected everywhere, nonstop bullshit. And plenty of benchmarks showing that Windows 11 is actually slower than Windows 10 on my particular hardware. I'd just really rather move to something with healthy support for Proton/SteamOS ecosystem and be done with MS forever.

I mean, I already use Linux elsewhere in life. I've got Proxmox set up with a bunch of VMs, so Linux isn't a stranger to me - but I use a *cough* version of Solidworks and there's just simply nothing that comes even close to its capabilities. Additionally, one of the games I play has a hard enough time not crashing on the system it was designed for - trying to figure out if it's the game, or the system I'm playing on when it's crashing would drive me absolutely bonkers.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Windows 10 is still supported currently. When that changes I will update to windows 11, until then I have no reason to do so.

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