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.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 hours ago

    Requisite “you don’t need to wait for SteamOS” post.

    Gamed on Linux for over 2 years. The time is now. Shit just works (mostly).

    Edit: and yes, you can often get better performance on the same games with the same hardware.

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      5 hours ago

      Same experience here. People waiting for steamos don’t know most good distros work how they think steamos is gonna. Games with kernel level anti cheat that are worth playing are few and far between. And fuck their communities for not rioting when their fellow members get removed from the game for no reason.

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      10 hours 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.

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      12 hours 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

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        3 hours 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.

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          3 hours ago

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