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Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I switched recently to Nobara after having a great experience with my steam deck. However, I'll probably add windows as a dual boot option since CS2 doesn't run properly (like 16fps..).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I just got a steam deck, and needed to install FF14 (non steam) so I was mucking around in desktop mode… yeah. I’ll prob be getting a spare drive for my tower now to try out Linux. I’d love nothing more then to cut ties to windows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I tried to get nobara to run a few times but sth was always broken. I'm now on Bazzite after testing Linux Mint a few months. Bazzite seems to be the more polished fedora based gaming distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How was it broken?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I had a lot of crashes as soon as I installed it. Must have been some driver/hardware issues probably. I'm not knowledgeable enough (and frankly had no energy to troubleshoot) I just installed mint which ran without (much) trouble. I was interested in a more up to date system and KDE plasma as well as pipewire already integrated and looked at bazzite (after another unsuccessful try at nobara) - have been t running it for a few weeks now and I'm perfectly happy with it. CS 2 also runs without problems - but I mainly cast matches instead of playing myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Using Bazzite, myself. I have a weird issue with rebooting, though. Tends to freeze at the boot screen (grub doesn't show up at all) then the whole boot/login process becomes a slideshow. This doesn't happen if I manually turn my PC off and turn it on, though. Really odd problem that I haven't had on other distros.

I like Bazzite as a whole, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That sounds awful. Have you tried disabling energy saving options (like automatic screenlock/sleep)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Automatic screen lock and auto-sleep get disabled everytime I install a KDE DE. I could take a closer look at energy savings, but I don't think there's much else I can do there. I know it's not hardware-related, as this doesn't happen with any other distro. May be an issue with KDE 6, for all I know. Gonna have to look into it more when I get home from work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'll have a look into that. For work I use Mint and really like it, however wanted to have a gaming distro that already delivers everything that I need and since I already used ProtonGE it was a natural choice for me. But i already had some issues with it probably due to NVidia drivers. Seems to be better now with the latest kernel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I think I get slightly better performance on Bazzite than on mint. Mint e.g. still has the 535 Nvidia drivers as recommended (we're at 550 now). On Bazzite you'll probably have to enable x11 until the new update with explicit sync drops mid May. (At least I had a ton of flickering on Wayland with my rtx 3060)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

CS2 linux version has some issues. Sometimes forcing steam to install the windows version and to run it via proton makes things better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I dont have CS2 because, well, the obvious reasons. But I do have the original Skylines, and its linux version is also a festering pile of rancid dogshit.

Running the windows version via proton made it run smooth, stable (well, as stable as can be expected with a few hundred mods..lol), and without headache.

so yeah, install windows version and use proton. Overall better experience probably.

Honestly, i think thats my advice about gaming on linux in general, to generally avoid the native version. Personally, I've only run into two games that the native version wasnt shit, and that was Stardew Valley and Rimworld.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

CS2 is Counter Strike 2. Cities: Skylines 2 is C:S2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely try that.