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Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Priority one is having a working computer. Priority two is evading future spyware.

Priority three is using an OS where seeking support for issues doesn’t produce the reply “Sounds like you fucked something up, idiot, because it works perfectly for me!”

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

I've received that reply too many times and can understand why it turns people away. I got lucky and eventually got someone more willing to actually help and been dual booting since.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I didn't call you an idiot. I just implied you're looking for reasons to avoid change. Which sounds doubly true after this comment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're saying this to someone who took the time to format a drive to install Linux, read up on recommended partition structure, and take the time tweaking desktop settings to my preference, in genuine hope it would become a daily driver so I could stop using Windows. All of that effort still wasn't enough.

The quote wasn't pointed to you, but it was a generalized view of how seeking help turns out. Your above comment, and this one, are showing the same thing: You, and Linux users in general, need only the tiniest justification to belittle someone for not being a 100% Linux devotee/apologist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I sounds like you suffer from internalized proprietary.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago

The quote wasn't pointed to you

It was a response to me. Yeah I don't really understand people who claim to have put a lot of effort into using Linux and then had to switch back after truly giving it a shot. Because that describes my experience with it 15 years ago. The improvements since then are enormous, yet people always seem to expect me to believe that in fact no, it's not just a handful of issues/adjustments. It's actually still unusable. I'm sure writing this makes me a monstrous vitriolic asshole but whatever. It doesn't. We both know windows has a fuckton of issues. Being used to them doesn't erase them.