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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] 4 points 3 months ago

With ~~end of life~~ the year of the Linux desktop fast approaching.

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

Eh I just installed 10 in a VM to do my taxes

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

Well I don't know... it will end in October. Time surely doesn't fly that fast...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

MS can pry Windows 10 out of my cold, dead hands. I'll switch to Linux before Win11 and I don't particularly want to do that either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Make the switch, even if it's on an old laptop first just to try it out. About 90% of my Steam library runs without any extra effort needed, a few games needed tweaks that I found in the steam message boards, and 5 or 10 just refused to work at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Unfortunately all the games I play require anti cheat and they all have dont support linux because of that

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

At this point I am not even sure Microsoft thinks it is better to run important windows software natively on windows rather than in a much more stable, reliable virtual environment inside of Linux or WINE.

Both are going to crash occasionally (we are talking about windows software after all) but when the part running Windows software in Linux crashes it isn't anywhere as likely to sink the whole boat and crash the rest of the operating system and potentially lose a bunch of stuff.

I think clearly what Microsoft is gunning for longterm is to eat their operating system with a bunch of cloud crap that doesn't even really run locally for the most part.

Which is why we need to burn this to the ground so there are consequences for Microsoft for betraying users this thoroughly and completely.

Do you part, give friendly helpful linux advice to newbies, share resources and have some fun with it!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was able to upgrade to Windows 11 on my dinosaur desktop (at least 10 years old) without any issues. Been able to keep it updated, too, for at least the last 2 years.

There are ways to bypass certain hardware restrictions, and I'm sure plenty of how-tos are still available.

No need to sweat it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Some people just don’t want to switch. I find windows 10 is still better than windows 11. I only updated on my gaming PC because it automatic updated.

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