After 20+ years with Apple, I'm 90% on Linux at this point.
Two desktops, two AI workstations, two laptops, and a handheld. Even my wife is running Linux.
My personal phone and work laptop are the last holdouts.
Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
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Can I transfer my Overwatch battlenet account to steam? I really want to jump ship too. How is Proton with nVidia drivers? I have a 3080. Those are the last 2 issues keeping my home desktop on windows-land
> Can I transfer my Overwatch battlenet account to steam? I really want to jump ship too. Seems like you can just keep using the Battle.net account on GNU/Linux. You just add the Battle.net installer as a "non-steam game" (bottom left of the games list). Then, you start it, add your account, install the game and it "just works". I used it on the steam deck to play D4 beta and D2R on my CachyOS desktop. > How is Proto…
Thanks for the tips! I will try when I have some time.
Any chance of triggering anticheat on battlenet if I do this? Like does Blizzard has an official stance on it?
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If someone's needs are so basic that the crappy Google docs apps can meet them, then they could've been just as happy with LibreOffice. Google docs is not remotely competitive with MS office.
you'd be surprised how many users are covered by basic needs.
For docs yes, but spreadsheets power users are everywhere in every organization in the world. Sure they are not the majority of employees, but they are often very high up in the management chain and you will only pry them out of MS Excel from their cold dead hands.
I am not a power user of excel in any way and even I can see that google sheets doesn't match it in features and performance.
Re: Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
#55427% of that 3% is the Steam Deck / Lenovo Legion Go S. So most Linux players are in fact not on the Steam Deck.
That is incredible! If you had asked me I would have guessed at least 80% were from Steam OS handhelds.
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> The only thing windows has focused on has been dark patterns to force users towards cloud and figuring out more and more ways to collect data to sell ads. And backwards compatibility. They're really good at it. And I'd say that's the reason Windows is still dominant. There's this unfathomably long tail of niche software that people need or want to run.
Windows has changed the kernel interface more often than Linux. This fact alone throws this commonly held belief to the wind. Glibc provides binary compatibility to newer versions too. Shims exist in both, “windows compatibility layer” for example, but pulseaudio can emulate ALSA- and pipewire can emulate pulseaudio and ALSA. It’s actually a quagmire, but I would contend that either has solid story for backwards comp…
> Windows has changed the kernel interface more often than Linux. This fact alone throws this commonly held belief to the wind.
Every Windows release I compile code straight from a Windows programming book from the 90’s. The only changes I made last time was a few include statements and one define.
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Try Vivaldi. It's a "kitchen sink" browser in the same vein as Opera used to be back in its days of glory, so it comes with an email and calendar client that can be optionally turned off: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-mail-calendar-feed-reader-a... But you can also just use it as an email client and ignore the browser part.
Vivaldi's email client is kinda clunky as well and has no way to show just my "inbox" (mail without any labels) from Google as far as I can tell, just one big unread chunk. And the calendar seems to just be a column on the left of the browser. Either way, MailSpring works fine for email, and I've recently discovered Fantastical for a straightforward calendar program. But it's absurd that I have to do this at all. At…
My "favorite" part about the new Win11 email client is that it pulls your emails to their servers.
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I used XFCE for years and liked it but it was so buggy and unmaintained. I recently switched to KDE and I am very satisfied with it.
Interesting. I haven’t ran into bugs but I also haven’t tried KDE.
I had the panels crashing a lot, and the desktop switcher was always bugged with multiple screens.
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I disagree that Microsoft benefits the end user. Their IoT which took over the Embedded version of Windows is completely bloated in 10 and higher. Version 7 allowed for only installing necessities where their successors force XBox and other built in forced features . Windows 11 IoT is also forcing the creation of a Microsoft account instead of allowing an local account. IoT / Embedded does not mean it is connect and…
Isn’t Windows IoT a pretty niche distribution? Surely it’s less than 1% of Windows users.
Niche distribution has nothing to do with quality of distribution. The user base are passive users versus active users like daily office and game users.
The quality has gone done hill. Windows Embedded / IoT is often used to run your ATMs or some form of industrial automation. Windows actually has a real-time OS (RTOS) mode for just this.
The company I work has planned to replace Windows with Linux for future products and even moving active products to support both Windows and Linux during the transition. Only products that will stay on Windows will be legacy that are near EOL.
Personally, I would never use Windows OS for future products and solutions in these environments. Nor would I use it for network / server based solutions.
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#559I am considering making the switch to Linux for my software + data science (primary) and gaming (secondary) setup. I use a LG OLED TV as screen, so no displayport inputs. Only HDMI 2.1. How is the support for Linux + HDR + HDMI 2.1 + 120 Hz + VRR + Nvidia (5000 series)?
Thats my exact setup and Ive had no issues so far. Running Arc Raiders on PopOS, Nvidia 5070ti highest settings on 120hz monitor with 120-200 fps. Can always dual boot, so its worth a shot. I have windows just for a few games like BF6 which wont work on linux cause of its anticheat
Interesting, I'm running Pop_OS! as well with a 4070 RTX MSI laptop. Can't get Arc Raiders to load, just freezes 15-30 seconds into the launch process no matter what Proton compatibility I choose.
Re: Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
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The problem is still the desktop itself. Basically none of the existing Linux desktop components are mature, either design or technical wise and more often than not, both. Deck works because most games are self contained, allowing them to have a default game mode that bypasses the desktop entirely.
> Basically none of the existing Linux desktop components are mature, either design or technical wise and more often than not, both. What do you have in mind specifically? GNOME 3 is very mature, and has a consistent, polished design that far surpasses Windows 11. In fact, in view of recent macOS redesigns, I am tempted to say that it surpassed it too.
I mean, yeah, sort of. But a lot of the design is still really bad. I am saying a lot, because I found one I like, Zorin. It is a properly pretty Linux distro. They are the first Linux distro that I feel actually have understood the value of spacing between icons and other places. Every single other Linux distro I have tried feels cluttered and messy. It is so simple, just a little more room for things, balance margins and padding just a little bit better. Gah.
(And yes, I feel liquid glass on mac is a huge setback in terms of UI beauty)