Some of y’all are showing your bubble side; outside of our communities here, Linux very much is obscure. That said, there really does seem to be a leak in the mainstream and it’s nice to see it mentioned in a publication. Even if just a little gain, thanks in large part to Steam raising awareness for gamers, US decline in Europe and Canada, and Windows 11 blunders with security.
I’ve gone from people being completely oblivious when I mention Linux, to going “oh, like steam deck?” but there’s still plenty of others who still are oblivious. Then again, mentioning file extensions goes over the heads of 95% of who I talk to, so I wouldn’t have too high hopes.
“Like an Android, but without Google’s control.”
Since Android was built off Linux, just way locked down. Might appeal to a wider range of folk since it isn’t strictly to do with gaming and more people are likely to be familiar with Android than a Steam Deck.
Linux very much is obscure
To paraphrase Bill Hicks about drugs…
See, I think
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highhosted ondrugsLinux.:3 Well, that nearly worked. n_n
(I had intended to add a “they[servers]'re all running linux” meme… but failed to find… instead, this’ll do nicely too…)
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Seriously, all the lutris & co mess is obsolete now.
Open Steam > add non-steam game > properties > compatibility > force proton 10 > profit
Worked for all the cough responsibly ripped .exe’s I’ve thrown at it so far
I still use bottles to have a persistent virtual drive for things like modding tools.
Most things work perfectly in Steam though.
Lutris has allowed me to use battle.net though which I don’t think steam can do, afaik. I’m happy to be proven wrong, though
Thanks, I need to give that a try. Most of my non-Steam games (“Deus Ex”, “Giants: Citizen Kabuto”) run just fine under Wine, using the default settings. The only one that doesn’t work is NOLF 1. (Everything works except music).
I don’t know guys, I miss AI.
Stockholm syndrome?
brave enough
It was good enough for me at least as early as 2003.
It took no bravery to say.
I wonder why it takes Joshua Wolens any bravery to say “linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop”. I’ll skip writing a list of possibilities (~ most which would not be kind to the content of his character).
I’m all-in, baby. I’m committed.
This is the way. :)
PS, it’s the “Free Software” (Free As In Freedom ~ Free to use, study, share, change, as you wish), not the “Linux” that really matters, in the long run.
I’m brave enough to say it
Still anxious that there’s no clear roadmap for linux gaming after gaben passes (Hopefully decades until then).
IFF it becomes the standard before he dies, it might become as sticky as Windows was — but without enshittification.
I am waiting for SteamOS Desktop to be a thing. It is my preference for my PC to be boring in all ways unrelated to entertainment. Yes, I already know about Cachy and Bazzite, but I would like an 800lb gaming company to be supporting my power-casual OS. Stuff like documentation, working Nvidia drivers, minimizing the need for the terminal, and so forth is important for me.
THIS is the year.
Posts 30 year old photo of Linus
Posts 30 year old photo of Linus sourced from Getty Images. They paid for the image to discuss FOSS.
While talking about the PC desktop in a gaming magazine.
I tried. I really tried. I think i sent through 3 different distros. But my gpu doesn’t like any of them also playnite isn’t on linux yet
I switched my gaming pc to Linux and all the games I tried so far worked good.
Switching the household’s PCs to avoid the Windows 11 BS here. All my stuff is good so far, but the kids have a few games that don’t work - Minecraft Bedrock, Fortnite, and Roblox.
time to switch them to java edition, bedrock sucks anyway
Probably for the best, lol. At the very least, Roblox isn’t particularly good for kids.
Also, modded Minecraft through Prism beats bedrock any day of the week. I’m hoping when my kids are of age, they’ll be down for an expert pack. My daughter sure as hell will be, she’s as weird as I am. I’m sure more normal kids have packs they’d enjoy, though.
Use PrismLauncher for Minecraft! :)
Isn’t that just for Java Edition though? Bedrock has a different launcher, with more modes and mtx to “enjoy”
honestly it’s a good excuse to switch them to java edition, bedrock kinda sucks
Mine are playing Minecraft and Roblox under Linux without problems. I don’t remember what I did for Minecraft, but for Roblox you need something called ‘Sober’.
Have you seen the Schlep controversy? Personally, I would be glad if my family PC suddenly couldn’t run Roblox and “sorry kiddo it just doesn’t work anymore”
I’d like to give Battlefield 6 a try, but it’s not important enough for me to dual boot Windows or anything silly like that.
I do dual boot windows and play bf6. Windows has its own 500GB hard drive for things like that and Linux has 4TB for everything else. I do wish I could just run Linux only though. Some day…
I have an empty 1TB ssd in my gaming rig, still not installing Windows.
I am brave enough to say it: The ocean has water in it.
Praise me for my braveness.
Next you’ll say the ocean is a soup.
I get the sentiment but the article is more targeted at the PC gaming crowd that isn’t exactly tech-illiterate but probably only knows Linux from memes about it requiring you to recompile a kernel to install Chrome or some other BS like that
I think a good portion of Lemmy and the fediverse already know it’s been at this level for a long while now but I’m excited to see articles like this since it means the tide is turning against Windows for the average user
i think this bravery is worthy of a marble carving. 12 stories tall, of you pointing at the ocean
Big if true.
Valorant DaddleDew,
Doth proudly proclaim.
Sees that the sea is due
To torrential rain.Dew truly polymath,
Paragon of deep.
Scrolls Lemmy in the bath
And nods right off to sleep.I heard somewhere that by the time the scientific community officially announces life on mars the rest of us will have already concluded that there is life on mars. I feel like this is the same thing.
Because science doesn’t work on circumstantial evidence, but hard proof.
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It’s been good for the average PC user for like 5 years. Pretty much when Google Docs became pretty ubiquitous from elementary school through university. Then also stuff like turbotax becoming something people use through a website rather than a application they buy a disc for from the store. Steam Deck was when Proton maturity reached a point where it became suitable for most gamers. Steam games on Android is the next mainstream frontier to pull users away from Windows. Now the main barrier to me is improving prosumer software/making open source alternatives competitive like how Blender became. Pretty much need people to get away from Adobe and FL Studio/etc
As a 20+ year Linux user, no shit. It’s been great every year.
I have been a user since around 2000, I work in Linux every day, and I get where you’re coming from - but in the context of gaming Linux has really only recently come into its own.
Like, could you imagine, circa 2010, telling a naive user that practically their whole Steam library would work with one click? Wine has always been a minor miracle, but at some point there was an inversion between being surprised when it worked, and being surprised that it didn’t work…
I used to be shocked when a game ran in wine without any manual intervention. Now I’m shocked when it doesn’t!
