Early data suggests users drifting back to Windows 10
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From Patch Tuesday disasters to the "Microslop" PR nightmare, Windows 11 is losing trust. It's also losing one more thing: market share.
  • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    22 hours ago

    Same for my partner’s old gaming PC: she used Windows 10 until recently, and Bluetooth as well as the steam overlay didn’t work properly.

    Now on Bazzite they do.

      • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        For most things, I’d agree.

        Yet, I found it tricky to get Optifine working on Minecraft (Vanilla, i.e. no Forge and such) since there seems to be no way to install JRE on the system. Had to work with a distrobox container, install JRE there and run the .jar file through it. I’ve managed, but beginners won’t find this very “plug and play”.

        So YMMV.

      • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        Honestly, I don’t know which distro is not plug and play with steam nowadays. I’ve tried Garuda, Manjaro and Linux Mint so far, no notable issue.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        I’ve heard lovely things about Bazzite with Steam.

        However I have only run Steam on Ubuntu and Linux Mint, where it ran flawlessly.

        I think the Linux Mint workflow of “click on software center”, “search for steam”, “click install” - is hard to beat.

        • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          14 hours ago

          Well, Bazzite has it pre-installed, but that’s the experience for other stuff lol.

          I don’t recommend mint for newbies because it comes with X11 even still.

            • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              7 hours ago

              Bazzite has closed source software preinstalled? Yikes

              I get the sentiment. That said, if you want to do “gaming”, there’s no way around proprietary software for the time being, since both titles and some drivers are and will continue to be proprietary.

              Regardless, running some FOSS is already better than none. So if Bazzite helps wean people off proprietary Windows, why not?

            • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              14 hours ago

              Probably more like it automatically installs is when you install the system but yeah.

              This isn’t Debian. It has a live image that comes with Nvidia drivers so you can have these from the start too.