The changes microsoft is making to windows indicate the writing on the wall. They want to take their OS to the next-level, and will probably succeed seeing as they’re a major corporation developing a major OS. We laugh about recall and copilot now but in 3 years it might be standard on all OSes. Even dev-oriented linux users are saying it’s a good thing to add agentic AI on distros but due to how linux works it will be easily decided by the end user themselves (and to be clear I’m all for agentic AI, it’s just microsoft’s way of doing it that I don’t trust or want).
I don’t know if linux will really become the gamer’s OS of choice. I mean, it’s been standing at sub-5% market shares for decades and through previous scares. But, it’s definitely a workable OS without having to relearn everything. I moved to zorin and everything felt familiar, to the point that shortly after I deleted my windows entirely. But I think there is still work to be done to onboard complete newbies especially in the installation. Install timeshift to keep hourly backups of your system files just in case something goes bonk, and during install don’t connect to the internet to download the updates. You will get the updates with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade anyway after the install, so I don’t even get what this button is there for except mess up the installation process but I digress.
Cause I get that everyone might have a slightly different pet peeve with linux, and mine happens to be in the onboarding. I know other people had trouble creating the partitions, for example, or didn’t know about the app store and install from the internet instead. It’s tough to please everyone especially when the people making these distros are not doing it commercially.
As for gaming it does seem like my games are more stable on linux, i.e. able to sustain the FPS more easily. I don’t even need specifically proton most of the time, wine 8 works fine. That’s kind of the problem with windows, it needs to do everything because it’s such a big OS on the market, and we come back to the original problem: people are not responding well to copilot, recall, broken updates etc because they can tell it’s a major shift to a new kind of OS and they’re not necessarily ready for it. Or rather, they don’t trust microsoft to deliver that new phase (remember windows 8 and how they wanted to remove the desktop?)
The changes microsoft is making to windows indicate the writing on the wall. They want to take their OS to the next-level, and will probably succeed seeing as they’re a major corporation developing a major OS. We laugh about recall and copilot now but in 3 years it might be standard on all OSes. Even dev-oriented linux users are saying it’s a good thing to add agentic AI on distros but due to how linux works it will be easily decided by the end user themselves (and to be clear I’m all for agentic AI, it’s just microsoft’s way of doing it that I don’t trust or want).
I don’t know if linux will really become the gamer’s OS of choice. I mean, it’s been standing at sub-5% market shares for decades and through previous scares. But, it’s definitely a workable OS without having to relearn everything. I moved to zorin and everything felt familiar, to the point that shortly after I deleted my windows entirely. But I think there is still work to be done to onboard complete newbies especially in the installation. Install timeshift to keep hourly backups of your system files just in case something goes bonk, and during install don’t connect to the internet to download the updates. You will get the updates with
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgradeanyway after the install, so I don’t even get what this button is there for except mess up the installation process but I digress.Cause I get that everyone might have a slightly different pet peeve with linux, and mine happens to be in the onboarding. I know other people had trouble creating the partitions, for example, or didn’t know about the app store and install from the internet instead. It’s tough to please everyone especially when the people making these distros are not doing it commercially.
As for gaming it does seem like my games are more stable on linux, i.e. able to sustain the FPS more easily. I don’t even need specifically proton most of the time, wine 8 works fine. That’s kind of the problem with windows, it needs to do everything because it’s such a big OS on the market, and we come back to the original problem: people are not responding well to copilot, recall, broken updates etc because they can tell it’s a major shift to a new kind of OS and they’re not necessarily ready for it. Or rather, they don’t trust microsoft to deliver that new phase (remember windows 8 and how they wanted to remove the desktop?)