>Constant news stories about Linux thrashing Windows in gaming
>Millions of perfectly modern computers can't install Windows 11 because they lack the new NSA backdoor
>Windows 10 was supposed to be the last Windows, so no one wants to install Windows 11
>Normies are all talking about Linux now
How did YOTLD suddenly happen?

I do a bit of Linux gaming myself
Steam really made it great
I used to use steam installed thru wine and some games worked but it was buggy and not that great
Now Linux steam with proton is damn near perfect and I don't even have to worry about compatibility, shit just works and plays better than it would on windows.

when win12 comes out itll all be over. they've forgotten how to make a good OS. they'll double down on the "everything is a react app" shittery while letting quality continue to decay

>>105857818
microsoft will redeem itself with win12.

>>105857765 (OP)
Yeah, never heard anyone talking about Linux, while Win 11 can be prepared for installation using Rufus, which allows you to disable TPM 2.0 requirement and allows you to use a local account, etc. I won't waste time on those claims regarding gaming, as it's obvious a game will run better in the native environment, not on a Windows compatibility shell.

>>105857832
DO NOT REDEEM

I just installed Ubuntu onto one of my computers yesterday for the first time. As a lifetime Microsoft fanboy and C# dev even this is where I'm at:

>Win11 is sluggish and gay to look at, randomly freezes for no reason, and crashes more routinely now
>bloatware and ads everywhere
>Microsoft is becoming a mega-jeeted company, basically Indian at this point. This hurts cause Microsoft was THE American tech company and I no longer feel like I recognize it. Bad decisions are being made everywhere in the ecosystem.

No joke, in the ~40 minutes or so I spent installing Linux yesterday on my other computer, Windows 11 on my work computer managed to first crash (forcing a restart) and then freeze on the login screen.

>>105857837
>it's obvious a game will run better in the native environment, not on a Windows compatibility shell.
Windows itself has so much overhead that this just isn't true. We're talking about an operating system where the GUI is running off JavaScript kek

I've been trying to switch to Linux so I installed Mint and have been trying to play my games through Steam but most of them aren't working. I've enabled Proton. I mostly play old boomer shooters and RTS games though, and my hardware is 15 years old.

>>105857839
You're quite obviously a jeet with a very old hardware. Typical mindless updooter who does so without regard for the hardware. Shitty machines at "job" too, it seems. Might be improperly installed.

>>105857871
Are your games lagging or outright not launching?

>>105857876

Literally brand new machines. 3 of them. Make all the excuses you want it's fucking pathetic. I'm literally browsing on the internet and my shit is freezing every 10 minutes. Take your currynigging ass somewhere else.

>>105857839

also to add I already had a bad taste in my mouth as the laptop I bought in 2017, with great specs, was effectively bricked by 2022 due to all of the forced bloat I couldn't disable in task manager or anywhere else. An OS should be as lightweight and performant as possible and they are violating essential principles like that.

>>105857871
just because mint is user friendly and like windows doesn't mean everything runs perfectly, you should look up a guide on how to set up your machine for gaming on linux first and do the configuration needed to do that. Simply booting up linux and pressing play is not gonna cut it around this parts. New OS means new rules

>>105858014

Just because it markets itself as the "user friendly" distro doesn't mean it is. The most user friendly distro is the one that's most widely used, documented, and supported, with the most compatibilities and streamlined processes. That's Ubuntu. In order for something to be user friendly it needs to be robust as well as intuitive and simple, not just simple.

>>105857839
been forced to use win11 at work (software that only runs on windows cuz license) after being on linux for the past 4 years. Just the amount of random bullshit is staggering
> windows explorer not responding
> MS paint now MS pain
> get some xbox notifications
> like 5 layers of different settings and control panels accumulated like sedimentary layers
> just trying to find the most basic customization is a journey
> AI in notepad...
> RAM vanishes into the ether
> but hey we got tabs in windows explorer

how can people stand this crap?

>>105859407

Some slight but critically notable "canary in the coalmine" moments I've had

>the right click menu, once instantaneous, now slowly loads and buffers options after it appears
>they are Frankenstein mixing and matching old/new UI styles within certain components like folders/files rather than keeping a uniform standard, it's crufted together
>Task manager is getting more gimped

>>105859407
It is bizarre, they have shipped Windows with fucked up multi generation UX panels where you go from native to 7 to Vista panels just to reach the old shit that actually worked. Very bizarre, it feels more amateur and "just ship it with the bugs" tier stuff that you'd expect from a hobbyist without time to fix, but they have thousands on payroll for this stuff so what the fuck are they even doing?

>>105857765 (OP)
Like most things you believe, it isn't real. It's the OS version of "I'm moving to Canada!"
Windows 10 is going out of support, and the poors and baby ducks are being left behind. Same thing happened with 10, same thing happened with 8, same thing happened with Vista, same thing happened with XP: freetards deluded themselves into thinking their IoT lightbulb OS would finally have its time in the sun.
Suffice it to say, it didn't happen. Nor will it happen here: when 11 is 97% of the market in a year or so, this latest YOTLD mirage will fade away too, like it has every time before.

>>105859466

I straight up have no reason to use Windows anymore. Not even for business. 99% of businesses use Linux cloud servers for hosting. That means anytime I'm doing server maintenance I have to know my Linux and I was forced to gravitate that way.

Ok, so then I ask myself, why am I using Windows locally?

>performance
no
>ease of use
no
>reliability
no
>games?

pretty much it. And now that Steam is on Linux, that's why I'm giving it a shot as my daily driver OS. I also brought over my dev environment tools and it's working far more seamlessly than Windows based development.

So, quite literally, the last thing Windows has for me is games, and that gap is narrowing quickly. All forms of business, utility, are better realized on Linux at this point, and this is a HUGE event horizon because business is what made Windows originally.

>>105859498
>99% of businesses use Linux cloud servers for hosting.
source on this number?
oh wait, you don't have one, because you made it up
Windows is still used on over 10% of web servers

>>105859556
>>105859498
and to add to that, higher traffic sites use Windows Server.
No one gives a shit about your small little startups website hosted on a toaster, bitch.

>>105859498
>b-buh muh webserver!
Opinion discarded.

>>105857818
Jeets are the downfall of everything

>>105859556

Ohhh right anon, great point. Windows is at a whopping 11% (and dropping) while Linux is up to 58% (and climbing), and you think you just rebutted the essence of what I just said. Brother how thick in the fucking head are you?

This isn't even getting into the fact that containerization itself renders Windows obsolete.

>>105859590
>99% of businesses use Linux cloud servers for hosting.
> you think you just rebutted the essence of what I just said
yes, I did just completely refute your made up numbers.
Die, Pajeet.

>>105857876
cosooming retard
the reason win11 performs like shit is the bloatware

>>105859556

I'm looking even closer at your chart. This is just for one year. Windows lost -30% of its server market share... in one year. Lmfao.

If you know anything about cloud hosting right now you know how stupid you sound. The only people left on Windows aren't there because they want to be, they're legacy artifacts. Every single organization is moving towards Linux because it's leaner, more performant, and cheaper.

>>105859498
What the hell does Troonix cloud servers have to do with manchildren playing games, office drones running Excel, or your grandma making a few extra bucks streaming her saggy tits on OldieFans?
Protip: fucking nothing.

>>105859604

>a Microshitter calling me a jeet

You are literally an Indian company at this point. Go eat cow shit

>>105859634
Meanwhile, in reality...

>>105859634
gms do not redeem windows basterd

>>105859629

Because everything follows the money, and the money's R&D. The consumer usage of Windows doesn't sustain its business. Linux is winning the cloud hosting game by a monstrous (and gaining) degree, and cloud hosting is taking over everything imaginable. This means corporations will inevitably invest more into mastery and usage of Linux so that their engineers and users can interact more effectively.

The thing that your average retard consumer wants to do, can be done anywhere. You prove the concept. If Linux can manage gay little games, a paint app, a document and spreadsheet app, it can handle 99% of consumer needs. If it's cheaper and more functional than Windows, while handling those use cases, it will win.

>>105859652
>>105859648

Indians don't do FOSS development, retard. They're scammers and profiteers. Linux is inherently white-coded thanks to the lack of profit motive. The jeets are all up in Redmond and Hyderabad coming up with the next form of scummery for Windows.

>>105859648
>no australia
Bait map discarded.

>>105859674
>Linux is inherently white-coded

>>105859648
FREESHITTERS BTFO

>>105857765 (OP)
>Troonland/X11
>Krashes/Gnome/TrooningVM
Even if some games are faster on linux which I highly doubt is true if you use a Nvidia gpu and not aymdtrash, if you're not a steamcuck you need to fiddle with trash like bottles/lutris, every desktop environment is a half broken mess and you don't even have the equivalent of popular software like authotkey. desktop linux is still troonware. Wake me up when wayland can do proper text scaling without turning everything into a blurry mess, on win11 it just works.

>>105859712
>KDE crashing
Haha! Hey, it's not 2013 anymore.

>>105859648
>inb4 all server farms for western companies

>>105857891
Refusing to launch, occasionally with errors.
>>105858014
>set up your machine for gaming on linux first and do the configuration needed to do that
Like what? I installed the proprietary nvidia drivers and enabled proton

>>105860378
>enabled proton
You could try experimenting with a different proton version by right clicking the game in your library and changing the compatibility stuff. Also, I got some pretty old hardware myself: my laptop is total shit that even with Windows could barely handle RPG Maker slop. After I installed Linux, I also thought my games weren't booting whatsoever, but it just takes a minute or so for Proton to start up (at least on my shit laptop), so don't hit the stop button on Steam. But once I got in-game, it was night and day: the RPG Maker slop could actually fucking run now.

>>105857832
i'll see you in 2027, which is my estimated release date

>>105859556
>>105859559
>random pictures are a source
>no real data displayed on the second pic
yeah, cool "proof", faggot

>>105859695

>IBM

also

>Microsoft

Literally stacked top to bottom with a jeet CEO and associates, the fuck are you on?

>>105857765 (OP)
If you really want to kill windows you need offices to switch rather than gamers.
Don’t get me wrong, having gamers on board is a good first step and better than not having support.
But businesses are where 1. People actually pay $$$ for windows keys, office 365, etc. 2. They actually pay $$$$$$$ for azure cloud shit which is where the majority of M$ money comes from.

Linux needs at least a solid Excel competitor and some plan to deal with autodesk and adobe elephants in the room.

bump55 i lost count

>>105861317
source is in the image you stupid fucking pajeet.
>>105861317
So you're denouncing the number 1 company in the linux space because it doesn't match your narrative? LMAO ok ramesh

>>105862728
first comment meant for: >>105861306

>>105857871
>and my hardware is 15 years old.
If your GPU doesn't support Vulkan most non-native games will not work
You might be able to force WineD3D but it's slow and shit

>>105857765 (OP)
>Millions of perfectly modern computers can't install Windows 11
Not true. There are a few different ways to bypass hardware requirements, along with all faggotry that microjeet puts on its users, like with rufus for example. Sure, despite the fact that nowadays you have a good-looking GUI app, its still going to filter out a lot of normies, or push them into becoming linux pedotroons, but thats another story.
>the new NSA backdoor
Even though it has potential to do some wrongdoing, TPM is not a backdoor itself. Meds and BWC, now!
>Normies are all talking about Linux now
Never heard a normie mention linux near me in real life.
>How did YOTLD suddenly happen?
It didn't, since Windows was, is, and will most likely always be better option than your hobby OS.

>>105859460
I'm positive the teams and managers get paid to invent, not actually improve what works. Otherwise they'd be out of a job and shit like start or control panel wouldn't be an unorganized cluster fuck.

>>105859498
Windows still has the it just works edge and ability to move shit easier. Linux is getting better and but until someone steps up the ease category regarding short cuts and GUI, its not overtaking Win far as normies are concerned.