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Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Free Windows 10 support ended for most people this past month, and the trend line of Linux usage has been quite clear leading up to this, as people prepared for the inevitable. An increase in Linux usage is also correlated to a drop in Chinese players, which did happen this month a little bit, but Linux usage is also trending up when filtering for English only. It's worth noting that for all the official support Macs ever saw in gaming, they never represented anything better than about 5% of the market.

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[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bazzite is just a shit option vs using cachy. It's the same goal and work load target. And bazzite manages to just be worse in every respect.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Having played with it for a little while now that I've got it installed...I think it's alright for a mostly or entirely gaming machine. I wouldn't want to use it, or any immutable distro, as my main computer.

I've attempted to stay out of the trendy distro of the month club, remember Garuda? Remember Peppermint? Remember Endeavour?

[–] poolhelmetinstrument@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I switched to Bazzite as my daily driver and won't be switching distros or going back to Windows.

I ran into an issue during install with my main drive previously having BitLocker. Had to clear the drive with a live USB installer. Had another issue with secondary LUKS drive auto-mounting, but was able to address it through the GUI.

Other than that it has been a magical experience. I do full-time work/school on the system.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yup, I had this exact experience. Installed Bazzite because it was a “gaming OS”. Had trouble just installing any non-gaming apps, or looking up guides to do so. Even gaming wasn’t perfect.

Installed CachyOS, and yes, there are annoyances, but also a nice path to fix them. It’s both a good gaming OS, and a daily driver for casual use.