At corporate scale, migrating to Linux is a non-starter right now. Our IT had to explain to people where the "windows button" had gone and how people could find all their apps. Support had to argue with a user who had a hardware issue, but didn't want to get a new device because it would come with Win11. Last I heard, a board member still refuses to upgrade.

So yeah, MS has the corporate world by the balls. Smaller companies might have a better shot, but might have a harder time hiring someone willing to give Calc even just a chance when all their training and experience is with Excel.

I hope Linux can gain a larger foothold on the home user market, particularly among those who only really need the browser anyway. If Valve can convince gamers that it really isn't that big of a leap, perhaps that's the best place to pry open MS' grip.

It'll be a long way to go still, but at least it looks like there's some movement.

Bazzite is downstream from fedora, which i'll remind you is partially handled by red hat, aka a large ass company with "a lot of money to throw into things". The bazzite developers only handle a smaller portion of the maintenance that distributions require, and really only as much as they want and are confident in handling.

This is a big reason why I would prefer a SteamOS Desktop over Cachy and friends. Also, documentation that is designed for people who don't have an interest in becoming masters of the terminal. My general impression of Linux as an intermediate user, is a Tower of Babel situation, everyone having different procedures for how to resolve the same issue.

I thought that was the game of Linux, the fiddling.

It's even still a valid course of action if there's literally no interest in making the world better.
They've potentially found a way to make their nearly omnipresent e-commerce platform share a name with the operating system, which is coincidentally mostly developed by others. They get to associate their name with a few tens of billions of dollars of development effort for a fraction of the cost.

To be clear, this isn't bad or anything. It's quite literally what a lot of the people doing all that legwork want. It just doesn't require any altruism from valve. They make money selling games, and they sell more games when people think it's easier to play them. A desktop with the ease of a console is a big selling point for a lot of people.

Protondb has a lot of old information on its thats not relevant anymore thanks to updated proton releases.

So there are a lot of games that suggest tweaks/tinkering that dont need it anymore... but people like me(random idiots that don't have IT/Sysadmin experience to know everything about linux) still might do, because the reviews from 18 months ago say its necessary, because there arent many reviews and the one from 18 months ago is still only like 5 places down from the top.

So polls like that should be taken with a heavy grain.

If enough people stop buying those games because the developer refuses to infect your computer for you, they'll change their tune. Money talks bullshit walks.

Yeah at this point the anticheat of the multiplayer military fps genre really is the opiate of the masses keeping windows at the top of gaming market share. Because no OS besides windows would ever allow for something so wildly insecure.

I play the genre, in fact PUBG is one of my favorite games (Judge me as you will), but I made the decision a few years back that my control over my own computer, my privacy and security in my own home, my ideological rejection of the stranglehold microsoft has over the home PC, were all more important than my ability to play a handful of violent, samesie, DoD-funded military apologia.

I have zero regrets. I do miss PUBG from time to time. But no, in the end it wasn't really an excuse to not switch.

LibreOffice has been so good. As a non-power user I haven't even noticed a difference, aside from the lack of bullshit.