I've been using Linux since 2006, and been gaming on it exclusively since maybe 2018? Seen reports it's even kicking Win 11's ass now performance-wise. Yall are just mean.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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linux is coming! we are unstoppable*!
* well except if the EU bans operating systems without built in age verification
If it was simple and easy to install and play games on Linux as is on Windows, I would have switched over a decade ago.
The biggest weakness is multiplayer games with aggressive anti-cheat. So those are the types of games you play, continue to stay away from Linux.
But for most games on Linux, it is just install and play now through a platform like Steam. I haven't run into a game that I want to play that doesn't basically "just work".
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I couldn't find it is in the article, is this new purchases, or how is this measured. If a computer ships with windows and I install mint on it, how do they know where that tally goes?
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It doesn't say how they got this number in the piece (unless I missed it), but it's likely more than 5% if they are, say, counting the OS by user agent strings hitting a particular tracker. Linux distros use different browsers and they don't report the OS in an accurate way all the time.
For a long time my UAS just said "Firefox, the version #, NT-based" or something like that, but now it reports Linux properly... I haven't been paranoid enough to use a agent switcher lately.