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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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[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haven't used bazzite, but there is an App Store you can get all of the apps anyone would need.

No longer do we live in the days of visiting a vendors website to download their executables. They are conveniently packaged for us in the App Store (package manager).

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haven’t used bazzite, but there is an App Store you can get all of the apps anyone would need.

Its one of the quirks of a lot of the atomic distros. Because they are specifically built around the idea of having a specific set of packages at a specific range of versions for every rev of the distro itself... adding more packages is kind of a clusterfuck.

For flatpaks (and I think appimages too?), it is seamless. For anything else you are googling the commands to add packages as "layers" and so forth

And, to be fair to Bazzite (which I use for my HTPC and love it on there), I have had zero issues with actual gaming. Steam out of the box and Heroic is one flatpak away. But holy shit was adding iperf3 to test some network infrastructure tweaks a Thing.

Its why I personally recommend to friends to just raw dog Fedora rather than use one of the atomic distros. Atomic distros make a lot of sense for deployed machines but for anything someone is going to use as "their" computer? Just learn to not type sudo before every command you run... and maybe get a jetkvm so your tech savvy friend can fix your computer after an nvidia driver update.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

Its why I personally recommend to friends to just raw dog Fedora

Probably sound advice if they are in (presumably) the 0.01% of users (like you) that need other utilities that are hard to get.

If they aren't, then Bazzite, etc would be perfect for them (as you said, zero issues with gaming/more common uses).