Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 support will end later this year, meaning nearly half of Steam users should probably upgrade.
Sometimes i wonder why windows is getting heavier and heavier each release but in other hand linux is getting lighter and lighter each update ?
Fun fact: if you run a newer kernel version on old hardware you will get better performance than running a kernel from when the hardware was released. It pains me when people run some old version of Debian on a 25 year old laptop. It is best to run something current.
It depends. On older devices there isn't much testing of newer versions of the kernel so they can be more broken than older version.
Case in point, recently on an old laptop (~12 years) I noticed video performance was really bad which I later found out was due to modern distros defaulting to the iHD intel graphics driver. But iHD is only supported from 5th gen (Broadwell) onward. So, on older devices anything depending on the graphics driver for hardware acceleration (like video decode) fails and falls back to software rendering.
With SteamOS coming to 3rd party handhelds, hoping we get SteamOS gaming desktops. Windows 11 isn’t it.
You want Bazzite. It's a Fedora based atomic distribution designed for gaming. Pain in the ass to install any app that isn't flatpacked, but it makes gaming super easy. It works on handheld and on desktop.
I'll be running 10 until I have to switch to Linux. I'd switch now but I can barely be asked to take the trash can out, let alone set up all my stuff again.
I really hope we get at least 3% of those users to switch to Linux
I did although I'm not as proficient as I'd like. I also converted my mother in law by giving her a raspberri pi for bill paying and the internet.
I made the switch from windows 10 to Linux a month ago and it's been great overall, and no major issues with gaming so far
My cold dead hands!
I kept usin Win7 way past after Microsoft stopped supporting. It was only when Steam stopped working that I switched to Linux. That's just on my gaming PC though. My daily driver is running on MacOS.
Yaaaawn. I've used every Windows version well past it's EoL. The CONSTANT articles on this being shared to Lemmy just feel like pathetically trying to convert people to Linux. I couldn't be less worried about it.
how dare you resist the will of the penquin!!
I use to be on Windows 7 until last month, where Steam definitly refuse to start. Now I've switch to Ubuntu. No regret.