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Microsoft is letting you kill Bing in Windows 11 Search, after years of forcing it on every PC
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Gamers do, because game devs suck up to Microsoft by not putting PC games on Linux or macOS. Sadly, even "indie" devs.
99,9% of all games I "own", I can play on Linux just fine. Except fucknuggets like destiny2, which you technically could play if only bungie allowed it. Might look slightly different if you only play multiplayer, I dunno. Those with aggressive root - kits anti-cheat maybe.
Actually I even game better now. Before I made a tool just to be able to pause a game at any time, which worked like 50% of the time, sometimes fucking all up. On Linux it's a small script with 100% success. To me, a major improvement.
I still have a windows drive for "emergencies" when a game won't run. Haven't booted it since I switched in January. And I game like 4-8hrs a day (with breaks) with different games all day.
Thanks to steam's efforts, Linux gaming is absolutely viable. All is fine, performance, HDR, sound, input...nothing is worse now.
I game almost every single day, and haven't booted Windows in years. In the last 3 years I haven't actually had any game I wanted to play not be able to run in Linux. I've had one that crashed non-stop, but judging by the thousands of complaints from Windows users about the same thing that wasn't a Linux problem.
So yeah, gaming is no excuse, you can game just fine under Linux as long as the devs don't intentionally block Linux like what happened with Destiny 2 (which Bungie just summarily executed so they can dump more cash into the trash fire that is Marathon, RIP Bungie I await the bankruptcy announcement).
The interface for getting it set up is still worse if you're not using Steam. But I agree it is way way way more viable than it was even 3 years ago.