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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I still use windows because of Visual Studio. I used to use Mac OSX because of XCode and I honestly don't understand people today who still use Windows or Mac for anything other than Development.

If there was an alternative to Visual Studio for Linux I wouldn't think twice.

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

People who use windows or Mac for anything but development do so for the same reasons as you, they are locked into some features. For example, at home I need a local music library manager with local sync to my phone music app and smart playlists. Mac is still the only platform with this.

At work I need MS exchange integration and all the features of native office. Even the Mac version isn't good enough for my workflow.

My only hope would be to turn to emulators or something like that, but at that point I'm not really running Linux anyway. I'm just running something else in a container inside Linux.

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[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The only thing I really miss about visual studio is the automatic profiler. Everything else just felt archaic, bloated, slow, and unintuitive. Adding one line in cmake often does the same thing as clicking through five submenus which never once got updated since 2012.

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[–] xeekei@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

linux is coming! we are unstoppable*!

* well except if the EU bans operating systems without built in age verification

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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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[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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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.

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