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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Linux reaches new high 3.82% (gs.statcounter.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Nvidia will probably be even better supported in the future and opensource drivers are getting close to proprietary feature sets.

Wayland support has also been improving in major ways so we can have fractional scaling, HDR and all those nice things soonish.

Then in general there will be an even bigger push for games to support Linux via DXVK, Wine etc to support Steam Deck.

I would recommend trying out dual boot setup for a while and then deleting Windows when you're ready.