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Year of Linux on the Desktop (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

but 10 years ago was actually pretty good for Linux gaming too.

Feels to me like that's going too far back, to make that statement. I would say the last three/four years, personally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It depends what you’re comparing against, but I had plenty of games on Linux when steam released their Linux client. 10 years ago was the start of a huuuge shift. It died down a little bit after a few years (I think a lot of developers stopped caring when steam machines petered out and developers started to decide the Linux releases weren’t worth it), but then after a little while Proton started kicking off and the rest is history. Obviously you didn’t have nearly the selection of windows, but there was still selection.