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Linux has reached 2.32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 87 points 5 months ago (4 children)

There is one dude with a Windows 8 laptop that turns it on once per month just to take this survey.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

*8.1

Due to the optimizations Windows 8.1 is my favorite Windows version. When I compared it to Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon on my old (now dead) laptop, it performed slightly faster. It also somehow beat Windows XP which is what that thing was made for. Although a part of that could have been that half of the drivers only worked in XP, so it had more to load.

Maybe if they properly called it Windows 9, it would have caught on. It was definitely different enough from 8.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe if they properly called it Windows 9, it would have caught on.

"Windows 9" was a no-go due to lazy programmers. Could have gone with "Windows Nine" though, which would have brought the naming in line with "Xbox One"

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