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[–] UsedCumSock@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

This is great news. Gives me hope that one day, I'll be able to play all of my games on Linux.

[–] Resplendent606@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I am one of the 0.05% on Debian. I feel special.

[–] UnPassive@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

More like 2.nice%

[–] josefo@leminal.space 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] swagmoney@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

debian is bestian

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

🙋🏼‍♂️ new to Linux gaming.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Same. Sadly I did not have my new baby during the last hardware survey.

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago
[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

"There's dozens of us! Dozens!"

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I love to see it.

Each time I see posts like this, I hope to see adobe announce they are making linux versions of their software. Whether you like it or not, a lot of people do not switch because of adobe.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Can't you run it through Proton or Wine tricks at this point?

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Nope, it will install but then say dlls are missing even though they are there.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Phone is Android, PC is now Linux Mint, for gaming I use a Steam deck, and my NAS is now TrueNAS.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 37 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Man, if only Linux would be adopted by the masses for gaming...

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Android uses the Linux kernel but none of the familiar "Linux" stack: GNU, X or Wayland, GTK or Qt, GNOME or KDE or other DEs, PulseAudio or PipeWire, APT or YUM or other package managers, and many others that define the Linux experience. Google could replace the Linux kernel with something else tomorrow without touching the rest of Android and most users won't tell, and many apps will run as-is.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Google tried that once, they developed Fuchsia with the intention of replacing Android and ChromeOS and realized the investment to develop a replacement is not worth it and decided to layoff all the secondary development team to find the budget for the AI people that they pay to not work in competitors.

Hoping for the AI bubble to burst any time now. I'm fucking tired of the management stuffing AI everywhere. Heck even the CEO now outsources Slack replies from ChatGPT.

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Isn't that why pedants call it "GNU/Linux" for those? Lol. (I was being facetious btw, I would marry GNU/Linux if I could.)

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago

Yes, there are even some distros that use the Hurd kernel instead of Linux.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

God I wish someone would port AHK to linux. I literally depend on it to make software accessible.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

I wonder if it works on WINE i never tried it

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh. The Year of the Linux Handheld.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

The Year of the Linux Handheld on the Desktop

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago

Nearly a third are coming from the Steam Deck and other Steam OS handhelds. Impressive.

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Doing my part

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use Debian. Does this mean I'm in the top 0.05% of Steam users?

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[–] raptore39@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I wonder where my Steam on Fedora 42 KDE lands

[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

I've not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.

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[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now I wish we could permanently move from Android for all Android devices to something like lineage.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

There are phone vendors like murena (not a manufacturer i think) who have some privacy OS preinstalled so you dont have a rooted phone that gets blocked for "privacy concerns"

If you are unsure if the apps you need work you can install waydroid on linux

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