Good news for those with Nvidia still on the fence about Linux

[SharpeXB]

1 hour ago, LucShep said:

Dude, relevant for what? 
Steam stats are only a really tiny portion of the global user stats

Relevant for this market. PC gaming. And Steam isn’t small, according to this it holds 70% of the share in digital distribution. 
https://sqmagazine.co.uk/pc-gaming-market-share-and-usage-statistics/

So their sample size is more than large enough to validate those results.  

 

 

[VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants]

Given how M$ pushes spying, useless AI to regular uses and gamers through Windows 11, I see Linux gaming may be the way to go and until we have SteamOS for desktop, we have to rely on different distro.

Oh, speaking of Gamer Nexus

 

Edited Tuesday at 08:36 PM by VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants

[Hiob]

There’s definitely blood in the water….

The current wave of tech tubers fuming about windows and embracing gaming on Linux is remarkable. It’s getting a lot of main stream attention now.

Microsoft has crossed too many lines lately.

Edited Wednesday at 12:19 AM by Hiob

[Lange_666]

The tech tubers just copy one another to get their own views up.

[VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants]

I don't think so. Linux has waves raising attentions for years. First it was for hobbyists and for more than 2 decades, there has been a lot of serious business installations and applications on the server side. Personally, I worked for more than 3 institutions running their critical applications based on Linux servers.

As for average Joe like me, especially gamers, Linux may be a hard sell. Steam Deck already raises a lot of attention in the past couple of years and it started a "new" market of portable PC gaming devices which many other manufacturers follow. Speaking of DCS and flight sims in general, I don't have the resource to try it myself so I would wait. Not that I have a hard time using Linux, as it has been improved greatly over the past decades in terms of UX, I simply cannot represent everyone and after watching GN's benchmark video, it seems to have some distances to cover to be a true alternative for simmers

Steam Box is "around the corner" so I think we shall know soon.

Edited Wednesday at 12:11 PM by VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants

[Hiob]

6 hours ago, Lange_666 said:

The tech tubers just copy one another to get their own views up.

Sure, no doubt about that. Still it gets a lot of positive coverage. Add that to the upcoming Steam cube, which will certainly have an impact, and windows getting worse by the day...... 

I'm about to build a second machine (the parts are already collecting dust in the cabinet, I just need to add a CPU and GPU), all with AMD (Nvidia can go to hell, too), that will be a  Linux gaming machine* (Bazzite or Nobara). If it goes well, my "main" PC will be just be a dedicated Flight Sim Machine.

*(Plus all the non gaming relates stuff, like internet, email, office and CAD)

**and I will buy the Steam Cube as well when it releases. Having access to my Steam pile of shame from the couch in the Living room with this awesome controller..... what a time to alive.... and I'm happy to support a business like Steam.

Edited Wednesday at 01:27 PM by Hiob