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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

(arstechnica.com)
433 points Sporktacular | 5 comments | 04 Aug 23 00:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.622s | source
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julianeon ◴[04 Aug 23 04:12 UTC] No.36995405[source]▶
If you'd told me 10 years ago that "2023 will be the year of the Linux gaming machine," I would've lol'd. You never can tell.
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1. Aleksdev ◴[04 Aug 23 06:18 UTC] No.36996094[source]▶
Yes, every year we have heard this is the year of Linux. It does seem like it’s becoming reality doesn’t it?
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2. fsflover ◴[04 Aug 23 12:09 UTC] No.36998836[source]▶
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36892464
3. hospitalJail ◴[04 Aug 23 14:07 UTC] No.37000276[source]▶
I think this is more of a Microsoft has dropped the ball, than Linux exceling.

I switched to Linux because Windows Filesystem was too unreliable with OneDrive hijacking it. (Also Cortana, auto open edge links, ads/ragebait news in the start menu)

But I needed something reliable, and Microsoft is no longer reliable.

4. pjmlp ◴[04 Aug 23 14:52 UTC] No.37000849[source]▶
It already happened, nicely packaged inside of a VM, running on top of Hyper-V and Virtualization framework.
5. julianeon ◴[07 Aug 23 19:51 UTC] No.37040018[source]▶
I think so. It's certainly stopped being a joke; you can take various news items as "the year of Linux" seriously at this point.