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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

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433 points Sporktacular | 1 comments | 04 Aug 23 00:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.281s | source
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hospitalJail ◴[04 Aug 23 13:18 UTC] No.36999612[source]▶
Due to Microsoft's Forced OneDrive on Windows 11, I installed my first ever Linux OS on my main (high performance) laptop.

It took a few hours of messing around until I finally decided to follow the Asus-Linux tutorial, which worked flawlessly. My suggestion for anyone looking to make the jump, follow a tutorial. (I thought my tech skills would be enough, but there are some gotchas)

Anyway I installed Steam last night! (And ran into an issue playing Dwarf Fortress, classic Linux... but at least I don't have to worry about M$ hijacking my filesystem anymore!)

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1. ulkesh ◴[04 Aug 23 14:34 UTC] No.37000638[source]▶
You'll find, as I have, that laptops and Linux distributions/DEs don't always play well together (lid closing/reopening, suspend/hibernate, keyboard backlight, function key alternate media controls, trackpad, etc). It's sometimes a shot in the dark if not buying from a company that helps guarantee Linux support/compatibility for all the hardware in the system (Dell XPS 13 plus developer, System 76, etc).

That's great there was a tutorial that got everything working well, especially for your specific setup! I'm also now running Linux as my only operating system on my gaming desktop machine (I run Arch, btw ;D ). Steam/Proton and Lutris make gaming a relative cinch now, and I've been hoping for this since I first started with Linux in 1999.

Edit>> Words are hard.