alt Hacker NewsIt makes sense that everyone uses Windows for gaming, because you can't run games in your browser.
It makes zero sense for businesses to use Windows if they're only doing PowerPoint and video conferences.
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No it makes no sense at all. I do my gaming on Arch.
Windows sucks and I hope to see the demise of Microsoft during my lifetime(crosses fingers).
Actually, it's the exact opposite. There is really no alternative to PowerPoint on Linux, unfortunately. I'm saying this as someone who's used Linux for 20 years now.
Run your Windows games on Linux: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percen...
My Linux computer now is my main gaming machine. I purged my Windows partition a couple of years ago and haven't had the need to look back yet.
1. total abandonment of desktop as a platform, and the massive hurdles to distribute desktop software
2. move to Cloud and use electron wrappers because not even MS can bother making native apps on their shitty platform
3. Make Windows so shit that even hardcore power users can’t debloat it.
The moat of Windows is gone. Games, office work, all the classic arguments, have basically vanished in the last 5-10 years. The only surprise is why more people don’t get in the life rafts, when the ship is listing at 45 degrees. Is it because there’s still an army of workers and institutional inertia trained in Active Directory?
Except today games all work and invariably markedly better on Linux. Even the games that stopped working on Windows for me work great, like https://www.protondb.com/app/2008510
It's almost like Microsoft might be offering something on top of businesses using Windows, that isn't as commonly available for other platforms.
Or businesses are just clueless face-less entities who have no idea what they're doing. Probably the truth is a little bit of both.
The vast majority of my Steam library runs on Mint without issues (and some older games run actually smoother on Linux than they did on Windows).
Not to mention my very large emulation library.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
This comment was wildly invalid even years ago.
See proton, heroic launcher, etc, etc.
Cyberpunks own benchmarking suite runs 30% faster (for whatever reason; my wintendo install is stock and nothing but nvidia drivers) on the ntfs windows partition on Arch.