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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Eh I just installed 10 in a VM to do my taxes

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I won't upgrade til they let me use throttlestop with virtualization enabled.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There seems to be an understanding that the average user is going to switch from windows 10 at EOL. I'm quite confident most personal devices will run it until it stops working flat out. Your average PC user has no concern about security vulnerabilities until they're exploited in a way that actually breaks the functionality of the thing.

A migration to to Linux will be very delayed. Like months or years. In lots of cases probably long enough that people will be shopping for new hardware anyways by the time they have to decide on a new OS.

[–] TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Or, like me, still on Windows 7, they could just no longer use Steam. Lots of games I can still play on this OS or in my browser. Maybe someday I'll go back to Linux, or maybe even React, just for the hell of it.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Damn, that sucks for them. Glad I gave up that nonsense years ago.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There are two things that hold me to Windows (10) as my daily driver: MS Office, and support for a virtual file synchronization a la Nextcloud (which I presume piggybacks off of what MS built for OneDrive.)

My secondary laptop, my 4 year old's laptop, my gaming device (Steam deck), homelab, are all on Linux. It has been fun to learn Linux and it's what I intend for my kid to grow up on.

Eventually, when I get a new laptop (current is 8 years old and I'm really hoping Framework gen 2 has a touchscreen) it'll be Linux first... And I hope Nextcloud gets that virtual file sync going by then because a network share/WebDAV connection will make me sad.

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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Only reason my new rig has windows is for some specific peripherals that just dont seem to have good solutions for linux (logitech g600 MMO mouse, and an NZXT kraken cpu cooler display). The mouse gets completely jacked up and has all the side buttons rebound to numpad by just using it in my experience. Had to reload the mouse firmware on windows to restore basic functionality.

The user experience was honestly vastly superior on Fedora KDE, and my next GPU will be AMD so i can give it another shot on linux

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