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    2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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    [–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (54 children)

    It might not fuck over people as bad as their abandoning XP did, but its still really fucking shitty that they abandon OS's like this.

    Simply because it means people who have games they used to be able to play on old machines, now cant get those games anymore, cause the service itself wont run on it on those machines.

    They should at least fork off a special legacy version that lets people download their old games on their original platforms.

    but they dont want to do that, not because of supporting it, because they dont want people to remember how sleek, slim, and fast steam used to be.

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    [–] GladiusB@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Check out Lime disto. It's a friendlier interface and all the cool perks of Ubuntu. It's built on the basic same architecture. I have had my Steam and many other games work. If it wasn't for Epic I would go full Linux.

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    [–] victorz@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Can recommend Arch as a gaming platform OS. Works well with Steam. It's what the Steam Deck is built on. πŸ‘

    [–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have the throw my opinion in here, I recommend Debian. Ubuntu is based off of it, as is most of the other distros people are recommending. With AMD processor and GPU, Debian has been my best OS experience to date. No bloat, recent kernel, and stable as hell. Only advantage of Ubuntu is the plethora of tutorials and guides written for it, but most of those will work with bookworm if you use Ubuntu jammy repos and guides.

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