Many people bounce back to Windows after their first attempt at running Linux.
Typically after experiencing a technical issue and either failing to find a resolution, or finding a resolution written in a way that assumes the reader is already familiar with Linux.
While some of the contraction may be noise I think the steam survey is large enough to be a decent representation.
But still, from my very brief experience, sometimes it requires fiddling or game might just not work or crash here and there. Whereas games on windows just work. More or less. Remember, there are plenty of none tech savvy gamers out there who just want to play games.
Anytime a game goes fullscreen, it would mess up my desktop. Sometimes the screen would just be stuck black or the display resolution wouldn’t revert properly with fullscreen. Heck, fullscreen was so broken that I avoided it as much as possible. Borderless windowed was the way to go, where it was available anyway (which is most newer games but more rare as you look at older titles).
Actually, for fun, one of my friends was trying to install an old game from the era in a Windows 98 emulator to play it again because he couldn’t get it to boot on 11. He spent hours and ran into so many issues, eventually giving up because it had no audio, wouldn’t boot, etc. For fun, I tried the game’s installer on Manjaro (through Wine) and it installed and booted with minimal issues on the first try.
Where you’ll have an easier time on Windows is pretty much exclusively with games that are hardcoded to only work on Windows, whether because of an anticheat or because of some kind of DRM. I don’t play any titles like that, and every game I’ve run on Linux Just Works™. I’d probably just boot into Windows for those titles if I played them, but otherwise, the experience on Linux is just so much better.
I do remember it as worse, when it was Windows 98 and Win 7 - not even taking about the horror that Win 8 resembled
And coming back to it from time to time, because I need it for a stubborn program (really, Datalogic, get your shit together) or because I need to help family, it has gotten so much worse since that…
Many people bounce back to Windows after their first attempt at running Linux.
Typically after experiencing a technical issue and either failing to find a resolution, or finding a resolution written in a way that assumes the reader is already familiar with Linux.
While some of the contraction may be noise I think the steam survey is large enough to be a decent representation.
That’s like bouncing back to eating a turd sandwich because you’ve found a pit in your peach dessert.
If you are a gamer, you don’t care, me thinks, sadly so
That was a valid reason 15 years ago, but wine/proton have gotten really really good.
But still, from my very brief experience, sometimes it requires fiddling or game might just not work or crash here and there. Whereas games on windows just work. More or less. Remember, there are plenty of none tech savvy gamers out there who just want to play games.
Windows just plain doesn’t work, more or less.
Anytime a game goes fullscreen, it would mess up my desktop. Sometimes the screen would just be stuck black or the display resolution wouldn’t revert properly with fullscreen. Heck, fullscreen was so broken that I avoided it as much as possible. Borderless windowed was the way to go, where it was available anyway (which is most newer games but more rare as you look at older titles).
Actually, for fun, one of my friends was trying to install an old game from the era in a Windows 98 emulator to play it again because he couldn’t get it to boot on 11. He spent hours and ran into so many issues, eventually giving up because it had no audio, wouldn’t boot, etc. For fun, I tried the game’s installer on Manjaro (through Wine) and it installed and booted with minimal issues on the first try.
Where you’ll have an easier time on Windows is pretty much exclusively with games that are hardcoded to only work on Windows, whether because of an anticheat or because of some kind of DRM. I don’t play any titles like that, and every game I’ve run on Linux Just Works™. I’d probably just boot into Windows for those titles if I played them, but otherwise, the experience on Linux is just so much better.
Windows isn’t as bad as you think / remember it
Windows 11 is unacceptable. Full stop.
They had years to fix it and just kept making it worse and worse.
It is actually unusable. Like seriously unusable. I’m not even exaggerating.
for most people Windows is just a Chrome launcher. so it is “usable” ig
I do remember it as worse, when it was Windows 98 and Win 7 - not even taking about the horror that Win 8 resembled
And coming back to it from time to time, because I need it for a stubborn program (really, Datalogic, get your shit together) or because I need to help family, it has gotten so much worse since that…
20+ years ago I needed to know how to burn a CD before making the switch. I think WinXP was the last, I have use on a private PC.
All my windows use today is work related; no games there.