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Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on Steam (aus.social)
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Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on @steam@lemmy.ml

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45783520?sort=Top

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[โ€“] housepanther@social.goblackcat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@megopie I am sure it is also highly dependent on the age of the game and even the level of graphic detail needed. Since I consider myself to be a retrogamer, Linux cruises!

[โ€“] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago

there are some older games that rely on multi threading and even on a modern system this can cause some serious performance issues, again, this is getting solved though.