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Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I will be replacing windows on all five of my home computers with Linux

I'll leave a couple as a dual boot, but the media server, laptop, primary desktop, and two media/'console' PCs (connected to TVs) will be swapped over. hopefully it will be easy to get the same setup on all of them and run reliably.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just a suggestion but for the two htpcs I'd recommend using bazzite or steamos. Both are stable and hard to break and booting into a console likr interface is great. Use anything else for the rest of your machines. They lock both down a bit too much to be practical every day machines.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Having been daily driving Bazzite for a bit, as long as you're willing to work with it it's perfectly fine as a daily driver. Sure I've had to pop in to distro box a couple of times to run a specific utility that's not in the immutable build but that's just a couple of extra clicks plus I can pick whatever distro userland I want which is convenient for better compatibility with whatever GitHub script I've decided to blindly trust this week!