![]() ![]() Many of the people who are stuck on Windows really wish they weren’t. He said he’d have to throw away a machine that costs more than an entire brand new car if he ever stops using Windows XP for that one application. Outside of legacy applications, most people no longer have any real use for Windows and simply keep it out of ignorance or inertia. ![]() Most video games don’t even need it anymore. John Carmack’s assessment that the future of gaming on the PC was the Windows API, running on Linux, in Wine, proved accurate. Wine is picking up the patches that Valve put in the “Proton” fork that’s integrated in Steam. The average Windows user could do everything they do today with more reliability and less frustration on Linux. You want to use your Web browser? Just sign in. You want to take your Steam library? Run it in Proton and it’s basically all there. You want the boring office software? Well, LibreOffice is pretty good.Īs legacy use cases for Windows break down, people abandon it. ![]() Linux has reaped a lot of new users one way or the other, and the Mac has too. Microsoft’s Windows revenue is “cooling” fast. That’s the new name for “It’s so bad, don’t even ask.”. AMD and Intel are suffering along with them. You only need to type in “PC shipments” or “Intel” or “AMD” “earnings” and look at the carnage playing out. ![]() I don’t actually like my computing to change much. Linux and GNOME give me a platform to run SeaMonkey, Firefox ESR, and Brave (depending on the mood I’m in). I haven’t felt like I was “missing out” in a long time.Īnd what is this Clown Windows thing anyway? Sometimes I use some of the desktop applications or play games (native, Windows, retroarch emulator cores…). ![]()
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