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Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux?

From	vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux?
Date	2025-03-21 00:20 +0000
Message-ID	<m43pm5Fsi95U2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<vrfb29$1lo98$1@dont-email.me> <3tx5d2t6gry0$.dlg@v.nguard.lh>

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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:53:50 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote in
<3tx5d2t6gry0$.dlg@v.nguard.lh>:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> posted to:
>   alt.comp.os.windows-11 alt.comp.os.windows-10 comp.os.linux.advocacy 
>   <-- Garbage/flaming newsgroup
> 
>> “Windows 11 will soon let you know why your PC hardware sucks”
>> 
>> <https:// www. theverge.
>> com/news/632327/microsoft-windows-11-system-device-specs-
recommendations>
>> 
>> Of course, it’s not their hardware that “sucks”, it’s the bloated
>> Windows OS that the poor vict^H^H^H^Husers are trying to run on it.
> 
> <Aside>
> Oops, looks like I missed comp.os.linux.advocacy when a poster includes
> garbage newsgroups.  Filter now updated.
> 
> Garbage newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy omitted in my reply.
> </Aside>

Yet you made a post on-topic for cola.  Weird attitude.

> 
> There is no full citation of the claimed FAQ found in a dev build, just
> a screen snapshot showing a couple points at its start.  Dev builds are
> of little interest to the release channel community.  Changes in dev may
> not make it to the release.  Without any mention of what the FAQ is
> professed to claim, the article is just more FUD.  It adds nothing new.
> 
> "Is my GPU sufficient for high end gaming ...?"
> 
> Oh, gee, like that never ever had any impact on video games, uh huh.  I
> suppose not as much an issue under Linux since that that platform is not
> much used as a gaming platform due to lack of choices on Linux.

Have you considered the SteamDeck?

> 
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/265033/proportion-of-operating-
systems-used-on-the-online-gaming-platform-steam/
>   "As of September 2023, the most frequently used OS by users of the
>   gaming platform Steam was Windows at almost 97 percent. Linux followed
>   in second place, with 1.6 percent, ahead of OSX with 1.43 percent
>   share."
>   Aug 19, 2024
>   
> Of course, not everyone playing video games is doing so through Steam,
> but it is still an indicative statistic on how little Linux is used for
> gaming.

Again: Have you considered the SteamDeck?

And: I run Steam on my Linux workstation.  All my games run on
Linux -- some natively, some with proton.  As an example, I run
Elite Dangerous in 4K:

https://imgur.com/HdiuopH

YMMV.

With Win11 obsoleting so much hardware, I suspect there will be
many more people making the leap to Linux.

-- 
-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
   OS: Linux 6.14.0-rc7 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G
   "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."

Thread

Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-19 20:56 +0000
  Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-19 17:35 -0400
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-20 04:18 -0400
  Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Bill <nonegiven@att.net> - 2025-03-20 13:10 -0400
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-20 15:08 -0400
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Bill <nonegiven@att.net> - 2025-03-20 15:52 -0400
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-20 22:41 +0100
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-20 22:39 +0100
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Dual Boot Windows <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-20 23:15 +0000
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-21 17:35 +0000
  Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 13:53 -0500
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-20 15:56 -0400
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 17:03 -0500
        Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-21 00:26 +0000
          Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 20:42 -0500
            Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Mr Xi Ji Ping <ping@china.cn> - 2025-03-21 02:00 +0000
            Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-21 02:34 +0000
              Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-21 17:20 -0500
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-22 18:37 +0000
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-22 16:37 -0500
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-22 18:37 -0400
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-23 02:19 +0000
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-23 01:31 -0400
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-21 00:20 +0000
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 21:32 -0500
        Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-21 03:26 +0000

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