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Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

2023/4 was steam but it was also before Microsoft started losing their mind thinking forcing people into AI would just blow over.

I expect 2026 will have a couple more percent as a load of people are trying to escape and some of them will make it.

why is the acceleration still slow?

  1. There's no marketing

  2. Fear. Linux used to be a lot more complicated. It has a reputation. Windows is still far better at getting you to a gui if you really fuck it up. Checkpoints on updates and safe mode save a lot of peoples bacon.

  3. Game performance is still markedly slower, and anti-cheat titles are unplayable.

Games are getting better, ease to install is getting better. Title availability is slowly getting better, but a lot of it is electron, so the titles themselves are getting worse. Wine/Proton is amazing and improving every day.

[โ€“] Batmorous@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Makes sense

  1. The community has to market in various ways in spare time if they want better for platform and more people to come in. Was thinking growing an animation and anime portion of the community to create visuals would be great way to get people as one way.

  2. Partnering with schools and community events to demonstrate how easy it is to use for certain beginner friendly distros will be massive with each event done. Thats true on the gui, checkpoints on updates, and safe mode thing too. Wonder which distros would implement latter 2.

  3. The public view is changing on that. Even YouTube has been pushing Linux in the algorithm and people talking about how easier it is. The new problem point mainly is modding and games that need anti-cheat