• xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    There’s apparently a chunk of gamers who can’t leave Windows because of GamePass. However, I don’t know whether it’s a significant portion.

    • fenrasulfr@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      I am more thinking of the Valorant, League, Call of Duty, Fortnite, etc… players. Which are a majority of pc gamers.

      • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 days ago

        There are different clusters of users who don’t/can’t leave Windows.

        • Don’t want to learn another OS at all (They are content with the Windows experience)
        • Gamepass users. They enjoy the Netflix model of getting free games
        • Multiplayer (with anti-cheat) gamers
        • Don’t want to leave the Adobe suite/
        • Uses programs which don’t have Linux equivalent

        The Linux community has to understand that some of these groups cannot be moved to Linux no matter how much you improve the Linux experience.

        • fenrasulfr@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          I am talking for handhelds which are treated as consoles so the underlying os or gui makes no difference. Unless it stops you from playing the game you like.

          No one should tell you to leave an os if it works for you.

          • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
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            5 days ago

            No one should tell you to leave an os if it works for you

            I agree.

            Some people have a special comfort with Windows AND telemetry, ads, bloat are not a concern for them. We should not try to force them to move.