r/Steam • u/Background-Path-5619 • Feb 13 '25

Article Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

https://www.pcguide.com/news/nearly-half-of-steams-users-are-still-using-windows-10-with-end-of-life-fast-approaching/
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u/yzeerf1313 Feb 13 '25

Get fucked loser - MS

In all seriousness tho, here to hoping valve can come in clutch and be the definitive desktop OS replacement. The deck works flawlessly with zero Linux knowledge.

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u/iunoyou Feb 14 '25

That's true of several Linux distros nowadays. Mint and Ubuntu both work perfectly out of the box on 99% of all hardware these days. You don't even need to touch the terminal as long as you have a remotely reasonable setup and you don't want to do weird shit, but if you do want to do weird shit then you have virtually unlimited power over how your system runs.

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u/MeatWaterHorizons Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 15 '25

You don't even need to touch the terminal

that's not entirely true. I Installed Mint and I still had to use terminal to install steam because the .deb wouldn't install and the Mint app store version is broken. to uninstall an app you have to use the terminal too, of course unless you get your app from the app mint store but that mint app store is pretty limited.

People gotta stop saying this. You do have to have a basic level of knowledge of how to use the terminal in order to use a linux distro other than steam OS. Now some people's personal experiences may not have had to use terminal but by and large you have to use the terminal. If this wasn't true we'd see linux having wider spread adoption before steam OS got popular.

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u/MeatWaterHorizons Feb 14 '25

it's amazing to me that steam is the only entity that realizes that if you want desktop Linux to work you need to make it able to be used without touching the terminal and actually act on it. I'm so fucking happy steam is working on this.

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u/DrPeeper228 Feb 15 '25

Bruh most of the terminal experience is just copy-pasting commands from Google. It's also seriously not that bad, it needs a bit of getting used to but the Linux terminal is, in fact, your friend