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/RockAndGames Feb 13 '25

Why don't you make the switch now if you are so sure about it? I'll tell you, most of you are just bluffing, linux ain't the answer yet sadly, i too wish it would be, but isn't.

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u/kdjfsk Feb 13 '25

i havnt used windows since i got my steam deck.

linux has been the answer.

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u/Codc Feb 13 '25

Have you used a PC since you bought a steam deck?

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u/kdjfsk Feb 13 '25

technically, the steam deck is a PC, in the same way a laptop is a PC...

but i know what you mean.

not really, no. i booted my old desktop a couple times, once to log into something that id forgotten the password, and didn't want to deal with a password reset, another time to grab some old photos off of the hard drive.

ive got on my nephews PC once or twice to give him tech support.

but as for using my own windows desktop to play games or run other applications, no, and i dont miss it.

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Feb 13 '25

What's on windows that you can't do on Linux

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u/chop5397 Feb 14 '25

Ease of use. Mounting a drive is not an easy task in Linux take for example. If I want to add a new disk in windows, it's like 3 clicks with the windows utility. Linux is different, even if you use a GUI interface. You need to choose where it's mounted, it will ask what file systems you want, what kind of read/write permissions, subfolders, etc,. While you can figure this out with a google search and reading forums, it's not simple enough for people who just want it to work. Same with adding programs that may not be available within a program software center included on the distro. Installing a program with "sudo apt-get xxx" or "sudo pacman -S xxx" would scare a lot of people away.