If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.
If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.
Until Linux can just let users double click and install .exe files from Windows. The average user will never touch it. People will just stick with what they know, even if it’s been neutered by being made into an online service.
That said, I don’t see Microsoft doing that for some reason. There are just too many things that aren’t suitable for an online instance of Windows. Not to mention that lots of areas don’t have a good enough network connection to make something like that viable. They’ll almost certainly continue to offer an installable version of Windows for a long time still.
I’d dare to say people don’t choose Windows, it is forced on them by having it preinstalled and that seals the deal for most. Your average Joe Sixpack would likely not even notice they are using Linux, since most just browse the internet and the major browsers are the same for both.
Tbh you can also be forced to windows by software. Like yes a lot of stuff works on wine and Proton but that doesn’t mean it runs good. For VR i didn’t hear much good especially if you don’t use a native SteamVR headset. Then there is lots of games with anticheat not working and whatever… So if you fall into any of these categories you’re kinda SOL.
Zorin OS allows to do that, and iirc you can do that with Wine on any other distro
Which is hilarious to me because how Linux handles application installations/updates though package management is so much easier than anything on the Microsoft side. No muss, no fuss, no chasing down dependencies, just “install X” and X is now cleanly installed on your system as well as everything it needs to run.