Goymers are waking up. How do we fix this winsisters?
I literally just installed opensuse in the last week. It's weird but cool
>>736213570Yes, surely 2026 will be the year of Linux. Just like it was supposed to be last year, and the year before that and the year before that...
>>736213664every year is the year of linux
>>736213570fotm meme, they're all coming back to windows soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l668M9gK9AwLinux is already performing better in competitive games than windows. Wintoddlers BTFO
Archbros carrying. As usual.
It's just the Steam Deck propping the number up. Linux gaming will never be a thing without gaming dedicated hardware that comes with it preinstalled.
>>736213694Isn't it subscription based now? Who the heck is paying for that, kek
>>736213759>being poorthe avg freetard lol
>>736213570>Windows 11 +10.57%Yeah no goymers are fundamentally stupid and unless linux supports anticheat for shit like Valorant it will never work
>>736213570Fellow Americans, we’re seeing something absolutely incredible — really tremendous — happening with Linux on Steam. People are talking about it everywhere. The numbers are up, and they’re going up fast. Huge gains. Some of the biggest anyone has ever seen. Perhaps the biggest ever. They said it couldn’t be done, but under my administration Linux is doing fantastic. It’s winning in a way nobody ever expected, and is being respected like never before, and believe me, it’s only going to get better. Linux is going to win so big, that geeks are going to get bored of winning. Calling them 'geeks' - that's called trolling - we do a little trolling. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
>>736213874Thanks donnie
>>736213850only retards install kernel level rootkits on their pcs, no need for them to switch to linux
>>736213570>5.33% vs 92.33%>heh, look we defeated the hegemony!
>>736213850I think EA was looking into getting anti-cheat for on Linux and proton.
>>736213759Windows? No?
>>736213570Holy shit
>>736213570osxsissies... a few years ago we were higher than linux, wtf?
>>736214096subscription stuff comes with windows 12
>>736213570>>736213850>Windows 10 -15%>Windows 11 +10%Oh no no no winbros.How do we spin this narrative?!
>>736214068Yeah, https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ea-javelin-anticheat-job-listing-mentions-future-support-for-linux-and-proton/
How long until Windows runs a Linux kernel?
>>736214164>rumorsIt's not going to be subscription based. Microsoft would rather their userbase stay locked in to the Windows ecosystem at a loss. They aren't making money from their OS. Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 were free upgrades.
>>736214156Steam made an enemy in Apple. Good luck with that one Fatso...
>>736214064That's what people said about EVs
>>736214235Never. That's too pathetic even for winblows.
>>736213621It's 2026 and people are still identifying by distributions. It's just Linux. With specific preinstalled software that's slightly different.
>>736214196EA will try to add kernel anti-cheat to Linux, realize it's batshit insane because Linux isn't a hybrid kernel like on Windows, settle for making it run in user space in Proton, and flood their own games with cheating slavs/chinks using Linux VMs to ruin games.Linux faggots will forever be branded as based for shitting on live service slop
>>736214235Why would that happen? The NT kernel is the only part of Windows that isn't dogshit.
>>736213570Jeetnux can't run Hypervisor crack, people still haven't caught on. It'll correct itself soonalso>win 11 +10%
>>736214406I could imagine it as windows just giving up on developing their own software. Vibe coding is too risky but they have no real coders anymore because they replaced them with AI.
>>736214370Kernel level anticheat is a meme anyway. It doesn't do shit. All these games with hyper invasive anti cheat still have shitloads of cheaters and just fearmonger that oooohh if you don't give us full control of your PC there will be more oooohhh.But then in reality during all my time playing hell let loose on windows I think I encountered a single cheater that got kicked off the server within minutes.It's literally just so they can install malware on your PC, if they actually gave a shit about cheaters they'd invest in admins
>>736214494>>win 11 +10%and Win 10 -15%.You think they migrated to Windows 7?
>>736214541>all my time playing hell let loose on windows*on linux
>>736214521>they have no real coders anymore because they replaced them with AI.it's even worse than you imagined, it's pajeets using the AI to vibe code
>>736214494>Jeetnux can't run Hypervisor crack,it can run a Windows VM and not give a shit about security concerns
>>736213694>they're all coming backThis is huge cope. The biggest hurdle for user adoption is breaking the habit by making the initial jump and having to learn all an entirely new way of interfacing with the machine, and people being averse 5o making the switch because of that. The stats are showing now that vonsumers are finding the negatives of windows far too great for them not to make the switch based on that initial discomfort.
>>736213570DO NOT REDEEM SARRSLINUX SUPER POWER BY 2030
>>736214585A windows VM that can play games (i.e. with GPU passthrough) is gonna filter 99.99% of new linux users, so anon's point still stands. Well, it stands in the sense that if people migrate to linux expecting to use hypervisor crack games they're gonna be disappointed, I doubt that's actually a substantial number of people though
>>736213694>they're all coming back to windows soon.In reality they will tell their family and friends to also make the switch.That's critical mass.
>>736214318It's still a minority share of fleets, no? Regardless the personal car market in itself is a dying market anyway. Computers is a growing one.
I like Linux, but I still miss Cheat Engine's speedhack and I haven't found a good replacement for it on Linux.
>>736214641Is this somehow supposed to dissuade me from using linux and convince me to use mutt spyware after they've threatened military invasion of their "allies"?
>>736214370>and flood their own games with cheating slavs/chinks using Linux VMs to ruin gamesThis more or less already happened with another anti-cheat, I think it was EAC. Basically, cheaters playing on Windows would spoof a Linux environment to receive a more lenient/weaker version of the anti-cheat. Instead of plugging up the hole, they just discontinued the usage of the Linux version instead.
>>736213570I just installed Ubuntu on an older laptop
>>736213570>Simplified Chinese 22.75% -31.85%Looks like they fixed the Chinese internet cafes getting massively overreported bug.The shared PC's Windows OS reformats itself and reinstalls Steam between every customer and each activation was counted as a unique system.
>>736214325I bet you use a different text editor than me you fucking pleb
Maybe if we add more required AI functions and throttle even more of the RAM.
>>736213621Nice. I've been on it for a few years (Tumbleweed). Just make sure, if you use Packman, when you zypper dup, that you hold back from updating if you're getting conflicts. This happens due to repo desync occasionally. Takes a couple days to get fixed.
>we just passed the 10% mark
Over 10% of english speaking users are on Linux for the first time in history
>>736214936>>73621494710% mind
>>736214867They already stopped adding AI features to Win11 and instad moving these to Win12, which is why Win11 got a +10% boost
>>736214936Holy shit
>>736214947Alright this is significant now.
>>736214936Linux really is the white man's OS.
>>736214641Steam has nearly 200 million monthly active users.with 10% that's 20 million Linux users.Not exactly a number corpos can afford to ignore anymore. Especially with how easy it is to guarantee Linux compatibility these days.
>>736214936we are finally catching up to india. I already started to squat on the street curb, gotta prepare these muscles for action come 20%
>>736214973>which is why Win11 got a +10% boostand Win 10 -15%.You think they migrated to Windows 7?
>>736214641India is all servers and work laptops. No one in India even plays PC games - or console games. Neither Sony, NIntendo or Steam have any marketshare there. Armenia has more Steam users than India despite India having 1.6 billion people.Everyone over there is exclusively playing Android phone trash.
The time has come and so have I
>>736215057Proof?
>System RAM>32 GB 36.62% -20.31%>16 GB 40.97% +13.50%
>>736214789The funny thing with the chinese is that they are not really daily gamers like the rest of the world. Occasionally a big game for the chinese comes out and that makes them all rush into the Internet Cafes and log into their Steam accounts - but once that game is played they go back doing other stuff in their freetime.That's why hardware survey have those random spikes.
>>736214641What the fuck is this map? Why is the arrow for India nowhere near India? What's the orange blob crossing Africa and Europe supposed to be?
>>736214936Lol
>>736215064Year of the Linux desktop was the year Proton was released for the first time.It was August 2018
>>736215084Steams own data.Also it shouldn't be a surprise cause Indians literally cannot buy 99% of the stuff that is on Steam due to India financial laws cockblocking them.Steam doesn't accept indian bank bullshit so you need a foreign card/account to get anything which most people simply do not bother with. And consoles simply do not get sold in India by the big players - you have maybe one or two stores in the bigger cities but those charge extreme markups so no one is buying a PS5 or Switch either.
>>736215135I want Indian, brasilian and Russian Linux numbers please
>>736215108Makes sense, Kerala is easily the least-awful part of jeetland by a wide margin.
>>736215052>>736214549See >>736215085, it's all poopjeets with $200 Chinese laptop that can't run win11, forcing him to settle for Linux
>>736214754>6.19.9yay it up endeavour frenalso you should be able to run cheat engine as long as it's launched in the same wine/proton prefix as where the game's running
>>736214789>Looks like they fixed the Chinese internet cafes getting massively overreported bug.>bugthis happens every yearhttps://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/gaming-pcs/huge-os-and-ram-usage-swings-in-steam-survey-likely-to-have-been-influenced-by-china-influx>March 2, 2025
>>736215171Pretty sure Steam doesn't event support poo in loo.Of the Linux users, 3.5% are Russian and 1.5% are Brazilian.Not sure how it corresponds to total % of Russians using Linux.
>>736215343>Germans behind RussiansOh shit
>>736215230A $200 laptop will run Win11.
>>736214325I think you mean GNU plus Linux
>>736215385>130 million vs 80 million>no one buys consoles in Russiayeah no shit
now we need official Steam KDE vs GNOME stats.
>>736215343Indias are too poor to afford gaming hardware. The Linux laptops they use for work can barely run office. With a median networth of around 2k bucks do you really think Indians can afford anything that isn't playing OG Angry Birds on their budget android phone?
>>736213756Actually, it's not. If you look at the Linux data separated by distro, SteamOS Holo 64 bit (aka the one the 'eck uses) is only 24.48%, meaning the vast majority of that number is people who installed Linux themselves.
>>736215302NTA but I'm pretty sure he means a native version of Cheat Engine to speed hack native Linux games. It's that, MTools, and Affinity (Krita doesn't handle PSDs as well) for me that keep me from ditching my dualboot setup. I've been happy running Fedora ever since the Hot Dog version for my everyday usage though.
>>736214754It's called scanmem
>>736213850>unless linux supports anticheat for shit like ValorantIt does. The issue is that anticheat for shit like Valorant doesn't support Linux.
>>736215569Only good for editing/freezing memory values. It lacks a speedhack equivalent.
>>736215567honestly in my year or so on linux I've yet to actually run a native linux build for a game - unless a game doesn't have a windows build that anon may as well use it if cheat engine is importantbut yeah production/art tools are a different matter on linux currently
>>736215447Foot Fetishists pls go and stay go.
>>736214641Don't look up Microshart's CEO
>>736215343Kek>Indian deluge intensifies >""""english""""" language Linux user count goes upAnd /v/ calls this a win. It's all jeeted anyway, Linux, Windows, everything
>>736214064>1% vs 97%>1.3% vs 96.7%>1.8% vs 96.2%>2.5% vs 95.5%>3.3% vs 94.7%>4.5% vs 93.5%>5.33% vs 92.33% >You are here>I-I'm sure it'll st-stop any day now, r-right, winsisters?
>>736216083Maybe linux actually becomes useable when it hits enough of critical mass for corporations to purge fosstards and assume direct control.
>>736213570TOTAL MICROSLOP DEATH
>>736216414>Maybe linux actually becomes useableIt's already usable. More so than windows even. The only issue is software support but that's both not the fault of Linux and something that will naturally be fixed as the userbase grows and corpos can't ignore it anymore.>when it hits enough of critical mass for corporations to purge fosstards and assume direct control.Fuck no. Escaping jewish influence and getting a usable OS was the main reason most people even switched to Linux. Why the fuck would you want it ruined like windows?
>>736216538>escaping Jewish influenceLinux is already infiltrated by CoC trannies and will get ruined by the jew's favourite golems and jeets
>>736216083oh boy can't wait! 2080 will surely will be the year of linux
Nothing of significance has happened in the last month, so linux more than duplicating it's numbers in a single month is obviously inorganic you're hyping up bots inflating this month's numbers
>>736216820>Linux is already infiltrated by CoC tranniesTrue, but they haven't had too much of a negative effect yet. Plus, there's distros like Artix that aren't compromised. That won't be an option if it gets completely taken over by corporations.
>supporting linuxno thanks
>>736216862>what is exponential growthIt took like a decade for Linux to go from 1% to 2%, then a couple years to 3%. Now it's gone to 5% in barely a year. At this rate, it'll probably hit 20% by 2030.
>>736216940The 3% increase is because the chink internet cafe bug happened again last month and this is just correcting from it. It was well over 4% before that.
>>736214620The biggest cope is thinking that people making the switch will just happily stay there forever. My friend was the biggest arch linux shill until he got a job and realized that spending 2 hours everyday documenting his fixes for rudimentary things like alt tabbing screens while in a game, HDR, audio drivers for multiple audio sources etc. was just not worth it. He literally had to choose between having a dim but stable screen using X11 or a bright screen that teared up everytime he played a fullscreen game using Wayland. Linux is fucking pathetic if you want something that just werks. Also, just wait till you have 100,000 pajeets hop on linux and then completely shit all over the open source code and flood the current active community devs with shitty pull requests. If you think your distro's update flow is slow just wait till you have an army of poop munchers bloating your code, sending 5000 push requests every day and completely overflowing everyone else with their GPT code.
>>736217016With Linux being free, you can fork it if you don't like Linus. With windows, you have to take whatever slopya nutella gives you.
>>736216820>Linux is already infiltrated by CoC tranniesYou can simply choose not to use a woke distro. On Windows, the liberal slop is mandatory. You VILL have the tranny flag on your taskbar.
Windows has become so profoundly horrible they are gradually unentrenching themselves. It's a sight to see.
>>736217016>he thinks linus owns linuxholy retardation
>>736217284>arch linuxThere's his issue.>Linux is fucking pathetic if you want something that just werks. Nope. That's windows. Linux has plenty of distros that justwerk. Fedora is probably the best generalist, Mint is great if you don't game or only play old games, Nobara is just Fedora but with all gaming related stuff already set up for you. There's also distros that need more work, like Arch or Gentoo, but those aren't all there is.
>>736214252It's okay when epic does it
>>736217284>My friend was the biggest arch linux shill until he got a job and realized that spending 2 hours everyday documenting his fixes for rudimentary things like alt tabbing screens while in a game, HDR, audio drivers for multiple audio sources etc.your friend is a massive retard that probably downloaded every package under the sun from the AUR with no understanding of how his system fucking worked, arch + KDE plasma is literally baby proof and does everything FOR YOU
>>736217284I have a full time job and my Arch machine gives me less trouble than my Win11 gaymen box. Either your friend got filtered hard or he had shit luck with hardware support.The real reason people usually switch back is simply because they need Windows-only software other than games. This will probably never change since there's a ridiculous amount of shit that only works with Windows.
>>736216973>>736217334You Linuxtards are really dumb fucks aren't you? The Linux kernel is compromised, stupid faggots. It's already taken over. Your distro choice doesn't matter
>>736217284>Also, just wait till you have 100,000 pajeets hop on linux and then completely shit all over the open source code and flood the current active community devs with shitty pull requests.We have already reached that point and then some: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/ai_bot_developer_rejected_pull_request/https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/And pretty much any news involving Copilot & GitHub.
>>736216083If i gotta get a new pc or install an os i'm going linux, otherwise i'm not getting out of this chair
>>736217625>
>>736213570one thing always bothered me is, whole linux gaming depends on proton, which is the reason it suddenly became popular, but proton which is a compatibility layer, so linux ecosystem kind of depends on success of windows, games still need to be made for windows to run using proton, that means that day probably would never come where windows in completely dethroned, because i cant see big game companies making games for linux because of dynamic linking shit and endless distro configurations.
>>736213570So we have official number of troons using steam?
>>736215179not only that, its fucking FREE, you dont have to spend tax money on microsoft licenses, or force students on college to pass a microsoft office license as curriculum
The year of linux will never come until normies can buy linux computers at tech stores
>>736217618>The Linux kernel is compromised, stupid faggots.By the NSA, sure, they have backdoors to everything. It's unavoidable.Politically, the culture war shit is very easy to ignore. It simply is not my problem. Microsoft actively and aggressively makes it my problem.
>>736217758the 2.35% using MacOS
Linux newfag here, Im already used to Fedora on this toaster, im planning to build a gaming rig soon, so am I on the clear for gaming if I just keep using fedora?
>>736217863no that's just gays, they kinda fell out of fashion in favor of troons, probably too conservative and not RADical enought
>>736213694Haven't touched Windows (outside tech support) in 12 years by now.Windows is a piece of shit and I genuinely don't understand people sticking with that dead horse.
>>736217243>the chink internet cafe bugI always love it when schizos go on the internet and talk about their made up boogeymen as if they're common knowledge and anyone else has any idea what the fuck they're talking about.
>>736216538The issues is not only software support, linux is not end user ready and it will not be end user ready till it become essentially android. There is also complete lack of identity to the point of linux selling point currently being it can emulate windows good enough.Valve is the only reason linux is in its current semi working state, fosstards weren't doing shit without valve getting involved, corporations and big money is ultimately how shit get done like it or not.
>>736217959Linux was way too inconvenient to use for a long time, now there's really no excuse, specially since stuff like KDE plasma and windows-like distros exist for friendly use, specially on free software most are bound to windows because of some stuff, not that much anymoregranted some companies and jobs DEMAND the use of,for example, solid works, or adobe stuff, despite alternatives that do the same existing, so there's that as well
>>736218212As a new Linux user, I find it funny how there's a severe lack of a good image viewer like Honeyviewer for simple comic/manga reading, but im not complaining, I like it here now
>>736218212>Valve is the only reason linux is in its current semi working state, fosstards weren't doing shit without valve getting involvedDXVK was literally written by a Nier autist who wanted to play Automata on Linux.Valve saw the potential and backed him. That's how proton came to be.It was completely made by a single fosstard schizo. So you're wrong.
Piracy is still better on Windows
>>736218402>Valve saw the potential and backed himThanks for confirming my point.
>>736217779And that will happen as an inevitable result of Linux gaining marketshare. Once it hits 15-20%, it'll be too big to ignore and Linux PCs will start being sold. This will also fix the other major issue, which is software support. Once Linux is big enough, shareholders will start asking Adobe, Microsoft, etc why they're leaving millions of users and dollars on the table and they'll have no choice but to port Photoshop and Office to Linux.
>>736218212>linux is not end user readyIt is though. On Fedora and Mint, you'll never have to use the terminal unless you actively choose to.
>>736217717>i cant see big game companies making games for linux because of dynamic linking shit and endless distro configurationsmost engines have a "build for linux" button right next to their "build for windows" button.
>>736215102Likely AI generated is the explanation.
>>736218482You don't even have a point, goal post mover.Valve's Steam OS is literally based on Arch. They didn't invent shit and SteamOS wouldn't exist without arch.
>>736213570Thank you, Gaben, for lifting the biggest problem of linux wide adoption
>>736213570I have been using Debian for productivity for the last 2 years, and kept my old window install purely for gayming.I recently decided that having to swap between the two was kinda annoying, so I started gayming on Debian and I'm surprised how it just werks.I don't play multiplayer slop though
>>736218575No him but valve's been dumbing money into Linux for sometime now.
>>736215102>What's the orange blob crossing Africa and Europe supposed to be?India you idiot.
>>736214920dis nigga speaking chinese
>>736213570>neofetch>cava>pipesI don't think I've ever had this much fun looking at my desktop since I was a kid, anyone knows more ways to pimp out my GUI? on cinnamon mint because it just works.
