The only thing it will do is turn off potential users because they either feel attacked for using a perfectly useable os or they do want want to be associated with the onmine culture around the os.

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.

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

Well according to information out there they did get permition to tweak Windows to make it much more sutible for gaming handhelds.

Everyone that is scared they can’t play the most popular online games on their handheld. So theoretically a massive demographic according to research (most pc gamers play older live service titles) done but whether they would want a gaming handheld is a different question.

Gateway 2000 with Windows 95. I do not know which specific configuration (I was too young). I do remember the games I had though: Tyrian 2000, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, C&C, HoM3, I-war, Flight Simulator 95, LBA 2 and Jersey Devil. Half of them were copies I got from a neighbour that owned a cd-r.

One day it will reach 5%.

Well the year of the Linux desktop will have to wait a few years considering Valve time.

It is a move to decouple from the USA for critical infrastructure. They don’t want to be in a similar situation as Ukraine in any potential conflict. Where the USA just says we will no longer allow you to use our computer chips for war with Russia.

Personally, I think you are probably stuck with Windows for now, since I imagine you really don’t want to learn a whole slew of new programs (that might or might not do everything you want) in my very uninformed opinion.

Internet connectivity should be mostly fine but that can depend on hardware sometimes.

Gaming is in general not a problem if you have Steam, Heroic, Lutris, Bottles and Protonup QT. But look into ProtonDB to see which runs and which doesn’t.

But for much of the professional software it will become a hassle. You could look into CrossOver by Codeweavers (a paid version of Wine) and see what compatability that brings. But for the most part I think you would probably have to setup a Windows Virtual Machine with GPU Passthrough.

I must say, I must have gotten lucky for years while gaming because I had never experienced stick drift and only heard of it in the last few years.

Broken buttons, that I did experience.

Weren’t there just credible leaks on a sequel to Half Life Alyx that may or may not be Half Life 3.

Let’s hope it doesn’t get destroyed by idiots.

Considering it is free to use, with streaming, voice/video calling , it surprises me that the enshitification didn’t start earlier.

Let’s hope Europe stars investigating Google as a gatekeeper. That seemed to work miracles on Apple.