I just made the jump in November. Gaming pc was the last computer in the house with windows. Now it's an all Linux household, well minus the router on FreeBSD.

Its going up and then back down when users cant fix one of a thousand experience breaking issues.

I play world of warcraft and baldur's gate 3. installed cachyos yesterday and downloaded both games through Steam

i was expecting the games to be laggy or glitchy, but they run smooth as butter. 240fps on WoW, I think it might perform better than Windows 11 but at least as good.

im sure something about linux will annoy me eventually and I'll switch back to Windows, but I don't want to.

Amazing! Steam could finally drag the Linux Desktop mainstream.

On linux mint I can get games to run but they run horribly. I wish I could figure out the issue because running most of my games on linux would be awesome

For years I dabbled with Linux and I tried switching from windows to Linux many times. There were always compatibility issues with some software and games that made me return to windows. Earlier this year I got so fed up with Microsoft’s relentless invasion of my privacy, annoying nudges and other enshitification efforts in Windows that I decided that not only is windows dead to me, but any software I can’t run Linux is dead to me as well. That was months ago and my only regret is that I didn’t do this sooner.

I understand people need certain apps for work and maybe those need windows. Others have absolutely no power over the machines their work gives them, I’ve been there, no judgement. This is just my experience.

I think the inflection point for mass adoption will between 5-10% market share. Then Linux will be too big to ignore and game studios will have to make their games work without kernel level anti-cheat or other restrictions or lose a very significant amount of sales relative to the cost of implementing the required changes.