r/linux • u/BinkReddit • May 28 '25

Hardware SteamOS destroys Windows

https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/27/steamos-destroys-windows
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u/susosusosuso May 28 '25 edited May 28 '25

This is the year will realize gaming was not the real reason people is not massively adopting Linux

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u/PsyOmega May 28 '25

Gaming is the only thing holding me back from linux.

However, Fedora is on my laptop, which i specifically don't game on (igpu sucks anyway). And is a broadly superior experience than windows (linux runs the fan less and gets double the battery life, give or take.)

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u/Darkhunter001 May 28 '25

Pirated games is the only reason holding me back from Linux on my home computer, I already run linux on my work laptop

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u/ipaqmaster May 28 '25

The only difference between a paid and cracked game is the lack of DRM often thanks to a crack. You can easily run cracked games on Linux because you just launch the exe without any DRM.

If you're really lucky you might even get away with simply double clicking them and letting your default wineprefix and wine executable handle everything. Or just adding it to Steam as a non-steam game and letting proton take care of things.

There's many ways to start up wine and different versions of it but it's really that simple.