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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Valve's plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows (www.pcguide.com)

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Even gamers nexus' Steve today said that they're about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It's happening, y'all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn't precisely say they're starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

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[–] specterspectre@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

With bottles, boxes, and all the other small environment virtualization solutions available right now, switching to Linux with a few 'almost native' Windows application is easier than ever. The mileage will vary from distro to distro. I've managed to get bottles to run some annoyingly old statistics software I need for work. It works great. Sometimes it can be a bit of a headache to figure out where the software saves files but playing detective for a file somewhere in the system is better than enduring all that Windows imposes on the user.

[–] lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Didn't know about Bottles, Cool find, may have to test it out.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

For all my disc games or other just standalone .EXE stuff, Bottles has been nothing short of mind-blowing.

I'd say the Flatpak might be your best bet if you're on a rolling distro.

My only other tip is to make sure you set your Bottles directory to wherever your storage partition is, as it'd probably fill up your /home by default pretty quick!