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It's technically not untrue if enough people call it a Pizzussy.

If you use windows, this is the way it will be on PC in a few years as well.

Ah yes, the “the weather is clear now” argument for not putting up an umbrella because you fear you’re going to get wet if you’re wrong is peak copium.

See how well that worked for Sears, Blockbuster, Dial-Up providers, TV… etc.

Its a combination of Vulkan and Valve paying devs to work on Proton.

Vulkan is a fantastic Graphics API. Vulkan is more optimized than DirectX, and it's so much better than DirectX that the DXVK (DirectX to Vulkan) Wrapper that Proton implements makes games run better, despite the fact it's running through an obfuscation.

Try Krita. It's pretty similar to photoshop. A few creature comforts will be lost, but not too many substantial things.

However, if you really use the curved text feature of photoshop a lot, you may miss that.

You haven't been paying attention. Literally the best selling item on Steam for nearly a year and a half was a Linux Gaming PC.

Linux is far more flexible than Windows. The nature of open source is what enables such flexibility. The only reason Linux hasn't been adopted by many is simply because of the chicken and egg issue.

Microsoft and Apple had made a monopoly on the market for desktop computers, And since the desktop market share was so low for linux, few devs developed desktop software for Linux. Which then in turn kept Linux from gaining marketshare.

But the times are changing. Wine, Proton, Lutris and Multi-Platform web app tools have lead to a world where devs can simply just mindlessly go "oh yeah I guess we can enable linux builds/proton supported builds." and just forget about it.

For example, lets say it was 2006 and Discord was just released in that time period. Instead of being a web app, they built a client that communicated using an API for Discord. Well, more than likely that official client was Windows and maybe MacOS exclusive. They built it from the ground up, and sure it has an API and sure a linux client may exist. But it would never be 1:1 with the official client.

This was the most likely thing to happen, and theres no way you can convince grandma to try Linux when all of her basic apps don't work anymore.

Fast forward to 2023. Unless Grandma is using Adobe software, Linux will work fine. Chromebooks sold well for basic users afterall.

I'm no fool. I know Linux isn't going to hit 100% desktop marketshare the instant windows 10 goes EOL.

But I do know many people who are willing to make the switch rather than to go to Windows 11.

Windows has been bleeding desktop marketshare for years. They are at a far cry from their 80% of the early 2000s.

"The Customer orders the food, you cook the food, and the customer gets the food. We do that for 40 years and then we die." - Squidward.

Not the point of the meme but, games that have a ranked mode are a red flag. Typically these games hare filled with sweaty try hards who freak over the tiniest bullshit mistakes. And these games also are typically the ones who install invasive kernel level root kit Anticheats.

I’m not installing an rootkit to play a game with a bunch of toxic people.

What if instead we had Less Cars and more Public Transit?

Typically, imo, most people who aren't ready to jump to Linux are there because their top couple of games are ruled by arrogant devs/publishers who balk at the idea of ticking an "enable proton compatibility" checkbox with their anticheat.

From what I've seen Proton has hit a quality of compatibility that the games will just run, and typically better than Windows. If it doesn't run it's usually because it's too new and proton needs a patch, or the devs/publishers did the aforementioned "no, i won't tick the checkbox, it's too hard." bullshit.

Basically, if your waiting on a game to be supported for proton, it may need to wait until Linux adoption hits around 20 percent before the devs/publishers get that bullshit idea out of their head.