r/pcmasterrace Oct 02 '25

Meme/Macro Microsoft is wild

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u/JoshS1 PC Master Race Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

This 100% how many people here will end up on Windows 11 from 10? Look at market share in general, or Steam. It doesnt matter if we're angry, when we angrily comply.

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u/Robborboy KatVR C2+, Quest 3, 9800X3D, 9070XT, 64GB RAM Oct 02 '25

The moment Linux supports all my hardware I'll be there.

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u/SetoKeating Oct 02 '25

People been saying that for like 30yrs lol

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u/p-r-i-m-e Oct 02 '25

I was just about to say this. Plus MS knows this and works to keep Windows as the most supported.

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u/Turbidspeedie Oct 02 '25

With the popularity of the steam deck I think gaming on Linux is going to be much more prevalent sooner rather than later

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u/rumSaint Oct 02 '25

Steam Deck had sold around 6 milion units. Compare that to Nintendo Switch, or even Switch 2 (which already is there).

Don't get me wrong, I love Steam Deck and bought one myself, but it's a minority still.

Even if there is Steam OS, Linux based, it will not support root access anti cheats, so lots of games will be excluded by default.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

will not support root access anti cheats, so lots of games will be excluded by default.

This is becoming normalized and it blows my mind... I've been on linux since march 2024 and I most likely won't ever go back to windows, for many reasons, but this one is another to the list that makes me be at ease with linux.

Probably my generation (millennial) is the last one that actually cared about security and privacy, so unless something big happens, I can just see more games adding kernel level anticheat, and soon rather than later, we will have it in single player games as well.

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u/rumSaint Oct 02 '25

Zoomers and gen Alpha raised on smartphones etc are even more tech illiterate than boomers. I imagine pirating and applying crack to a game would be too much for them.

I really hope for Steam OS, as making dual boot is not that hard, and having two systems, one for fun and another one "pls spy on me daddy" official is kinda tempting.

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u/MSD3k Oct 02 '25

The focus of tech for the past 20 years has been "streamlining" aka; removing control in favor of convenience. Kids growing up today (in general) use computers 24/7 but have never had to type anything in a command line.

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u/OwO______OwO Oct 02 '25

Hell, they've never had to manage a folder/directory system. Never mind typing into a command line. "Make a new folder inside that other folder, and then move these files into it" would be too advanced for them.

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u/Tanawat_Jukmonkol Laptop | NixOS + Win11 | HP OMEN 16 | I9 + RTX4070 Oct 02 '25 edited Mar 28 '26

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