PUBG made billions of dollars, Fortnite copied that, and Tim was suddenly interested in PC again lol

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

some highlights for me: Donkey Kong Country 2, System Shock 2, SABOR, Tetris, Resident Evil Requiem, Mario 64 TAS, Link to the Past, and Super Dram World 3

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I always find it interesting when a Microsoft-owned studio makes an explicit fix for Steam Deck/SteamOS/Linux

Nice! Bazzite is pretty convenient for pre-RTX users since it has a dedicated iso for them, so drivers are pre-installed

This is a gaming laptop though, it’s a different market

I think it’s actually a good time for year of Linux since Linux is more efficient with memory than Windows 11

Many distros are now based on Debian Testing. I feel like they could come together and maintain a shared stable base, similar to what Ubuntu used to be for them. Kinda like the Open Gaming Collective guys did for their kernel development.

Razer could bring the biggest bump to Linux market share since the Steam Deck, or possibly even more

The current biggest weakness of Linux is lack of OEMs shipping it. Most people do not want to install an OS themselves, or even know that it’s possible.

I would rather have a tax specifically for data center hardware purchases

Hurt the data centers not the manufacturers

I don’t think Kubuntu makes partitions by default, I just have a single large partition aside from the EFI

DKC2 is gonna be a hype opener

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Yes, in the same way that you don’t typically need to tinker with Linux

In the end they’re not so different, except Windows intentionally does anti-consumer things that make people want to tinker.

“Windows doesn’t require any tinkering, just run this to make a local account, decline 100 requests to use OneDrive and Office 365, get these debloaters, uninstall all these things, and make sure you always tell Windows to not restart your computer while you’re using it every time it updates. And when it does update, you’ll need to run the debloaters again.”

Nvidia RTX on Linux is generally ok, AMD is great

Nvidia cards older than RTX might not be good, their drivers are outdated

Maybe GPD should just join the OGC lol, Bazzite and ASUS already did

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/open-gaming-collective-ogc-formed-to-push-linux-gaming-even-further/