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PC gaming hardware market skyrockets (www.jonpeddie.com)

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[–] who@feddit.org 27 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

“Never before in the history of the Microsoft Windows operating system has there been a forced hardware migration requirement. And this cannot be solved by swapping out a graphics card. It requires a CPU upgrade for over 100 million gamers, which, in turn, requires a motherboard upgrade and most likely RAM as well,” said Ted Pollak, JPR’s senior analyst of game tech.

Of course, it can also be solved by switching from Windows to Linux. No hardware upgrades necessary unless some existing components lack Linux drivers, and those can often be upgraded individually instead of replacing the entire PC.

The main exception is for competitive games using certain anti-cheat systems that are incompatible with Linux. People who want to play those games will probably have to go the expensive route.

[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Recently did this. I have a fair bit of history in CLI Linux and ancient desktop distributions. However, it’s my first time using Arch. Not only did archinstall sidestep the meme that Arch is hard to install, but I just installed nvidia drivers, steam, and started playing games. Aside from arch not coming with a browser by default to help look up things on the wiki (I didn’t specify in archinstall, so my fault), one pacman command later and it’s time to configure it to my liking.

[–] who@feddit.org 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

For anyone else reading this: Arch is a popular Linux distribution that's aimed at enthusiasts who either already know the basics or are prepared to spend a lot of time learning. There are other Linux distros that will be easier for first-timers, such as Linux Mint.

[–] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Bazzite is great for gaming

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