Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day agoWhat I had heard was that they were looking for other hooks into the operating system that weren’t as deep, not that they were removing the deeper hooks.
That is still kicking it out of the kernel. For all functional purposes anyways.
The short of it to what I understand is they want to provide an official standardized way for anti virus and anti cheats and other software that would normally live in the kernel to do what it needs to.
Basically making everything live in user space unless it’s made by microsoft. It should result in basically there being an entire layer between the kernel and the user and their software.
Which is perfect for Linux. If it lives in userspace, it can be made compatible.
This is wonderful news!
I’ve been using Linux full time for around 3 or 4 years. I just bought a Legion Go handheld gaming PC, which comes with Windows.
I knew before I bought it that I was going to load Linux on it instead, but decided to check out the Windows experience a little out of curiosity first. Holy fucking shit, it was a shitshow. A buggy mess and terrible experience .
And you hang out in the online communities for devices like this and you will see even totally nontechnical users who have no dog in the fight for a Linux bias are still vastly preferring the Linux experience. This is completely unprecedented.
Anticheat is the only thing Microsoft has ‘‘going for them’’’ if you can even put it that way. Really starts to feel like Windows is toast.
It’s interesting, anticheat and the xbox game pass are the only things stopping me from changing my main OS over. Not many other reasons to keep it, really.
I gave up game pass, i looked into paying more to be able to stream games from it… but i decided it just was not worth it… at some point the great deal is going to become shitty…
I don’t regret dropping it and have just used steam…
I also didn’t play games that had kernel level anti cheat… just never seemed worth it
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
The Windows team has been looking for ways to remove the deeper hooks ever since the CrowdStrike outage last year.