43% of you will have, or will likely be switching to gaming on Linux this 12 months, however extra stunning than that over 1 / 4 of you really do not thoughts Windows

Linux is one thing that has been on our minds, and truthfully on our gaming PCs fairly extensively over the previous few months. Since Valve dropped it into the Steam Deck, and Proton turned the way in which ahead for gaming on Linux distros the world over, there was elevated curiosity within the open supply working system. Is it a viable different to Windows, can it really address gaming on high-end {hardware}, will you be caught copy and pasting random code right into a terminal from right here till the tip of time?

Yes, sure, and possibly.

But there are different questions, essentially the most pertinent is one which we put to the you, our pricey readers over the previous week: Would you, will you, are you making the swap to PC gaming on Linux?

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For the exhausting of peeping amongst you, the outcomes from that frustratingly ill-compressed picture are as follows: 29% of the responders to the week’s ballot mentioned they’d already made the swap over to gaming on Linux; 26% mentioned they really do not thoughts Windows in spite of everything, and 14% mentioned they deliberate to make the swap this 12 months.