Most folks in tech enthusiast circles have heard of – or own – a Steam Deck and have possibly even installed SteamOS-based Linux distributions like Bazzite or Chimera. The small but growing backlash against data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/windows-11″ data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/windows-11″>Windows 11‘s strict hardware requirements and forced upgrades may have become evident in the latest data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Steam Hardware & Software Survey, which shows an all-time high of 3.20% for Linux.
That figure is a 0.15% rise in just one month, quite an impressive figure once you consider that for years on end,…

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