Your hardware is incompatible or you do not want to fiddle with settings or command lines
Your applications/games only work well on native Windows (and not wine)
You need serious group policy support or other device/software lockdown methods
Your company policy requires it
Makes helping Windows users harder if you cannot walk them through the same things they are doing

Of course if any of these apply you can always dual-boot or use a VM. I'm not saying you shouldn't use Linux at all.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your hardware is incompatible

I think you'll have an extremely hard time finding any hardware that supports Windows but can't run linux. With Win11 requirements it's much more likely to be the other way around.

Your applications/games only work well on native Windows

Personally, every game I care to run works perfectly fine on my Steam Deck. I refuse to play any games that require kernel-level anti-cheat. It's officially distributed malware if you ask me.

[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 days ago

It's crazy how many people are just OK with running completely proprietary code that monitors everything that happens on the machine and phones home all the time, all with the promise to "catch cheaters".

Fortunately every game I've seen so far with such malware is just a generic competitive multiplayer dopamine farm that targets the Streamer crowd.

"But all my friends are playing it!" - Is it really worth it to run omnipresent malware on your machine just to play the currently trending game for a few weeks until you move on to the next?

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