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yay! hi mint!
I am also newly minty fresh.
Although up graded anyway because the games I play aren't an Linux.
The only downside is gaming.
I made a portable flashdrive for Linux for anything I want to keep privet and left windows for exclusively gaming.
Games work great in Linux!
And that's not like "oh, about 3/4 of my favorite old games work without too much trouble." It's more like opening steam and "holy crap, half of my old favorites have native Linux versions and everything else just works using proton."
Remember, the Steam Deck and the general shittiness of Microsoft has directed a lot of Valve's resources towards gaming on Linux.
If you want to play some brand new AAA multiplayer thing with rootkit type anti cheat, then maybe you'd be stuck dual booting into windows.
I'd argue that those games could be abandoned, because there is SO much choice out there that I am certain I already own copies of dozens of games that I will never play. But if it's a matter of playing what your friends are into, then yeah make the computer adapt to the human needs and not the other way around.
Absolute truth. I haven't run into a single game that doesn't run on my second-from-top-of-the-line gaming PC I built last year under Linux. I know they exist because I see articles about a developer removing Proton support for odd reasons, but it hasn't impacted me yet.
MS has largely made their own OS irrelevant by putting the Office Suite in the cloud. If you need Excel but don't want Copilot throwing all your screengrabs to Redmond a box running Ubuntu or Mint or Bazzite or MacOS (a legit option for some people with niche applications that cater to the Apple crowd). MS is following the same playbook with the Xbox brand. If everything is an Xbox then why would you harness yourself to a crappy MS branded one?
It's funny you mention the office side of things in addition to gaming, because I have remarked about the same thing.
Using Librewolf(firefox) on Linux, all of the M365 applications work fine in the browser. Probably even better, since I can actually close them when I want to. I use Teams the most, which is obviously a very connected thing. But for a word processor, which seems like the most local thing ever, the web app lets me share in MS format and accept comments and all that.
I could absolutely see Microsoft's execs planning out the most efficient way to grind every bit of value out of the windows brand on their path to subscription everything.