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PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop" (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’ve always considered Windows to be a toy OS, because the only use case that could legitimately justify its need is gaming. Removing that requirement leaves only the clownishly unserious and terminally incurious users, which is a large population in computing today, but I’m fine with leaving them to kick in their wading sewer.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

What a hot take.

Literally trillions of dollars in business have taken place on applications that only work on Windows. They were developed for 95 or XP or whatever and are still in use today.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For me, music production is my reason for being on Windows. Gaming I could do on Linux, but there's nothing to drum up the interest in in fixing music prod on Linux that there was for gaming.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There was a spin of Ubuntu back in the day that focused on music production. I think I took it for a spin, but that's not really my world and running it as a daily driver wouldn't make sense for me. Having said that, you've probably already got a collection of licenses for a dozen windows-only audio programs . I did learn that sound in general is a bit complex on Linux with pulsaudio, alsa, and whatever else is going on.