I have my Linux laptop open at work next to their windows machine and the difference when I switch between them is ridiculous.
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If Linux was introduced to me a lot sooner and I wasn't such a jackass that had to play video games on my computer, I would literally have switched a long fucking time ago. I've used all operating systems at this point and Linux ecosystem is far better. What you can't do on Linux is shit I don't even want to do. Most of the time.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed player here with an Nvidia 3000-series GPU.
Gaming with Steam, GoG (Heroic Launcher), and even disc games installed with Bottles has been a smooth experience with VERY few if any tweaks or fixes needed.
Except for VR (where Monado is making strides!) we are THERE. I'd highly encourage trying it out these days.
Unless you gotta play the latest AAA hyper-competitive monolithic server games with kernel level anti cheat but...at that point might as well have a burner PC. X_X lol
Even then some work! Marvel Rivals works on Linux fine!
So does Helldivers 2 but that's cooperative.
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Literally finally let my windows partition upgrade to windows 11 last night. It took like 3 HOURS to do. Then I shrunk the partition way down and clean installed my Bazzite dual boot over the extra space and that took MAYBE 15 minutes. I use Windows MAYBE once every 6 months or so. Linux has just been the better experience for 99% of my computing and even gaming needs.
Yes but wouldn't you like to sign up for an outlook account? No? Sorry that wasn't a question, this full screen window has no X and you will comply.
... unless you do the thing that skips it, but man that's an awful experience.
I wouldn't even think about leaving Linux. I use Arch, btw!
I'd consider BSD but it's just the same systems with a worse license I think.
Wait wat, grovelling and eating grub and dirt? /s
You prefer eating lilo?
ffffffffffuuuuuuuuu thatβs a good one
Is that like an alternate term for fifo?
Getting sand and bugs on their lips?
I am repulsed by windows. I would just give up completely entirely on computing if I had to use Windows. I will go to extreme lengths to maintain my ability to develop and work on Linux. It is a real operating system while Windows is the virus. Also, Apple sucks.
She looks practiced... A little too practiced.
5 minutes and i'd be making sweet, sweet love to that sand.
See, as a native Windows user, I mostly feel the opposite. I use Linux Mint because it's almost like Windows, but it's incredibly frustrating when it's not. I'm not even much of a gamer (most of my games are FOSS, or run in RetroArch, Vice, or DOSBox-X). I just like being able to instantly find the software I'm looking for. It shouldn't take an hour to find a Notepad. There needs to be something like Dspeech. I shouldn't need to search and poke and hope that the software is either in apt or flatpak. So every time I go back to Windows, even the hellscape that is 11, I can get everything done faster than Linux.
Totally get it! It's somewhat jarring moving from the Windows world of software to the world that are available in apt (or other), or otherwise running essential software through wine/proton.
An hour to find a notepad? Most desktop environments come with some simple text editor. And if you're running something minimal, there's always nano or vim.
If some software is not found by apt search, I usually start to wonder, is it not free software? In that case I'd rather find an alternative. Some times I have to go to the softwares web site, where they have install instructions, but that's the exception.
In those cases where it's not free software, I care more about free as in lunch than as in speech. Just let me run arbitrary .exe files in whatever folder I want them in.
Basically, I want to emphasize the Personal in PC. I don't want to think about a user account. I don't want features built for "network security" in my OS. TBH, I just don't want a server OS - and all UNIX derivatives (including NT Windows) are. My ideal OS would be a dual-boot of FreeDOS & an updated Win Me that runs current hardware.