No, it's not. And I say that as an almost-exclusively Linux users since at least 20 years.
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I'd switch in a heartbeat if Linux can play all my games including non-steam ones
Conversely, Iβm coming to the conclusion that I could probably live with just a steam deck, instead of a laptop etc. A portable screen, or my projector, my nice Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and I reckon itβll do everything I really need day-to-day.
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So glad I came back to Linux a couple years ago. I only use my windows partition to play a game that wonβt work as well in Linux, and that list is pretty small for the games I play. Even BG3 worked great in Mint, using a 6 year old build.
Laughs in rolling release
laughs in kernel panics
I'm running nixos unstable. I did get some panics while hibernating with one kernel version, but otherwise it's been super stable.
Enabling threadedirqs (real-time feature) on the kernel command line does make the kernel panic on boot though.
At work we run some software that while you can get it to run under Linux it's not worth the effort even for me to bother.
One supplier is slowly moving towards the runtime being available on BSD at least. They also somewhat decoupled from visual studio in the latest release, while still being mandatory still it's a step in the right direction.
This always falls on its face for work. No one does collaboration as easy as Microsoft and thatβs not changing anytime soon. I mean, everyone would have to move all at once. I can move to Linux on my personal devices and itβs not going to change stats one bit.
Not sure what you mean by "collaboration". If your are talking about working on documents, spreadsheets, calendar, slides, with your coworkers, sharing, manage access, etc. Google does that pretty well. My company uses everything Google for many years and it's very good from this perspective. It works absolutely the same from any operating system, Google Chrome is the OS at this point. I am not saying that Google is better than Microsoft as a corporation, just saying that Microsoft has legitimate competitors on the office collaboration market.
No one does collaboration as easy as Microsoft
Try Apple.
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the penguin migration was going just fine, until nvidia 570.124.04 dropped, which is when the misery started. :|
Got to check if I can roll back to earlier version.
I'm currently on that version. May I ask what happened or what should I expect?
rtx3090, 5800x3d, wayland, sddm, kde:
- whole system freezes on boot (with somewhat garbled display) when display manager starts (sddm) - IF >1 displays are plugged in/powered on.
- no issues if sddm starts with one display, and THEN powering up second. - But this has to be done while in sddm, before logging in.
- whole system can (with high chance) freeze again on desktop if at any point a screens are connected/disconnected
- krunner works exactly once, after that it logs errors in journal that some display reference is wrong (the exact wording escapes me atm)
all these things were fine with 570.86.something - the previous version, which apparently was beta.
This is the main barrier for me (other one is migrating a janky access database). I really don't want to spend my 2 hours free time an evening troubleshooting Nvidia driver issues (4800S series).
Anyone with this card have an experience to share?
Linux is super reliable, and unless you use cutting edge distro, it's pretty rare than anything breaks. Even Fedora is pretty stable from experience
The only true problems I ever had (and still has), were with Nvidia. And switching distros ain't saving you. Linux mint? Breaks on suspend. Nobara? Memory leak. Trying newer versions to see if it fixes it? Where's my bootloader...
I do understand that laptop RTX 3070 are not common, but still. I just want it to work, and have cuda on it. Is that too much to ask?
Linux is super reliable
It depends on what you want to do with it, which version of which component you run and a couple of other things. In my own experience, if you want a "super reliable" system, get OpenBSD. Linux has a severe lack of QA, mainly because of its decoupled nature.
unless you use cutting edge distro
yea well, "arch btw". Haven't had issues really, been running it for years on other systems but my gaming pc with nvidia is the only one with issues... because of course it does. :D
Of course. Mileage may vary. On some systems it may always work, on others it's "what's broken this week".
word. some devices just have angry machine spirits which just can't be pleased.
Have you tried feeding them your youngest children?
haven't forked, no children. will neighbour's do?
Good idea. Try and report back. If it does not work, sorry!
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Yeah, but the system requirements for Windows 11 are a good way above those for 10. Many people would need new machines; whereas Linux still runs decently on hardware from 2003.
Rolling releases go brrrrrr.
Here's a list of End-of-Life dates for CentOS Stream which is a rolling release.
CentOS is sadly dead anyways.
So it's a semi-rolling release then.
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