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6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Nope, will probably avoid 11 as long as I can though. I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux). And I need professional design software for work (as in, industry standard: Adobe or Affinity).

But I put 11 on my laptop to try it and I hate it. So many terrible UI changes, UX noticeably worse. Like they changed stuff just to say they changed stuff.

I considered going Linux for personal use and development, and then using another machine or dual boot for Mac for design software. But i learned about the Nvidia issues after I upgraded my card :/ and swapping to Mac's walled garden after avoiding it for decades is.... a sign of how bad W11 feels to use.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I switched a year ago and I love it. All my old games run better on linux than windows at this point. Proton is fucking amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you use Windows as mere game launcher, you better have a application firewall set to whitelist Steam only anyway.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Already prepared everything for the jump. Switched MS Office for LibreOffice, and Outlook for Betterbird. Tested install, configuration and access to backups in a VM. Next vacation I take I'll go for it. Mint is my choice of Distro, because of Steam/Gaming reasons. With the US being antagonistic, if not outright hostile, right now, and Microsoft having their disgusting Copilot AI Analysis Fingers in everything, it's the rational choice I think.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Steam OS, Batocera, Bazzite, Linux Mint.. so many great distros for gaming alone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Already upgraded to Linux Mint - https://lemmy.world/post/24365609

It’s been going great! Everything works as I expected. I now have full confidence that I will never switch back to Windows. It really does feel liberating having an OS that doesn’t track me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Unfortunately not. Even as an IT person I can say I just wanna come home and boot up my games without hassle. Sure alot of things have been done with proton etc but still a massive amount of games don't work without Soo much dang tweaking. I don't have time for that especially with a job/being a single parent. I am highly interested in steamos though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had the same outlook before switching to Arch Linux, but honestly gaming on Linux is actually the lesser of my hassle. I can genuinely just grab msi files or exe files for games and feed them to Steam to get them playing via Proton. There's only one (1!) game that I can't play, and I'm 99% certain it's a problem with my hardware, not my OS (Monster Hunter Wilds seems to hate my GPU and crash all the time). But even that was fixed with a mod (up until the latest update).

With that said, I've had a lot of hassle handling other things that are upstream of gaming so it's not like you're unreasonable in wanting an OS that is mostly stable. Then again, I made the decision to use Arch Linux, there's distros that are simpler afaik.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is Windows actually stable though? I used to have to use it for work, it's a disgusting OS. Now I use Ubuntu for work, also disgusting, but it's much better than Windows

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

that's also my excuse, but then again, i don't even game that much. and i'm on rtx 3070 which will be getting too old soon for new games and new GPUs are just too expensive.

And god i hate w11. i mean it's not that different than w10 but things just don't work!

my logitech mouse stutters for no fucking reason, 10 year old games lag for no fucking reason. the whole windows lags after being waken up from sleep after a few days, i could go on and on. none of these problems existed on w10.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not dual-boot with steamos in that case? Sure, some things may not work out-of-the-box now, but work is constantly being done and at least won't regress like the step from W10 to W11.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Been on Linux for like 15 years now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You walked so our games would run 🫡

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Upgrade

to Linux

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

How do I even get started? Do I just install Mint and figure it out from there? Linux seems so complicated but it's been a decade since I last tried. Nowadays, I feel old and this seems like it needs too much research

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whatever you do. Don't dualboot. It gives a wrong impression of what Linux is, and complexity is not inherently a part of it. Try Mint as a live USB OS first. That means the OS runs from a USB thumb drive. This will allow you to dip your toes before you dive in. Just like dipping toes, it's a no-compromise way of testing, but if you choose to install you already have 90% of what you need.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would recommend to try linux first by dualbooting. Try Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux MINT and KDE Neon (i really like it because it has a Windowsy feel). You can see how those distros look here: https://distrosea.com/

I personally dont like the stock ubuntu, was really suprised by fedora.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Linux is no more complicated than Windows, we just know what we know.

Start by trying one of the big names like Ubuntu or Fedora.

There's not exactly better distros for gaming, it's just about what's preinstalled, that's why Bazzite exists.

A good idea is to install something like VirtualBox on your Windows machine and test out some distros to learn your way around them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I love linux too, but linux is absolutely more complicated for a typical computer user

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, one of the great uses for gen ai is "write me a script to diagnose this problem" and then pass the output back with "write me a script to fix it"

I don't have the bandwidth in my life to diagnose and tinker for fun, and it's really made a bunch of big annoying things easy.

I found KDE way more intuitive than gnome, even though I was last on a Mac before the switch. Perhaps pick a KDE distro.

Also maybe list here if you have any deal-breaker apps or workflows to the folks can say if it's worth your effort.

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