Never felt so much more in control than when ditching Windows and installing first Linux Mint and later Kubuntu. Gonna try Arch in the future to feel like a god and completely in control over what happens on my machine.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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that trajectory leads to Antix to give you full control over every decision and then from there to debian or devuan because all that decision making is exhausting, can't the machine just work and only update when there's security patches?
Among lot of distro, Linux mint has to be the closest to windows and more refined
Windows 10 end of life is just nature's way of setting you free.
Hopefully many more Windows refugees would embrace the Kingdom of Torvalds.
Show me how to use the Xbox app in Linux and I will switch today.
Out of curiosity what even does someone use that app for. Iv always just turned it on on my windows installs. It always just breaks and caused me issues. Or performed worse then just other apps for the same job.
I play XBox games on my computer. My computer is more than 10x faster then my XBox so games often play way better.
Game pass not worth supporting shitty behavior over.
Or pretty much almost any game or driver issues.
I like Linux but these video game developers dont support their game properly for Linux.
Majority of steam games work without issue nowadays ime
Gamepass was made to have you in the ecosystem so you really can't, and I don't blame you since it helps with these expensive games like the new Doom
But isnt this like asking "Show me how to run Nintendo Services on the PS5 and I will switch"?
Windows has it's own ecosystem just as much as Linux has it's own ecosystem, so expecting Linux to run everything Microsoft is kinda of unreasonable IMO.
To switch an OS also means to switch an ecosystem. You wouldn't move from Android to iOS expecting it to run Android's .apk, right?
I'm not criticizing you tho, if a service you rely on doesnt work on Linux, then Linux isnt for you, and you're free to use Windows, an OS is just a tool after all 😁
Bad take.
First, bad analogy because on windows pc, Xbox runs smoothly while on PS5, Nintendo services were never allowed.
Second, Linux is for him because the more people that switch to Linux and use it over corpo spyware OSs the better.
Not sure if serious
You are the worst kind of commenter and I wish for you to feel self hatred born of incompetence.
Not sure if serious...
I dual boot at this point. I have a POP_OS! nvme where I do normal pc stuff and maybe some light single player gaming, then I boot into my windows ssd for the heavier anticheat stuff. Imma be completely honest though. For most people I recommend just upgrading to windows 11 if you can. Linux is great but I think if someone just cares about gaming they should stick to windows.
My gaming computer under my TV is windows 10. My laptop where I do adult things is Linux mint. It's a valid strategy
Completely valid take. I think that most Linux gamers dual boot (at least inside my circle of friends) (but no me tho, I'm Linux exclusive!) I think that when people doscuss Linix vs Windows, they often forget that you dont necessarily need to get rid of one system in favor of the other, you can simply integrate Linux into your workflow.
I wish I could be linux exclusive. But my friends and I play games that wont work properly under it. Recently we've been really into halo infinite but that game just doesnt work well under linux. I do plan on building an all amd system this fall so thatll be a big help towards fully jumping to linux for me but for now dual booting is my strategy. Im sure ill make someone mad with how I go about things but its what works for my use case.
I think one of the reasons why I can do gaming exclusively on Linux is because I hardly play competitive games, so I didnt miss Valorant, League of Legends, Apex and the like. But it's still a reeeeal shame that these games insists on blocking Linux tho.
Can’t you just install bit defender? It’s just that one chip on the board that was added about 10 yrs ago to prevent hackers using that desktop tunnel on the elderly. So dumb that they had to promote large scale computer waste over a piece of hardware smaller than a thumb drive.
It's part of the design. You think their partners weren't ecstatic about them implementing something like this, that has a very easy work around that they aren't advertising‽
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