Only thing holding me back is Adobe Lightroom, and has been for a while.
I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#12What about computer games such as age of empires ? Can we play regular computer games ?
Many are playable with Steam on Linux, each game in the store states whether that's supported or not. Even non-supported games allow an override. I've tried that for a few with varying success. Steam has so far refunded purchases that didn't run on Linux. Then there's Lutris which runs many old games fine.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#13What about computer games such as age of empires ? Can we play regular computer games ?
Yes. Valve (Steam) spent more than a decade building and refining a translation layer called Proton. Nearly 80% of the vast Steam library is now compatible with Linux to the point they are releasing actual Linux consoles (Steam Deck and Steam Machine).
For your regular PC, you can install a gaming-focused distribution like Bazzite to get everything sorted out automatically.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#14What about computer games such as age of empires ? Can we play regular computer games ?
In a word, yes. While Wine has been an option for decades, Valve and Proton have made gaming on Linux mainstream. You can check compatibility reports from https://www.protondb.com/ for whichever games you're interested in.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#15How to run PowerPoint and Excel? I'm stuck with these for work?
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#16This HN thread is ongoing,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465 ("I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great (theverge.com)"; 20 hours ago, 596 comments)
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#17How to run PowerPoint and Excel? I'm stuck with these for work?
dual boot
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#18I hope one day to upgrade my laptop to a Honor/Huawei AMD Ryzen AI computer to run Linux. Modern Macbooks unfortunatly do not run Linux and the other laptop manifacturers basically produce expensive trash laptops
Modern MacBooks DO run Linux
Check out https://asahilinux.org/
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#19What about computer games such as age of empires ? Can we play regular computer games ?
There is a community maintained website for checking game compatibility: https://www.protondb.com/
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#20How to run PowerPoint and Excel? I'm stuck with these for work?
Can you use the online versions? They are starting to become usable now.
That is what we are supposed to do at work.