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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by surgical_fire »

lifetimerubyist wrote: post #54

I replaced Windows with Linux about 6 months ago. Then I ran into a game I really wanted to play but it didn’t run well with Proton (not kernel anti-cheat, just bad performance) after all the tweaks so I just reserved to dual booting with Windows 10. After not using Windows for so long, I came to realize that Windows is just as much a mess as Linux just in different ways. You get used to the quirks so you don’t notic…

> Then I ran into a game I really wanted to play but it didn’t run well with Proton

Out of curiosity, which game?

I promise I am not asking as a gotcha. Just genuinely curious.

I don't play many new games on PC (normally I play recent games on consoles). What I play on PC is older/niche games.

I have a couple of oddballs that I could not make work on Proton. Others had weird issues that got fixed over time.

Sometimes there is a fix, such as fiddling with different Proton versions, etc. Lutris makes this somewhat straightforward.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by duxup »

bigyabai wrote: post #203
duxup wrote: post #183

My experience: I came from windows to MacOS so despite what folks bemoan about MacOS ... I still love it and it is problem free enough that I don't feel the need to do the lifting to go to Linux. I think that's a common thing for those of who maybe haven't ridden MacOS for so long. Windows for me is on a whole several levels of worse when I have to dive back into it. Windows feels like an OS POINTED AT ME rather than…

> it is problem free enough The money's paw curls. I used to love macOS, back in the Mojave days. You could run almost anything you wanted, and still get work done on a decently made machine. Those were the days when the grass truly felt greener to me, macOS for creative work simply annihilated any other option on the table. Then Catalina stripped out 32-bit compatibility, ruining my Ableton Live project folder and S…

Yeah I mean that's the software life right?

You use the platform you use ... until it doesn't work for you. I did that for Windows and now I'm on MacOS. Maybe one day Linux, maybe I pick a flavor there that doesn't work for me eventually.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by byproxy »

shevy-java wrote: post #197
CarVac wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is, Unity was great as a UI even on desktop. The main issue was poor performance early on.

I found it was horrible. It is similar to GNOME here - a design for tablets and smartphones. It simply does not work on the desktop computer.

I use standard GNOME as my desktop environment and nothing about it feels like it was designed for tablets and/or smartphones. Not that it isn’t capable of being used as such, but my desktop usage doesn’t indicate that tablet/smartphone use-cases were the primary goal. Is GNOME even in wide use for those contexts?

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by bigyabai »

einpoklum wrote: post #102
iwanttocomment wrote: post #27

I hadn't run desktop Linux in several years now. (I've run it server-side for decades.) Out of the increasingly loud outpouring of support for desktop Linux over the past year, I went ahead and installed some distros to get back in on the action. I came to four conclusions: 1) You can play games on desktop Linux now other than Tux Racer. Cool! 2) There's less weird X11-wrangling. Thank god. 3) It's otherwise still pr…

... and considering the GTK file picker we still have to live with, that's saying something.

File pickers are an XDG standard, you can replace it whenever you want: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.fr...

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by hxugufjfjf »

nikanj wrote: post #55

Do any of the main-stream Linux installers make any attempt at bringing over your files? I have seen so many ”anyone can switch to Linux” articles, and none of them seem to mention ”all of your files are going to be utterly lost”

What files? Where would the files be originally for this to be a concern? I’ve switched OS many times but I don’t think I’ve ever thought about moving any files.

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Post by marssaxman »

CarVac wrote: post #160
snek_case wrote: post #101

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Ubuntu also tried this with Unity. They were hoping that Ubuntu would become more popular on tablets if they had a more tablet-friendly UI... They imposed this on desktop users even though nobody asked for it and basically nobody used Linux on a tablet. It was kind of a disaster. Ubuntu is a commercial entity though, so yeah, prone to the same kind of bad management decisions. as Microsoft and Apple. At least with Li…

The thing is, Unity was great as a UI even on desktop. The main issue was poor performance early on.

It really was! I have never even used a tablet, but I was disappointed when they dropped Unity and went back to the old way.

But I was never a Windows user, either, and I've never held the idea that there is one normal and right way to do a computer interface, so I think I was more open to it than many people are.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by hxugufjfjf »

bigyabai wrote: post #207
bitwize wrote: post #194

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The industry standard endpoint security solutions all run on either Windows or Mac. Endpoint security is an absolute MUST for a corporate environment.

What is RHEL, chopped liver?

EDR products are really quite bad on Linux, even RHEL in my experience.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

bee_rider wrote: post #92
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #83

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> I find it so odd that Apple put so much weight behind the VisionOS design, rolling it out to all platforms, considering so few people have Vision Pro. I suspect they began working on Liquid Glass before the Vision Pro was publicly unveiled, so they didn't know what the public response would be. What I honestly find more baffling is that they thought the Vision Pro would sell well. It just isn't a good product. Perh…

I thought I saw various comments to the effect that the Vision Pro is just a developer thing to bootstrap the app ecosystem, a prelude to a real consumer product. But if that is the case I’m slightly confused as to why they aren’t sharing more of their roadmap…

I mean, if this was the strategy, it has clearly failed, right? The Vision Pro doesn't have anything approaching a thriving app ecosystem.

And if this was the strategy, I'd have expected to see that consumer product by now. It has been almost two years.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by sylens »

jethro_tell wrote: post #52
Majestic121 wrote: post #30

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Where do you need windows to do your taxes? Is this a US thing?

I hope not because I’ve been doing my US taxes on Linux for 15 years. It’s probably a specific windows desktop app, probably TurboTax by intuit, the company that lobbies to make filing your taxes hard and to destroy any free simple government app to file taxes. So, not sure why they’d complain about not being able to help shoot their foot off but we all have preferences. :shrug:

TurboTax has had a great browser-based version for over a decade now
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