let me know when you can run visual studio, the best IDE in the world, on Linux, and I wont flinch
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
#352I am very interested in the Steam Machine, because it will be an out-of-the-box Linux experience with (hopefully) no tweaking required. Hardware designed for Linux gaming from the beginning. I'm willing to put up with worse performance per dollar to not have to spend time tweaking the thing myself, similar to a game console.
I think Steam Machine + macOS laptop + NAS running debian headless is my personal compute plan for the next few years.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Oh!, and the one thing I miss is Affinity Designer. While I haven't experimented with it that much yet, Affinity (the new one, the one after the Canva acquisition) does work in Wine 10.20. Now, I won't say it is a smooth experience, one of the workarounds that I needed to do is use Wine's virtual desktop so Affinity's tooltips are rendered correctly instead of being pure black, and the GUI does seem to not render c…
> How hard it could be for a business that already has a 80% working application via Wine to patch the application/Wine to make it work 99+%, and then bundle the application with Wine and say that it has "native Linux support"? First 80% of a job typically takes 80% of the allocated time. The last 20% of a job typically takes another 80% of the allocated time.
Yeah, the 80/80 rule. That made me smile.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#354I never understood the Linux guys. All that matters to a common user is the user interface and whether their apps and games run or not. They don't care about telemetry, architecture etc. The damn thing should just work and it should allow familiar interactions. I have tried switching to Linux several times over the decades. It required many compromises on the interface and compatibilities. Why is it so difficult to s…
This is why I recommend macOS to everyone. It's the only OS that is truly polished and where you don't have to worry about viruses and everything just works. mac could be better, but it's still leading the pack. People don't want the OS to become their hobby.
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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#355Another of those? Can people install their OS without having to tell the whole planet about it? I don't see articles about people installing Windows or Mac everyday like the people installing Linux. Is it such an achievement to do? That make you proud enough to tell the world? It's worse than vegetarian people at that point. And what's the point? The whole thread is filled with "yeah yeah, I installed Linux too!" jus…
Misery loves company. You won't see anybody telling people to switch to Windows, Mac or iPhone because those people are too busy enjoying their OS.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't understand this reasoning. System updates obviously don't become less risky because of the OS they're updating. But going back to Win10 means having less control over when those updates happen (and much less control over, and understanding of, what is updated), and waiting much longer for them to complete.
> System updates obviously don't become less risky because of the OS they're updating The last time I used arch, I ran an update and it broke my bootloader, meaning the next time I restarted it wouldn't boot at all. Sure I could make a recovery USB and fix it, but at that point I was away from home, and just really needed to do the totally crazy thing of "using my computer to actually do work". (To be clear, I didn't…
My point was exactly that GGP shouldn't have expected to be able to do the system update without risk.
But the usual way to install Linux nowadays is from a live boot, so you automatically have a recovery drive anyway. It's not hard to set up regular restore points with Timeshift or similar, either.
That said, I haven't had problems like what you describe in nearly 4 years.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#357What 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.
> Valve and Proton have made gaming on Linux mainstream.
"Mainstream" is maybe too hefty, the amount of Linux users (including SteamDeck) who participate in the Steam surveys are still in the single digit if I remember correctly. Most gamers today still use Windows, even though Valve made great strides with Proton.
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
This never lasts long, in my experience. It’s a nice idea, but it’s a huge pain. At some point, I always end up sticking with the OS that has what I need , which is never Linux. Linux is what I install when feeling idealistic, but it doesn’t allow me to do anything I can’t do on a mainstream OS that is mission critical to my life.
so dual pc ???
I’d say commit. Force yourself to find new tools and workflows on the new OS of choice. If that isn’t possible, it seems like a waste of time and effort.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you use a laptop? It seems that doing the right then when opening / closing the lid only happened in the past 5 years or so.
This is something I see repeated everywhere but I've been using Linux daily on all sorts of laptops for a little over 15 years and never struggled with this issue. But during my brief period on Windows I would get issues like my colour settings changing or the behaviour of certain meta keys being switched out when I woke a sleeping laptop.
My colleagues run linux laptops and they don't struggle with this issue either. They just completely turn off their laptops anytime they want to move somewhere. That's how they trust their OS.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#360I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices… For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform…
There's nothing silly about those reasons.
Eh those applications can both be run in linux without issue.
They are likely to have more issues related to getting the drawing tablet configured correctly.
The rest is just having to start from scratch and lose the decades of windows experience and intuition which can make things painful as that type of thing cant be replaced without time.