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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

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Post by quesera »

IshKebab wrote: post #121
ndepoel wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That 20% is mostly covered by competitive online multiplayer games that use kernel-level anti-cheat systems which will only work on Windows. There's not a whole lot Valve can do about that, other than continuing to push Linux for gaming and hope that it gets popular enough to create an incentive for anti-cheat providers to start targeting Linux as well.

I never understood why game devs don't just segregate players based on their anti-cheat status. Have a setting in the game like "only play with anti-cheat verified players" that defaults to yes. That way Linux gamers can still play with other Linux gamers if they want (and cheaters). Not an ideal situation but probably better than nothing.

I think that would make Linux players into second-class citizens who could only play in a pool that is 90+% filled with Windows cheaters.

Segregating into two pools: Windows-verified, or Linux-unverified, would probably not work for Linux users either. It'd be the same problem (on a smaller scale) as not including kernel anticheat in Windows. No fun for the non-cheaters.

I'm not a gamer though, so I may be missing important details.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by JodieBenitez »

vanviegen wrote: post #213
mnls wrote: post #164

Every now and then a new article "Why you should go Linux". I get it, I like Linux too but every case is different. I want to use Linux but I have to use Digital Audio Workstation. So in my case, I shouldn't dump Windows (and thousand of $$ I've spent on audio software). I know people desperately want to believe that Linux is "there", but it really isn't. And will probably never be. It’s still too confusing for the a…

> It’s still too confusing for the average user (many distros, many desktop environments, Wayland vs X, systemd vs init, snap vs flatpak). Users don't need to know about any of that, except for picking a distro and just using whatever is there. Regarding DAW - I get sticking with Windows if you have thousands invested in it. Even so, there's quite a bit of professional software out there with native support (like Bit…

> (like Bitwig)

Been there, done that... worked fine but with an unacceptable performance penalty.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by rdm_blackhole »

quesera wrote: post #312
anthk wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>No match The EU can just kick out the US bases and forbid Mastercard and Visa working here. ASML? Good luck for Intel; I'm sure AMD would have its asses already covered and found some alternative in Asia. Watch the Dow Jones collape in minutes. On GAFAM, there are alternatives, and libre software it's libre for the whole world, not just the US. Software it's easily replaceable except for die hard industrial DOS (whe…

I love you guys, and I wish you were right, but I don't think you are. Any of the above moves (military bases, Visa/MC, ASML, etc) would make the US suffer, but it would collapse the EU. Europe has a decade or two of hard work and crippling costs to significantly disengage from the US, and no one has the vision or fortitude to make that happen. You also wouldn't have any security. If you disengage from the US militar…

> This is just an exercise in establishing dominance (i.e. The End of Politeness).

I agree.

It's a way to assert dominance and the EU countries are partially responsible for the state of things.

I mean, when you outsource your manufacturing capabilities to China, your tech services to the US and your security to NATO, then it frees up a lot of cash to spend on other things and that is probably why life in the EU is pretty good.

Unfortunately the other side of this coin is that it leaves you completely unprepared if/when things change quickly.

> Europe has a decade or two of hard work and crippling costs

Once again unfortunately, many EU countries are already maxing out their budgets each year and running sky high deficits so there is not much dry powder to absorb these costs.

Raising more money through taxes is politically unpalatable when a lot of the EU countries are already in the top 10 of most taxed countries on the planet.

The only notable exceptions are Poland and Germany but they won't be able to carry the rest of the EU by themselves.

> maybe even split the EU into two factions of American-bully-reluctantly-aligned countries vs American-bully-righteously-andor-selfservingly-opposed countries.

The smallest EU countries have no choice. There is no EU army and therefore if the US leaves there is no one to replace it. It's a basic case of choosing the best worst outcome. Become a vassal of Russia or become a vassal of the US.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by tempest_ »

MrPowerGamerBR wrote: post #211
pelagicAustral wrote: post #179

I have... I switched to Bluefin, which is a branch of Universal Blue, which is flavour of Fedora. Sounds complicated, but in fact is the best thing to ever happen to Linux. I get all the ease of use of something like macOS but pre-built with tools for development like distrobox, and then I can just build my dev environments and get shit done in no time, without having to worry about breaking updates or nuking the who…

> 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…

Getting it running in linux is the easiest part dev wise.

It is the rest of the iceberg that causes problems.

- You need your support to be able to support linux which means they will need training and experience helping people in an entirely new system

- Linux comes in finite but vastly more combinations than OSX and Windows which means you are probably going to need to pick something like Ubuntu or struggle with the above

- Gotta track bugs in twice as many places

- Need CI / CD for more platforms

etc

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by andrei_says_ »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #179

I have... I switched to Bluefin, which is a branch of Universal Blue, which is flavour of Fedora. Sounds complicated, but in fact is the best thing to ever happen to Linux. I get all the ease of use of something like macOS but pre-built with tools for development like distrobox, and then I can just build my dev environments and get shit done in no time, without having to worry about breaking updates or nuking the who…

I have an old pc lying around and will be installing bluefin today. Thanks for the inspiration.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by danans »

crocowhile wrote: post #278

I have been using Linux exclusively for twenty years now. I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest.

> I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest.

Most people don't make their coffee in an Aeropress either.

I've also used Linux exclusively (in my case 25 years), but I also realize that with a few niche exceptions, there are few mass marketed products that feature the traditional Linux desktop as their primary UI.

Desktop OS UI is hard. It takes investment in technology, product, and marketing all focused on a target market. Even with all of those most upstarts have failed to gain traction. Also consider that most people buy laptops for 2 reasons: 1) browsing the web and if they can afford it 2) as a fashion accessory. People will put up with a lot of BS from a product if they feel like the product gives them social status and acceptance.

No Linux laptop really hits (2). Arguably only a few Windows laptops do either.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by meow_cat »

phkahler wrote: post #65
meow_cat wrote: post #11

Only thing holding me back is Adobe Lightroom, and has been for a while.

>> Only thing holding me back is Adobe Lightroom. You might be interested in Darktable or the less common fork called Ansel. https://www.darktable.org/ https://ansel.photos/en/ These have Windows versions you can try before moving your world to Linux.

I tested literally all alternatives to Lightroom, including even other commercial Windows only software, just because I want to get off the subscription. I tested two specific functions I use and need, and zero of all other programs do them well. It's frustrating.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by normie3000 »

GlacierFox wrote: post #325
volkercraig wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are thinking about it way too hard. Windows 11 is a dog. Constant hardware problems, slow, and frustrating UX. Is any desktop linux perfect? No, but its better than w11 right now.

I take it you just read the first sentence and darted to the reply button...

Or GP knows that anyone who finds the following appealing has already been using linux for years:

> Do we want our fundamental computing environment to be ultimately under our control, or controlled by private interests with their own incentives?

But if windows is now objectively worse than linux, normal people also now have a reason to switch.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by kayo_20211030 »

I won't comment on the merits. Each person can do what they want. But, the line that caught my attention was:

> The first question often asked of Windows refugees migrating to Linux is, "Why Linux?"

The answer, realistically, is probably "What else?". Unless you're comfortable with the BSD's (which I like, and weren't mentioned), or unless you have recent Mac hardware lying around, it's the easiest and most practical alternative.

It's a bit of a duopoly, isn't it?; with a third leg that's sometimes something in the BSD camp, and sometimes in the MacOS camp.

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