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End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Been on linux for almost half a year now. Don't miss a single bit of windows, thanks to steam proton. Also thanks to microsoft for pushing me over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Same here. I do not miss all the shit windows did. Things like:

starting drivers manually to use graphics tablet
finding drivers for hardware that work
random driver crashes for various pieces of hardware I have
BSODs
rummaging around settings, configs and regedit to get something to work a bit better
disabling things you don't want through regedit or some hidden config
uninstallable bloatware
ads everywhere
super key + type in the program you want to open not working
messing around with tons of files for old games to work
going through shady sites to get software
not having a software center for all your downloads
needing to install weird programs for sftp support
needing to reinstall the os when a big issue develops and you did not manually set up backups

ironically half these things are what people think is the linux ux. Seriously, windows is just terrible, clunky, buggy and full of things you need to be an advanced user to fix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Mints file explorer when moving large files does leave some meat on the bone for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

what distro do you use? im looking into moving from windows, but currently use apple devices to sync my music to my phone so im on hold for now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Been on CachyOS for a couple months now. If you want to go Arch, I highly recommend it. No issues with NVIDIA drivers or any of my other hardware. The only thing I need Windows for anymore is Solidworks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a very recent convert. I downloaded mint a couple months ago after seeing that my entire steam library was rated as highly compatible on protondb. At first I planned to dual boot but I didn't have any reason at all to use windows and finally just took the plunge and made Mint my daily, and sole, driver

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I also went cold turkey to fedora and once I solved my two main problems: disabling secureboot and formatting my steam library to be a linux filesystem, I have a better ux overall. Now I'm looking to move to endeavourOS since fedora is too fast with its updates which breaks nvidia drivers sometimes. (Which just means I restart while the pc is booting and select an earlier version of the OS)

[–] tempest 3 points 12 hours ago

As much as people complain about electron (some valid, some not) Linux has benefited quite a bit to the cross platform availability of local applications.