Because I use free BSD
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I do use Linux ๐ง
Because it's GNU/Linux ๐งโโ๏ธ
Many people don't use it because it doesn't come store bought..
As a matter of fact, ChromeOs proved to be successful because you could find it preinstalled in real stores
it's google... and not a real os
Android does not mean smartphones only anymore, thanks to raspberry it completely replaced WinCE in the embedded world, just think of car entertainment systems, tablets, video conferencing systems, industrial automation (robots and co), VR equipments, etc...
It's not a SINGLE os.
The base OS (the top layer in the pic) is gentoo based.
too hard to find pirated games, i'll switch when my mathusalem PC finally decides to break (and by then i hope to have some more coin, PCs really became expensive in the last six yeas!!!!)
Just play pirated windows games? With lutris?
I keep trying Linux for a week or so at a time, but every time I do, I just can't do what I want on it. It lacks software like Playnite - a FOSS game launcher that lets me manage my collection of games across different platforms. Discord on it doesn't support screen audio when screen sharing, and the app that enables it is finicky at best. I end up spending more time in my terminal than doing browsing, playing games, etc, like I'd like to be doing. I don't hate Linux. I love the idea of Linux, but in practice... I just have a really hard time enjoying my time on my computer with it.
I just came off running Nobara for 2 days then moving because of compatibility issues and its UI feeling slow, then I ran Mint for another 5 days. I hope one day Linux can be what I want from my PC.
Lutris.net is an alternative to Playnite.
There's a ton of game launchers, for instance this one just came out the other day and allegedly launches your games from Steam/Heroic/Bottles/etc. Not sure if it's what you need but it seems weird there wouldn't be an alternative to Playnite: https://flathub.org/apps/details/hu.kramo.Cartridges
Screensharing looks like something to wait on though. I've heard of people getting it to work but seems finicky
Edit: Looks like Playnite has distant goals of supporting Linux. Could be a race between these two apps for you to see which one gets working first
Nah I've been through all those. Playnite has things like the ability to auto-scan launchers, launching from emulators, running scripts before / after games launch and after they close, and a really robust library of plugins and add-ons from its community. I've looked into the others, the best one for my use would be Lutris, but even then everything just feels extremely jank and it's entirely disheartening. I appreciate the thoughtful reply though. It's clear you actually looked into this quite a bit.
I have a bit of everything at home. A windows PC, a mac laptop, a couple of linux boxes to run media servers etc
I've installed Linux Mint (w/ Cinnamon desktop) recently in a workplace for teenage students school/office work on an old hardware. However, they did not accept it because it did not have a Microsoft Word but a LibreOffice Writer. Apparently, LibreOffice was too confusing for them so they just switched back to Win.
I use it one everything except my word-provided laptop. I would use it there too, but our IT department is too Windows-brained to convince them otherwise.
Presently, I use Linux regularly (desktop, servers, etc.) I love it and prefer it, and all the games I play run on it. There are a few devices I don't use it on yet:
- Work laptop runs Windows :(
- Got a Macbook Pro for a good price. (Was MacOS curious for awhile, hadn't used it since MacOS 9)
- Mobile phones run Android and iOS. (Linux on mobile is not good yet)
- Windows dualboot just in case I want to use it for something
Android phones use a modified version of the Linux kernel, so they are ostensibly "running linux"
If you got the M1/2 check out Asahi Linux
Linux guy here, there is a shrinking list of things that I can't do with Linux. That's when I spin up quick Windows 10 VM, do the task, and delete. Hasn't come up in over 15 months.
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Using Linux exclusively in private and almost exclusively for work for 24 years and counting ...
I do use Arch Linux and Android Linux
i have, off and on over the past 23 years but i ultimately end up running windows primarily because of games or some other software or hardware incompatibility
I use Linux but my family computer is on windows because of office
Also, on my work computer is on windows because it is given by the company and I needed it to work immediately. I am allowed to change it tho. Do you know how well is Microsoft Teams working ? It is the only microsoft software that I need to work perfectely for my job. I would prefer the disponibility indicator to work for example
You can install Teams with flatpak. The only things not working are giving or taking control of the computer (so, KVMoIP) and screen sharing with Wayland.
I didn't install through flatpak, but I do have screen sharing working with Wayland.
I checked that and it is an electron app for the web app. I'll hace to be careful to use X11 till screensharing is supported
The Windows application is also based on Electron.
I think there is a Webinterface for Microsoft Teams.So you can replace the APP with it.
Yes, i'll have to check what functionnalities are not yet implemented as I did not find any list up to date
I use linux at home (with bottles for games) and windows at work, because it's not my choice. Btw, at work I use windows only to run wsl2
I keep a windows computer exclusively for gaming. I know you can play games on gnu/linux but I have lots of peripherals, VR headset, wheel, pedals, joysticks, rudder, buttons boxes,... I don't have the courage to even try to see if everything will be compatible and correctly recognized in games. For everything else I stick to gnu/linux.
nearly 100% of my work is in Windows-native applications (Adobe suite, VizRT, Cinema4D) and that's not likely to change
I use linux btw.
I daily drive linux on the laptop i use the most. All servers are linux. Other than that, my gaming rig is still on windows, work laptop is macOS. Im a tinkerer, so playing with different OSes is fun to me
I do, but I think most people don't think that they can replace the software they're using on their devices. Or in other words - people buy consumer electronics to use it as is and they generally don't install OSes themselves.
I do. And windows. And android. And OSX
I use the right tool for the right job. I use macOS for a friendly desktop, I use Windows for gaming, I use Linux for hosting, I use Xen to run virtual machines of the above.
Linux is a tool it's a great tool but it's not the only tool
I use Linux on my personal laptop, my work laptop is a Mac, but my desktop (main computer) is still Windows largely cause of video games. Lot of the games I like to play don't work or require more tweaking than I'm willing to invest to get them running on Linux. I also play flight sim and racing sim games with peripherals a lot, and if the game support on Linux seems bad, the support for those peripherals is even worse lol.
Work computers are windows, I would never demean myself like that by choice.
The only reasons to use windows (other than force or coercion) that I'm even aware of is adobe shit and multiplayer games with kernel level anticheats. Adobe could literally just get good, that is 100% their fault, though kernel level anticheat would never be popular on linux I'd bet.
I use Windows 10 on M.2 SSD and Ubuntu LTS on HDD on my modern ThinkPad like a dual power user. Why, because I can, I am gigachad.
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