Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11::Time to rethink Windows 10 support cycle then?

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    10 months ago

    I went Windows 10 > Linux Mint

    I have nothing to complain about. Lateral move in terms of functionality. In terms of general freedom and feeling like I actually own the PC I purchased,… 100% improvement.

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      10 months ago

      If video games weren’t my primary hobby, I’d have switched already. But the gaming experience on Linux is still wanting.

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        10 months ago

        I can only speak for myself, but as a gamer I don’t have a lot of complaints with gaming on linux. If most of your games are on steam they should work fine on linux thanks to proton (and steamdeck too). Sure, if you play a lot of multiplayer games where the anti-cheat doesn’t tolerate linux, then staying on windows is understandable. Outside of steam, there are other launchers, lutris and heroic, for example.

        I’m personally still dual booting, because one game that I played still doesn’t work on linux, but as I don’t play that game anymore nor have I booted to windows in like 6 months, I might as well get rid of windows once and for all.

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        10 months ago

        I mean, if you’re still wanting, it’s wanting.

        Personally I don’t really touch EA or Ubisoft so, I don’t miss anything, and even if I was into them, from the looks of things, I wouldn’t be missing much.

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      10 months ago

      Mint ftw!

      I’ve loved mint ever since I first tried it. An OS that actually does what I want it to do. My only complaint with mint is that it works so well that I keep forgetting the console commands and have to look them up when I do need them. Thinking about installing suicide linux on an old laptop and learning the hard way lol.

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        10 months ago

        I used Arch for about a decade but I got really tired of babysitting.

        Oh, that library causes crashes to such and such app, either downgrade or eat shit until it’s updated again

        That can be a day,… a week, a month, maybe longer.

        Mint is new enough without being too new and it’s polished enough without seeming like too much, like Garuda or most flavors of Ubuntu.