Just made the switch to Linux as a lifetime Windows user.
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Welcome to stability. You are in control.
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As someone who uses RHEL for work every time I have to set something up on a windows system I groan. It really boils down to the app, some are very easy to use but it seems anything that involves OS config and permissions becomes a royal pita. Linux isn't 100% pain free (looking at you package conflicts) and SSL config sucks on all OS's but the majority of the time it presents smaller hurdles because I can dig into any part I need to.
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Im gonna switch now when support for win 10 ends too, I would switch now but I have work to finish.
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Yeah I used to use Ubuntu as a Linux desktop a few years ago. I just came back to install Fedora on my desktop and the whole process was super easy. Even for gaming, Nvidia drivers, Steam with proton, etc. all set up with zero command line interaction, troubleshooting or even looking up guides or anything. It was intuitive and works.
The compatibility for gaming on Linux today is generally really good. The whole experience is really polished.
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I started on Mint, then went to Arch Linux with Gnome, now I spend hours a day every day customizing my Arch + Hyprland setup. It's fun when things break and you
have toget to fix them yourself
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Fortunately I have no need for wine.
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From what i remember my experience was the same when i started my journey with PopOS. Ofcourse it probably did help that i was already an amd user when i was still using windows, i already hated nvidia years before switching lol. I went down the rabbithole and now i'm on Void linux. Also used arch and NixOS in the past. I love being able to setup these minimal distros to my liking, and after that it just works and gets out of the way.
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Ohh nice thanks!
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Microsoft has a whole Linux division now. They're fully in the "extend" portion of their plan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
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Same thing with Ubuntu.
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Next stop will be your privacy journey which would completely break your chains towards Discord which gave you trouble.
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A better way to word this is "Next will be your privacy journey which will send you down an inifinte rabbit hole that you consumes you".
Lol no but seriously, it's a fun rabbit hole, but can get out of control if you're not careful.
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Hell yeah!
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wine works without issues for me on mint 22.1. I use foobar2k, and most games I play are windose only. but I use proton on those, not wine.
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Once Revolt gets screen sharing.
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Like SteamOS, it boots into game mode and provides the option to switch to desktop. There are versions of it that don't have the game mode but I'm using my PC primarily for gaming. As an atomic distro the system files are read-only. It's called atomic because the entire system is updated in a single operation instead of just updating individual packages. This means that installing new software can be a bit tricky requiring things like package layering or DistroBox.
One of the big things is the ability to just rollback your system to an earlier version if the update broke anything.
Bazzite is a custom image based on Fedora Silverblue. If you're interested in non-gaming versions of you can look at Fedora Atomic Desktops.
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welcoms man
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While I love Elgato hardware from a design/price standpoint, it's a shame it doesn't all work on Linux. I had my Wave XLR for a year or so, but replaced it with a Scarlett Solo so I could use it on Linux.
