• Steven McTowelie@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Already did and it’s glorious! Steam works beautifully and the only final thing that I’m missing is Adobe products.

    I recommend, if you want to try Linux, that you try out the ‘Debian’ distribution, and use the ‘KDE Plasma’ desktop environment. It makes for a very Windows-like experience and really assisted me with the transition between OSs.

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    Nope, will probably avoid 11 as long as I can though. I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux). And I need professional design software for work (as in, industry standard: Adobe or Affinity).

    But I put 11 on my laptop to try it and I hate it. So many terrible UI changes, UX noticeably worse. Like they changed stuff just to say they changed stuff.

    I considered going Linux for personal use and development, and then using another machine or dual boot for Mac for design software. But i learned about the Nvidia issues after I upgraded my card :/ and swapping to Mac’s walled garden after avoiding it for decades is… a sign of how bad W11 feels to use.

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    Made my jump to Arch (btw) a couple of years ago and haven’t really looked back. I have Win10 as a second boot option, but that’s reserved specifically for Game Pass and VR, but it’s very rare I boot it. Don’t care to upgrade even after EOL, and I’d never recommend Arch to anyone but the most comfortable with Linux, but it’s been a great option for me.

  • Frieren@lemmy.world
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    Made the upgrade last week to Linux mint and I’m loving it. Got my Arr stacks and stuff setup as dockers and it’s never worked so well. All the connection issues I’ve had on windows is now gone.

    The interface is nice and not bloated. And I’m not being tracked which feels liberating.

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    I switched a year ago and I love it. All my old games run better on linux than windows at this point. Proton is fucking amazing.

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    13 hours ago

    43% of Steam is still on Windows

    10 with support…

    Seems not so many.
    And if they are ending in 7 month why bother.

    Just put the lin
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    Already upgraded to Linux Mint - https://lemmy.world/post/24365609

    It’s been going great! Everything works as I expected. I now have full confidence that I will never switch back to Windows. It really does feel liberating having an OS that doesn’t track me.

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    Installed kubuntu on the laptop so I can get used to it. Still trying to find a AV and firewall app I like

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    Well my PC can’t do windows 11, and upgrading is now impossible thanks to a certain someone. So yeah…

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    I would like to switch to Linux on my gaming machine but me and my girlfriend play Valorant together so I can’t switch just yet.

    My server and laptop already run NixOS, I’m just looking forward to the day my gaming/main machine join them too

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    I was running mint, but had to go back to windows because of a hardware bug I’m still trying to fix where my PC will randomly not wake up from sleep and that results in corrupted drives, which windows can fix with it’s automated repair at boot, but Linux has done commands that I need to run and if I fuck it up it would fuck my computer up even more, so until I can fix the hardware bug I’m stuck on windows, but by fuck do I hate it. I prefer Linux so much more over windows, so much more convenient, efficient, personalizable and it actually works in many places where windows simply doesn’t even with a lot of fiddling around in settings and shit

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    I’ve been on 11 since before it was officially released. Honestly never had any issues with it, but I’m interested in hearing what sort of issues anyone else might have had? Are we talking about privacy concerns, bugs or performance issues?

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    Can anyone recommend a distro (and desktop environment?) that’s going to be almost the same as desktop mode on the Steam deck? I’m getting more comfortable in that than I expected to be in any Linux, and to my surprise and delight I haven’t had to delve into the command line at all yet.