I’m dangerously close to moving my gaming pc to Linux. What’s the consensus for the best distro for gaming?
I’m comfortable enough with *nix, as my daily is MacOS and I have a home lab/server.
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Not sure why we're surprised. And even then, it took a while for the "good" OSes to get good. Windows 7 is remembered fondly because it ended well, not because it started well.
Windows 95: OK Windows 98: Bad Windows 98 SE: OK Windows ME/2000: Bad Windows XP: OK Windows Vista: Bad Windows 7: OK Windows 8: Bad Windows 10: OK Windows 11: Bad
2000 ran the best and was the most stable of all of them for me.
This is selective memory. XP was terrible until SP2. Do you not remember every PC in the world getting the blaster worm.
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How bad would running Windows 10 past support be exactly? Seems like most vulnerabilities should have been patched by now.
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Forcing users to ditch WIndows 10? I can't help but feel like this is a giant media campaign by microsoft to make people switch to Win 11. Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. I can still use Windows XP if I want to.
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Glad I ditched windows 11 for linux mint.
I hate windows 11 so much. Notifications are so much harder to read compared to 10 due to the right menu being nonexistant, instead we have this floating notification area that I never use. Everything takes ages to load, even on my beefy pc Settings still takes like 10 seconds to open. And it feels like the programmers died halfway though re-coding the context menus. Everything slightly more advanced can only be done through the old stuff so you end up with this awful mess where there's no design consistency, and it takes twice the clicks to get to something.
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Microsoft literally wanted me to convert my desktop to e-waste as it lacks the magical TPM chip that Win11 demands.
I said "fuck that" and pulled the Boot SSD, kept the existing non-boot drives for data, and put in a brand new SSD, encrypted it and installed Pop OS in one shot.
Not only was it easy, I lost literally zero critical functionality vs. what I had with Win 10. There is a Linux app equivalent for everything I had before. I had a few driver issues but most were auto-discovered including obscure ancient printers and scanners on my network.
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Me, using my MacBook:
(Don’t roast me for not using Linux, I’m all in and happy in the Apple ecosystem!)
I ain't roastin', but I am confused as all hell if you planned on gamin'.
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Over in the Linux world we have a cute penguin who leaves you alone.
Only if you have hardware that can handle it.
Don’t run Windows 11 on ARM.
Windows is still a fixture in my life due to work, but I’ve ditched Windows at home for years and won’t ever go back.
I'm lucky enough that Linux is one of the half official OS which are allowed and half supported at work.
I'm even more lucky that IT isn't tech savy enough to be able to do to the Linux installations what they do to Windows and Mac where they preinstalled some rootkits and don't give you admin rights.
Therefore I'm a Linux enjoyer without involvement of IT. I need to fix all my problems myself and do security and backups myself, but that's a price I'm more than willing to pay.
Yeah, same. I use a combination of Linux and macOS at home but have a work laptop running Windows. It's dreadful and feels like it only exists to make my tasks harder. I never find myself saying "what a useful feature!" but I often say "Ugh, why are you like this?".