Moving to Linux sounds cool and is cool until you realize 2 things, one, you can fuck yourself in ways you didn’t know possible.
2, windows is dominant and you will lose access to a fair portion of games immediately upon switching.
Unless you really need to lower background bloat, develop code, or got something vehemently against windows, its not worth the swap for 90%+ of the population, you will go back.
I didn’t mind the learning curve, realizing the sheer amount of programs and games that have no development plan for Linux was what made me swap back.
1, That teaches you to not be an idiot and think before you do.
2, Almost my entire library plays on Linux just fine. Games made for Windows can often run on Linux with the right setup, so don’t be discouraged by the lack of plans for Linux develipment. Gaming on Linux has come a huge way the past few years really. Especially with DXVK, and with Valve getting into Linux gaming developing Proton and nagging Nvidia to fix their drivers. Most stuff nowadays works out of the box with Proton or Lutris, which both provide 1 button-press installments.
I only have a minimal amount of games left that run Windows only and that’s not even because the games can’t, but because some of the mods I run can’t. Most notoriously ENB because it’s code is actually full of issues, if that’ll be fixed it would be parsing trough DXVK just fine. Sadly Boris isn’t know for his great reactions to anything that’s even slightly critical about his work so I doubt it’ll get fixed 🥲.
Gaming has come a long way now in Linux with steam and proton, most games are playable. You can check out protondb to see what games don’t work, but it’s amazing compared to even a few years ago.
Moving to Linux sounds cool and is cool until you realize 2 things, one, you can fuck yourself in ways you didn’t know possible.
2, windows is dominant and you will lose access to a fair portion of games immediately upon switching.
Unless you really need to lower background bloat, develop code, or got something vehemently against windows, its not worth the swap for 90%+ of the population, you will go back.
I didn’t mind the learning curve, realizing the sheer amount of programs and games that have no development plan for Linux was what made me swap back.
1, That teaches you to not be an idiot and think before you do.
2, Almost my entire library plays on Linux just fine. Games made for Windows can often run on Linux with the right setup, so don’t be discouraged by the lack of plans for Linux develipment. Gaming on Linux has come a huge way the past few years really. Especially with DXVK, and with Valve getting into Linux gaming developing Proton and nagging Nvidia to fix their drivers. Most stuff nowadays works out of the box with Proton or Lutris, which both provide 1 button-press installments.
I only have a minimal amount of games left that run Windows only and that’s not even because the games can’t, but because some of the mods I run can’t. Most notoriously ENB because it’s code is actually full of issues, if that’ll be fixed it would be parsing trough DXVK just fine. Sadly Boris isn’t know for his great reactions to anything that’s even slightly critical about his work so I doubt it’ll get fixed 🥲.
Gaming has come a long way now in Linux with steam and proton, most games are playable. You can check out protondb to see what games don’t work, but it’s amazing compared to even a few years ago.