• @JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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    228 minutes ago

    It’s tricky because I have things that just don’t translate well to linux, or become considerably more expensive or time consuming to manage / deal with. Linux has a lot to offer and a lot of great. But I’m just going to keep running an out of date OS until I can switch.

  • @MrFinnbean@lemmy.world
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    102 hours ago

    Why Gates in the picture tough?

    He stepped down as a chairman over 10 years ago and didint he leave the microsoft board like 5 years ago?

  • @WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world
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    73 hours ago

    I just gave up on windows gaming. If the game cant be played on my steamdeck, I just find something else. Otherwise its macos and linux for anything non-professional that requires windows. And even then I fucking hate it. Oh look at that… all my documents say “Auto-recover (version 1)” because it forcibly rebooted on me.

  • @darthelmet@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I got a new PC recently so unfortunately I am now on Windows 11. I’ve been wanting to make the swap to Linux but I can’t really make a clean break because at least some of the games I play a lot won’t work on Linux. I do think I’m gonna try to set up another hard drive with Linux on it to try to slowly start learning it and ideally move over anything that I can over there eventually and just keep the windows drive for those few games.

    Does anyone have any recommendations related to that? Distro for gaming/ease of use? What’s the best option for setting up the dual boot? Anything I wouldn’t have thought of that’s relevant?

  • @tobz619@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    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

  • @blindbandit@lemm.ee
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    73 hours ago

    I already switched to Bazzite Desktop and it’s been so good. I had some pains configuring somethings to my liking, but that was more due to me not being familiar with Linux. I’m never going back.

  • @tsuzuku@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I don’t care to much about steam at the moment so no real problem. But I will make the switch to linux on the machine used for gaming. No Win 11 there probably, some Arch-related, EndeavourOS is my actual choice.

  • @MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world
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    53 hours ago

    My plan is to use my Linux box as my main PC with Steam installed so that I can remote play from my Windows gaming PC since not all titles natively work on Linux for me. That way, the only activity being performed on my Windows machine is gaming and everything else will live in Linux Mint

  • @nuko147@lemm.ee
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    54 hours ago

    I’m in Windows 11. I have regret it, but after so many tweaks of the system, removing telemetries, changing menus, and other Windows shit, i had not the energy to move back to Windows 10.

    Only OS change i am willing to make is to move to Linux, but gaming is not there yet, and am now trying to move from big proprietary companies to FOSS, so time is needed.

  • @argarath@lemmy.world
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    34 hours ago

    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

  • @letsgo@lemm.ee
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    54 hours ago

    My laptop still works perfectly well so if Microsoft don’t want to support it any more then I’ll bung Linux on it. I’ve already got my Mint stick ready, just need to get round to it.

  • @bluewing@lemm.ee
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    44 hours ago

    So many perfectly working older computers are going to be headed to the landfill as e-waste. That’s the horrible part.

    What a waste tech dollars just to play some stupid game.

  • @TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world
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    86 hours ago

    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.

  • @WasteWizard@lemmy.world
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    86 hours ago

    Already prepared everything for the jump. Switched MS Office for LibreOffice, and Outlook for Betterbird. Tested install, configuration and access to backups in a VM. Next vacation I take I’ll go for it. Mint is my choice of Distro, because of Steam/Gaming reasons. With the US being antagonistic, if not outright hostile, right now, and Microsoft having their disgusting Copilot AI Analysis Fingers in everything, it’s the rational choice I think.

  • Jeffool
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    35 hours ago

    Considering I’m unemployed and job hunting, and Windows says I can’t upgrade my current (old) PC, and I regularly play Warzone with friends? No, probably not any time soon.

    Maybe if I get a job with a six digit salary in a city with a reasonable cost of living (or remote) so I can jump out of debt before 6 months? But I’m not holding my breath.