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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Just a heads up,
Most of my tools won't run, (you can likely find alternatives for most, barring adobe)
most of my self made tools won't run, (well you can fix that, now can't ya? You made em once you can make em again)
most of my games won't run, (Destiny player? Seems most single players run these days, but yeah the kernel level anticheat "required" by many online games renders them unplayable, because even if they do run like destiny you just get acct banned for playing on linux. This is the fault of the companies though, not on linux or its community for hating the kernel level spyware, of course.)
most 4 decades of internalization of shortcuts won't cut it short anymore. (Actually you may be surprised, many windows shortcuts still work on KDE, and you can configure them however you want if there's something missing. Plus you'd learn any "new" ones quicker than you may think.)
But yeah that said it isn't for everybody. Just gotta weigh the cost/benefit, is it worth it to you to learn a little about a new UI to escape microsoft's actively hostile anti-consumer practices, or would you rather just grin and bear it for "ease" (though it could be argued that "learning the new thing and being done with it" is actually easier than dealing with windows, just that learning the new thing frontloads the "hard" while dealing with microsoft is a constant annoyance. But I digress.)
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oh but I'm not talking about the people who WONT move, I'm mentioning those who tall as if they will move soon, then later, then later, then later...
For example, "I'll move when the steam deck comes out" then "I'll move when a steam deck OS comes out", "I'll move when windows copilot is released", "I'll move when windows is EoL", goal posts they just keep moving to my knowledge....
Oh shit this wasn't the main comment I look self centered as fuck now