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Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?
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Pretty good for me with Mint. Mostly audio annoyances and window manager annoyances. I hated cinnamon because it leaks memory like mad and needs to be restarted often. Now I'm using Mate, but it seems to have a lot of annoying quirks of its own.
Also I found that the compositor really messes with the performance of gaming, so I needed to turn it off which was a bit of a pain to figure out.
Other than that, everything has been fine, but I used to use Linux a lot 20 years ago so the transition wasn't too bad for me.