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I finally made the switch
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ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US
welcome to the club
I wouldn't say I was friends with Windows. It's more like escaping an abusive relationship IMO.
I was its friend, but it wasn't my friend
Welcome and I am sorry.
I've been gaming on windows and had my laptop running linux for 3 years now but I've recently moved my PC to the TV for a more console-like experience. I realized that I almost exclusively play games with a controller anyway.
To that end I switched to Bazzite. Has been working pretty much flawlessly! Even with an Nvidia GPU.
Fool, you fell for our linux propaganda! I condemn thee to suffer distro hopping for 3 years after which you will settle on one distro of your choosing. Iä! Shub-Niggurath!
Don't listen to the demons! Just install Mint and be done!
I did choose Mint! Ha.
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Welcome!
I envy the people who live a life that enables them to just ditch Windows like that.
One day...
I switched like 25 years ago. For a long time I had a Windows partition for booting up games, until Microsoft stopped accepting my old licenses. Luckily I really didn't care at that point.
What's Holding you back?
Proprietary software required for work.
Vmware, lutris
GPU-accelerated?
Yep
I thought virtualising GPU effectively was not possible, since the both the host as the guest are using it?
I changed to Linux a few months ago. I’m using Linux Mint and gaming has been pretty easy, no major problems whatsoever. I had some struggles regarding audio with recording and playing guitar. At first I had the urge to distrohop but now I just use my pc daily without even thinking about the OS.
Upgraded my father-in-law from Windows 10 to Linux Mint last week. I use Arch btw on all my stuff, but that's no beginner's distro. He's very pleased - basically used it for browsing and some light office work, has hardly noticed the difference. One more person off Windows forever.
Windows 11 is enshitified enough to be annoying and loaded with government and corporate spyware enough to be alarming. Meanwhile, Linux has become user friendly, optimized for everything but the latest hardware and capable of running most games.
"A computer is like an air conditioner – it becomes useless when you open Windows."
This is my favourite meme format of all time
Welcome to the team
Me too, but he covered the wrong guy's face.
The guy on the right makes these update posts about his friendships.
Yeah I made the switch and finally moved my daily driver of to kubuntu and it's been surprisingly painless. Only thing I've really struggled with is finding a music player I like.
Welcome!🐧 Personally I like seeing giant album covers and synced lyrics with mpv, idk if it might work for you. Not a music library program tho
My pleasure to meet you 😇❤️
You're gonna love it! What distro did you go with?
Went with Mint. Seemed user friendly for someone new and is great so far.
Yeah I started with mint a few years back, expecting to distro-hop.... I'm still on mint.
Yes the Mint trial version is free for 3 months, then you have to create a Linux account and signup on their website to purchase activation key for the full upgrade to unlock changing themes and recieving updates unless you're okay with occasional popup reminders every 2-minutes that your Linux copy has not been activated. /s lol
Holy fuck. I am someone with Win 10 and was thinking about trying Linux Mint and then your post made me say WTF, should I investigate something else?
I’m glad the /s was added because it seemed wrong, but then I was second guessing. Absolutely hilarious though! Got me to laugh after.
There's a package called activate-linux that puts the activation warning overlay on the screen in case you ever feel homesick.
...and there's Ubuntu advertising its pro subscription in the terminal.
That's too fuckin funny
Just so you know, the Arch free trial is 6 months
I hear you can extend the free trial by telling random people you use Arch. Just what I've heard. Linux Mint started the same program from what I gather.
That explains sooooooooooooooooo much
Because that is the maximum time an average Linux user can stand without trying out a new Distro.
Actually for many people rolling release is a cure for that issue because it's the extensive version upgrades (that also like to fail) which often gets people to the point of reinstalling then trying another distro while being at it.
I'm using the same arch install on my home server for 10 years now.
Nice! That was how I started out too.
Now set up a virtual machine and install Arch on it.
If you want to really learn Linux, that is. After that, you might just settle for pure Debian.
Nice! I switched my desktop from win11 to popos this weekend. So far so good, but all I've done is play some games (guild wars 2, binding of Isaac) and some quick tests (camera, HDMI to the TV, music)
1st Linux? congrat. Whats your partition layout?
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