This raises an interesting point actually... I have a new Win11 machine but my old Win10 one is just being kept around for low level, non essential tasks. I don't have any essential apps left on there really now. I signed up for that extra year of Microsoft support that was offered but when that runs out I guess what a perfect time to have a play with Linux and see what all the fuss is about.
Just do it
Unless you rely on pirated/cracked games, CAD or Adobe software, Linux will be a massive improvement to your computing experience.
What kind of issues do you expect with cracked games? Maybe I'm lucky, but the 20+ cracked games I tried worked perfectly fine in WINE.
Maybe my experience is outdated. I had about a 20% success rate in getting Windows executables running in Wine without fiddling.
So for a while now I only game via the Steam client, since I don't pirate or mod games anymore.
Maybe things have improved in recent years, I wouldn't know.
If you actually mean wine, there's your problem. You should run games with proton. I use lutris for cracked games with proton, and rarely have issues with games not working.
I welcome all windows refugees. Join us when you are ready and your use case is met.
When Linux can give me apps that I need and can use then I switch 100%. Until then will have to keep using 10 for now.
I've got a checklist of what needs to run well in order to switch, but Lutris just gave a big AI fuck you to users so I'm not hopping yet.
You don't need lutris at all tho?
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