Windows 11? I have Windows 10 in dual but using Linux only, I just don't want to remove everything even if Windows is shit... I'm only disappointed there's no Affinity Designer on linux :( I know it's full of alternatives but I like the UI and I'm used to it

Because the time to learn a new operating system is more than I have to spare. I'm approaching middle aged, windows is familiar and I just want to kick back and enjoy my games.

Linux hasn't reached drop-in replacement on the desktop yet. The steam deck is fantastic and I have no problems running it stock, but desktop Linux? Nah. Why would I dual boot when I can stick to one OS that does what I want and need.

(Side note: I run Linux on my server and am quite happy with it).

There are only a few mouse models that fulfill my requirements and software support for them is bad even on windows. I'm currently on Razer and Roccat, the software is slow, heavy and convoluted, but it's the only way to use the devices to their full potential. There's no way to get the drivers for Linux and that's a deal breaker for me.

For work. And that's only until I can get my workflow converted fully

So all of us that use Windows are clowns?

Oh, haha. Okay.

I feel attacked lol my reason was literally COD. That and I haven't had the capacity to dive into running Linux yet...

i played valorant then tried cs2 and preferred that, and as a benefit it runs on linux

I've just spent the last 6 hours troubleshooting steam input on 3rd party flatpaks, also alacarte has a bug that doesn't let you save property changes, also I can't use vim as root anymore for some reason I don't care to look into, also symlinking some of my media was a pain. Band-aid solutions have been found for the first 3 and the last was me being an idiot and not having a GUI solution to symlinks because Nautilus is arse compared to ms file explorer.

I fucking hate pop-os and flatpaks, cosmic launcher is a pile of junk, and my 4k monitor has created an infinite amount of scaling issues to work through.

Windows was a slow burn of minor inconvenience, Linux is a series of kicks in the nuts.

My experience with Win10 for what I use my computer for has been far less janky than any Linux distro I've tried, and I'm past the stage of my life where I could spend hours and hours troubleshooting and enjoying it.

As for Win11... I may very well made the dreaded switch to Linux when Win10 officially loses updates. I just wish Linux had viable alternatives to a lot of Windows software that wouldn't result in my workflow being significantly altered in a way that will require watching countless god awful tutorial videos and going through forum nonsense.

Like for sure Windows has its problems but we shouldn't pretend Linux and the community don't do a lot of things that massively turn off new users.

Want regular ass people to switch from Windows to something new? Check out how/why Mac OS is so popular among those who've switched from Windows, and perhaps there's some things of value there that the Linux community can learn from.

The Linux community is packed with toxicity and a stubborn insistence that it's nothing but helpful and if a user has a problem, it's always their fault and never the distro's fault.

Laptop shows your unlocked screen briefly when you open it before unlocking? Never had that issue with Windows, Macs, but on Linux this happens with Ubuntu when installed on several Thinkpad models.

And nearly every response to this problem on Linux forums is "you must be doing something wrong" or casually telling a new user 'just switch to DingOS 3.14 bro, it's what I use and I've never had an issue" like that's NOT a major pain in the ass for the average user.

Auto HDR... I have one HDR monitor and one SDR monitor and w11 plays nicely, Nvidia app still won't work with more than one monitor for their version of auto HDR