• Nyciferi
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    416 days ago

    I’m staying on Windows 10 until Microsoft somehow pulls it’s head out of it’s ass with Windows 11. It’ll take things like Steam completely dropping support of Windows 10, which will honestly happen one day because Valve slapped all of the faces of those when they promised that they would keep Steam running for old Windows down to XP. It’ll take them dropping support entirely for me to consider Windows 11 and even by that point, I’ll just go Linux fully.

    • @[email protected]
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      716 days ago

      Built my wife her first gaming PC. Installed Ubuntu. I’m shocked at how easily everything runs.

      • DaGeek247
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        416 days ago

        I’ve been running mint full time for a couple months now and it’s been amazing how little i have actually had to do to get the games running.

      • metaStatic
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        316 days ago

        say what you want about Ubuntu (and god knows people will) but it just works, and that is the main thing people switching want.

        • @[email protected]
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          215 days ago

          Yeah, since it’s exclusively for gaming, I tried Drauger which is allegedly some gamer-based distro. Took an hour to get WiFi working then it hard locked at the login screen after running updates.

          Reminded me of my first time trying Linux in 2004.

          I’ve been running Ubuntu for a year on my laptop. Might feel brave enough to branch out into something else soon.

    • metaStatic
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      516 days ago

      Start dual booting now. get a 2nd drive and use your BIOS boot selector to keep everything seperated, windoze has a habit of nuking bootloaders and fucking up linux installs. make sure it has no idea whats going on.

      But the real secret to switching is don’t inconvenience yourself. use the right tool for the job and you’ll quickly find how bad of a tool windows has become.