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I love when people switch on the same machine and experience a performance boost. They finally start to understand all my under breath muttering about hating windows and it’s geriatric bloatware.
Windows is a liability. I'm forced to use it because of the propriatary nature of the games (and tech) I play.
There is nothing awesome coming out of Microsoft.
Proton and steam work pretty great these days. Try it out.
RT isn't available and few games using EAC still need support for Linux. Additionally Logitech headphones aren't supported on Linux (proprietary drivers for virtual surround)
Besides that I'm very well aware of proton's existence and I'm planning on building a new instance of Gentoo just for gaming.
I agree with the first sentence, but the second is wrong due to Proton, and the third is demonstrably wrong if you take a look at their GitHub. Windows Caldulator is better than anything Linux has, and WinGet is a decent attempt at making Windows finally have a native package manager.
WinGet even does manage packages like you'd expect when installing and uninstalling MSIX packages, and the ease of merely requesting manifests even beats the OBS.
Of course they're making good software. Why wouldn't they be? They're a competent software development company that much of the world chooses to rely upon. There's gonna be a reason for it. System admins on a whole generally aren't totally stupid.
Even whilst Balmer was CEO, some under-the-hood Windows and Azure changes were quite impressive. He merely screwed up everything he was able to touch, which admittedly was an absolute tonne.
Especially when the potato laptop stops being so potato all of a sudden. It's satisfying.
My wife and I have identical 7th gen i5 laptops, except hers has Windows while mine has Mint. I regularly use mine in front of the TV, and recently she tried to do the same. We had to turn the TV volume up and it took a minute to figure out why. The fans on her laptop were running flat out to keep it cool because Windows had so much going on in the background that the CPU was at 100%.
She was ready to scrap the laptop because it was so slow, thinking that it was normal.
Exactly, vindicating. Best example I have is my 72yr old mother, with her very old Celeron laptop that originally came with Win7, but Win10 has bogged down: stick in a current kubuntu usb live image usb and she doesn’t have time to make a cup of tea while it boots anymore. She won’t have to buy a new one anytime soon either…but an SSD upgrade may be a good idea.