As a Linux user for a year, I will tell you what it looks like from my perspective. From the very beginning I have been using one distribution, Linux Mint, and I am absolutely enchanted by it. At the same time, I have realized what the situation of games on this system is like. I tested various games, newer and older titles, and noticed that it is true that most of these titles can be played, but there are certainly limitations, e.g. there may be a problem with RTX, but it doesn't bother me because I am from an older generation of gamers who pay so much attention to graphics. I don't care, when it comes to other uses of the system and reliability, I have no objections here because it works much better than my previous Win10, which from time to time haunted me with bluescreens for no apparent reason. To sum up, if you just like to play something from time to time and you are not a pro-gamer who has to play every premiere title with all the available bells and whistles, and you are looking for a system for everyday use, then this system is for you, otherwise just give it up.

The only thing holding me back from Linux full-time for years was the lack of games support - but now that's not the case. Every game I want to play works flawlessly with proton thanks to Valve. Debian Stable FTW

Yesterday I switched my gaming pc to Nobara... Every game I want to play just works fine.... This was a couple of years not possible. Nevermind. But everyone should use what they want to use. No religious OS debate here.

I'd consider myself a ride-or-die gamer on linux at this point, but never in a million years would I tell someone that everything just works 🤣 The fights I have with getting GOG games to download and install on my computer, omg. I have to manually download and apply BG3 updates and GOG has uploaded 2 broken patches where I had to wait for the next patch to come out and then redownload and reinstall the entire game 🙃🙃🙃🙃

Windows has driver support from device manufacturers. Hard for linux to compete with that. The issue with windows is that it actively fights me when i try to configure it the way I want. Linux is hard, but windows is "difficult". If you know what i mean lol

What do you mean "modern AAA titles needs Windows"? Baldurs Gate 3, Starfield, Cyberpunk (ok this one isnt that new but still a Big title).. all worked right out of the box for me. I just install, enable proton and click play. Some time back, I bought Tiny Tinas Wonderland. Another AAA. It had platinum rating out of the box. Install, play. That simple. So I COMPLETELY disagree with you. The only issue is a select few games using Easy Anti Cheat. But thats it. Everything else just works. It truly does. But it wasnt always like this. I installed Linux for the first time in 2010, so trust me, I know.

"Doing the best job with the best tools." I like this quote as much as I like linux the most, but I sometimes have to use Windows for work, play or other reasons. I would say that the two are not opposites, we can certainly have both and use them as needed.

I love Chris'practicality. Linux users can get culty and form an identity around their hobby that, when held too tightly, can be binding

I started using Linux on my home/gaming PC back in January and it has generally worked fine. There are games that I can't play... but those are games that I don't want to play and wasn't playing anyway on Windows. I'd rather not touch the heavily monetized online services, and you naturally dodge the worst of them with Linux.

This guy says different things at different times. Lol.

Please make a comprehensive video about how Active Directory compares (in practice!) to Zentyal and other alternatives (if they exist).The school I work at needs some AD-type thing and, in case the budget won't be enough, we'll need to aquire an alternative.

Windows is just the easiest thing to have installed if you are going to have a PC for gaming. This is especially the case if you play games like Valorant and R6 Siege, you're just simply not going to convince those kinds of gamers to switch over to Linux. I would like to use Linux for gaming, and I enjoy my Steam Deck a lot, but everyone makes games for Windows.

What games did you try Chris? What problems did you encounter?

I just built my first PC. The first ever PC I used, a Pentium 4 machine, had Windows XP on it and I used it for a fricking 11 yrs. Then I got a Dell Inspiron laptop, used Windows 10 on it and then switched to Linux Mint when its HDD slowed down. Then later I got a Thinkpad on which I had used Fedora, Win10 and Ubuntu. And I haven't just been distro hopping, I kept on working on various projects. These machines took me from school to college. In my new PC which I just built yesterday, I decided to give Win 11 a try and so far it is good. Honestly, with my limited experience, I don't think that it matter which OS a person is using. It is what they are accomplishing using their tools which matters the most.

Some Linux users really need to stop acting like a bunch of Jehovah's witnesses, that would unironically do a greater service to Linux

Yeah, I get your point. I use both Windows and Linux. I have one rule: operating systems are tools, and tools are used to get the job done. I don't care which is better, as long as my task is done faster and much better. In some cases, development on Linux is awesome, and in other cases, development on Windows is great. Get the job done.

And this is what you have to love about Chris! For my workflow honestly, Windows with WSL would work just as well, and I do use it from time to time. While Linux is great, using it as a production system when you also interface with other people who use Mac or Windows, Windows is still the better choice given it'll most definitely work with whatever your peer is using. And I say this as someone who's been using Linux as my daily since about Hardy Heron.

As a Gentoo user I can with confidence say that everything just works; after I made it so.

Linux Gaming is surprisingly good and I look forward to see its progress for years to come. But for now its really Windows for me.

It's not about features or compatibility. It's about freedom

Thanks Chris, learning more from you every day.

just a question, but why would it matter whether you are using windows or linux for Go/Rust? Their commands work literally the same way on windows even without WSL. Cargo run is always cargo run.

It really depends on your use cases. There's going to be some things that work better on one system over another. Windows definitely has more apps and drivers written for it than Linux. That being said, I can do most tasks I need to do in Linux, with the occasional things in Windows. I'm just resigned that I'll need to use both for certain things.

Though I mostly daily drive Linux these days, I also game and there are some games that simply won't work in Linux even with all the advancements in compatibility in recent years. Thus, I still dual boot windows.

gaming on linux is simply not finished baking yet, its like if you were to put your pizza in the oven and started eating it before it finished fully baking, its gonna be tasting pretty good, but if you were to wait longer it would've been delicious

For me im mostly in Linux because I wanted something outside windows, I still have a windows install in my system but im not often in that install and mostly in Nobara.

regarding gaming, for some reason idk why but on my pc (r5 5600 / rx 5600) I've noticed that I've been getting way better frames on linux compared to windows, and also no more blue screen mid game. idk why if maybe my windows setup is too messy with pirated apps/games or something else but I've stuck with linux since

Hey Chris i highly recommend you to make a video installing AtlasOS 11 for in-depth review, they fixed everything you complained about in your negative video about it and it's much better now!

I'm not a developer or programmer or anything like that (yet), I only use Windows to play a game which is Valorant, the rest I do everything on Linux, be it studying, playing singleplayer games, watching videos, movies, series, browsing on the Internet. I have a comfortable desktop with different themes, everything seems to be faster than Windows, application updates just work, and it's been nothing but joy so far.

I use Windows a lot at work and I literally have 10 thumbs when I try to multitask or quickly switch between several windows. I can't (It's absolutely impossible) be as efficient in Windows as I am in Linux with tiling window managers. I will be switching to Linux for work even though some programs require Windows and are quite difficult to get working on Linux (10% of my workflow). Then I rather use a VM with Windows, which always runs the programs I need. I am absolutely sure that I can be more efficient at work that way.

Imagine having the time to get mad about Windows vs Linux, I want that life.

I recently switched to Windows 11 with Rectify11, Edge Redirect and a lot of registry as well as nvidia profile inspector tweaks on my main laptop. It just gives me a much more stable and performant experience, where everything works as expected, granted, with a little tweaking, but the linux desktop has gotten worse at this, where I found myself having to troubleshoot a lot more, mostly due to many third party proprietary software I need to use doing only the bare minimum to support it and maintaining their code poorly, but also because I'm on an nvidia optimus laptop. I might give maining linux another try, if wayland support and performance on nvidia improves, or if I switch to nvidialess hardware.

For me learning stuff about OS, Linux. Gaming, Windows. That's why I dual boot.

Tbh, at this point if the game does not work on Linux, it's probably not worth your time even on Windows. It's either have kernel level anticheat, means that it's always online microtransaction filled games, or the code is so messy it wont run on Linux. LoL, Genshin, Valorant, etc are the first category. The Last of Us was (I think still is), the second.

I don’t really do multiplayer anymore, but my experience with AAA games is that they really do just work. Granted I also don’t play games from companies with weird secondary storefronts, so no EA or Ubisoft either.

I use Windows where I need to, like my Gaming Laptop, and for machines where Windows isn't needed (i.e., glorified web browser and document editor), I just install Fedora and that's it (mainly because I can control when to update)

I love Linux and have no use for the Windows desktop at all now. However when friends or family ask about switching from Windows, usually because of the slow opaque update mechanism and other common issues, I always try and find out what they wanted to get out of their system. Sometimes they are just two reliant on software will only fully run on windows, in which case I try and help them with their problems so their system runs more smoothly. Other times, especially when closer to hand to offer support, I encourage them to switch over to Linux and giving it a try, always with the safety blanket that they can go back to Windows if they wish to. So far those people that I have switched over to Linux are only to happy to carry on with their setup. It's simply down to different horses for different courses. A truism that is often forgotten.

All my games work on Linux.

The only think I had learned with windows is how to use excel and how to cracked every single software out there, I been using Linux for over 6 years and still learning from it. I only play one game on steam and miss SC2 but I will never go back to that old windows click, click, click

Online game updates/launcher made me go back to maining Windows for gaming. Maybe I could work around that, get a few months of things working in Linux again, but effort. I prefer Linux for privacy and security. Am in between a lot I suppose.

I switched over to Kubuntu from Windows, and immediately the sound wouldn’t work, all the apps and folders kept crashing on the desktop. Absolute nightmare

my issue with windows is the abysmal performance. Lets for example i want to play a minecraft modpack, I unironically get 600 fps on linux. While i remain at very flakey 100fps (lots of framedrops) on Windows.

I am all time windows guy, switched to linux because I heard games work fine, and it is true, all my games inclding AAA titles work at launch, I just had to get rid of nVidia and buy radeon 🙂

As an OS, I fully agree

I think you are simply at a stage in your life which is supported by your job that tells you everything has its proper place and time. Youngsters and casuals don't do anything else except their fight is less about Windows vs macOS vs Linux but rather Android vs iDeviceOS.

I have been using windows since I was 6 years old (I'm 28 now) and still using it. I dabble in linux sometimes. I don't love windows I'm just used it, it does what it supposed to fine.

My experience with linux has always been bad to meh, their is always an issue on any distro requiring hours of troubleshooting, may that be UI issues, audio issues, dual screen issues, software issues, another issue where switching from windows > linux via dual booting requires me to unplug and replug my mouse before it starts working, just dumb things that shouldn't be an issue at this point in time, as much as i love endevourOS, mint and garuda(when these worked), linux just isn't ready unless you like to tinker or just don't value your time.

It just depends on what you do on a computer, what OS you use, and of course what you like. I only use Linux myself, which is mainly for privacy and because I have many choices in distros and it is free. And especially I'm not a gamer otherwise i think i will use Windows for that.

Not all people buy a computer for gaming or software development, most people is just for browsing, emailing and some office work. For this very common kind of usage, I don't see any advantage in paying for a closed software like MS Windows that is becoming increasingly intrusive and less privacy concerned. I use both systems every day, mainly windows 10/11 and debian gnome, and I am really bothered when most of my contacts, without any rational reason, stick to windows and simply don't want to listen about using linux instead. Good for Microsoft.

Good thing I'm a retrogamer.

I just have a lot of spite for windows/microsoft, and maybe I'm just crazy/a control freak, but I don't get how it doesn't bother other people that they could own more of their computer, that they potentially don't need to write a blank trust check to a middle man. I might accept a black box when I have no other choice, but when I do? I can get that on balance, something else (like ease of use, availability of certain tools) could matter more, but not how it could not matter at all. It's perfectly fine to choose windows, I just would rather jump through hoops not to personally, and eventually you get so good at doing it you don't notice you're still jumping through hoops (and in the long run, is it not better to pick up more skills...).

👍🏻 got the 2 machines, 1 LMDE for Office + Mails and daily stuff and 1 Win11 for gaming and cases I couldn’t fix on the Linuxsystem cuze i‘m by far no pro. I just use what works best for me in that case.

Thanks for debloated(CTT) for windows 11

I hope more programs/games would be available that i use/play(i found 4 that wouldn’t work and i only looked at a very small chunk of the programs i use). Its the only thing that is keeping me away from linux…

well been using windows 10 elegant gamer edition 2019 for years, would say its the best windows os for gamers even say its the number one HEAVY debloated os out there which brought me to my issue where theres no windows defender neither the option of windows update for security stand point using that version did give me the same performance i got from linux mint which surprised me from the fact its a windows os i did install linux again few days ago since all the things i have on windows is also available on linux too but in the first hour of using linux mint 21.3 had few freezing issues which made me go back to windows 11 atlas edition that version of windows 11 did give me the vibes of a stock windows 10 os performance but something telling me to give mint another chance and dive deep there and fix the freezing issues dont know maybe it beat windows this time

I love Linux but gaming as a whole is still smoother on Windows, right now I'm playing the new update for Path of Exile on Windows because I sometimes get stutter on Linux, but on Windows it runs very smoothly

Yes... Gaming experience in Windows is much better than in Linux but... it is not because "Windows is better for games"... it is because "Games are developed to run in Windows"... If games were developed for Linux... Linux would be the best OS for gaming... and games would be better too because Linux offers better performance and "infinite flexibility"... that's why Linux is used on 500 of Top500 super computers...

If you have modern hardware and modern GPU you also run into all sorts of troubles, when I upgraded my PC my problems started, i am griefing those hardware manufacturers for not supporting Linux why they make it so hard for us I wish I knew so I could have boycotted the manufacturers that don't Play nice

Old Net/Sys Admin here.... To tell the truth... There was one initial main-reason that I switched to using Linux as my Main Desktop OS (way back in 2006): PERFORMANCE!!! In the early 2000's, multi-core CPU's were just starting to come on to the scene. But, were not really affordable until the late 2000's. So... Linux to the rescue. Running an OS without "performance sucking" anti-virus was awesome!!! Even to this day... When I get someone converted to Linux, they are astounded that anti-virus software is not needed. I'm not a gamer; so, Linux fits my needs perfectly. It did take me several years to finally ween myself off Windows Software. VM's kept me going during those years. Now... Would I ever go back to Windows? Probably not. Unless... Windows, itself, became a Linux Distro with NO-BS and Microsoft became an Upstanding-Company for the masses. Who am I kidding? That would never happen. LOL!!!!

It's 2023 and you can't watch Netflix in HD on linux. Prove me wrong.

Titus keeping it 100% 😁😁😁

Hit the nail on the head

I Would have to agree with this Linux,Windows and mac but to be fair last time i used mac was when mavericks got released. So don't got the most experience with mac in general although i do think apple could lower their prices a little as i think they are over priced for what you get compared to building a computer.

95% of all windows apps I have tried work on Arch linux without too much hassle, Unreal Engine 5/epic games launcher, Ubisoft connect(through Lutris) and all the games they have( Including Avatar Frontiers of Pandora), all steam games run at least the ones I have tried, just have to pick the right proton versions for stuff in steam. Sadly most things with anticheat just wont work and most Epic games launcher games wont work even though Unreal Engine works..lol

Best tool for the job is also the way I think of the OS. But that is focused more towards convenience, which are not the goals that the GNU/Linux project is trying to achieve. By using GNU/Linux many people are fighting for freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify software and the OS they are using. These people usually identify themselves with the ideas of Richard Stallman (an American free software movement activist and programmer, who has described those terms and ideas, most notably in the GNU General Public License - GPL)

TItus I get what you are saying about "tools for the job..." BUT, in my case Windows 11 is Spyware not doubt about it, you use Wireshark to see what is going on with Win11. You could use Windows server 2022 as a game pc with lot less spyware, since it is designed to be a "Secure" OS, and you pay for that privacy. I do not want to trade my private data for ease of use or compatability such as with Win11, so I use ChimeraOS for gaming and Mint for all other desktops if possible and window server 2022 if I have to do windows programing running in VM

Too bad that I care if the OS is installing TikTok, Facebook, Netflix and a bunch of other malware onto my workstation, worse even, it comes back after uninstalling. So yeah use windows if you have to but if you think it’s a good OS, there’s something wrong with you. Same goes for macOS and Linux. All OS’s suck, it’s actually hard to believe.

I been using Nobara Linux for awhile now, and all my games work very well without issues. I was playing on or two games on Windows, like Genshin or Destiny, but in the end arent games worth playing imho.

Unless you have a monitor that can do 140PPI or so, get ready for pixelated text and fonts on your Linux installation. One thing that Windows handles far better than Linux is font rendering.

Just installed Ubuntu the thing I noticed is that linux uses waaaay less resources. However I miss office tho

I;ve had a torturous month trying to install a stable linux. Mint and Nobara. A few times they broke for no reasona appearently. And now I'm installing a new win10 after Nobara completely broke and refuses to start after I formatted an unsued partition and tried to mount it at /mnt/A. So no, it's not Linux vs Windows it's only windows and if you need linux for something run it from a USB or dual boot it at best. But Always have a windows. Through so many installs this month, my windows is still standing while every Linux distro is broken when I pull out a sata cable for something and plug it back in.

Well idk, am on debian and KVM Win 11 and LookingGlass into it I dont really care about windows, but its just needed to some things

I hate how windows doesn't really let me spend all my time installing it and deciding what version of it I want best and then going in and twiddling all the configurations so that my windows is exactly the way I want it. What I want to do is twiddle and fiddle and install the most perfect distro and use emacs because it's fast and use a terminal because guis are stupid and then go back and install a different distro and modify its kernel and then swap in a different sound system and set my terminal so that the emacs uses pig latin and then go in and twiddle the window manager so that it uses a different buffer management scheme and then fiddle with my IO system so that it uses a different buffer management scheme and then install a different distro because it has a different command line. Does Windows let me do all that? No, it does not.

I have a weird set of favorite operating systems, which the Windows OS's are custom ISO's. ●Windows 8.1 Sasnet ●Tiny11 ●Linux Mint XFCE These operating systems are super fast and stable, and allow me to maximize the amount of software that I run, especially since I swap PC's frequently. I play retro PC games, modern games, and do some work, and these three operating systems fullfill my requirements perfectly, especially with extra tweaking and optimizations on top! I don't really have a favorite OS between these three, they are just all super good!

Interesting. My lineup is Linux, Mac, Windowss

I'd say the comparison between linux gaming and windows is similar to comparing, say, the nintendo switch to the XBox One (with the exception that there are no exclusives). There is a big library of games that work out of the box, but not all of them do (or work at all). That's just a reality. I say as someone who does all my gaming on linux and no longer even runs a dual boot. It is just a reality of gaming on linux. Which is not to say that it's bad. It's better than it's ever been and a lot of us are quite comfortable gaming on linux and never feel the need to touch windows. It's just that Linux Gaming still has a big "Buyers Beware" label on it, and that's fine.

"Modern AAA titles, if you're a huge gamer, then you're going to be using Windows. There's just nothing else out there....people don't want to hear that." You're *mostly* right? If you're a gamer who wants to be able to play ANY game, then yeah, it's Windows you're after. That's probably what people don't want to hear. The more refined truth is that both Windows and Linux have issues with games periodically. The real limitation might be people restricting themselves to one operating system at a time. I switched my daily driver/gaming PC to Linux in May, at that point effectively every game I had ran on Linux. When Starfield and Cyberpunk 2.0/Phantom Liberty came out, for 2-3 weeks I had to dual boot into Windows to play them because there were Nvidia driver issues preventing them being playable on Linux. Baldurs Gate 3 though, immediately playable on release. I have the luxury of having zero interest in anything remotely resembling competitive online gaming, so never have to deal with anticheat incompatibilities. The equation would change for competitive online gaming. In the 6 months prior to that, I'd also had 2 games unplayable on *Windows* (Cyberpunk, again!, and Forza Horizon 4). In the year, with 4 instances of 'unplayable games', the score was tied Linux 2, Windows 2.

The games I play work on Linux, but thats not everybodys case.

I still love Linux more than Windows but its a dual boot system for me, there's just some games that just are too much of a pain on Linux even still. Though i could see Linux Gaming being viable right now if you only play certain single player titles.

Well im not enchanted by Linux!!!!!!! YET. I toy with it but if linux is to be the next best, the gap between windows and linux needs to get closer. Gamers make up a huge portion of people who would like to use linux, but there is a huge investment in windows games that are very popular for windows not available on linux. Solution: The gap to make windows games more accessible on lunux would be a huge step. We are talking about a crowd that will never use the terminal and need the transition more seamless. Prebuilt scripts, if possible, for each game or app would be a huge plus. I play Farm Sim 22 and im sure there are enthusiastic people out there that could come up with a script to make that transition painless. I love the idea of Linux and the way to transition is getting better but not quite there yet. Thanks for your very informative vids.

I was all linux back in the 90's and 2000's, then I started gaming with my friends and I was all windows. Now that I don't game that much anymore I don't really care. At home it's linux and at work it's windows. I don't try to promote one over the other but I do tell people that want to try linux to get an extra HDD/SSD to install it on and "dual boot" using the boot screen and mess around with it without dual booting from the same drive, or just use a live usb with persistance, to try linux.

You can really only switch over to Linux 100% if you don’t need gaming on Windows or specific programs on Mac (and or if it doesn’t affect your job). Linux is a great option for private personal computing, building and maintaining servers, and just having an os (I know Linux itself is just a kernel ) that’s 100% yours. But Linux isn’t perfect for everyone.

mk, ima list problems I have with windows. 1: random uncontrollable shutdowns/crashes 2: trying to force me to use microsoft edge. 3: windows defender only detects files that are not viruses, and none that are. 4: advertisements and usless news baked in

I really want to transition away from Windows, but the constant struggle with compatibility and driver issues keeps pulling me back. As a power user, my priority is a computer that just works without the need to tinker with the operating system. The problem is that Windows is becoming increasingly unfriendly with its anti-consumer practices, such as bloatware, pushing the use of Edge and Bing down our throats, and not to mention the intrusive spyware and telemetry. On the other hand, Linux is generally free from these issues, but it introduces its own set of challenges, particularly in terms of compatibility and the functionality of certain software that I rely on from my Windows experience. It feels like I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. There's just nowhere to go right now.

I'm done with computers cell phones and everything. I hate it all and want to age gracefully I'm 39 years old and ready to lie down and die. What's the best tool for that job?😅😅😅😅

the main problem with linux is not community not peoples but how operating system designed normally people would use gui rather than terminal i mean even when your expert at terminal who wouln't want to use GUI, its way better than to typing all the commands right thats the biggest reason linux will never be mainstream, everyone want to use OS convinently and linux isnt convinent

If you had an error in windows, you have the trubleshooter If you had an error in linux, you ARE the trubleshooter 🐧

As a gamer that dabbles in the occasional multiplayer game, Anti-cheat is what would keep me off linux. This is a game company problem though not really a linux one. a lot of them have linux clients, and the company has to get support enabled for linux on the anti-cheat company's back-end, and most simply won't do that. So yes, unfortunately the problem with using linux as a gamer... isn't linux itself, sadly. It always surprises me that the cultiness is still around which tools you use. It's been around since the beginning, and should have died off long ago. As long as it's not just straight up malware, nobody should care. I completely agree, use the best tool for the job in front of you.

I would completely switch to linux, but i need my software to just work for my small business. I use affinity photo and cricut software on the daily. I just bought a m2 pro mini. I have "played" in mac os for years because I'll be at best buy or a friend will come over. So this will get me away from windows hopefully! Not saying it's bad, but its still has it quirks.

The solution is simple. Use what you want. I'm running Windows 11, trimmed down with AtlasOS, alongside Gentoo, because I'm a masochist.

If you truly like the idea of Linux and you're at least, very mildly "tech-savy" [you know 0 about programming, but you can build a pc and install windows on your own without looking up the internet], the best way to make the transition to Linux is to have a friend, even if online only, who 100% loves a linux distro and would be happy to assist you 24/7 and you can just shoot your questions and get through the first 30 days of basic console use, ideally with you yourself using an older outdated pc that wouldn't run W10/11 well, but this is too much of an idealized scenario, very few people are gonna do this. The problem if you're on your own is: Linux pros, even if they're nice people and want to help, will just get tired of reading your basic questions, the thing is that when you're posting your question about changing a desktop environment, customizing the theme icons and stuff like that, it may seem harmless to you, but the people capable of answering those questions have seen that question 20 times that very same day, and its very likely that if they want to be nice about it, they'll just ignore your question and move on. This is the short end of the stick of Linux, the greatest beauty of Linux is its inequality, someone who mastered linux code as much as possible is going to outright be in a completly different direction from a Linux noob, if you're a skilled programmer and you love Linux and its idea, you'll enjoy your way through it like a game, but if you're...not that, your journey is going to be disproportionally worse, and the thing is, only 10-20% of Linux users have the knowledge on how to do x/solve y problem , so 90-80% of Linux users need help but only 10-20% can give help, is just never gonna happen, Linux is never going to be mainstream, the steamdeck isn't mainstream, the steamdeck is tiny tiny niche with a lot of compromises, and if you tried running the steamOS on proper desktop hardware you'd get what we're already seeing, which is that normal desktop computers have more glitches and some games even run worse than on the steam deck. I am a total Linux noob still, i will never stop trying Linux once or twice a year, i will try Linux again this year, 3rd year now, i NEVER ignore a post that i can help with and i never make the guy asking for help feel like a burdain, but a lot of times i just couldnt help someone because i cant replicate his error and a google search for his issue doesn't solve his issue, it's happened to me too. Linux won't become mainstream, but what of it? at least it will keep its soul, Linux users and content creators who wish Linux went mainstream should take a look at windows, what good has being dominant been to Windows? it certainly made microsoft money, but Windows is disgusting and its only getting worse, if you think that Linux wont change if it had +2Bi users, i got a plot of land on the money i wanna sell you.

So you're not worried about the industrial level surveillance from MS, nor the enslavement of their TPM/Safe Boot? I see. But hey, if my entire livelihoodand existence depended on running Windows, I might opt for the prison camp too. But it doesn't, so I won't.

He became god himself in the last months. He no longer cares :D . He be like - I just say the stuff that I think are true. The rest is up to you, man, do what you will, I'm happy for you either way - Love it.

for gaming? windows everytime. For dev? linux

Yeah...I had to dump Linux because the DE that I used would constantly just break for no reason. That and the fact that my games were hit and miss when working. So Windows 11 on my gaming PC, and Windows 10 IoT LTSC on my 8 year old DELL Latitude E7450.

I'm not religious about my operating system, but I absolutely prefer Linux. While there are some things about Linux that annoy me so much, I just don't like using Windows anymore

I've been gaming my entire life and consider myself much more hardcore gamer than people who only playing AAA slop and linux just feels better. My older games work (not even retro like 98 and 95 tier). You can get those to run on window but with more hoops than I have to jump through. My multiplayer games work hell even helldivers 2 works. With the rise of DMA devs are going to have to go beyond shitty EAC spyware and stop trusting clients.

I stopped using windows after my hardware constantly would fail {I have a rx 6800 and a ryzen 5 7600}. My entire os would glitch out with occasional static flashes, apps would either crash or lag. Finding the solutions to my problems with windows 11 online was like trying to find a needle in multiple hay stacks. Then the nail in the coffin for windows was the fact that they're trying to force ai into their os, chat bots, stalking each keystroke and bogging down your performance with it. I had to download some sketchy debloating tool just to get some of my performance back. That does't even include all the random services they have running in the background sucking up resources. Finally let's talk about the driver support.... AMD drivers on windows are so bad that it didn't matter if i downloaded adrenalin or pro they all caused stuttering, flashing and crashes. So upon installing Fedora I was met with the complete opposite, now i did have to install controller drivers... but that was the only real hard part of my experience, games like rdr2 have better performance on linux than i could ever imagine on windows. That's my take on this!

I've been checking linux vs windows benchmarks for games and while not ubiquitous it's generally more than likely you will have more fps in Linux. Sure gaming it's still better in windows in some respect, all games run there vs most in Linux but it's not true that windows wins by any measure.

yeh gaming has been terrible on linux tbh. almost unplayable, but im a week into my linux adventure and barely know what im doing in terms with making them work