• mechoman444
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    320 days ago

    Linux is great and all and I use it on several of my machines.

    And if lay person just needs a computer to do basic things, internet, social media, stream, watch multimedia and the like it’s a great system. I have it on my multimedia PC we use only for entertainment consumption and my grammas laptop where she only watches streaming videos on.

    But if someone needs it for anything else, graphic design gaming productivity development it’s much, much more difficult to use. I’m not saying it’s impossible but it’s much harder than just installing an exe on Windows and calling it a day.

    And that’s unfortunately the catch with Linux is that it’s significantly less convenient to use than Windows.

    For me personally when Windows 10 reaches its end of life I’m going to have to dule boot for regular computer usage to Linux and for gaming on windows 11. Something I really don’t want to do because all I want to do is just turn my computer onand be able to use it I don’t want to switch between operating systems but I realize that Windows 11 will be a privacy nightmare.

    • @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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      220 days ago

      You do realize that most Steam games now work on the next natively correct? It’s true, not all do, but a lot of them do.

      • mechoman444
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        120 days ago

        It’s gotten much better yes. But for some reason the majority of games that I play don’t have linux support. It’s a curse…