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Do you currently use Linux, or would you consider giving Linux a shot? (self.askbeehaw)

submitted 1 year ago by UngodlyAudrey to c/askbeehaw

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I get the feeling that Lemmy has a relatively higher concentration of Linux users. I'm preparing to move over to Linux when I build my new computer. I already put Linux Mint Cinnamon edition on one of my old laptops and I like it quite a bit. I figure that since I've been wanting to switch over for years, I should just do it. The games were the thing holding me back, and Proton seems to have taken care of that(I don't really play multiplayer games that require anticheat... I'm a singleplayer kind of girl).

For me, anyway, I want to switch because Windows has been creeping me out with its telemetry. Windows 11 looks lousy, and I'd have to jump through some hoops to get my old hardware on 11, anyway.

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[–] rowinofwin 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a fulltime Linux user and have been for about 15 years. Mint was a great district for that early phase where I was learning about the general difference between a locked down Windows environment and something more open and customizable. It put really good limits on my guesswork and made lots of sane, reasonable decisions about how things should be.

I moved around a lot, but my next medium term district was Linux Mint Debian Edition, then on to plain Debian (testing branch), around a couple of others until now I am on Arch based distros, mostly plain Arch but on one machine Manjaro. At every step some people told me I was on too simple a distro, others said it was too complex or unstable, so I just learned that everyone prefers what they have and are used to and it is much ado about nothing. In the simplest form, you do you, nobody else has to live your life and use your system.

That all being said, I love being on Linux. Wine has gotten so much better over time which is amazing, but also with the development of game environments like Unity, Godot, and so on developers have never had an easier time targeting Linux with a real release. Valve has definitely helped by pumping a lot of resources into Wine and also the surrounding stuff like OpenGL and Vulkan so that's pretty cool.

Things have only gotten better since I started with Linux and it seems there is a lot of room to keep going. I am hopeful about the future of gaming on Linux and I really do think it is the current best platform for the future.