← Back to context

Comment by markus_zhang

9 days ago

I'm already moving into Linux for one of my laptops. If the drivers and desktop experiences are good enough (or bad enough in Windows) I might move 100% to Linux in a few years.

11 comments

markus_zhang

Reply
specproc  9 days ago

I made the jump a few years ago and the experience has been largely great. Lots of learning, which has been half the fun, and no goddamn ads in my start menu.

Totally usable as a daily driver, provided you don't need Windows only software. The year of linux on the desktop was probably about 2020.

  • wing-_-nuts  9 days ago

    Steam's proton has made gaming on linux astoundingly good. The only thing that still needs improvement is mod support, as mod managers, game downgraders, bin patchers, some more involved mods involve little utilities written for windows that are not easily runnable on linux.

    It is slowly improving though. The steam deck has moved things forward in leaps and bounds.

  • DrillShopper  9 days ago

    Even then, a VM can get you really far.

    If you need direct hardware access (like for gaming) then you can run a passthrough VM. You can do that even on a single video card system.