Nothing.
Used to be the occasional game. Then the great Gabe was like “fuck Windows” and polished up Wine to make Proton. So…
Nothing.
The longer you use linux excluslively, you don’t think about windows or mac. You think about fedora or suse, kde or gnome, yay or apt, distrobox or toolbox.
IKR the longer I use Linux the more I think about TempleOS
They don’t give us free games with the OS anymore but TempleOS has HOLY games
That is…true, actually. The longer I use Linux, the more I’m like “…but what if, man, what if I ditch Arch for Fedora or NixOS or give Pop_OS! another chance (and i very well might when Cosmic launches)?” And sometimes I do…and then always come crawling back.
Going back to Windows full time ain’t even crossed my mind for a hot minute. Partly because i have a spare driver running it for emergencies (that i barely use anyways, only because Windows literally runs one important app that I need, that I can’t run on Linux), and partly because going back means being stuck with Windows 11 again, and I really dislike Windows 11’s design choices, personally (and Microsoft in general, but i digress).
going back means being stuck with Windows 11 again
Windows 10 can 100% still be installed. I say that from a Win10 install.
Oh I know it can be installed, but after the headache I got re-installing 10 once before and then trying to get 11 running on…anything, really, i just decided “you know what? What will be will be at this point. I’m not gonna need it for much anyways.” when i finally got 11 to accept and install into a random external drive that i never really used (it didn’t like the one i had inside my PC reserved specifically for it. Somehow…).
(Note: this was a while back, so installation could be a helluva lot better now and i have upgraded a bit since then but, shrug. Already got Windows ready to go on a drive, and only have it because I might need it moreso than me actually wanting to have it, so meh)
paru
Nothing really. You pay with your time by going to Linux but the effort is getting lower both because of me getting better but mostly the experience won’t compare with 20 yeara ago.since the non FOSS alternatives are getting more telemtry/call home functions rhe choice is an easy one.
Nothing TBH. I find Windows too stressful, Macs are too boring, and I can’t use TempleOS because I don’t have schizophrenia.
Damnit. You managed to give me a laughing coughing fit
What makes you not want to use Linux anymore
Your question is malformed because even the odd troubles of Linux these days are absolutely nothing compared to the hoops I used to go through to try to get a Kernel built for my hardware 25 years ago. The occasional non-working speaker or other config issue is tiny. It doesn’t even register as a problem.
Compare that to the shit show that is Windows? Fuck that OS. I try not to be very vocal when I meet people about it, but Windows just won’t be a choice for me. I’ve turned down jobs because it would move me to a Windows house for tools. It’s not worth living in that kind of hellhole UI design and wrestling with whatever enshittification MSFT has driven down your crop with the latest updates. I have a life to live and wrestling with my OS isn’t what I’m going to spend it doing.
I don’t know much about the current MacOS environment these days. I stopped in the OSX 10.4 days. I just don’t have the hardware to consider it, so no real opinion.
So… your question is malformed because it’s not even worth considering and I’ve got a quarter century of experience to back that one up.
Windows
It never was free.
MacOS
It’s not free any more.
TempleOS
I’m not religious.
So, I guess I get to stay on Linux for longer. Well, damn!
Using Widows on my private rig now to play Fortnite with my son after ~15 years on Linux only. Also getting a MacBook Pro at work now, since I have to use Zoom and stuff like that everyday. Having no hardware acceleration on Linux is a no-go. This is not Linux’ fault though. Also I’m old enough to just use the right tool for a job.
I feel like this post is guerilla marketing for “TempleOS”, which I’ve never heard of before and will absolutely not be looking up after this.
TempleOS (wikipedia) is a meme os. It’s supposed to be god’s os and was singlehandedly coded by the late Terry Davis. So this post isn’t really marketing, and the reference is just supposed to be humorous.
It’s not. TempleOS is a famous from scratch OS created by a guy with serious mental illness. It’s a sad story, but the capability of that guy was incredible. He’s gone now :(
It 100% is guerilla marketing for Temple OS.
Shut up and take my money
Shut up and take my
moneyprayers
For real though definitely do not access this site right bellow here and install this OS
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I love this reaction and how dramatically out of sync it is with what TempleOS actually is. I know it is innocent and accidental so this is in no way a shot at the poster. It is just a hilariously wrong take.
As a former Arch/Debian enjoyer on all my rigs in between 2012-2017, I can say several things but they might be outdated as of now. I haven’t rechecked it so here goes the list of things at that age:
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Anything remotely related to Nvidia, especially if you had switchable laptop graphics. Running games was a nightmare and a coin flip. Sometimes you can get games to work, but you got an awful screen tearing even in OS, sometimes it’s vice versa.
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PulseAudio was problematic. Sometimes booting the pc up resulted into missing audio output or input, or both. Sometimes, under heavy load, lots of audio was crackling until PulseAudio server was rebooted. Rebooting PulseAudio required restarting many apps so they even produce sound.
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Drove away for like 2 months, came back to dead Arch install after updating it. Switched to Debian cause I realized I value stability over newer stuff. Until I bought newer hardware which just didn’t work at all, can’t recall what that was to be honest.
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At least during 2012-2015-ish, any browser scrolling was jittery. Like, any. I heard it’s fixed right now but every time I used to boot Windows, it was completely different web experience.
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As soon as I started using laptops, I noticed that my battery was draining like 2-3 times as fast. Shouldn’t be an issue nowadays I hope.
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Printing was hell of a nightmare. Especially when I tried bringing my laptop to the office printer.
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Probably also related to Nvidia, but still: connecting external monitors never yielded out-of-the-box experience I expected to see. Nothing used proper resolution, scaling or refresh rates. Lots of things required manual configuration every time.
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Office software in general. Thank god most people switched to web alternatives right now.
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Back in 2012-ish years, Flash was still common and it generally refused to work in many distros. Especially with Nvidia graphics.
There are plenty more reasons I decided to ditch Linux on my workstations and the ones above are just “honorable mentions”. The biggest thing I found myself doing is tinkering with my setup much more than doing actual work.
So currently I just use a Windows laptop and WSL when I need local Linux. And of course I monitor and configure hundreds of Linux machines at work. I also have a Macbook Pro 16 mainly for iOS apps debugging and watching movies in bed.
I can say I’m currently neutral to Linux, Mac and Windows these days. They have their own use cases for me and they all allow me to reach my goals in their own way. Just getting best of each world, I guess?
I am glad that you are at peace with your workstations now, but just for updates on current situation in Linux Desktop world:
- Mostly the same, but now you can just turn switchable graphics off, so to only use Nvidia.
- Now we can use stable pipewire which is 3x times better
- Have not seen a delayed arch update problem in a while.
- Now it’s fine. In Build steam browser still sucks tho, and turning hardware acceleration is an ass ton of problems even now.
- Depending on your laptop and configs, some Linux oriented laptops can live for 15 hours on stock
- It’s easy with Cups and HP drivers, even trou Wi-Fi
- Now there are tools that can configure external monitor management. Also, Wayland is good with these types without configs
- We still don’t have Microsoft Office
- Flash works with emulators like Ruffles
Glad that Linux have noticeable progress in its lifespan
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I already have a 60+ hour per week job. I don’t need a second one, endlessly diagnosing why the simplest of tasks are constantly breaking.
Huh, funny. I say the same about windows. Typical tasks performed at work on windows machines take hours that take me minutes. Constant random failures, etc etc.
My Linux machine at work is rock solid
Have to agree. I’ve been using linux for ~20 years. Tried using it multiple times as a desktop main system. Sometimes it took a few days, sometimes a few months but I always ended up back at windows (now macos). It’s always something random. Something that should work, but is not. Something I could (given time) fix if I wanted to. The problem is that these tend to happen at times I want to actually use my computer and not tinker around. I have linux running on multiple servers perfectly fine, but on desktop it’s a hard pass for me.
I wish Linux had Powertoys Fancy Zones
kde plasma has it enabled by default. just drag your windows using shift. also press super + t to enter the editing mode
But then I’d have to use kde. 😣
Yup
Holy shit. This is what I needed. Thank you, thank you!
What’s that?
Splits my Ultrawide into several customised sections that I can snap Windows to.
As I’m dragging a window I simultaneously right click and a bunch of zones appear that I can snap it to.
I have an Ultrawide and a portrait 1440p that are split vertically and horizontally respectively.
Basically KDEs tiling
The main reason I started using Linux is because I wanted to use tiling window managers. Maybe take a look at some of those. It’s the same idea as Fancy zones just cranked up to 100
Lack of good VR support.
That’s been the primary reason why I’ve kept a Windows dual boot, though when I tried Steam VR on Linux a month ago it mostly worked well. Still some features that are unavailable, and a couple of bugs, but usable.
fuck windows i’m never going back to that shit
I’ve no plans to go back to my abusive ex.
Low performance of very specific games made by small studios on middle-aged low-budget hardware makes me consider dual-booting, but then I remember that I hate closed-source, software-as-a-service, tracking-financed operating systems.
