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Gaming is also covered, with 2500+ commercial games available on Steam only. The KDE applications Kdevelop, Kdenlive and Krita has improved a lot the latest 1-

Gaming is also covered, with 2500+ commercial games available on Steam only. The KDE applications Kdevelop, Kdenlive and Krita has improved a lot the latest 1-2 years, providing a pretty great IDE, video editing and also painting application. 3D animation, modeling and texturing isn't too shabby either, with Maya, Houdini, Blender and 3D-Coat. For ShareX, there are many alternatives for grabbing screenshots. A direct clone is ShareNix (video: http://www.hnng.moe/f/3CI http://www.hnng.moe/f/3CI) If ShareX is what's stopping you, I think that you're mainly stuck with a Windows desktop habit.

mamon 9y ago
Regarding gaming: it doesn't matter how many games are there, what matters is WHICH GAMES. Playing games is a social activity after all, especially for teenagers. If all of your Windows-using friends are playing Assassin's Creed: Origins, and you can't because there isn't a Linux version of it then those 2500+ games on Steam do not really matter to you.
- eitland 9y ago
  CS:GO is there and IMO it has often been more performant there than on Windows :-) While CS:GO might not be your thing it should be proof that the sitiation is improving.
  - alkonaut 9y ago
    I’d consider a switch for gaming if Linux had more games than windows, and the graphics drivers were more performant on Linux. 90% of the game library or 95% of game performance Will not do it. Until then, having a windows license even if only for gaming is a no brainer.
BrandoElFollito 9y ago
No - I am stuck with a solution which works out of the box. I mentioned in an earlier comment that downloading Minecraft and opening it by double-clicking opens an archive. This is simply unacceptable for a desktop version. At the same time I run and ran hundreds of servers on Linux and I would never run anything serious on Windows Server. I am probably stuck with a Linux habit here.
BrandoElFollito 9y ago
OK, I gave a try to the clone. Download the file from Github - check Start several commands out of the blue - no idea what to do. I call a friend, he tells me to start a terminal and type it over there - check. (98,3% of the population which expected to swap Windows with Linux Desktop is now gone) I am IT, the terminal is my friend. I start ` sharenix` and get (sharenix:2817): GModule-CRITICAL : g_module_close: assertion 'module != NULL' failed Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" So much for the clone and the experience. Honestly - this is zillions of light years behind Windows. And again: I run hundreds of servers on Linux (and my home server/router/fw). I hacked in 1994 some of the networking kernel (in pre-modules time) on a 386. So I am hardly a Linux hater.

mamon 9y ago

Regarding gaming: it doesn't matter how many games are there, what matters is WHICH GAMES. Playing games is a social activity after all, especially for teenagers. If all of your Windows-using friends are playing Assassin's Creed: Origins, and you can't because there isn't a Linux version of it then those 2500+ games on Steam do not really matter to you.

eitland 9y ago
CS:GO is there and IMO it has often been more performant there than on Windows :-) While CS:GO might not be your thing it should be proof that the sitiation is improving.
- alkonaut 9y ago
  I’d consider a switch for gaming if Linux had more games than windows, and the graphics drivers were more performant on Linux. 90% of the game library or 95% of game performance Will not do it. Until then, having a windows license even if only for gaming is a no brainer.

BrandoElFollito 9y ago

No - I am stuck with a solution which works out of the box. I mentioned in an earlier comment that downloading Minecraft and opening it by double-clicking opens an archive. This is simply unacceptable for a desktop version. At the same time I run and ran hundreds of servers on Linux and I would never run anything serious on Windows Server. I am probably stuck with a Linux habit here.

BrandoElFollito 9y ago

OK, I gave a try to the clone. Download the file from Github - check Start several commands out of the blue - no idea what to do. I call a friend, he tells me to start a terminal and type it over there - check. (98,3% of the population which expected to swap Windows with Linux Desktop is now gone) I am IT, the terminal is my friend. I start ` sharenix` and get (sharenix:2817): GModule-CRITICAL : g_module_close: assertion 'module != NULL' failed Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" So much for the clone and the experience. Honestly - this is zillions of light years behind Windows. And again: I run hundreds of servers on Linux (and my home server/router/fw). I hacked in 1994 some of the networking kernel (in pre-modules time) on a 386. So I am hardly a Linux hater.