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Windows 11 is probably the last straw that pushes me to Linux. I'm still using Windows 10 on my Lenovo 470S laptop, but my next one is going to be a Linux one.

Windows 11 is probably the last straw that pushes me to Linux. I'm still using Windows 10 on my Lenovo 470S laptop, but my next one is going to be a Linux one. I still have to keep a Windows gig somewhere to play old school games but that's pretty much all I need. I'll also try to avoid any job that requires MS Office. Nowadays I have to "Save as" to easily navigate to a local folder, otherwise it takes quite a few steps to move away from the OneDrive default folder. Windows 10 is bad enough, but whatever I heard about 11 seems to be much worse. MSFT has made the decision to suck money on Cloud, which is fine. I'd like to remind you not to fall into the WSL trap. Use a standalone Linux instead. Once you are getting used to WSL you are probably getting sucked into Windows anyway.

barbs 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what games do you play? Would wine and/or a virtual machine suffice?
- hnthrowaway0315 5y ago
  I actually play a lot of old school games so 1) Dosbox solves a lot of them and 2) Never tried that but maybe Wine solves the rest. A list of freq games: 1) Baldur's Gate EE Trilogy (And their EE cousins) 2) Quake I (this I'm sure can be played in Linux directly) 3) Diablo 2 (Also think there is a Linux version, they even have a MacOS one) That's pretty much it, and TBH I don't really play them frequently, maybe a few times a week? So yeah I can probably move into Linux right now, and the only "obstacle" is that I removed most bullshits from Windows 10 Pro and it is now usable, so I'm kinda lazy to change. On the other side, since I want to learn sys programming, that's some incentive to move to Linux...
  - goosedragons 5y ago
    There's a Linux version of Baldur's Gate EE and all the other Beamdog EE titles including NWN. If you bought them on Steam or GOG you already have the Linux version. Only Icewind Dale 2 is left on Windows but they lost the source code which is why there's no EE version of that. Diablo 2 doesn't have an official Linux version but there is a source port called OpenDiablo 2. Diablo 2 also runs well under Wine.
  - barbs 5y ago
    Yeah it does take some effort to install linux and get everything running, especially since you've got your Windows setup working well enough without all the bullshit. I guess if it ain't broke, no need to fix it. But as you and goosedragons has pointed out, those games would most likely run well on linux, so if you are ever in a position where you need to reinstall an OS I'd recommend considering linux :)

barbs 5y ago

Out of curiosity, what games do you play? Would wine and/or a virtual machine suffice?

hnthrowaway0315 5y ago
I actually play a lot of old school games so 1) Dosbox solves a lot of them and 2) Never tried that but maybe Wine solves the rest. A list of freq games: 1) Baldur's Gate EE Trilogy (And their EE cousins) 2) Quake I (this I'm sure can be played in Linux directly) 3) Diablo 2 (Also think there is a Linux version, they even have a MacOS one) That's pretty much it, and TBH I don't really play them frequently, maybe a few times a week? So yeah I can probably move into Linux right now, and the only "obstacle" is that I removed most bullshits from Windows 10 Pro and it is now usable, so I'm kinda lazy to change. On the other side, since I want to learn sys programming, that's some incentive to move to Linux...
- goosedragons 5y ago
  There's a Linux version of Baldur's Gate EE and all the other Beamdog EE titles including NWN. If you bought them on Steam or GOG you already have the Linux version. Only Icewind Dale 2 is left on Windows but they lost the source code which is why there's no EE version of that. Diablo 2 doesn't have an official Linux version but there is a source port called OpenDiablo 2. Diablo 2 also runs well under Wine.
- barbs 5y ago
  Yeah it does take some effort to install linux and get everything running, especially since you've got your Windows setup working well enough without all the bullshit. I guess if it ain't broke, no need to fix it. But as you and goosedragons has pointed out, those games would most likely run well on linux, so if you are ever in a position where you need to reinstall an OS I'd recommend considering linux :)