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I use Ubuntu for work, but my gaming rig runs windows. I went through all of the applications I use on my windows pc the other day and they're all available on

I use Ubuntu for work, but my gaming rig runs windows. I went through all of the applications I use on my windows pc the other day and they're all available on linux now. With proton getting as good as it is, app availability on linux, and with the annoying occasional ads coming through my windows os, I'm starting to think I won't upgrade to windows 11 when 10 stops being supported.

whalesalad 3y ago
Only thing keeping me on Windows is the anticheat software employed by games like MWII.
- monkaiju 3y ago
  I refuse to use software as intrusive as the anti-cheat stuff, just not worth it.
  - CoastalCoder 3y ago
    That's my position as well. Even if we just look at it from a hedonistic perspective. I play games to be happy and destress. Windows' abusiveness and anticheat software make me unhappy and/or stressed. For pure hedonism I'm better off with Proton and a smaller selection of games.
    - whalesalad 3y ago
      My friends and I live all around the US. The one game we all play together has anticheat. It also happens to be cross platform and they are on console. As far as being happy - being able to cross play with my buds and voice chat while we are thousands of miles apart is well worth it.
      - CoastalCoder 3y ago
        That makes sense. I guess if I were in your situation, the calculation could push me into using Windows.
ChuckNorris89 3y ago
I had to use Ubuntu at work and the experience made me hate it to the core. My experience: Gnome it ships with is too opinionated with no basic configuration options without installing 200 extensions which may or may not work, no option to turn off the touchpad when an external mouse is pugged in, no hibernate option because z-ram or something, no fractional scaling because "pixels aren't fractional" to quote Gnome devs, Wayland broke screen sharing in some apps and extensions while switching to X11 gave me screen tearing and made touchpad gestures stop working, had no HW acceleration in Chrome, SNAP and APT shit the bed needing me to spend hours going through forum posts for fixes and tinker with the command line, OOM daemon can just straight up kill your main productivity app you're currently using, the list goes on. This is not a great UX. All those issues are productivity show stoppers for me, and in Windows 11 Professional they just work for out of the box without the need to install any extensions or tinker with any config files. Also better battery life. Hot take: I can ignore/disable ads but I can't ignore an OS where much is broken or is never meant to work. I thought this was supposed to be the flagship Linux distro but I'm sorry to say that it's more janky than the car Homer Simpson designed. Still like Linux but via ssh and on a server or embedded system.
- zeroego 3y ago
  I'm late in responding to this, but I just use vanilla Gnome and have never had any issues. My work laptop is a P15v Thinkpad. All I do is plug it into my 32in monitor via usb-c and everything works as expected. Maybe my company's IT guys are just really on it? I have no problems screen sharing in google meets, discord, or teams. Battery life I couldn't say, as I'm almost always at my desk with the exception of a couple short trips to the cafe. But on the rare occasion that I am mobile, I don't have any issues with my touchpad or anything else, at least that I've noticed.
- belter 3y ago
  Only Chuck Norris could use Windows...
  - taftster 3y ago
    Ostensibly, yes. But in practice, Chuck Norris compiles his own personal fork of Linux by hand. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110818104209/http://dearandroidlinux.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/chux-a-new-linux-distribution-by-chuck-norris/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110818104209/http://dearandroi... [2] https://snipe.net/2009/07/16/if-chuck-norris-had-designed-linux/ https://snipe.net/2009/07/16/if-chuck-norris-had-designed-li...

whalesalad 3y ago

Only thing keeping me on Windows is the anticheat software employed by games like MWII.

monkaiju 3y ago
I refuse to use software as intrusive as the anti-cheat stuff, just not worth it.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago
  That's my position as well. Even if we just look at it from a hedonistic perspective. I play games to be happy and destress. Windows' abusiveness and anticheat software make me unhappy and/or stressed. For pure hedonism I'm better off with Proton and a smaller selection of games.
  - whalesalad 3y ago
    My friends and I live all around the US. The one game we all play together has anticheat. It also happens to be cross platform and they are on console. As far as being happy - being able to cross play with my buds and voice chat while we are thousands of miles apart is well worth it.
    - CoastalCoder 3y ago
      That makes sense. I guess if I were in your situation, the calculation could push me into using Windows.

ChuckNorris89 3y ago

I had to use Ubuntu at work and the experience made me hate it to the core. My experience: Gnome it ships with is too opinionated with no basic configuration options without installing 200 extensions which may or may not work, no option to turn off the touchpad when an external mouse is pugged in, no hibernate option because z-ram or something, no fractional scaling because "pixels aren't fractional" to quote Gnome devs, Wayland broke screen sharing in some apps and extensions while switching to X11 gave me screen tearing and made touchpad gestures stop working, had no HW acceleration in Chrome, SNAP and APT shit the bed needing me to spend hours going through forum posts for fixes and tinker with the command line, OOM daemon can just straight up kill your main productivity app you're currently using, the list goes on. This is not a great UX. All those issues are productivity show stoppers for me, and in Windows 11 Professional they just work for out of the box without the need to install any extensions or tinker with any config files. Also better battery life. Hot take: I can ignore/disable ads but I can't ignore an OS where much is broken or is never meant to work. I thought this was supposed to be the flagship Linux distro but I'm sorry to say that it's more janky than the car Homer Simpson designed. Still like Linux but via ssh and on a server or embedded system.

zeroego 3y ago
I'm late in responding to this, but I just use vanilla Gnome and have never had any issues. My work laptop is a P15v Thinkpad. All I do is plug it into my 32in monitor via usb-c and everything works as expected. Maybe my company's IT guys are just really on it? I have no problems screen sharing in google meets, discord, or teams. Battery life I couldn't say, as I'm almost always at my desk with the exception of a couple short trips to the cafe. But on the rare occasion that I am mobile, I don't have any issues with my touchpad or anything else, at least that I've noticed.
belter 3y ago
Only Chuck Norris could use Windows...
- taftster 3y ago
  Ostensibly, yes. But in practice, Chuck Norris compiles his own personal fork of Linux by hand. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110818104209/http://dearandroidlinux.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/chux-a-new-linux-distribution-by-chuck-norris/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110818104209/http://dearandroi... [2] https://snipe.net/2009/07/16/if-chuck-norris-had-designed-linux/ https://snipe.net/2009/07/16/if-chuck-norris-had-designed-li...