"I'll move to Linux if it runs every game I want" just say that you never will move
"I'll move to Linux if it runs every game I want" just say that you never will move
I hate when people say that they'll only move when it has 100% support
People who say 'cant wait for steamOS to come out so that I can move to it' is also very similar
They never will try Linux, even if what they want comes true
They won't do it, whether they just fear change or think it'll break stuff or they can't bother
And I'm not going to lie, I don't hate them or debate with them for it, I just hate the bold lies they tell just to get with the crowd
"Fuck you Microsoft, I'm moving to Linux" says the individual that would never move if they haven't already
Frankly, I probably wouldn't move either if Windows didn't permanently break my ethernet and WiFi drivers, and reinstalling windows wasn't harder than installing Linux, fucking hell
Either way, these people kick up hype for a Linux that will be so much bigger but they never arrive
Maybe they will, due in fucking 2028 or something when they invent a really easy way to use built in Linux tools to move your files from NTFS to Linux and then when you launch steam you have a perfect library of Linux compatible games that are as good or better than windows
And don't lie, even now with 80% compatibility it feels more like 60%, whether because it depends on the system one runs or because the performance drops just make it not worth it...
At least don't lie that you'll move to Linux at a goal post that you'll just move whenever you get close, maybe say that you'll move to Linux when you finally get a new pc with a new disk or something?
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I'm having ca 20 servers at home and the majority of those are linux. I love it. My main rig is still windows and will probably stay that way unless win12 won't finally cure what pisses me off so damn much with 11. They won't, obviously. But migration would be very hard. Most of my tools won't run, most of my self made tools won't run, most of my games won't run, most 4 decades of internalization of shortcuts won't cut it short anymore. And I won't even start with the domain migration horrors as this one's still MS. I would end up dual booting for eternity until I stop booting up one of the two.
So..my point is. I use the right tool for the right job.
Just a heads up,
Most of my tools won't run, (you can likely find alternatives for most, barring adobe)
most of my self made tools won't run, (well you can fix that, now can't ya? You made em once you can make em again)
most of my games won't run, (Destiny player? Seems most single players run these days, but yeah the kernel level anticheat "required" by many online games renders them unplayable, because even if they do run like destiny you just get acct banned for playing on linux. This is the fault of the companies though, not on linux or its community for hating the kernel level spyware, of course.)
most 4 decades of internalization of shortcuts won't cut it short anymore. (Actually you may be surprised, many windows shortcuts still work on KDE, and you can configure them however you want if there's something missing. Plus you'd learn any "new" ones quicker than you may think.)
But yeah that said it isn't for everybody. Just gotta weigh the cost/benefit, is it worth it to you to learn a little about a new UI to escape microsoft's actively hostile anti-consumer practices, or would you rather just grin and bear it for "ease" (though it could be argued that "learning the new thing and being done with it" is actually easier than dealing with windows, just that learning the new thing frontloads the "hard" while dealing with microsoft is a constant annoyance. But I digress.)
Make all my tools again? I mean I have all the time in the world to pursue my hobbies but that'd be a good dent in time :-) With games it's also about MODS. Even if the game might run, the mods mostly won't. And I prefer mod-able games. Didn't say it was Linux' fault. It sure ain't. Ok the shortcuts aren't really an issue, that's right.
And it's not that I don't KNOW Linux(es) and its benefits. As said, I am running numerous linux-machines. But just no UI. MS anti-consumer practices mostly don't phase me either. The corporate versions of everything are way less hostile, pihole+firewall+strongly restrictive group-policies do the rest.
Linux would be greatest as the cost of one MS-Server-license alone could be a whole Xeon-Proxmox-machine running 50 linux-machines :)
No arguing with you. If I'd be just a reddit-surfing user that occasionally games a thing and does some office-stuff, there would be no reason at all for MS. I probably wouldn't even notice the difference. But I would not even get drivers AND the controller-app for my Soundcard (creative x7 LE), and this one is VITAL. It's not about putting time and effort into it, it's just too many problems with no solutions for having not a tremendously great reward in the end. I would just tinker different things so that the shit does work.
oh but I'm not talking about the people who WONT move, I'm mentioning those who tall as if they will move soon, then later, then later, then later...
For example, "I'll move when the steam deck comes out" then "I'll move when a steam deck OS comes out", "I'll move when windows copilot is released", "I'll move when windows is EoL", goal posts they just keep moving to my knowledge....
Oh shit this wasn't the main comment I look self centered as fuck now