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[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've been using it for years. I have used it for system recovery for decades now. As a general purpose user environment, it is worthless. For specific purposes, sure, its great.

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Have to say I use a windows PC for gaming, if Linux was better suited got gaming I would not need windows.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I tried to use wine a lot, but it's ball breakingly hard to get it to work and in the end I have failed 80% of the time. One could say I just suck? But after a number of hours trying to run something that already works elsewhere, the benefit of time investment is zero. But it's not just games. I do media creation and program development and linux just can't cut it. Even office 2003 (which I use) does not compare to what is available on linux.

I got an intel nuc for my van and wanted mint on it so I could customise the touch screen layout for the car. The sound didnt work. I had to install the ubuntu kernel then manually set all the sound parameters to work through hdmi. It's just not efficient. But the customsiation was amazing for this application.