I'm going back to full time Piracy

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[–]ikidd 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

So you're going to pay Microsoft for an OS when there's perfectly good ones out there that respect privacy and are free?

[–]Tblaze7[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I know but I haven't had experience with Linux since probably the 90's when they were touting it. If I remember I think it was Redhat. It wasn't the best back then and I'm sure it's better now but I pretty much know Microsoft OS inside and out.

[–]ikidd 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I used to be the tech team manager for a MS only MSP but moving to Linux after that was like a breathvof fresh air. You dont realize how fucking goofy the Microsoft environment us until you climb out of it.

[–]mysaiditaccount 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Install Ubuntu or an Ubuntu variant for an easy reintroduction to Linux.

Oh, and forget everything about Windows. Windows power-users actually often have a harder time learning Linux because the Windows way of doing things is ingrained into them. Just try to forget that if you want to learn about Linux beyond the user-facing WIMP (not an insult - "windows, icons, menus, pointer") level.

[–]PaigeAP 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, what is the alternative to Windows?

I wouldn't mind switching to Linux but it's not good for gaming which is 90 percent of what I do on my PC.

Until a better OS for gaming than Windows shows up the majority of people will stay on Windows.

[–]ikidd 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Recently Steam introduced an open source component called Proton which is an actively developed and bugfixed amalgamation of a number of technologies like WINE and DXVK. Reportedly a majority of games are running under it well, with more being added constantly. Many even run at higher framerates via this than under Windows, which speaks to the fact that if devs ever put the money they put to Windows gaming under Linux, we'd probably see some kickass performance increases.

https://www.protondb.com/

Ubuntu is the most highly supported distro, so coming from Windows I'd say you would want a desktop environment like KDE Plasma for familiarity, so I'd look at the Kubuntu flavour that integrates that DE instead of Gnome. Another option that's more up to date for the latest kernel version and libraries is Manjaro KDE, a rolling release distro based on a cutting edge distribution called Arch that's more for veterans of Linux. Manjaro is a curated release so they test the Arch version and release their packages as they seem bugfree. Arch is particularly well suited to Proton for being so up to date, but can be a pain when the updates break things, but you'd be used to that on Windows given their lack of patch QC these days.

Let me know if you have any questions, I've not regretted my changeover, though my gaming interest is limited to WoW. I still do some network consulting in the winters, and Linux experience has been invaluable when you get into many of these server environments. Besides releases like SQL Server and Visual Studio Code on Linux , Microsoft has gotten very active in the opensource community, I think mainly because they realize Linux is becoming the dominant server environment.