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Linux is great. It was initially concerning to migrate but overall I'm happy I did. I assume Microsoft will attempt to make things more incompatible and proprietary as a last chance attempt to hold onto users. Ultimate this will just lead to more people switching to Linux faster over time.
There is no way a regular user will switch to Linux. And that is comming from me, who is an advocate for Linux desktop daily driver.
Some distros are really beginner friendly
I'd say the problem with Linux is not so much with beginner users, it's easy enough to setup a basic desktop with a web browser and some tools, but with intermediate users who know enough to be dangerous on Windows and think that makes them "advanced", who then can't apply their clickety clackety ways of figuring things out on Linux.
As beginner friendly as they are you still can't play Sims 1 and 2 on them.
You can't play Helldivers 2 because of the anti cheat it has. Also some what less importantly it can run any of my work software. Now, I could dual boot but this a pain to deal with because now I have to swap OS's depending on what software I want to run.
Wrong, entirely. I have played Helldivers 2 on Linux Mint using Proton Experimental compatibility through steam.
Helldivers works fine. Sometimes its anticheat complains but most of the time when that happens it launches and works anyway or you kill it and start again and it works.
I could not get it to load up. The game would load but the anti cheat just refused to run, and then I couldn't connect.
I couldn't get anything to work but steamdb seems to have plenty who do. I will try again.
This right here is my biggest complaint about Linux. Sometimes it just doesn't work properly and the only person on the entire planet that has the issue is you, and therefore no one else believes or can help you.
Looking at steamdb. I see a ton if Tumbleweed. That might be worth looking into but I also see nobody running my GPU. Its a 2080 TI that is basically my old faithful. I promise its that. If I had an AMD, or even an Intel, I bet my games would run fine. I dont think I saw 1 review using my GPU on steamdb.
Never been an issue for me debian+kde+steam it started right up the first time i tried. No tweaking needed.
Those anticheats are so annoying. You can play brawlhalla on linux but since they added EAC you often can't play offline because of random updates
Yes, they are. But there are still some issues and don't get me started on MS Office which many people are used to. Belive me, that the true hill the Linux will die on. I tried to switch couple of people and they all refused because of the MS Office. And no, LibreOffice, nor OnlyOffice nor Google or MS online editors do not hit the mark sadly.
I really hate Office's UI especially Word, but in all schools they teach it. sadly
I thought I would never switch to Linux, and here we are.