And also all the other improvements of the Linux world : Vulkan, KDE/Gnome, Wayland, Pipewire, Wine, Proton, Valve, Flatpaks.
And also all the other improvements of the Linux world : Vulkan, KDE/Gnome, Wayland, Pipewire, Wine, Proton, Valve, Flatpaks.
Yet all the issues on Windows are not painful to work with? It seems like Linux issues are becoming largely simple as using a more up to date distribution like fedora. Could try to replicate the steam os configuration to get better gaming performance and stability. The biggest thing about Linux is that you are in control. There are too many people who don’t want to have any control and act like pets to these corporations.
Not what I said at all. But when you are switching from a platform whose issues are familiar and already factored into your workflow to a new one, the new platform has to justify itself despite those new issues. I’m an avid Linux user and could not imagine going back to Windows for work, but we can’t expect people to deal with new issues when they are already exhausted by old ones. The experience has to be better in basically every way to convince people who aren’t actively interested to switch. I think with the dust settling in audio and video stuff and the new crop of sleek DEs we are getting close to that, but for many people Windows is a better experience despite all those problems, because everything else is still that much simpler. Control does not necessitate complexity, and Linux is still more complex.
The “gaming” issues in Windows are almost non-existent. I can easily plug 4 wireless controllers, set them up in 5 minutes max without command line to play Tape2Tape. I can buy and download my games on another platform than Steam. I can play Valorant. I don’t, but I can…
To me, Linux seems great, until I want to play games. Looking up what to use for gaming, pop! os, manjaro and mint are all that appeared in search results. I didn’t want to get in the deep end with Manjaro and I don’t really like the pop! os vibe, so I got Mint.
So for anything other than gaming, I agree. Linux is better. It’s more performant, it’s more convenient in most cases (looking at you, keyboard layouts that can’t be removed in Windows for no reason).
For playing games however, without both Gamepass, or being able to just click Play and start the game, instead of installing GE Proton, then go to protondb every time you start playing a game to check which version of Proton you need to run, it will never truly compete with Windows.