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Nooooo Stamets it's not too late to save yourself!!!
I jest, but I do wonder why you feel that way?
'tism - I've been using Windows for so long that it feels right. Using another one feels wrong. I can't really give you a concrete answer more than that. Occasionally windows does a thing that feels wrong and this like... feeling like my skin is crawling or tensed up or electric starts happening and I've got to figure out what is the wrong feeling thing to make it feel right. When they tried to move the icons into the center of my taskbar... that was a wrong thing and I literally couldn't process using the PC until I fixed it. Had to use my phone to google how to fix it. Linux? That feeling. The whole time. Everytime I go to do a thing and it's not the way I am used to or whatever there's a rising panic. That happening on windows rarely I can deal with. That happening on Linux a lot at the start (which I am aware I'd eventually get over when I get used to things) is mortifying as a concept. I dont want to feel the wrong.
Support - Windows has damn near universal support for everything. Linux has support with an asterisk. You can get it working but it'll be either setting things up yourself in a certain way or getting dependencies or whatever happens for gaming. Windows I just do the thing. I get to swing my little gay legs and just keep looking at memes while being none the wiser.
Bundled - I keep hearing that one of the benefits of Linux is that it's like legos or whatever. You snap on the parts that you need/want and then use those. But I don't know what I need want. I like trying some new things to an extent to figure out other new things. Think different ways. If I'm starting over entirely like with a new OS then that freaks the hell out of me but if there's some comfort while stepping into a new body of water then I'm okay with that. Bundling all the shit lets me go "Huh. Neat." and learn about it.
I am stupid - Dumb. Brain go numb. I have terminal case of stupid bitch disease. I do not have the capacity to learn new things. I am not old dog. I am desiccated corpse of something that once resembled a dog
I fucking hate penguins - I think they're dumb. I hate their stupid little wings. I hate their lil faces. I am polite about it and look how cute they are but I fucking hate them and can't describe why to you. It's just like the same thing I have for Markiplier. Neither of them have done anything wrong but everytime I see either one of them I just get filled with loathing. I have no idea why either one of them trigger that in me.
Too many distros - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Everytime I pick one to try and mess with someone else tells me I'm wrong and to go with another and is it mint is it ubutntu is it kubuntu is it fedora what the fuck aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Linux is actively hostile to new users - At least the general distros are. I had to set up an ubuntu thing for someone a couple years ago and no part of anything that I was doing felt intuitive or in places that made sense to me. Maybe that's just from using windows for so long but I had to google an irritating amount of shit to get it working. Speak nothing of having to track down every individual fucking driver and install that
Ah yeah, that's fair. Well, if you ever get sick of Windows just know that:
KDE Plasma feels a lot more like Windows 10 than Windows 11 does, in terms of GUI. Of course, that's my opinion, but there's a theme that is literally just Windows 7.
The asterisk is getting smaller every day. Now that said, if you play online games with anticheat then yeah you should stick with Windows, but you're not going to see many games you have to troubleshoot on Linux in the year 2025. Just download, check the box for Proton, and play.
Most Linux distributions are not like Legos. They can be, but for gaming especially they're pretty damn preconfigured nowadays. Distros like CachyOS and Bazzite specifically are set up with everything you need for gaming, and distros like Pop!_OS and Mint have little "shop" apps that let you browse all the stuff you can use.
Lmao
Lmao based, I hope you feel differently about gnus and dragons.
So true, but it doesn't really matter what distro you choose, as long as you make sure it's one that meets your needs. So if you game, go with a gaming distro.
Yeahhh, idk anything about that. I've been using nothing but Linux to game for like 2 years now, and I've never had to configure drivers. It can be really irritating when something breaks though, I feel that.
Now, the Linux community is actively hostile to new users, which is the reason for my little response essay here. Every time someone is frustrated with Linux, people are quick to jump on them and cast blame, but it really can be convoluted. Which is why it's crazy to me that nobody ever talks about how rapidly intuitive it's become since 2023. Like, Linux was unusable for me in 2022, but now I can never go back.
Anyway, I hope this didn't come across as argumentative or preachy, that was not at all my intention. Thank you for sharing your reasoning!
Very good to know.
Also very good to know. I do play a couple games that are anti-cheat dependent but not a ton. PvP stopped being my jam a while ago. Coop is where its at.
Also good to know.
Durr
Well I play DnD but gnus... unless that's a typo...
I don't even know what I do. that's kind of why I like Windows. Catch all
To be fair when I set that up was sometime in 2021 or 2022. So that would track
Nah. Not argumentative or preachy at all. If anything, you were the dead opposite. This got me more interested in linux than anything else ever has. You're not wrong on the community either. Some Linux users can be kinda preachy sometimes which can be sort of offputting. It's also why I avoided gaming on a PC for a very long time. The whole PC master-race thing put me off so bad that I didn't even want to be associated with gaming on a PC. Wasn't until that whole trend died off that I felt more comfortable gaming on a PC. I am a very simple tech user. I just wanna plug and play. Another reason why I typically like consoles. Sorry I'm rambling. But thank you!