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[–] s20@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Gaming on Linux has gotten to the point that if it won't play on linux, I just shrug and play something else. Their are more native games, and games that aren't native usually run under Proton, Proton GE, or Wine. There's not much left that won't play.

The Nvidia thing is less of a problem these days with distros like Nobara, Gardua, and Vanilla installing proprietary Nvidia drivers out of the box. Heck, you can even do it with almost 0 extra effort on plain Fedora.

I can't help you with music production, though. Linux has some good stuff for that, but my understanding is that Mac and Windows are still the best choice.

Anyway, like I said to someone else, everyone's different, and everyone's threshold for horse hockey gets set off by different things. It's all perspective, really.

Unless you care about privacy. That one's more empirical than perceptual.