Now is the time to spread your wings and try linux as a replacement for windows!
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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I'm a Linux user since it was distributed in diskette images.
I use both Windows and Linux, mainly Linux, but I dual boot or use a VM sometimes because I need to use some programs which are not practical or just don't work with wine.
I don't see Linux as an alternative, I see Linux as different tool.
I mainly use cruciform (pozidrive if possible) screws and screwdrivers, but sometimes I have use flat.
No drama, no religious zealotery.
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I've occasionally tried using Linux in the past as my main desktop, because I think Windows as an OS is inferior, and lately because Linux's UI actually seems superior, but I always got suckered back into Windows because I wanted to play certain games.
I tried again last month, and this time, it's different. The games that I want to play work well enough in Linux. Some of them have native Linux builds. Others work well enough in Proton, which is Valve's version of Wine, a Windows emulation layer that can run Windows games in Linux.
I don't see any reason that I'd ever go back to Windows again.
Yup same. Was all worried I can’t play my games but then discovered the fedora everything install and the online tutorials were well written to get wine and proton going and the drivers and was like holy shit this has come a long way.
I can live with this.
People who haven't tried Linux in a couple of years need to read this.
The amount of progress that has been made with respect to Linux gaming over the past few years has been astonishing.
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That's a complicated way of saying that Microsoft recommends switching to Linux. /j
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"Linux can't run my cock and ball squeezing app!"
Actually, I been much happier not being able to play League anymore.
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This just in, convicted monopoly Microsoft will fuck you over at every conceivable opportunity. Film at 11.
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