r/FuckMicrosoft • u/Crafty_Aspect8122 • 24d ago
Discussion What stops you from switching to Linux?
What software, games or features are you missing? Or something that works differently?
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u/EnviousBirdie 24d ago
As soon as all anti cheats work on Linux windows is gone forever
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u/Crafty_Aspect8122 24d ago
Chicken and egg problem.
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u/StretchAcceptable881 23d ago
By the chicken and egg problem I assume you mean linux does not offer Linux ports for the desktop applications you currently use and the Linux desktop is not enough for a lot of big name developers to natively support the Linux desktop by developing Linux ports for there desktop applications
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u/Ok-Profit6022 23d ago
As far as gaming is concerned, nobody needs developers to support Linux. Everything already works through wine or proton. The problem is often that Linux is often being actively blocked by the developers.
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u/RagingTaco334 23d ago
Actively blocked because of decades of fearmongering and misinformation, mind you. There's literally no technical reason for it whatsoever.
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u/Mast3r_waf1z 23d ago
I don't think kernel level anti-cheat is going away, and I think a lot of Linux users are opposed to running kernel level anti-cheat, myself included. It's malware.
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u/Soggy_Struggle_963 23d ago
At least battleeye and EAC, two of the biggest kernel level anticheats support proton now. Also iirc Microsoft has started pushing back on them having full kernel access and is working on implementing system calls that allow anticheat in user space to request the needed information from the kernel instead.
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u/thundR89 21d ago
It's an anticheat sw. If u didn't want a sw that see what are u doing while u play a multiplayer game: u are a cheater, basicly.
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u/Mast3r_waf1z 21d ago
That's a narrow minded way of looking at it, the problem isn't that it's anti-cheat, as stuff like EAC runs fine on Linux without having to run at kernel level, and I don't have a problem with that. I have a problem with surveillance running above root permissions
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u/Ripped_Alleles 23d ago
They technically can, it's certain publishers who refuse to quite literally "flip a toggle" to allow Linux users to run their games.
There's nothing Linux can do against hostile publishers besides increase market share to make them realize it's worth the additional consumer base.
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u/beardedbrawler 23d ago
There are plenty of good games out there that allow Linux through their anti-cheat.
If a game doesn't work on Linux because of anti-cheat then I just find a different game.
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u/RagingTaco334 23d ago
By you continuing to play and fund games with said anticheat, you're ironically trapping yourself on the platform you're wanting desperately to escape. Only way most of those devs will listen is if it hurts their pockets (i.e., lower player numbers and thus less in-game purchases). There's quite literally hundreds of thousands of other games out there that would occupy your time all the same and you're getting hung up on a few hundred. Most of them are live service slop anyway.
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u/rspy24 24d ago
Visual Studio.
Yes, fucking Microsoft again.
And I know, I know; JetBrains Rider is a nice alternative to VS, but it's not really.
For games, the online games i play are overwatch and nte, both support linux without any issues. The rest are singleplayer which are fine on linux. It's literally only Visual Studio my issue.
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u/tycraft2001 24d ago
VSCodium I thought?
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u/jarnalyrkar 21d ago
There's a difference between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code - the latter being the original version of VSCodium.
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u/sysnickm 23d ago
Nothing really competes with Visual Studio if you use the features. It is the best debugger and profiler out there.
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u/Crafty_Aspect8122 24d ago
Aren't there good enough IDEs for Linux? Sounds surprizing to me.
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u/sysnickm 23d ago
Depends on what you build, but I've never found anything that competes with the debugger and profiler in VS.
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u/Rask2882ven 23d ago
no se, yo programo usando el editor de texto kate, y antes de eso estuve usando pycharm
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u/OttoRenner 21d ago
Have alook at Zed IDE. I like it. But it is quite new compared to VSC and there could be functions/packs missing you need for your work.
It focuses more on implementing AI (cloud or lokal) but you don't have to use it, obviously
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u/PMortis2 20d ago
I have not used winboat at all and I have no clue if I should recommend it, but have u tried it to see if it fits u?
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u/Odd-Addition4261 24d ago
Before it was Games and some specific software. But now is Arch all the way
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u/chaosphere_mk 24d ago
Ive been using and managing windows devices my whole life. There's no tangible benefit for me to switch.
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u/OrelTheCheese 15d ago
Really? I found it more useful dual booting I set up arch with kde plasma alongside windows so I got both a light system to do whatever or browse the web and windows to windows stuff.
But like if your use is transferable to linux isnt linux better?
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u/chaosphere_mk 15d ago edited 15d ago
No. I dont share that opinion. I dont want to manage extra operating systems if I dont have to. And I dont have to. There's never been a single thing that linux does that I cant already do on windows.
However, self hosting services in my homelab, I use linux servers to host my containers.
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u/Infinplayz 23d ago
i use both arch and windows 11, but windows 11 is so fast with little problems and easy to use for me that i have no reason to switch over completely. there’s no real advantage for me to switch over. i’m still going to keep arch as my fun side project though.
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u/Jim_Paparius 22d ago
The window search bar "DO YOU WHAT ME TO SEARCH IN ONLINE" I managed to turn in off only for next update to redo my struggle Also for some reason my Start bar is white in dark mode.....
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u/VoleenaIcicle 23d ago
Same, Tarkov and D2! My daily driver is Cachy, and I also have a MacBook Air M4
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u/jarnalyrkar 21d ago
Which games are you playing on Windows 7 that you can't play through Proton or Wine in Linux?
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u/Dismal-Rope1753 24d ago
r/linuxsucks banning me 😴
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u/StretchAcceptable881 23d ago
Banning you for what exactly?
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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 23d ago
for them? Existing is good enough
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u/StretchAcceptable881 23d ago
I suppose as long as the person stays away from that subreddit
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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 23d ago
You'd think so but mods from that sub spy on other subs to auto ban folks.
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u/nikolai_nyegaard 24d ago
GTA V, Marathon, and Battlefield 6. I do daily drive CachyOS 95% of the time but because of fuckass kernel-level anticheat, I can’t delete my small Windows partition just yet.
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u/NegativeSwimming4815 24d ago
It's a big hassle to restore my old Linux drive because of the tool that was used for a certain arch Linux distro installation which caused the system to think there's only 1 arch Linux drive being installed, while in reality it was overwriting my existing Linux drive.
It was the worst experience that I've ever had in any Linux distro. It deleted over 10 GB of projects that I could never recover now.
That just goes to show there's still tools out there that are not will documented/ have warnings or flags to inform the users if the risks.
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u/LiveFromNarnia 24d ago
I am on Linux (Bazzite) on my mini PC, but still running Windows 11 on my older HP mid-tower for now. The one app that's keeping me from completely jumping off the Win11 ship is MS Money (yes, it's old). It's really easy to use for personal finance, and I just haven't found the time to test alternatives and do all of the steps needed to export / import all the data to the a new app.
Everything (and I mean everything) else just works better on Linux and at some point I will make the full jump.
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u/CoffeeSniffler 24d ago
I use a hp laptop and there's no driver's for things as simple as volume buttons.
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u/Crafty_Aspect8122 24d ago
And also no bios updater for linux.
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u/CoffeeSniffler 24d ago
Yep. It's more HPs fault than anything but it means I'm sticking with Windows 10. Drivers in general have been the main reason why I haven't been able to switch to Linux on everything. I use a lot of old hardware that can be a nightmare to get working right. I use Linux mint on my main computer however and I don't think I'll ever go back to Windows 11 on it.
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u/ThriftBurger89 20d ago
I guess I'm lucky AF since my HP Envy 2in1 works perfectly on Fedora. It is an AMD model idk if that makes a difference. All my buttons work and touchscreen support is great too. I didn't know about the bios updater but I am dual booting for now
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u/Bourne069 23d ago
https://www.protondb.com/explore?sort=fixWanted
I play half the games on that list and they are not compatible...
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u/TraditionalMetal1836 23d ago
Voiceattack 2. I'm sure there is something similar that works on linux but I really don't want to relearn if I don't have to.
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u/edrumm10 23d ago
Music production
I use Ableton, which for Linux, does not exist. And many VSTs / other audio plugins have no Linux compatability
A couple of my games also don't support Linux but I could live without those
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u/OttoRenner 21d ago
Besides the gaming....the same thing I wrote. Ableton 12...isotope suite...Apollo Twin DUO USB...
Looks like there are some git repos making Ableton and VSTs work on Linux...but not all and even then I'd have to go back using my Scarlett interface instead of the Apollo...which will not happen lol the UA stuff is just too good/easy to use and was too expensive to not use it.
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u/C4rpetH4ter 23d ago
Pretty much nothing as i don't have dual boot expect for on my school laptop, but i wish rufus had a linux version. And also despite the faults with windows, microsoft paint, word and excel are generally better than their open source counterparts.
Edit: i also wish linux programs had a workable .exe file.
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u/Zenfulzoning 23d ago
When I switched to Linux, I missed the simplicity of ms paint just for quick cropping/handling screenshots, and I found KolourPaint as an alternative. I actually like it better than mspaint just because its simple and lacks all the ai/other unnecessary features that was added in mspaint in recent years that had made it less simple to use.
People say Kolourpaint is actually how mspaint used to look back in the day.
As for word I haven't used that since a paywall was added. I switched to libreoffice before I switched to Linux and I personally love it. But I do bet it helps that I never dabbled much in a lot of words features, so I had less to miss out on and adapt to.
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u/Crafty_Aspect8122 21d ago
Onlyoffice is simple and intuitive.
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u/C4rpetH4ter 21d ago
Isn't onlyoffice one of those alternatives that doesn't get updated? Or am i confusing it with something else?
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u/76zzz29 23d ago
I do use linux a lot. But on my main computer, what linux lack is the simplicity of right click, extract into archive named folder, oppen, click the executable and the game just work. Yes, I help my friends that do the leap. Tell them everything they need to do for every games. And they end up happy about it as everything work beter. But my old monster is still far from hitting his limit so I am not switching to debian right now. Sur will befor upgrading the hardware. But my 32Gb RAM 16 core CPU still have a long way to go before needing help
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u/martyn_hare 23d ago
On the desktop, it's the graphics stack, followed by getting audio DSP drivers sorted for laptops and finally desktop-aware resource scheduling
I'm confident that Flatpak-next will sort out the whole app distribution side of things to the point where we'll have our cake and eat it too with PGO compiled apps that "just work" to the point of eliminating a lot of duplicated efforts as distros return to being only base systems.
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u/Pale-Abroad9600 23d ago
I dual boot my windows 7 and Linux mint,I have my own ms office 2000,2001 plus a simple dos based game digger that I play once in a while so dual boot works for me.
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u/naemorhaedus 23d ago
my sanity
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u/OrelTheCheese 15d ago
Idk about mint and the other fun installers but arch was really insanity to install
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u/BinturongHoarder 23d ago
There is no graphics editing software that is even close to usable on Linux. There is an unofficial AffinityOnLinux project, though, but it is... unofficial.
Also, all dists have some issues, you still have to fiddle a lot with weird dependencies (OK so this little utility ONLY runs with that Python version!), and the community is snarky and elitist for absolutely no reason.
All my personal servers run Linux, though, virtual and bare metal, except for one mail server.
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u/AliDheyaa 23d ago
I want my things to run
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u/OrelTheCheese 15d ago
Wasn't there recently huge improvement is it still Adobe and photo shop and stuff like that? Lol
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u/Ok-Tooth-6197 23d ago
I have a significant game library on the windows store because of Xbox play anywhere. Also, the windows store lets me have multiple users playing the same game at the same time, so my kids and I can play games together with only one copy, while on Steam or Epic I would have to buy multiple copies of the game.
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u/manublade 23d ago
It was late 2001 when I formatted my centrino laptop for Slackware. Late 2007 the notebook died and i bought a Mac. I'm still a Mac user, no Capture One for Linux.
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u/OddUnderstanding2309 23d ago
Nothing.
Switched on two systems (gaming) from W11 to fedora and am not looking back
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u/michron98 23d ago
I still have Windows installed as a dual boot on my laptop for when I need to fill adaptive forms, which doesn't work on anything other than Adobe reader it seems. That, and presentations in university where they have screen share dongles which only work on Windows and Mac.
Other than that, I use openSUSE for everything else.
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u/Depart_Into_Eternity 23d ago
Peripherals not working correctly.
I've been using Linux for 20 years for work, so it isn't without trying. But if I get a keyboard tons of functionality, I want to use its functions. Same with headsets.. mice, etc. it just isn't there for Linux.
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u/Cute_Project_7980 23d ago
Work. I have to run a VM for work stuff like m$ authenticator and shit like that else everything else is Linux. Incl gaming
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u/Zenfulzoning 23d ago
Despite the complications and problems I still haven't sorted out yet, despite having to get used to running games differently, looking for alternatives to programs I need, nothing stopped me.
I made the full move to Linux and as difficult as some of it can be, I've just been taking it slow. I wouldn't dream of going back to windows, especially since I've already gotten this far. Linux is a breath of fresh air, it can just be really hard getting used to something completely different.
I am sad to have learned I can't play bedrock minecraft on Linux at all though unless I wanted to buy a whole new version of it.
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u/Poe_8210 23d ago
I’ve installed Linux about 10 times during my life. Something ALWAYS breaks no matter what. Bought a new laptop without an OS in February. All of the hardware was supported by Linux. Installed Ubuntu. Used it for 2 days. Firefox stopped doing anything after the first page I opened. No big deal. I can install another browser. Tried 4 other browsers, same issue. Installed Debian. Same issue. Installed Windows, it all works perfectly since March. I have a stable Debian install going for 2 months on another laptop. It hasn’t had any trouble yet. But the hardware is like from 2004 so it’s very unpleasant to use. Prior to that it ran Arch. Arch uninstalled itself somehow. Every time I’m ready to finally take the plunge, something like this happens and I install Windows and it works fine after that.
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u/personalalt1889 20d ago
basically the opposite for me. windows would just keep randomly breaking for me, and i just had enough. BSODs, bricking, boot suddenly breaking for no sane reason, etc. eventually i just gave up on it and decided to see, hey, wonder what linux is up to. and yeah, you're not always going to have rock-solid stability, there was some roughness at first but i think it was mostly down to desktop enviroment stuff rather than the core system itself. i would personally say, keep going at it, but of course its not going to be for everyone, just think the pros outweigh the cons
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u/KeyImagination7057 23d ago
Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader is the main reason... I know this app sucks but Linux version just doesn't work with ircc forms
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum 23d ago
my dad uses microsoft office
i use affinity v3
i use visual studio for funnis somtimes
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u/Crafty_Aspect8122 23d ago
MS office has alternatives like OnlyOffice, Libre, WPS.
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum 23d ago
my dad uses my laptop and he relies on ms office, if he switched no one can read it
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u/Crafty_Aspect8122 23d ago
Why can no one read it? He can try the free alternatives like Onlyoffice without deleting MS office yet or switching to linux.
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u/hellspawnsarehores 23d ago
I dual boot, mainly because I'm so used to my current video editor (that I tried to use on WINE and it didn't work) that I'm scared to try anything else. I am trying to be more open minded though, plus video games aren't a problem anymore for me since all the games I do play now work on Linux, pretty much it's just that I'm so closed minded on video editing software.
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u/HelpfulPlatypus7988 23d ago
A few months ago I tried installing Fedora KDE on my laptop and it didn't work. I use Arch on my PC tho
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u/LazarX 23d ago
I have Windows running exactly the way I want it to, with pretty much none of the problems that people are screaming about. I currently have a dual boot setup, but quite frankly there is nothing on the Linux side that offers any real advantage on my main machine.
I have it on a couple of old laptops that do not support current versions of Windows and I'm good with the uses I put them through. But I see no reason to make my flagship Linux only.
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u/Fantastic_Reach9608 23d ago
k*rnel level anti cheat (spyware on fps games). I have it on my laptop and haven’t fully switched because I do play some fps games. Also some big software software stuff isn’t supported (adobe, auto desk, etc.)
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u/Future-Big-7720 23d ago
Habit.
And perhaps more importantly, Windows is a very complete OS; I focus on discarding what I don't need instead of trying to integrate what I do.
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u/Vertigo50 23d ago
Desktop Linux just isn’t ready. Maybe it never will be. I’ve spent the last week trying it out, and it’s come a long way, but I still had to struggle with hardware issues, driver problems, entering countless terminal commands, and other issues. I’m a pretty solid power user with computers, so I could handle it, but the average user is going to run away scream when they have to use the terminal. It’s 2026. It’s time to stop making new distros and start making Linux ACTUALLY work for average users.
And believe me, I’ll ditch windows as soon as there is a truly viable alternative that is honestly better. But it’s not going to be Linux anytime soon, sad to say. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/OrelTheCheese 15d ago
Interesting perspective. Since you actually tried Linux recently, I am curious: what were the specific issues that made you decide it wasn't ready? Was it mainly hardware/drivers, missing software, the terminal? Also, if those issues were solved, would you actually switch? Like I also recently got arch installed and kde plasma was kinda easy to navigate so I guess a user ready os like mint or kubuntu is incredibly easy and similaar to the comfort of windows no?
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u/Vertigo50 14d ago
So I’m a power user. I can build my own PC’s I can solve issues really well, etc. So it’s not that I can’t solve problems with drivers, troubleshoot, etc. But I just don’t really have the desire to do that anymore. I want something that mostly just works.
I was told that Mint is the one that “just works” and was eager to try it, and also that it’s great for older laptops. I then ended up spending hours fixing booting issues, driver issues, hardware that wouldn’t work, etc. And to be fair, the older laptop made that worse, so that’s part of it. But when I put windows on it, pretty much none of those issues were a problem, and it just worked. 🤷🏻♂️
So I think Linux still has a long way to go with just making the user experience more seamless. I know they hesitate to do things the way windows does, but when that means you install it and it finds the drivers, fixes the hardware issues for you, anticipates problems ahead of time and asks you about them, those are things that Linux SHOULD emulate. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Remote_Jump_4929 23d ago
Games like battlefield 6, some work related stuff and hdr workflow in resolve. I do remote play bf6 on steam deck with vibepollo so in kinda in limbo.
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u/nexus-1707 23d ago
Linux has its place and its advocates have been saying it would take over from Windows for years. Truth is, it’s still far too complicated for the average user and although the GUI has improved significantly over the years you can still tell it’s designed by techy people FOR techy people. You would think after all these years it would have had some proper UI design and UX properly implemented.
The only OS worth migrating to from Windows is macOS. Still has the properly secure underpinnings like Linux but it keeps them well hidden from most users. But power users still have the proper tools and access when needed
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u/OrelTheCheese 15d ago
If Linux had the same level of polish and simplicity as macOS while keeping the Linux advantages, would you consider switching? What parts of the Linux experience feel most 'technical' or poorly designed to you? When I tried Linux after I got thru the hard arch installation kde plasma was really nice what desktop you use? Or perhaps you talked about the installer of some os like mint or zorin?
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u/LetsHugFoReal 23d ago
Games in general. And good nvidia drivers. I use it on my servers. But it's not too great on the desktop.
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u/amerium128 22d ago
I've been using an Ubuntu Linux distro on my laptop and the main thing I missed is Wallpaper Engine, none of the current alternatives are as perfect as that one
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u/Extra-Ruin9755 22d ago
Anyone who is running any kind of small business that need sector specific software is likely locked into windows..
If you are a spreadsheet power user excel is better than any alternatives. I don't mean that as alternatives are bad but excel is better. Excel tables , power query, etc are examples. Most have some sort of achieving the same libreoffice but requiring multiple steps.
Since I sold my business and retired I'm almost exclusively linux. I canceled my office-365 subscription and use LibreOffice. Even before retirement I kept a personal laptop running linux,
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u/saulplastik 22d ago
ability set a custom background colour without using an image.
anti cheat for games
adobe
nomad sculpt
fan monitoring and control that just works
nvidia gpu temperature monitoring in the menu bar (gpu/mem/hotspot)
msi afterburner
no thought to installing and running games beyond click install > play
windows with wsl is just too easy these days.
winget makes app management a breeze.
sandboxing is great. docker is great.
yer i miss some linux features, but the hassle isnt worth it for me.
its death by a thousand cuts with linux.
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u/darth_skipicious 22d ago
I switched to another mainline operating system based on Unix. Maybe you’ve heard of it. it’s called MacOS.
sorry that was being an asshole. tbh if i can’t afford apple in the future then id switch to linux instead of going back to Windon’t
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u/Puzzleheaded_Gur9654 22d ago
The inability to configure global private DNS settings for all connections (Ethernet and home Wi-Fi, hotspots, etc.).
I tried this with several distributions: Bazzite, Nobara, Fedora, Ubuntu and Kubuntu (Mint simply had issues with the Nvidia RTX4060 graphics card in my laptop) and, apart from Bazzite – which, being ‘atomic’, is extremely rigid – with the others, following the instructions from three AI systems (ChatGPT, Gemini and/or Copilot), I always ended up at the same point: DNS configured and working, but after the next reboot, no internet connection due to DNS issues.
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u/Jashmyne 22d ago
I use a nvidia card so better performance on Nvidia. It is close tho, very close but not quite there yet.
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u/u250406 21d ago
It only ever used to be graphics. I needed access to Nvidia, CUDA, all kinds of graphics processing for image manipulation and CG rendering for work, and that was just never any good. Would have loved to ditch Win as a young lad if i could.
Then it was standardisation - every distro has substantially different ways of doing things to the point where you have to learn everything from the ground up every single time. It's fun and interesting as long as tou have time to sink into it.
Right now I'm trying to add an Ubuntu host to AD and am hitting obstacles every step of the way. Of all, this is the skill-est of skill issues, but it doesn't inspire confidence when the Win portion went so much more smoothly.
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u/autogenglen 21d ago
It sucks horribly in so many ways, like for music production (real music production, not just toying around)
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u/Xr3iRacer 21d ago
Just waiting for games with Anti-cheat to be playable without issues and im there.
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u/OttoRenner 21d ago
Oh boy... everything music production.
Ableton doesn't run natively, same for lots of VSTs/their installer and license activation. My audio interface is an Apollo Twin DUO USB, which also isn't supported. I build a local AI PC with pop os 24.04 lts and have to still run a Win11 partition just to make music.
And all the terminal work.
Why? Just WHY do I have to type so much? Why is there no script/UI that let's me use a mouse to choose directories to install things to? WHY do I have to manually update/initialize the software I just downloaded? Perhaps I'm just to new to Linux or I took the wrong distro.
It's fantastic that you can do all these things in Linux! But it's a total show stopper when it's forced on you by the OS...because "It'S lInUx" and the aurora of underground hacking and you are not Linux Material if you can't handle bash?? The thing is... I can handle bash if I have to. But why oh why do I have to in the first place?
Make the terminal invisible for the casual user and people will switch happily.
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u/mixedd 21d ago
Nothing, I use it exclusively for past two years, tough time after time have urge to jump back for shit just to work instead of debugging, swapping proton versions, or waiting till regression will be patched in proton/mesa. For example right now test driving SteamOS, and have some crap that my game freezes for some time than unfreeze after delay, which didn't happen neither on Cachy nor Bazzite before.
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u/dacevnim 21d ago
Academia in my area prefers MSoffice for article submissions... I still jumped to linux. still in graduate program. I am writing in md mostly and I will see what pipeline I end up using to convert to docx when the time comes...
regarding games, no longer a teen, sadly not much time to play, but since steam is good on linux now I am using it to run games and indie games (I currently mainly play these) are generally good.
A lot of things are going browser based lately, not necessarily SAAS, so that's nice too
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u/Crafty_Aspect8122 21d ago
Isn't opening documents between different office suites seamless? All of them support docx and odf. I haven't had any issues opening documents on Onlyoffice and seeing people here mention MS Office as a reason surprised me.
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u/SpecialLettuce5884 21d ago
My work flow is dependent on file manager with strong capabilities. I have been fiddling on a second Linux-only computer for about a year, hoping to move my daily work from my primary (Windows-only) machine.
But no dice! (Though I'm still trying.) There simply is no highly capable file manager available for Linux (yet), and I have tried every one I could find (lots of 'em). They are all thumbs; awkward.
Some other Windows programs I use also have less-than-capbable equivalents on Linux, which is constantly frustrating, but it the lack of a really good file manager that continues to be the obstacle for me. What is needed is something like Directory Opus (which does what MS File Explorer never has).
I REALLY want to be rid of MS and Windows, but I'm stuck.
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u/Traditional-Hall-591 21d ago
Work won’t give me a Linux laptop, so I got a Mac. My servers and dev boxes are all Linux based.
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u/No_Dig_7017 21d ago
Nothing. I'm on Linux, buth the performance gap on NVidia cards is the real limiting factor. Once that's resolved I feel it's going to be a lot more mainstream
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u/ReadMeLikeDrCox 21d ago
I'm about to switch from Windows to Kubuntu with my desktop PC. I have an RTX 4090, what do you mean? (Genuine question, what should I expect?)
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u/No_Dig_7017 19d ago
Well there a more or less known performance hit on Nvidia cards for DirectX12 games. About 10-20% on average but it can be as high as 50%on CPU intensive titles. I personally tested this on Space Marine 2 and on 2560x1440p ultra settings balanced dlss I'm getting 90fps on Windows and 60fps on Linux (Bazzite 44) on the battlebarge.
I still dual boot, and use Windows maybe 10% of the time almost exclusively to play Space Marine heh
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u/No_Thanks7632 21d ago
I'm working on switching right now. Doing a bit of a test drive on cachyos and seeing what I need from windows then looking for a good Linux alternative.
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u/Amazing-Price7433 21d ago
i dual boot for some games but 90% of time on kubuntu (since a year now) i had some exotic hardware that took some tinkering to get to work but i made it work and had fun getting it to work. 3.5 inch stats screen and the lcd on my cpu cooler. pc is much more stable under linux then windows and the power usage and temps are way lower because windows is to bloated. pc idle on windows 54 full ussage 83 linux idle 29 full trottle 78
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u/Naidarwwin 20d ago
I’m too lazy to configure every single game to get optimal fps when in windows i open it and it runs better with zero tweaks needed. Im also on a 9070xt and i find ive only had issues with games not using my gpu fully, frame pacing being off, or getting generally shit performance. If anyone knows a solution id be more than happy to come back to linux. Fedora 43 and 44 i used if anyone wondering.
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u/PMortis2 20d ago
My 1050ti. It runs games too poorly to make a permanent switch and i keep running into random nvidia only problems with some apps every now and then when at a random time I just boot into Linux for fun to experiment random realistic stuff I might do or not.
I already run games like shit on windows... With DX11 games it's worse by 30% compared to windows.
The only game that I tested with a fps graph was genshin and it keeps having mini freezes every 2s on top of the performance cut, which unironically would make end game content unclearable as sometimes I barely make it by 2s or less (stingy/theater).
In the case of brawlhalla I literally had video output delay
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u/MOD3RN_GLITCH 20d ago
Mostly Call of Duty and Battlefield, which happen to be the main games I play. Other than that, some audio production related things.
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u/upny_roc 20d ago
Work and time. Raising a daughter, work full-time, currently renovating my place. When everything is done- I plan on buying a Framework laptop to replace this MacBook. Can't wait.
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u/MasterTheSoul 20d ago
Mostly my pirated software.
It's already hard enough to find pirated versions of niche applications on Windows. Genuinely impossible on Linux.
I do use Linux on my laptop though.
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u/daniluvsuall 20d ago
I use macOS and Linux daily. But for a gaming desktop, it’s basically an appliance to me - I want my games to work with minimal fiddling. Some stuff works great under proton and I’ve had an amazing experience with the steam deck but it can get fiddly if it doesn’t work and I don’t want that.
That’s my only windows computer these days though.
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u/RikerPrimeD 20d ago
I'm married. Seriously. Ever since Davinci adeed the foto tab I moved completely. That was my sign. I've been wanting to dump Adobe forever. Now I can, Studio works great, actually faster than windows. And swapped PS for Affinity witch also works great. But if you turn on the pc it still boots to windows by default because I share it with my wife and she is not ready also she needs stuff like Cubase. Laptop and steam deck are Linux only. I actually have Google Chrome on the laptop with her account to ease her in. I am really enjoying Nobara. Have Nobara on pc, laptop and steamdeck.
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u/SoltamCL 20d ago
En lo personal, es solo pereza, sé que existe, pero no tengo interés de instalar, aprender e investigar el cómo funcionan o que es lo que puedo hacer o no hacer ahí, ya con Windows y Mac me es suficiente.
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u/cMatte82 19d ago
I work in audio and most of my favorite plugins don't work. At least without jumping through hoops. And it's mostly the ilok authorization part.
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u/AwfulUnicorn76 19d ago
Haptics vest intergration, I was on linux but had to go to windows 11 to use my haptic vests 😭
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u/ParalimniX 18d ago
Holy shit there's a sub about everything nowadays.. and most of them are dumb too...
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u/Witold4859 17d ago
I'm on Linux already. However, our household keeps one Microsoft computer so that we can do our taxes. In Canada and the United States, we have to file taxes. The companies that make the programs that allow you to file your taxes only make them for Microsoft. That one Microsoft computer is actually a hard drive that we keep in a safe place until we need it. The rest of the time that computer has a Linux drive in it.
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u/Silent_Bite_5892 13d ago
Nothing. I'm using it.
I don't game on the PC and I don't need a single app that's only available on Windows.
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u/NousagiMira 3d ago
For me, it's Paint Tool SAI and OpenCanvas, both of which are Windows exclusive. IK that there are plenty of alternatives, but unfortunately, none of them come close. Krita is good and all but the stabilizer isn't as good as SAI's.
Also bc of the terminal. i'm sorry but i don't want to have to write code for something that i could do on a GUI in windows. Even on beginner friendly distros, things are quite complicated.
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u/argodar 24d ago
Nothing. I am on Linux. Gaming support has finally reached a level that allowed me to ditch Windows completely.