To each his own. I wasn't knocking Linux, just responding to what I interpreted as an insinuation that anyone has a shrine to Bill Gates in their closet just because they still haven't made the jump.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I get that. I do think some people are pretty closed minded on the topic but you don't seem to fit that bill. MS is not playing the long game though. Even my brother who has been against the idea of Linux forever is coming around. He's installed it and playing around with it lately. He might just convert one day...

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's aligned for the moment because I'm not playing the long game, either. I'd ditch Windows at a moment's notice if not for a handful of "must-have" games that protondb says still require tweaking. I configure system crap all day at work; I categorically refuse to do any of that in my already sparse game time.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

You're trying to tell me windows "just works"?

Between updates taking time and breaking shit, drivers constantly demanding updates, auto start programs that slow your machine down and pop up prompts, new "features" in windows asking your time, literal ads in the OS, and I'm sure I could list more examples if I took time, windows hasn't "just worked" for me in a long time. I was a daily power user of it from about 1997-2014. Which is why I hate it. On Linux, out of that list I experience an update breaking something once or twice a year, and sometimes having to copy paste some config vars on a game. Sometimes (like one in ten).

When I had an Nvidia card it was admittedly different. Not very stable because Nvidia chooses to be assholes. On an AMD card things are solid. Not much configuration when I do game