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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too (www.notebookcheck.net)
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There. That's out of the way. I recently installed Linux on my main desktop computer and work laptop, overwriting the Windows partition completely. Essentially, I deleted the primary operating system from the two computers I use the most, day in and day out, instead trusting all of my personal and work computing needs to the Open Source community. This has been a growing trend, and I hopped on the bandwagon, but for good reasons. Some of those reasons might pertain to you and convince you to finally make the jump as well. Here's my experience.

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It's no secret that Windows 11 harvests data like a pumpkin farmer in October, and there is no easy way (and sometimes no way at all) to stop it. The operating system itself acts exactly like what was called "spyware" a decade or so ago, pulling every piece of data it can about its current user. This data includes (but is far from limited to) hardware information, specific apps and software used, usage trends, and more. With the advent of AI, Microsoft made headlines with Copilot, an artificial assistant designed to help users by capturing their data with tools like Recall.

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After dealing with these issues and trying to solve them with workarounds, I dual-booted a Linux partition for a few weeks. After a Windows update (that I didn't choose to do) wiped that partition and, consequently, the Linux installation, I decided to go whole-hog: I deleted Windows 11 and used the entire drive for Linux.

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[โ€“] OR3X@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

in my experience one of the biggest hurdles people have when switching to Linux the first time is one of attitude. They just expect Linux to be a drop in replacement for Windows and work exactly the same. It doesn't though. It's a completely different operating system. So when all of the little quirks and features they've learned from Windows don't quite work the same in Linux they don't stop to try to learn HOW these things might work in Linux, they instead ask how they can make Linux work the way it does in Windows. Which of course leads them down a rabbit hole of tweaking things. Now don't get me wrong, a lot of DEs are already really similar to windows out of the box and can usually be tweaked even further to emulate Windows quirks, but this is not a good experience for a new user. They get the impression that Linux is hard and requires all this effort to "get it right" when really they just need to learn. I think if distros spent time creating interactive new user orientation guides that went over a bunch of these things it would be helpful in that regard.

[โ€“] eli@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They just expect Linux to be a drop in replacement for Windows

To be fair, this is perpetuated pretty hard by YouTubers/influencers.

"Omg I switched to $DISTRO and it BEATS Windows in gaming!" "No issues!" "Printers just work!" "OnlyOffice is compatible with MS Office!"

And then when you "switch" to Linux and you get sub-par performance and everyone's answers on forums are:

  • Giant list of random proton launch options to try with zero explanation
  • "Linux does not work with X game!"
  • "It works for me!"
  • Suggestions to try all Proton versions including GE versions
  • Suggestion to switch to an entirely different distro with different release schedules/objective
  • "Why are you using X distro when you should use Nobara/Bazzite/Cachy/Debian/Mint/whatever is the latest flavor of the month clickbait?"

I just installed Cachy on my old spare gaming desktop(1700X cpu) and immediately was met with odd performance issues. Come to find out that the cpu frequency scheduler doesn't like my CPU and was causing it go from 1.8GHz to 3.6GHz rapidly, wattage flip flopping between 15w-45w, fps in game going from 20fps to 80fps without even moving...I got most of it fixed by forcing performance mode via cpupower, but I still have lower fps than windows and the only thing I can find online is that proton overhead is too much for my CPU so I bought a 3700X for $100 on eBay. But all of my solutions I had to find myself because reddit was too busy arguing than troubleshooting.

[โ€“] mack@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 12 hours ago

I do feel what you're trying to convey and I completely understand since linux is my daily driver but I always had a dual boot setup for the occasional windows thing.

But my here's my 2 eurocents: if companies like Adobe (or Valve or whatever) had the grace to build their tools/utils/games for Linux the adoption would be far more widespread.

And the joke is, they would not invest time to build stuff for Linux because the Linux adoption is quite low compared to other platform. Linux does not have sub-par performance, it's just the software, for example all Stadia games were native games running on a custom Debian, with amazing performance and high FPS via streaming. Unthinkable to achieve the same with a Windows or a Mac OS

[โ€“] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

yep, when somebody has literal decades of experience learning to deal with the quirks of windows (of which more and more are added over time, and until the past half decade or so were added at a somewhat less obscene rate so they were not overwhelming), it's a hard battle.

it really does take some work to re-frame it objectively

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I'd say the biggest hurdle for the technologically challenged is not that, but WHICH Linux is the "right" one. There are soooo many. And sometimes even in many different flavors. Which is better for gaming? Which caters to my windows habits? Which is most performant? Which is actively maintained? Should I go desktop? Which one? Why? Where and how?

How many would the average Joe try out extensively before just crawling back to winblows?

Besides what you said about good tutorial for getting into a distro, one would need a nice flowcharty something that first guides them to WHERE they should look for that. And if you'd ask 5 Linux geeks which is the best for XYZ, you'd get 5 answers ๐Ÿ˜