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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 144 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Linux has its flaws, but so does Windows. And for me, the flaws in Windows became much more annoying than the ones in Linux. Game compatibility was the main factor that kept me backt from using it on a desktop, and that's a non issue nowadays.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Game compatibility

Steam+Proton is pretty impressive. I can play Baldur's Gate 3 on my Thelio. Does get a little toasty, though ....

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Flaws I didn't pay for piss me off a lot less.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

While that's certainly also part of it, I would still stand by my opinion even if Windows was completely free.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Raise your hand if you ever paid for that hot chunk

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I consider myself forced to pay for it every time I buy a laptop whose price has to include Microsoft's cut off the action.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

You are not forced, plenty of manufacturers offer FreeDOS variants for so many years, just support them instead.

[–] bundes_sheep@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I bought myself a copy of NT 4.0 back in the day.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it's the basic things that drive me crazy in Windows: the Start menu doesn't work half of the time, and it shows web results above the program you want to run. File operations are slow and the File Explorer crashes a lot. Application windows constantly steal focus from the one I'm typing in, leading to passwords being typed into code, documents, web browsers or other unsafe places. Background indexing is constant and eats up CPU, and the file search still takes forever despite all this indexing.

These are all basic things that Microsoft has had decades to get working, and they're all still broken. Microsoft always seem to be paying attention to anything but the quality of the user's experience.

By contrast, Linux is just relaxing.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man that MS indexing is so terrible. I shut it off because it was robbing my system when trying to work, and as you said it is slow anyway. Compared to GNOME desktop where the indexing is invisible to user, I hit the Suoer key type a few letters it instantly shows me results as you would expect indexing to work.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand how Microsoft manage to make it so bad. What kind of index is it building that it can be so slow?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Asking the real questions

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm still dualbooting Windows to play games with a controller until I can get off my ass and buy a USB hub. Reason being that the Xbox Series controllers has issues with my mobo's Bluetooth chipset, even when updating the firmware. Bluetooth support is particularly inconsistent with these.

But outside of the odd app that needs Windows (and I can just boot a VM for that), Linux has been really good on the desktop.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I invested in an Icy Box IB-AC6110 powered 10 port usb hub a while ago too, but it is more for additional controllers, specifically joysticks and the likes. Mainboards just don't have enough USB ports for all that. Dual sticks or a hotas? Two gone. Maybe some pedals? Now it is 3. How about a camera and a head tracker? Well, 4-5 depending on your product solution. Defo gives me some peace of mind to be good on USB ports.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, thankfully I can go a bit more basic than that, I just need to figure out what hub, or even cable, I wanna get.

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I have been using this hub. Works fine in Linux and windows.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0871ZHCKK?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

I also use this usb dongle for my Xbox controller. It works fine in Linux. I really should try playing a few games on Linux.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0785SFKYF?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

[–] graves@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Mine is VST’s and games. Never had much luck using a vst bridge/wine, so i just went back to windows.