Reasons to switch:
- It's waaaaay cheaper
- A new laptop costs a lot of money. Repair cafes will often help you for free. Software updates are also free, forever. You can of course show your support for both with donations!
- No ads, no spying
- Windows comes with lots of ads and spyware nowadays, slowing down your computer and increasing your energy bill.
- Good for the planet
- Production of a computer accounts for 75+% of carbon emissions over its lifecycle. Keeping a functioning device longer is a hugely effective way to reduce emissions.
- Community support
- If you have any issues with your computer, the local repair cafe and independent computer shop are there for you. You can find community support in online forums, too.
- User control
- You are in control of the software, not companies. Use your computer how you want, for as long as you want.
Hexbear-related reasons to switch:
- Still can use hexbear
- Hexbear requires a web browser (firefox) to use.
- Don't have to pay for it.
- You'll receive updates and features for your operating system free of any personal charge to you till the end of time. You can donate directly to volunteers and workers to make your computer better (better yet non computer related things)
- using Windows for Windows's sake or Apple for Apple's sake is liberalism and supports USA/piSSrael
- TBH they copied from us (KDE, GNOME) anyway. Their innovation is being a monopoly and advertising to you.
- Makes you smarter (it's like reading theory but with computers)
- Using Linux makes you big brain because you'll learn you can do a lot of things for free that you'd have to waste your soul on.
- Using Linux makes you big brain because you'll learn you can do a lot of things for free that you'd have to waste your soul on.
If i could get my fighting games and simracing stuff working I would switch, but the simracing stuff is like...pretty niche and already barely works lol. Im sure plenty of fighting games would work.
Direct drive wheels on linux are still awful with compatibility and missing effects from what I have heard last december. There was a matrix server with people looking for testers trying to make the simracing experience better.
I recommend checking https://github.com/JacKeTUs/linux-steering-wheels to check for the level of compatability with wheels.
EDIT: Looks like a lot of it has been bumped up to gold and platinum. It was just g29 and thrustmaster in the past.
good to know that moza is compatible
I use a ln accuforce v2. I'll review, but man getting things on windows can be tough for this wheel lol. Their proprietary software has to work as well, otherwise games handle their weird motor quite oddly.
https://github.com/JacKeTUs/linux-steering-wheels
I looked up again today and it seems like accuforce pro now has platinum rating. Link to the matrix group and other stuff is here btw
https://simracingonlinux.com/
As far as games are concerned lemans ultimate and iracing are the problematic ones.
Yeah if it wasn't for gaming and the general setup headache I'd have switched years ago but I have 30 years of documents arranged using windows file system conventions and I'd rather not spend 3 weeks tinkering with sound drivers.
I'm not even considering switching until iRacing actually works on Linux. Happy to see the in the list of steering wheels that my Moza wheel is now compatible, though.
Yeah i have an odd setup. Accuforce v2, with simagic p1000s, with moza accessories and WMR for VR. It all feel like it barely works already...no way I get compatibility with this lol
Damn I guess you might have to talk to them and work things out because it's not in there. They have a suite of software which is somewhat like simhub I have heard and you can set up everything in one go including the wheels with their drivers. The pedals and accessories should work fine. If you have made custom stuff with ftdi supported boards like that arduino leonardo custom handbrake then that would work well too. I found openxr which claims to works with WMR but I can't tell how good the support is because I don't have it. I hope it works out. I am guessing the support would be decent soon enough since the win10 end of life stuff is happening and there is an increase in users. I have an awful ssd which works flawlessly on linux but causes a lot of stuttering and audio sometimes on windows. I guess you could also try win10ltsc iot that has 10 years of support that comes without the bloatware and telemetry I think. Getting a license officially is hard but there is a tool that gets you one through windows official servers with a glitch off some sort but I am afraid windows might crack down on them in the future.