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Now is the time to spread your wings and try linux as a replacement for windows!
I've occasionally tried using Linux in the past as my main desktop, because I think Windows as an OS is inferior, and lately because Linux's UI actually seems superior, but I always got suckered back into Windows because I wanted to play certain games.
I tried again last month, and this time, it's different. The games that I want to play work well enough in Linux. Some of them have native Linux builds. Others work well enough in Proton, which is Valve's version of Wine, a Windows emulation layer that can run Windows games in Linux.
I don't see any reason that I'd ever go back to Windows again.
What's really wild is that not only are games good enough on Windows, but tests lately are showing a consistent trend where the two are often indistinguishable in performance, and where they're not, Windows isn't consistently winning.
If you're not into the genre of competitive multiplayer games that have kernel anticheat, Windows isn't really better for gaming anymore, outside of being more familiar for many people. Today we've reached the point where it's a few fps either way, and people should use whatever they want, but if Microsoft keeps bloating Windows, it might soon be that the "Windows tax" also refers to the performance penalty you pay for using the familiar OS instead of learning something new.
And what's even crazier about that is that Microsoft will literally make it the slowest god damn shitty OS on the planet before they even think about removing all the telemetry and bloatware.
I truly believe they would let it hit 50/50 people who use linux over Windows over not removing like two features that spy on you.
They just flat ass wouldn't do it. They know they won't die completely in our lifetimes so they would absolutely let it crumble into a shell of what it used to be before they ever start being user friendly and privacy respecting. I actually think it will eventually destroy them but might take like another 80 years