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5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux today (www.zdnet.com)

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

5 reasons you should not ditch Windows:

Your hardware is incompatible or you do not want to fiddle with settings or command lines
Your applications/games only work well on native Windows (and not wine)
You need serious group policy support or other device/software lockdown methods
Your company policy requires it
Makes helping Windows users harder if you cannot walk them through the same things they are doing

Of course if any of these apply you can always dual-boot or use a VM. I'm not saying you shouldn't use Linux at all.

[-] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

you do not want to fiddle with settings or command lines

Kinda the reverse for me

I need to fiddle with Massgrave and various debloat scripts to run win

Your applications/games only work well on native Windows

Windows for docker, winboat, etc

serious group policy support or other device/software lockdown methods

I would argue sudo and normal file permissions do the same

Makes helping Windows users harder

???

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Your company policy requires it

The only legitimate thing on this list. Also the most obvious and pointless.

I don't think anybody is saying to format Linux over the company computer against their Windows policy.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Your hardware is incompatible

I think you'll have an extremely hard time finding any hardware that supports Windows but can't run linux. With Win11 requirements it's much more likely to be the other way around.

Your applications/games only work well on native Windows

Personally, every game I care to run works perfectly fine on my Steam Deck. I refuse to play any games that require kernel-level anti-cheat. It's officially distributed malware if you ask me.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think you’ll have an extremely hard time finding any hardware that supports Windows but can’t run linux

My previous laptop couldn't boot linux for like 2 years until kernel patches came out. It still to this day doesn't support bluetooth in linux due to an unfixed/wontfix kernel bug. And the wifi only uploads at 1mbps under linux.

By incompatible I don't mean "won't boot at all" (even though I've had that multiple times, including with my Surface tablet), but it's all the little stuff that often doesn't have a 100% working driver (either yet or at all). Maybe you don't experience this but there's still lots of people that do.

Personally, every game I care to run works perfectly fine on my Steam Deck

Almost none of my TeknoParrot games work under linux, no matter what version/patch/fork of wine/lutris/proton/etc. I try. Plus there's tons of people that still want to play those newer games with kernel-level anti-cheat, even if you don't.