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This is the sole reason my gaming rig is now running on Ubuntu. I have never had Linux on my personal computer before but since I was forced to update the OS anyway, I thought might aswell give Linux a shot.
Dude, Windows 7/8/8.1 hasn't been supported by Microsoft for quite a while now. No reason to support the platform, if Microsoft doesn't
Didn't stop me from gaming on 7 either. I was only gaming on my windows partition so I didn't worry too much about vulns. Nothing in 8-11 interests me so I thought I'd try all my gaming in Linux and have been blown away by how good it is. I ran 7 up until last April and the cracks had finally started to show.
The cracks were probably because you were part of a botnet for using an insecure OS for years lol
It was mainly due to qt dropping support (used by OBS, I could have stayed on an old version) and Steam for the same reason but Chromium. I probably could have kept my old computer and stayed on 7 for longer if I wanted to.
Nice job ignoring the very real possibility that your computer has been part of a botnet for years. The botnet thanks you for your service.
I did ignore it, literally didn't read it. You have to run code or data from untrusted sources (or be available on a network) to get exploited, and I know that computer wasn't doing anything high bandwidth otherwise it would affect my gaming. I literally only played games on the install for a couple hours a night and my browser and other software was up to date.
Congrats on joining Linux squad!
Linux gaming got waaaaay better than in before times. Also, the system itself is a miracle for someone coming from Windows. I remember that feeling. It's correct :)
Oh I'm very aware, I've been running Linux in one way or another for 20 years :)
Ah, great! Should be like at home then :)
I've never felt more at home! No separate machines, no dualbooting, my games run great :D
They do!
It's great that Linux is a feasible alternative nowadays. But it's not like you are using Ubuntu 10.04 from 2010, right? OSs get outdated and stop being supported. That's just the way it is.