So glad I made the switch to Mint back when the EoL for win10 was announced. It has "just worked" with a bit of research beforehand. I like it way more than win10 - looks better, feels better, runs everything I want it to (except games with kernel level anticheat, but whatever), hardware is under less strain and PC no longer sounds like a jet engine. No regrets at all.

And, another perk I didn't hear as much about, it is really easy to automate stuff. For instance, I play CloneHero streaming from my PC on an Nvidia Shield on a controller with a USB dongle plugged into the shield (shield doesn't do that normally, linux allowed me to connect to the dongle over wifi with a little finagling) and I have it set up to automatically connect to my computer any time it's plugged in. I also have certain files set to automatically back up to cloud storage with a simple crontab task (automatically repeating tasks are very easy via crontab).

Mint may not be as fancy as a lot of other distros, but damn if it doesn't work well.

So glad I came back to Linux a couple years ago. I only use my windows partition to play a game that won’t work as well in Linux, and that list is pretty small for the games I play. Even BG3 worked great in Mint, using a 6 year old build.

the penguin migration was going just fine, until nvidia 570.124.04 dropped, which is when the misery started. :|

Got to check if I can roll back to earlier version.

I've had a Steam Deck for a few years, and it runs Linux. I have come to the conclusion that I could easily switch at any time if I needed to. Windows only has an an advantage when hot swapping between my office and TV dock. Linux just doesn't yet handle desktop resizing on the fly well.

No, it's not. And I say that as an almost-exclusively Linux users since at least 20 years.

Games and especially modding. I'm holding on to 10 until I can't. Then i'll figure out Linux.

At work we run some software that while you can get it to run under Linux it's not worth the effort even for me to bother.

One supplier is slowly moving towards the runtime being available on BSD at least. They also somewhat decoupled from visual studio in the latest release, while still being mandatory still it's a step in the right direction.

Laughs in rolling release

For the most basic casual PC gamer SteamOS will be a game changer once they add more hardware support for it.

I have to make the switch..