Because I use free BSD
this is the only acceptable answer.
I do use Linux 🐧
Because it's GNU/Linux 🧔♀️
I use linux btw.
It's a sin to speak that name in vain
I do for all my machines except the daily driver and at work.
I want to switch over my main system to Linux but I'm putting it off because I feel like I need a full day or two to just transfer simple things like browser info, save games, find utility apps, etc. Plus a bunch of games that I like playing still don't work on Linux. I also haven't looked into how to attempt to play "unlicensed" games on Linux yet.
I've been using Linux for 3 years in college
My Linux distro hop went ZorinOS -> Fedora Workstation -> Nobara Linux -> Now (VanillaOS)
I have a bit of everything at home. A windows PC, a mac laptop, a couple of linux boxes to run media servers etc
I keep trying Linux for a week or so at a time, but every time I do, I just can't do what I want on it. It lacks software like Playnite - a FOSS game launcher that lets me manage my collection of games across different platforms. Discord on it doesn't support screen audio when screen sharing, and the app that enables it is finicky at best. I end up spending more time in my terminal than doing browsing, playing games, etc, like I'd like to be doing. I don't hate Linux. I love the idea of Linux, but in practice... I just have a really hard time enjoying my time on my computer with it.
I just came off running Nobara for 2 days then moving because of compatibility issues and its UI feeling slow, then I ran Mint for another 5 days. I hope one day Linux can be what I want from my PC.
There's a ton of game launchers, for instance this one just came out the other day and allegedly launches your games from Steam/Heroic/Bottles/etc. Not sure if it's what you need but it seems weird there wouldn't be an alternative to Playnite: https://flathub.org/apps/details/hu.kramo.Cartridges
Screensharing looks like something to wait on though. I've heard of people getting it to work but seems finicky
Edit: Looks like Playnite has distant goals of supporting Linux. Could be a race between these two apps for you to see which one gets working first
Nah I've been through all those. Playnite has things like the ability to auto-scan launchers, launching from emulators, running scripts before / after games launch and after they close, and a really robust library of plugins and add-ons from its community. I've looked into the others, the best one for my use would be Lutris, but even then everything just feels extremely jank and it's entirely disheartening. I appreciate the thoughtful reply though. It's clear you actually looked into this quite a bit.
Lutris.net is an alternative to Playnite.
Steam and emulators work great but somethings are more complicated. As far as games your confined inside the steam environment unless you're willing to do extra work.
too hard to find pirated games, i'll switch when my mathusalem PC finally decides to break (and by then i hope to have some more coin, PCs really became expensive in the last six yeas!!!!)
Most of the time you can follow the exact same steps as Windows piracy and run the games using Wine through Lutris. I pirate a ton of games on the Steam Deck this way.
Just play pirated windows games? With lutris?
I do dual boot linux on a laptop i have that is 10 years old (linux mint). I would consider myself 'intermediate' when it comes to knowledge of software and stuff, and I mostly find Linux pretty frustrating to use beyond simply browsing the web, it feels like there is always a byzantine process to do stuff that Windows can do easily without hassle. Not that I really like Windows at all. Otherwise, I'd use it all the time.
There's a bit of a learning curve to dial in all the stuff you regularly do with windows on a linux based OS. But by making your daily driver a linux based machine you'll be kind of forced to figure it out. Took me maybe a month to fully get each little thing setup but now I have more versatile resources to handle the same tasks. Worth it alone to stop the invasive tracking by Microsoft to me. Plus with all the easily accessible open sourced software available in linux, I now often wonder what took me soo long to drive in
I've installed Linux Mint (w/ Cinnamon desktop) recently in a workplace for teenage students school/office work on an old hardware. However, they did not accept it because it did not have a Microsoft Word but a LibreOffice Writer. Apparently, LibreOffice was too confusing for them so they just switched back to Win.
Linux guy here, there is a shrinking list of things that I can't do with Linux. That's when I spin up quick Windows 10 VM, do the task, and delete. Hasn't come up in over 15 months.
I use it one everything except my word-provided laptop. I would use it there too, but our IT department is too Windows-brained to convince them otherwise.
Presently, I use Linux regularly (desktop, servers, etc.) I love it and prefer it, and all the games I play run on it. There are a few devices I don't use it on yet:
- Work laptop runs Windows :(
- Got a Macbook Pro for a good price. (Was MacOS curious for awhile, hadn't used it since MacOS 9)
- Mobile phones run Android and iOS. (Linux on mobile is not good yet)
- Windows dualboot just in case I want to use it for something
Android phones use a modified version of the Linux kernel, so they are ostensibly "running linux"
If you got the M1/2 check out Asahi Linux
Using Linux exclusively in private and almost exclusively for work for 24 years and counting ...
I daily drive linux on the laptop i use the most. All servers are linux. Other than that, my gaming rig is still on windows, work laptop is macOS. Im a tinkerer, so playing with different OSes is fun to me
easier, less hassle 🤷♀️
Real
I do use Arch Linux and Android Linux
I use linux at home (with bottles for games) and windows at work, because it's not my choice. Btw, at work I use windows only to run wsl2
I use Linux but my family computer is on windows because of office
Also, on my work computer is on windows because it is given by the company and I needed it to work immediately. I am allowed to change it tho. Do you know how well is Microsoft Teams working ? It is the only microsoft software that I need to work perfectely for my job. I would prefer the disponibility indicator to work for example
You can install Teams with flatpak. The only things not working are giving or taking control of the computer (so, KVMoIP) and screen sharing with Wayland.
I checked that and it is an electron app for the web app. I'll hace to be careful to use X11 till screensharing is supported
I didn't install through flatpak, but I do have screen sharing working with Wayland.
I think there is a Webinterface for Microsoft Teams.So you can replace the APP with it.
Yes, i'll have to check what functionnalities are not yet implemented as I did not find any list up to date
nearly 100% of my work is in Windows-native applications (Adobe suite, VizRT, Cinema4D) and that's not likely to change
Very proprietary hardware I got for free. Too stingy to get new stuff yet. Okay I'm lying, I'm poor and scared to spend.
I keep a windows computer exclusively for gaming. I know you can play games on gnu/linux but I have lots of peripherals, VR headset, wheel, pedals, joysticks, rudder, buttons boxes,... I don't have the courage to even try to see if everything will be compatible and correctly recognized in games. For everything else I stick to gnu/linux.
i have, off and on over the past 23 years but i ultimately end up running windows primarily because of games or some other software or hardware incompatibility
Work computers are windows, I would never demean myself like that by choice.
The only reasons to use windows (other than force or coercion) that I'm even aware of is adobe shit and multiplayer games with kernel level anticheats. Adobe could literally just get good, that is 100% their fault, though kernel level anticheat would never be popular on linux I'd bet.
I do, but I think most people don't think that they can replace the software they're using on their devices. Or in other words - people buy consumer electronics to use it as is and they generally don't install OSes themselves.
I do. And windows. And android. And OSX
I use Linux on my personal laptop, my work laptop is a Mac, but my desktop (main computer) is still Windows largely cause of video games. Lot of the games I like to play don't work or require more tweaking than I'm willing to invest to get them running on Linux. I also play flight sim and racing sim games with peripherals a lot, and if the game support on Linux seems bad, the support for those peripherals is even worse lol.
