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Good day to all. I've recently undergone a bit of a transformation in my life.

For the first time ever, my desktop computer no longer contains a Microsoft Windows operating system. I've run just about every distro going in the past 10 years or so, and they're all great *forces smile* other than Gentoo. Gentoo is/was not great.

 

I'm using elementaryOS at the moment, on its own, without any kind of VM or similar.

The thing I noticed the most since ditching dual booting is not having Grub (pretty sure I see the grub menu in my sleep).

Anyway, after giving up playing large amounts of Fifa, I realised that my neediness for Windows was no longer. 

Stuff I use my PC for:

  • Football Manager (and a handful of other games)
  • Social Media (FB, Twitter, Youtube, LTT Forum)
  • Photo editing (PS AI)
  • Web development (pHp)
  • Light audio recording
  • Music & Videos
  • Online Poker
  • DTP (Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets)

Anyway, I was just wondering what the good folk here are doing that can only be done on Windows? (please don't list your Steam libraries or just say "VIDEO EDITING") Thanks :)

 

Discuss...

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Seriously, though.. I play games. Who uses Linux for that?!?!?

 

I watch YouTube (I hate FireFox.)

I play video games (How many Steam games are on Linux? Like, <40%??

I browse the web

That's about all I do with my computer. I don't get the hate of Windows, other than it's horrible. I enjoy it, great layout, great programs, it runs good, and I can do whatever I want on it.

 

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How many of those are on Linux?
 

Not knocking it, when I've used it I liked it, but it makes no sense for me to use.

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To be honest, I love Linux, I use it for my daily OS (openSUSE for desktop, Ubuntu for laptop).

But my friends hate Linux, I believe because...

  1. They don't want to learn lots of terminal commands.
  2. They aren't used to it, need to adapt.
  3. Less softwares that are compatible with it.
  4. They just don't want Linux, because they haven't studied about it, I mean they studied how to use Windows in elementary school.

Although what they do is only for work (girls) which Linux obviously can do, the boys love gaming, and yeah...

Seriously, though.. I play games. Who uses Linux for that?!?!?

Linux has less games compared to Windows.

 

Even if they use Ubuntu, which is known for its "New User" friendly, I bet they'll feel something wrong, because they just don't want to learn Linux.

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I will say my steam library, and programming IDEs and such.  Lots of IDEs and creative software, but I guess mostly the reason I don't run linux as my normal OS is purely because I'm used to Windows, and always know that if there is a program I need that I can find it or something similar for Windows.  Can't get that guarantee on Linux.  Now, I'm thinking of building a second machine and I'm also thinking I'll try to just use Linux on it.  By the way, why wasn't Gentoo good?  I hear it's mostly for advanced developers (so I instantly wanted to master it) but what makes it hard/bad/good?

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Gaming.
I heard some drivers are not available for linux because of the fact that it is open source. Not sure about the validity/ correctness of this though.

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Since until about 2 years ago I only used the basic functions of computers, I'm still new to the computer world (relative to my age), and using Windows on my daily driver allows ease of compatibility for pretty much everything. I have been learning a LOT about computers in the past 2 years and I'm starting to delve into Linux (and taking several IT courses), but I will probably always use Windows on my main rig, but I am planning on building a secondary modern system that will use Linux for programming projects.

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Good day to all. I've recently undergone a bit of a transformation in my life.

For the first time ever, my desktop computer no longer contains a Microsoft Windows operating system. I've run just about every distro going in the past 10 years or so, and they're all great *forces smile* other than Gentoo. Gentoo is/was not great.

 

I'm using elementaryOS at the moment, on its own, without any kind of VM or similar.

The thing I noticed the most since ditching dual booting is not having Grub (pretty sure I see the grub menu in my sleep).

Anyway, after giving up playing large amounts of Fifa, I realised that my neediness for Windows was no longer. 

Stuff I use my PC for:

  • Football Manager (and a handful of other games)
  • Social Media (FB, Twitter, Youtube, LTT Forum)
  • Photo editing (PS AI)
  • Web development (pHp)
  • Light audio recording
  • Music & Videos
  • Online Poker
  • DTP (Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets)

Anyway, I was just wondering what the good folk here are doing that can only be done on Windows? (please don't list your Steam libraries or just say "VIDEO EDITING") Thanks :)

 

Discuss...

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Seriously, though.. I play games. Who uses Linux for that?!?!?

 

I watch YouTube (I hate FireFox.)

I play video games (How many Steam games are on Linux? Like, >40%??

I browse the web

That's about all I do with my computer. I don't get the hate of Windows, other than it's horrible. I enjoy it, great layout, great programs, it runs good, and I can do whatever I want on it.

 

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How many of those are on Linux?

 

Not knocking it, when I've used it I liked it, but it makes no sense for me to use.

25% of steam games on linux

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Wow, editing our existing posts now are we, and also. did you actually read the op's post, he said don't list your fucking steam libraries.

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Anyway, I was just wondering what the good folk here are doing that can only be done on Windows? (please don't list your Steam libraries or just say "VIDEO EDITING") Thanks :)

 

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>video editing

Why would that be an issue on Linux? KdenLive is feature-equivalent (or just about) to Sony Vegas Pro and it's free. That is high praise, as far as I understand it. 

https://kdenlive.org/

When you want to do anything that's not easily or directly supported on Linux, other things tend to break should you not know how to or actively fix them. That already creates a huge barrier to entry for most people who feel they don't care about computers enough to fix them every time they break something (even on Windows). 

Windows breaks, ofc, but since it has a lot more support, installing a program to do this or that one thing doesn't break something else. 

Sound is a pain on Linux for anyone who doesn't like configuring an OS in general, for example. 

Today, I had to look up and install a package on my PC just to get it to see my Android phone (since it uses MTP or Media Transfer Protocol and doesn't just appear as a USB storage drive like you'd imagine it would). That's already too much work for most people to do something simple that they feel an OS should do automatically (especially considering how close Linux & Android are, that's silly to have to do imo). 

I'm using Debian 8.2 Jessie as my OS (no dual boot atm), but I will be installing Windows 10 and dual-booting it because I want to play Tales of Zestiria which is Windows only. Other than gaming, I don't need Windows.

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Good day to all. I've recently undergone a bit of a transformation in my life.

For the first time ever, my desktop computer no longer contains a Microsoft Windows operating system. I've run just about every distro going in the past 10 years or so, and they're all great *forces smile* other than Gentoo. Gentoo is/was not great.

 

I'm using elementaryOS at the moment, on its own, without any kind of VM or similar.

The thing I noticed the most since ditching dual booting is not having Grub (pretty sure I see the grub menu in my sleep).

Anyway, after giving up playing large amounts of Fifa, I realised that my neediness for Windows was no longer. 

Stuff I use my PC for:

  • Football Manager (and a handful of other games)
  • Social Media (FB, Twitter, Youtube, LTT Forum)
  • Photo editing (PS AI)
  • Web development (pHp)
  • Light audio recording
  • Music & Videos
  • Online Poker
  • DTP (Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets)

Anyway, I was just wondering what the good folk here are doing that can only be done on Windows? (please don't list your Steam libraries or just say "VIDEO EDITING") Thanks :)

 

Discuss...

Since it has NO support for any sort of good game  :/ else it would be great since its free !

 

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It was 4-5 years ago, and I hadn't really used KDE before then. I just remember having lots of trouble getting it set up to do anything useful for me, like flash player, or OpenOffice. I can't really say I've used it very much since, but the idea I get is that it has the cutting edge and customisability of Arch, but without the front end finesse

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25% of steam games on linux

I didn't actually think it was as many as that :o

Eeh, by gum.
 

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Seriously, though.. I play games. Who uses Linux for that?!?!?

 

I watch YouTube (I hate FireFox.)

I play video games (How many Steam games are on Linux? Like, <40%??

I browse the web

That's about all I do with my computer. I don't get the hate of Windows, other than it's horrible. I enjoy it, great layout, great programs, it runs good, and I can do whatever I want on it.

 

dhRSPr2.png

 

How many of those are on Linux?

 

Not knocking it, when I've used it I liked it, but it makes no sense for me to use.

 

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The main reason is that there is almost 100 different distributions and most people just want to use the one version of an OS. 

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25% of steam games on linux

 

Yeah, but how many of those are 10 minute $0.50 games, and how many are what people would call "A+" games? i.e. games that are actually known outside of a very small circle of people.

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Good day to all. I've recently undergone a bit of a transformation in my life.

For the first time ever, my desktop computer no longer contains a Microsoft Windows operating system. I've run just about every distro going in the past 10 years or so, and they're all great *forces smile* other than Gentoo. Gentoo is/was not great.

 

I'm using elementaryOS at the moment, on its own, without any kind of VM or similar.

The thing I noticed the most since ditching dual booting is not having Grub (pretty sure I see the grub menu in my sleep).

Anyway, after giving up playing large amounts of Fifa, I realised that my neediness for Windows was no longer. 

Stuff I use my PC for:

  • Football Manager (and a handful of other games)
  • Social Media (FB, Twitter, Youtube, LTT Forum)
  • Photo editing (PS AI)
  • Web development (pHp)
  • Light audio recording
  • Music & Videos
  • Online Poker
  • DTP (Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets)

Anyway, I was just wondering what the good folk here are doing that can only be done on Windows? (please don't list your Steam libraries or just say "VIDEO EDITING") Thanks :)

 

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U WANNA KNOW WHY I LIKE LINUX?!?!??!??!?!?!?

BECAUSE ITS FREE

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>video editing -snip-

 

 

I've not used it for a couple of years, and it used to crash every 15 minutes for no reason, wherever I ran it. Assuming it works now though, it is an exceptional piece of software. FWIW, my on-board sound card works better in Linux than it does in Windows 10 at the minute, but I'm hoping that VIA sort out a functioning driver soon.

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So I use Arch as my daily OS. I do boot into windows from time to time for certain games. (Witcher 3, MGSV & Soon Fallout 4) But most of the games I play regularly (mainly Cities Skylines) are playable under Linux.

 

Also not really sure what you have against Gentoo. Gentoo isn't bad because it is literally up to the user to compile, optimise and install everything. If you had a bad experience It's probably your own fault. 

 

I don't really understand why more people don't use Linux. From a gaming perspective I get it. Hardware wise everything just seems to work under Linux. For the majority of people it would save a lot of hassles. For example plugged a PS3 Eye into my computer. Linux it just works. Windows 8/8.1/10 Even after going and finding some bodged together driver and being able to get it to work in the demo window. It won't work in anything other than the demo window.

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Windows is a much nicer and polished OS than LINUX

I'm assuming you've either never used Linux, Or just have not used a very refined distro.

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Also not really sure what you have against Gentoo. Gentoo isn't bad because it is literally up to the user to compile, optimise and install everything. If you had a bad experience It's probably your own fault. 

 

 

I have nothing against it per se, I just wouldn't use it as my daily OS. I feel it's much more suited to server applications. I did definitely have a bad experience though. 

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I have nothing against it per se, I just wouldn't use it as my daily OS. I feel it's much more suited to server applications. I did definitely have a bad experience though. 

I think it is just tailored to the people who actually want to do everything themselves.

The reason I use Arch is because I can't be bothered compiling everything.... and AUR.

 

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