Now, for an actual sane take, unless we do the actual marketing work in order to gather interest from people, no, not even close to everyone will switch to Linux, specially considering Microsoft has literal millions of dollars to spend in marketing and will likely spin this in a way that non-techy people specially will buy in due to not knowing any choice.

This is a PSA begging people to contribute to their favorite distros not (only) with code but with marketing. Social media posts, videos, word of mouth recommendations, advocacy, events, etc. If your distro doesn’t have a marketing team, create one, as most projects should already have done two decades ago. If your distro has one (like we do in Fedora), join it. There’ll likely be something you can help with.

That’s true. We’re just getting the window managers and drivers ready for everyone who will follow us.

This is extreme copium, sorry to say. You have no idea how much shit the average person will eat to prevent having to learn something new. For someone who has never manually installed an OS before, even Windows, the idea of doing that with something like Linux and potentially deleting their existing OS is genuinely frightening. Never underestimate the fact that people will pay through the nose to ensure they don’t have to contend with the unknown.

I believe it when I see it. If the average Windows user is as dumb as the average Xitterer you’ll have to wait a century or two for the year of the Linux desktop.

MS is completely focussed on the Enterprise market now. They need everyone to start using Office 365 early so they’ll keep using it at their job. They don’t really care what OS people run underneath, as long as it can connect to Azure/Entra.

Agreed. Also why they’re more and more fucking annoying about OneDrive and O365 subs. I would be extremely surprised at seeing anyone at MS thinking the best way to monetize Windows is to get consumers, who are notoriously more and more tired of subs in general, is to get them to pay a sub fee on the computer they bought. Let’s face it, virtually no one is buying a Windows license, it comes with the machine they buy. If you told people that they have to now pay a fee every month/year to keep using it.

Couldn’t tell you, I’m on 10 myself because my laptop is old and doesn’t meet the TPM requirement. Which, tbh, is probably best.

It’s very gradual and fun because it’s new. A lot of you being lazy is also just your safety mechanism kicking in so you don’t dive into every single urge all the time.

Once you dip your toe, you’ll be at it for a long and good time.

😱

you’ll do fine then

well, lucky you. When i get super pissed i keep being tempted to snap my own fingers

The file explorer has some pretty limited options, and not many features. Or at least, it doesn’t have some of the features I like by default.

It does have zorin connect, which is really nice, but I later found it it is a re-skinned version of KDE connect, so not much is lost by moving to another distro on that front.

It also seemed to not have as good windows support for certain things. BG3 kept on crashing on me for some unknown reason, with zero error messages to troubleshoot. On mint it worked first try, like it ought to.

At the end of the day, zorin just isn’t as customizable as I want, whereas mint is.

omg linux fanboy when a joke is made (he can’t handle a joke on his only reason to live)

I subscribe to M365 because my kids’ schools all distribute their assignments as Word docs. And they apparently use the most obscure formatting features, so the only way to get them to render and print properly is to use full Office desktop. Not even the web apps show them properly, and LibreOffice / google docs import totally mangle them.

We’ll pretend you didn’t if you get started.

By the standards of its day, I’d even say Windows XP was good.

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Valve is actively funding alternatives to those anti cheats and also working with them to get Linux supported. Its just not happening overnight.

Both easy anticheat and battle eye have support for Linux native and proton, it’s just down to the developers of games to enable it

Without windows more developers would likely enable support

Idk, I see this argument every time this discussion comes up but I’ve yet to experience anti cheat issues. I don’t think they don’t exist but it’s been extremely smooth sailing for me

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That’s a nice argument… (Piped)

The different names of Linux ‘versions’ are kernels, right?

Not really, the kernel is basically the only thing all distros share in common. The different Linux “distros” (as in distributions) are called that precisely because they have different ways of distributing the software they use to build the OS. They use different means to achieve the same goal.

Any recommendations on what ‘version’ to start with for a heavy gamer?

I am biased towards Fedora since I am a contributor of the project, but you can’t go wrong with Ubuntu either. It’s more popular so there’s a lot more content about it online if you need help.

The only thing I recommend against is using small, niche distros or DIY distros (like Arch) as your first. Stick with big distros with big communities and don’t be afraid to ask questions in the forums if there’s any doubts or if you face any issues.

It sounds daunting in the beginning, but it’s way easier than the internet make it seem.