| RanAS Member Level: 55 Posts: 830/844 EXP: 1286472 For next: 27717 Since: 10-10-14 From: São Paulo, Brazil Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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Despite how much I recommended Linux once upon a time I gotta admit I'm sort of between a rock and a hard place for now. What I wanted out of Linux is an experience that is simple, similar to what I was used to with Windows XP and Windows 7, and that doesn't prevent me from delving deeper into the system in case I want to. And Linux Mint with the Cinnamon DE works very well towards that. But, there's a few things that cause me pain using Linux: - Graphics issues: the open-source AMD driver seems to have problems with switching power states, features like suspend are very prone to making the system crash, not to mention the occasional flickering windows that pop up once a day - Audio issues: you have to hope and pray that PulseAudio works out of the box and that your speakers, headphones and mic are all set, because there's practically no tinkering/workarounds you can use aside from editing its configuration files - Gaming issues: a few games that are noticeably more taxing on Linux, making it so that I have to play them on Windows if I want a smoother experience - even emulators too, Dolphin stutters in Linux but runs fine on Windows despite using OpenGL for both. Steam also seems to sometimes get stuck doing...something to the games, where I literally have to kill its process for it to get on with it. I think it may be related to some validation or shader pre-caching thing? whatever it is, it doesn't tell me and it's weird The hard part now is that, with Linux I feel like I'm in control of my operating system, I can control what it's doing, what I want it to do, everything. But on Windows, well, you have control over it sure but it also really likes to decide things for you, and it tries to get in the way to make sure you don't do things in a way Microsoft did not intend you to do. It's just not the same as it used to be, maybe competition with the macOS is making them adopt these weird changes. Another thing is that I still believe that Windows is made to break after a few years, forcing you to reinstall it or, in the case of most people who don't know how to reinstall Windows, buy a new computer. Planned obsolescence at its finest. You don't get that on Linux. Even this quote from a funny video, I feel like it now applies to Windows more-so than ever, not just to Macs: Originally posted by Crash Different Installing 7-Zip on Windows 11 only to find out that once I right-click, I have to click "Show More Options" every goddamn time I want to simply extract or compress a file is frustrating. But aside from that, Windows 11 ran very well every time I booted it up, it's even updating properly. What I need to do (I think) is use ONLY Windows 11 for about a week (I have it on a different SSD for dual-booting) or a month and see how that goes. If I cannot replicate any of the video and audio issues, then that's gonna leave me fairly disappointed with Linux. For my work laptop I have no reason to switch to Windows 11, at most I need to set up a virtual machine in there whenever I may need to use a program that just isn't gonna work on Linux. This idea will not work for my desktop because, well, if I'm already having performance issues while gaming as it is then using a virtual machine will help me none. If I did a GPU pass-through to the VM, I might be able to get it up to speed, but I only have one graphics card attached to this PC, and this is definitely not the time to be buying another one. Not to mention, this motherboard doesn't even have an extra slot for one anyway, so that wouldn't do me much good either. I guess I could try having the GPU pass-through to my dedicated graphics card and leave Linux with the internal graphics while I have the VM open but I'm not sure how that would even work. |

I have 2015 vibes. Godforbid we have another forced update campaign that MS gets in the middle of and they get sued for.
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