Been on Linux only for a couple years now. My biggest complaint is how terrible the trackpad experience is. The upside is I have a pretty keyboard centric workflow (tiling window manager), so I dont have to use the trackpad too much, but wgeb I do its not a great experience.

Fwiw arch (BTW), with hyprland on a framework 13.

I’ve switched from win 10 to mint for an old i9900k and 1080 to run Helldivers 2 and it worked so well I put it on my newest rig to replace it (9800x3d RX 9070xt) with little to no problems. It does take a little while to get things tailored to how you want. The bios clock keeps being off (but OC settings remain) so maybe the battery is dying already. Been putting off replacing it since it’ll require a bit of disassembly.

I then tried Bazzite on the i9900k and ran into a couple problems. Multiple monitors pose issues with the mouse not staying on the game and requires an applet or app to keep it contained (no issues with Mint). HD2 runs the same performance but it stutters every second or two, making it unplayable. I’ll have to see if I can troubleshoot some more or try a different distro.

I am somehow managing to crash Firefox/LibreWolf on a daily basis now when using sites that load lots and lots of graphics in one page. I always knew infinite scroll was a BS mechanism.

Linux is great so far. It’s been a bit of a trick learning the ins and outs, but now it’s getting close to a year I’ve ironed out most of the kinks and have a stable functional computer.

Bazzite. Fucking love it. Have had to spend some googling and learning and troubleshooting. But it’s incredible how much shit just works. Definitely recommend getting comfortable with terminals, shell scripts, etc. You can do some cool shit.

I love ffmpeg.

I’ve been using Bazzite for months and I love it. It’s different but I’ve been able to figure things out. Zero show stoppers for me and no real problems.

Great until a recent update, now my games run at 0.001 frame a second.

I switched full-time last year. Went from windows 11 to fedora kde.

The switch took a bit of getting used to, and getting to know the innards of the distro (broke my sound typing pulse-audio related commands then discovering that fedora uses pipewire, this kind of stuff…)

But I’m kinda cheating since I’ve been using linux on all my other machines since windows 8 (had a hunch about imminent enshitification, windows 10 didn’t contradict it and windows 11… ha!).

I’ve been using windows since the 9x days, windows 11 became unbearably shitty, despite my incredibly unbloated version (originaly a windows 7 install that got “upgraded” to 10 then 11), with unwanted features getting disabled as soon as they appeared. I had a windows 11 with a local account and no one-drive and they still disapointed me! (the last straw was copilot)

Now running linux full time is a real pleasure, some stuff break here and there but nothing unfixable (usually just downgrading the faulty package until it is fixed just works), games just work most of the time, the KDE desktop is the windows one but not shitty, from an alternate reality where desktop widgets took off, and where you are allowed to customise stuff. (had to wait years on windows 11 to finally get back the “display the window’s title on the taskbar” option as I’m used to since 95)

The only thing I’m missing though : system-wide autoscroll bound to the mousewheel.

Switched from Window 10 to Linux Mint about 3 weeks ago so I’d have something familiar to work with.

Honesty, so far Mint works just like Windows should have worked. I’m surprised at how much stuff has been made automatic and easy for a lifelong windows user. Some specific games have a performance issues, Alt+Tab to switch apps doesn’t work if you are in a full screen application.

I would encourage anyone on Windows to buy an small drive (I used a 500 GB SSD I got for like 40 bucks) load a Linux distro on it and give it a shot. You probably won’t be back on Windows.

I switched from Windows 10 to Kubuntu some months ago and it’s been pretty rough mostly. I’ve been having issues with but not limited to: multi-monitor setup, nvidia gpu, network dropping, game/software support, hardware support (headset working poorly, motherboard not reporting any sensors), poor performance in some cases…

Still better than spreading my cheeks and letting Microsoft fuck me in the ass though

Is great. No notes.

Running PikaOS (Niri) on a RYZEN 5800x3D and RTX 3080. No real issues to speak of aside of a few issues with some games. I still have another system with Windows 10 running android emulation (LD Player) for idle games other main games. VR… is on the back burner for now (used Windows 11 on another drive for that).

All in all, happy.

Built a new PC last January and started fresh with Win11 on one drive and Nobara on another. I was able to play all of the games I wanted on Nobara just fine. After a month or two I had a problem develop where I was unable to update because it would start giving errors and the update process wouldn’t complete.

I decided to try out Bazzite and have been with it ever since. I very very rarely boot into Windows. I highly recommend giving it a shot!

I moved a couple months back fully and have tried quite a few distros (before I figured out the hardware issue I was having on my Acer laptop). I have mostly used Pop OS (pre-Cosmic) and now Nobara is my daily driver.

Nobara is fantastic, it suits my use case perfectly and has everything ready to go essentially. The set up was very smooth and maintenance is a breeze. I did try Cachy too (when i still had my annoying hardware fault) and would love to try it again at some stage but I’m settled on Nobara and feel like the Fedora base is the perfect platform for learning more Linux in depth.

I was initially in love with Gnome and hated KDE for how it tried to copy Windows with the bottom left menu - I wanted something fresher. But i have used it more and customised it so its less like Windows and I adore KDE now as well.

I still use Windows on a separate laptop for work and its hilarious how shit Windows 11 is now, especially in comparison to using such a beautiful desktop environment on my personal laptop. So many things are broken and I just hate the fact that its almost entirely spyware, being filled with vibe coded ai shite and they still try and serve you ads when searching for stuff.

Fuck Microslop! Will never buy another Windows machine.

I want people on Nvidia hardware. None of this AMD shit. I already know AMD works great on Linux