Right, The only people concerned about Telemetry are conspiracy theorists.

You can call me a conspiracy theorist, I can say you're a paid troll. That's easy, this is a fun game.

and a good amount of them understand that it’s used for improving software.

linking a linux sucks community, SURELY that is full of nothing but good intensions and good solid facts.

What Linux advocates call ads are introductions to features and things that would benefit them,

I cannot wait to start benefitting from "7 tips for handling hot summer hikes", or "Get Skype", or "Rousey more than 'most dominate athelete'"

Many of us have been using Windows without ever encountering a virus.

Most of us, of working age in offices the early 00's have numerous zero day worms. There was no protection.

We’ve seen this propaganda f

The gall of you to call out propaganda, while pointing to a windows propaganda site, while cherry-picking and spilling out bald-faced lies in your post.

Proton keeps realease new compatibility updates.

Tell me, do you want improving software or not, you're giving out some real mixed signals.

Only recently did WINE (not Proton) fix the frame timing issue that made some games unbeatable mid-game (far worse than not working).

Wine also makes numerous games run at a higher frame rate than windows. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507150

The real difference is not only is stuff running faster, they'll keep releasing updates for shit that gets broken, that's part of understanding how to improve software.

Most people aren’t bothering with an email client these days.

55 and already retired? Man that must be nice.

I have't seen a company in 50 years that doesn't use email. And, wasn't the use of corporate software that doesn't run in linux one of your primary propaganda targets? You really need to make up your mind on that one.

Just peek at his profile and it will all make sense.

TL;DR don't feed the troll.

Just got my printer working so even my virtual Windows can go away now 🥳

Sadly, I'll be doing the same because the software I need to configure my mouse, keyboard, and controllers don't support linux. They run in wine, but they can't see the peripherals.

Just so ppl aren't dissapointed
Daws like ableton and fl studio don't have support (Reaper and Bitwig do tho, some others too)

Visual programs like touch designer and resolume don't work (seen workarounds but they have issues)

Davinci resolve may crash, it worked fine on arch but on bazzite it freezes my pc when loading projects

On the gaming side obv there are the games that won't function without anticheat like wrc, iracing, f1, etc. No game pass ofc.

I still wouldn't swap back to windows and I barely use it, maybe once a month if I really want to use something not on Linux.

Main downside is lack of piracy. Houdinifx should work fine on linux natively, but lacks a crack. So even if the paid software does work, if you pirate to use this stuff as a hobby than you'll have to swap to something like Blender/Inkscape that is free and works on linux. Only crack I've found was for Davinci Resolve.

Linux has plenty of free and capable alternatives for paid software, I like that it has me using Foss more. Went from learning Houdini + Davinci to just sticking with Blender for my hobby visuals, not mad about it, prefer that I was forced to focus on one.

what does it matter?

I gave up the dependency on TPM 2.0

even though I don't have any arm devices I'm kinda excited about that steam-os-like arm distro

Just so ppl aren’t dissapointed Daws like ableton and fl studio don’t have support (Reaper and Bitwig do tho, some others too)

And while Bitwig runs great, there's a much smaller selection of Linux-compatible third-party plugins. I didn't have any luck with compatibility layers, so I switched my complete plugin stack when I switched to Linux. I'm relatively ascetic when it comes to plugins so its fine, but lots of people won't be willing to work like that.

I'm dualbooting Linux. Mostly because I'm in the process of switching distros and I've been dragging my feet for a long time.

About a month ago I was very happy to replace Window on both my pc and a laptop. The last one is now a server in my utility closet. I couldn´t be happier and can´t imagine going back to Windows for any reason!

Make the plunge my friend, u could dual lot TWO Linuxi instead ;)

I have done it a few times over the years but never on my main driver. Until last month... I bought a new laptop for my business and immediately installed Linux on the entire drive. I never initialized the win 11 that came with it.

So far I have had a few hiccups with getting some things working. I have also yet to find a basic WYSIWYG editor for my very basic HTML business webpage on Linux. So I am keeping my 6 year old laptop with win10 up and going on my desk for now.

Library, or print at work.

I have a separate drive for windows. I've heard tales of how windows can simply break or eat Linux partitions or something. It's only there so I can run games that won't run on Linux.

I remember when I was dualbooting Windows and Linux. The year was 2006 and many devices needed special drivers that were closed sourced and available only for Windows. Laptop cameras, WiFi, memory card readers... Linux would run on most laptops but many things still didn't work right. Similar thing with some software. You would buy a smart watch or something and it would require running some weird Windows only app to set it up. We're so lucky those strange times are behind us now.

I use WinBoat for work. Easy to set up and does what I need. I definitely prefer this over setting up a VM manually.

The linux sucks community is his own, and he instantly bans anyone that even posts neutral comments. You have to agree, or you're not on there. I'm not exactly sure if he's just a persistent troll or if he has some weird reason to hate linux this much. What's obvious is, he's not interested in discussion.

You would buy a smart watch or something and it would require running some weird Windows only app to set it up.

Unfortunately still the case for most BIOS updaters, RGB/cooling setups, and proprietary HID stuff. You need Windows for anything beyond the basics.

Not really. Plenty of hardware to choose from today. Yes, it's possible that some random RGB/cooling setup will not work with Linux but you can easily find one that will. 20 years ago it was possible that the one device with Linux drivers what too expensive or didn't have the features you needed.

It would wipe the boot loader, might still do that it's been a long time size I dual booted, and from what I remember would get massively confused if it couldn't boot in to windows during one of its update/reboot x3 cycles.

Also would eat kittens given half a chance

Eh. When ditching W10, I did install on a separate partition; I have one piece of software that I knew would be troublesome.

Then one day I needed space, and just nuked windows. Didn't boot it in months anyway.

most BIOS updaters

I've had to RMA plenty of otherwise perfectly usable motherboards because Windows had fucked up their firmware with unprompted updates, bordering on zero-click malware behaviour. The farther that shit stays from Linux, the better.

sounds like he's just windows marketing :)

I’ve done my research, and apparently Wine can run it pretty well.. Until you add third part plug ins. I’m pretty new to Linux since having the steamdeck and I really want nothing to do with windows.. I just really want to work on music and I’ve been learning FL for years so I don’t want to switch. I also never find anything as vast as FL with its piano roll, instruments and effects etc.

Not quite. I’ve downloaded and looked at it a little, but after all the time I’ve spent learning FL, looking at a new DAW doesn’t sound fun. is there anything similar to FL that has all of the instruments, piano rolls, effects and all that good stuff? if I don’t have to touch windows for the rest of my existence I’d be great.

Setting up a vm is a trivial task for me. I'll take a look at winboat though

I don't copy it over the new one but I do grab things like fstab settings and other things.

If you really want to get rid of your dual boot but need Windows, you could set up a virtual machine running Windows. You need a bit of a nicer machine to deal with the overhead, but it's not so bad as people assume a lot of the time. As long as you don't need the GPU for what you're doing, I think it's even pretty easy to give the VM direct access to the base hardware it needs, which cuts a fair bit of overhead. It may or may not get fairly technical to set up, depending on your hardware, distro, and personal luck, but it might be viable.

I haven’t really messed with it since installing it on a PS3 so the growth combined with MS bullshit is compelling to bring me back

Dual boot is the side piece that eventually goes primary…

You might find the Playtime plugin interesting. It allows you to use Reaper in a session view similar to Ableton Live for triggering tracks, one shots, etc.

https://www.helgoboss.org/projects/playtime/

I've installed Mint on a few MacBooks. Was in need of a better laptop, got a decent deal on a Costco-special Lenovo IdeaPad and immediately put Mint on it. The process took twice as long as with the Macs and because this laptop has a Copilot key, I imagined that there was something akin to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind going on inside with the "AI" trying to hide and dodge deletion.

or unless you go Quebes and you no longer think in terms of partition anymore...,.....

I thought about dual booting on my PC when I built it like a year ago, but after reading about pros and cons a little bit I just said nah I'm good, let's do this, Linux. When my wife recently got a used computer from her sister, they didn't give us the login password, so instead of calling them and asking I just put my flash drive in there and said bye bye windows. My favorite part about installing Linux is how fast it is. I don't have to sit and click through a 20-step installation wizard where every step takes 20 minutes to do whatever it's doing.

I expected I'd have to go back at least once to transfer all my old files over.

Nope. Linux could read the windows partition and so i just moved them over with a drag and drop.

I'm currently dual-booting. Partition 1 is Bazzite, Partition 2 is CachyOS. I'd nuke the Bazzite partition since I'm sure now that I'm perfectly fine on Cachy, but honestly any time I have to manually do storage stuff I mess it up 🥹 I'll probably just have to pull a proper backup of all my important data and do a full wipe/reinstall.

That's what I'm saying, I'm dualbooting Ubuntu and Debian! I've been Windows-free for years.

Oh my bad, swag!! I'm diving head first now, and have been reading a bit about BSD? I've heard cool things but also some... weird(?) things too, do u know anything about that?

Windows modified my partition layout after a forced update. I felt violated...

I switched to Linux the first time couple of months ago. Thinking I would switch between Linux and Windows until I get evertything working under Linux. But after installing Linux, I never went back to windows xD but it's still installed

Nope! I heard that some people really like BSD, but I've never looked into it.

how about four booting instead?