As someone who is on the verge of making the switch to linux, it is a bit daunting that linux is presented as only "getting closer" and not actually being a real alternative to Windows.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

People have vastly different requirements / acceptance critera from each other. grab another disk and try dual booting and poking around.

this year, 95% of my time at my workstation is on fedora 42, 4 percent win11 (software testing purposes), 1% win10 (also testing purposes).

There's no productivity sw keeping me from switching away, which is nice to be able to say. Five years ago, I wouldn't have found it so easy.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

grab another disk and try dual booting and poking around.

Yeah, that is what I have decided to do. Not least just to test how compatible my hardware is. I may need a new GPU since my current one is nvidia, but as far as I understand it, it may still be able to run.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

If its a recent GPU (rtx 30 series and up), it should be pretty usable today even under the newer display server (wayland).

Hope it works out for you.

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