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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715

Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?

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[–] python@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I've been liking it! So far, I've tried Mint, Zorin, Bazzite, Endeavour and Cachy. All were pretty nice, but I think Cachy is my favorite so far, even if my main machine is running Bazzite atm (I just didn't have the time to swap the distro yet).

There's actually a lot of features that are much cooler than anything I ever did on Win10 (I probably could have used them there too, but I didn't). Like KDEConnect! It's super convenient! And doing stuff like running Android Apps via Waydroid (I ran Revanced that way for a while because I'm just not used to watching Youtube in a browser).
I'm also starting to get used to installing things via the software center instead of just googling "Software X download" and clicking on the first .exe file I find (yup, I'm aware of the security implications of that, I just uninstalled the Microsoft store from my Win10 very early on so I never really had a dedicated software store... and was too dumb for things like UnigetUI)

The performance for games has also been crazy good. My laptop couldn't run Sekiro on Win10, now it runs completely fine on high graphical settings. Even Cyberpunk works somehow! I didn't think that my 2018 Laptop had this much life left :0

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I know wine is not an emulator but it still feels like black magic to run windows games such as Sekiro better than windows does.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

Running Forza Horizon (a historically Xbox-exclusive game that's still heavily integrated with Windows/Microsoft services) on Linux feels so wrong but it runs flawlessly

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

So far, I’ve tried Mint, Zorin, Bazzite, Endeavour and Cachy.

Whereas in 21 years on Linux I have tried

  • Debian
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