Linux

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

Switched to Bazzite from windows 10 a few months ago since I read that it supports Nvidia cards well and I'm in no position to buy a new GPU. The only applications that I miss are the DAW that I used for music and Titanfall 2 as that's through the EA launcher and have yet to find a reliable way to make it run without it falling apart. My partner (Who is not tech savvy at all) is even starting to get used to it and dislikes when she occasionally uses the windows 11 laptop (been using it for said DAW)

Pretty good, running Kubuntu for a few months. Had some annoyances at first but they were all solved when I moved from LTS to 25.10.

My daily driver is a Mac laptop, so I wouldn’t say I’m fully switched. . But I did switch over my gaming PC to Bazzite and have zero regrets. I do, however, dual boot back into windows when the kid wants to play Fortnite.

I have two friends who helped me switch from Win10 to Debian. A lot of things were rocky, and I'm not going to sugarcoat that. Linux is still a niche system with a high barrier of entry. That said, now I got it to a point where I'm happy with what I got. I could always do more stuff if I wanted too, but I am content with what I have.

My programs and games for Windows run with Wine Staging and I don't need any launchers to manage them. I'm even more comfortable messing with the terminal.

Basically Linux is like a Bethesda game. You need to download mods and mess with them a bit to be happy with your system.

Linux mint working awesome, I have been using linux on servers for decades but never really took the leap to desktop till last summer. Now Im 100% all in.

Im at the stage now where Im trying to optimize and speed up things like networking with samba, which out of the box is not a nice/smooth experience. Im not a huge fan of AI but it sure does it make finding answers to these linux optimization questions fast and easy. I think if not for AI, my journey would have taken a lot longer to get where I am.

Fedora has been rock solid. I kinda wish I didn’t have to download 300MB-1GB updates every day, but I’m glad there’s updates!

I really wish there was more cohesiveness among software, but I can’t complain when people are trying to help that along over time.

I’ve had zero issues with Wayland.

The Nobara updater is fairly unreliable, as is Discover on my plain Fedora machine. A system update will show up, but error out or hang for no reason. Updating via dnf in the terminal has had zero issues.

I really wish there was a clearer UI for choosing which source to download a given package/app from when there are multiple sources.

I kinda wish there were more UI designers working with engineers, because some of the UI I encounter is obviously built by engineers. It’s not a problem, but if I were less technologically inclined, I might’ve seen that as a barrier to committing to Linux.

I went back and forth for years, with many distributions and many machines. This summer I took the final step with Linux Mint, never used before, this time around without dual boot, without second backup computer, nothing. Motivated only by the ethical things. In the long run I had problems, some of them quite unpleasant. So I switched to LMDE and it's much better, only minor issues.

Switched to CachyOS on both my laptop and my gaming computer about three weeks ago. So far extremely happy with it, and positively surprised over the whole experience. Had dabbled a bit with Linux like 10 years ago, and from what I remember from back then, it was not ready for me, or at least much more difficult to set up and use. But now it is ready for daily driving, and I would think it is for the majority of casual computer users. Will not go back, and the next time my girlfriend asks me to "refresh" her constantly slowing laptop, she is in for a small surprise.

Win10 -> Linux Mint, with a short stopover in Ubuntu.

First I ran it dual boot. When I decided to dump Windows completely, I made one big mistake. I didn't understand how Linux designates drives very well, and I ended up formatting one of my drives I didn't mean to.

I don't feel like Mint is lacking, so I haven't bothered checking out other distros. I just wanted something that works, and Mint works fine for me.

The only Windows feature I miss is the big preview in file explorer.

I highly recommend Learn Linux TV on YouTube.

I really do love it. Fedora has been great. Daily tasks and tools seem good. Games!? Amazing! steam has really really impressed me. Everything works for the most part but I am trying my best to figure out how to move on from Adobe (ps, illustrator, premier, after effects, lightroom) for graphics and other music production software (Ableton/ Audition/MPC). There are a few programs that I'm trying to replace but it's a struggle. I'm open to suggestions but peoples snarky comments to "Just use..." are not helpful unless they understand the capabilities of each program in the first place. Telling me to replace Ableton live with Reaper doesn't help. Maybe Reaper can replace Audition but Ableton live has different tools and capabilities. A lot of people offer Wine as a suggestion and it works for some things. I don't mind fiddling a bit but after few hours of trying to adjust settings to get things to work I boot back to Win or use a mac just to get it done. I'm willing to learn some new programs but it's a struggle for specialized design, art, media programs. All that said I am open to suggestions for programs.

One that seems to be lacking surprisingly is a really nice local music player like musicbee/foobar2000? Maybe it's the rise in "streaming music" but Clementine and others don't seem even close to musicbee.

I went to CachyOS recently. It isn't my first swap, having tried Manjaro previously, but circumstances kept me from staying before. This time, I'm doing most of what I need in Linux and only swapping to a Windows dual boot for a few odd things, like Adobe for e-sign for work (they only accept that).

I think the only other frustration is work admins don't let me use non-outlook for email or an alternative to one drive, but for personal use I see no reason to use Windows.

Also, and the strangest thing, the MMO I play with friends runs differently on Linux. It's hard to explain, but the game has fairly bad net code that's somehow resolved with Wine. So, what used to be a half second to a full second delay on things like attacks going off, it's instant now. For better or worse, given it leaves less room for error, lol.

Oh also I'm enamored of KDE Plasma. So pretty and smooth, with themes I actually like. It's much better than Windows UI by every metric I can think of.

perfectly happy.

before, my windows machine was a weird amalgamation of developer machine and gaming rig.

I was already developing in Linux with WSL because fuck microslop's absolutely shitty developer environment.

now I've completely separated the two uses for my computer.

I use bazzite for gaming, since I don't really want to change anything.

I use cachyos for development because it's pretty easy to configure and is arch based.

I picked both of those distros because I didn't feel like trying so hard to get my Nvidia GPU to play nice.

Just recently switched my Dad to bazzite so he can play games without windows eating up all of his RAM

Running Ubuntu for 2 weeks now. Everything is a struggle, but I end up figuring it out usually. Using mostly FOSS. Not much I can't do without windows, but I fail to really see a reason to run this over windows.

I switched to Fedora. I'm overall happy with the switch and the learning experience, but it could have gone smoother. I'm not the most tech savvy and don't have a ton of time to dedicate to tinkering. Getting the Nvidia driver running correctly was a hassle. Currently I have Windows 10 and Fedora partitioned on my nvme and I'm fighting with partition managers to reallocate space around. Yesterday I installed a new SATA SSD with the ultimate goal of migrating Windows there and keeping Fedora on the nvme.

I'm going to stick with it because I like the experience and the community, but once I get everything to a workable state I don't see myself distro hopping.

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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.

I've come over from macOS over the past year or ao, and I'm mostly enjoying it. Though it's not quite so critical for me to completely replicate my setup because I do still use my Macbook for stuff.

General purpose computing for work is now handled via a machine running Kubuntu, and broadly speaking I don't miss macOS at all. There are some things that are more awkward (lack of lossless Apple Music without needing WinBoat or Waydroid), and music library software as a whole is nowhere near as...clean...as just using iTunes/Music. As far as I've found so far, that is.

I am having trouble with my radio broadcasting setup though. The way it works on my Mac is I use Mixxx pushed through OBS. I do have a physical mixing board, but it's more for live DJing, so only have faders for the first two tracks. Which is fine because I have an app on my iPad that gives me a bunch of virtual MIDI controls. I'm damned if I can get a Linux equivalent of that to work. In theory my iPad app do it, but in practice I can't get Mixxx to see it. I've tried a few MIDI apps on an old Ssumg tab I have, but have had varying levels of success; none of them good enough for broadcast. It's not massively important though, so I'll keep chipping away until I'm happy with a solution.

Having access to actual, real life, modern gaming is NIIIIIICE though! My computer is my wife's old PC, so it's rocking an Nvidia 1060. Not exactly cutting edge, I know, but it's adequate for the games I want to play. And Proton is SO MUCH NICER to use than Whisky on macOS. For a start, it actually works most of the time. Coming from nearly 20 years of Mac ownership, being able to just play a game without having to jump through hoops is WONDERFUL.

All in all, I'm happy to be finally getting to grips with how Linux can work for me, and don't really mind some of the limitations. I'd rather have friction for free than a seamless experience at the hands of the likes of Apple and Google. Besides which, it's fun trying to figure out how to fix something I might have broken, or how to better optimise something.

On and off linux user since ages past. Not the most linux guru type. I'm fine with opening the terminal and doing things as needed, but I still have to look up half the command, for example.

Anyway... windows / m$ finally just pissed me off so much I switched entirely to CachyOS / KDE for my daily driver. I tried a few distros with limited success before settling into that one. I wanted something that would have fairly fresh updates and be easy to setup for gaming. CachyOS really was a pretty seamless experience. Their "just make gaming work" button just made gaming work (I'm still on nvidia for the time being unfortunately).

There is one hiccup that is a common problem with all linux distros I have used for one reason or another. Wake from sleep is a thorn in linux's side. The s3 deep sleep issue hasn't been a problem on cachy as far as I can tell... but there is an feature of nvidia where it tries to save the vram components on sleep and then reinitialize them on wake using a daemon or a service... but sometimes this crashes (as far as I can tell) on sleep... so it goes to sleep... and the system wakes up fine.. but it will never actually reactivate the screen.. and it waits for video to kick in... so it's essentially locking the system and I have to force reboot. It isn't every single time, and the lastest patch of the driver seems to have made it less frequent, but I still don't leave anything open I'm afraid of losing when I put the system to sleep because of it. If that could be fixed, it would be basically running perfectly.

I've basically gotten all my apps back up and running (with one windows only app that I don't use regularly so it's fine). Gaming has been great. I can't think of much that I play that hasn't worked by just clicking "play" in steam or heroic... and when they don't work... it's almost always just a quick trip to protondb to figure out which proton version I need to use and then it's fine.

Actually I have found one other weird bug where discord sometimes keeps running, but won't allow me to type at all. I can see incoming text, and close the app normally so it isn't crashed, but I can't type or paste into it until I restart it. It's some kind of weird error with electron from what I understand but I haven't done a deep dive to fix it yet.

So after fulling switching to linux and helping a couple other people also switch for daily driver, I would say we're at the point where linux is ready for the "average user". We've been creeping up on that for a while, but there's been a lot of improvements to QoL in the last couple years that make it a feasible prospect for most people at this point. Some distros like linuxmint I feel like you could install and just use without every needing the terminal or having much of anything missing from "non-techie normal user" standpoint.

Been using bazzite. It’s fine took some getting used to for a few things. Annoying that you can’t really use most posted solutions because immutable so, eh. Too lazy to swap to something else.

Biggest issues were mostly that, having to find a flatpack/appimg solution. Having to figure out DLL installs on proton tricks, setting my default mic in proton tricks, etc.

Getting an SNES emulator that works with archipelago was annoying but eventually got that working.

Can’t figure out syncing my Iphone music tho, so that is annoying.

Been using Kubuntu LTS for about 7 months now. Started with 25.04, but could not get Orca Slicer for 3d printing to run. After some experimenting with distros, ended up going back but to the 24.04 version. Orca runs under X11, but not for me using Wayland. I really like Kubuntu's ability to customize the desktop, add widgets. Every game I've wanted to play works well through Steam. The only reason I keep Win10 Pro on an external ssd is to run Solid Edge CAD software occasionally. The game server I run is still on Win10 Pro as well, since trying to install game mods under Linux is a headache that I don't need.

I migrated to linux 15 years ago. Focusing mostly on Fedora and Debian. Happy field any setup or config questions that anyone might have.

What I've seen in the past 3 years especially is how well supoorted most x86 systems and Chromebooks have become with modern installers, coreboot and mrchromebox.

If it wasn't for Microsoft Access I would be full timing Linux.

I switched to Nobara in June 2025. Had everything working pretty quickly. Biggest downside for me was with my mouse. I use a g600 and while logitechs software sucks, I could atleast get it to swap profiles when I swap apps. Piper works okay, I just need to set time aside to figure out a solution for me. I did have some issues with Nobara's updater, which led me to swap to CachyOS. Worked almost flawlessly out of the box, had to do some minor tinkering. Now that I've figured it out though, I don't think I could ever go back to Nobara. I love the aur too much.

I had most of my machines on Linux except my main gaming rig.

I switched it to Bazzite and it worked okay but I was running into unexplainable performance issues (40 fps max in games where I was getting 100+).

I tried making some posts on it, but never got anywhere. Eventually switched to EndeavourOS and it’s been working like a charm since day 1 for the past few months.

Now pretty much all my games run great and some even better than Windows. So nice not having any more M$ interruptions throughout the day and having total control over the look and feel.