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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I swapped to Linux last year and haven't regretted it at all. I can even style it to look like my favourite older windows designs. My laptop has vista style desktop widgets, which are just as useless as they were back then but I love them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

This is the way 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I might end up doing that. It works really well for basics. Unfortunately it limits the options for games and I'm not hugely good at doing any further stuff with commands

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah, gaming these days is on par with Windows. The steam deck runs Linux so valve put a lot of work into games in steam just working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That sounds promising. I just saw fewer options. Maybe it's time to head over to Linux Gaming and see what they have there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I’ll probably end up doing this on the laptop, but on the gaming rig sadly it’s just not an option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Isn't steam OS still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It's totally an option. Valves steam deck runs arch Linux and steam proton usually works out of the box to make games run.