My final Windows partition ever, exists solely for Roblox now. I was forced to "upgrade" my $200 Windows 10 Pro to 11 when Minecraft would no longer update. After installing 11, I find now Minecraft won't run unless you sign into the Microsoft Store app, not even the Java Edition. In Linux I can at least run Java Edition of MC, and all the other games I care about work perfectly, heck, sometimes better, through Steam. I love Valve.

Welcome to the world of computing freedom.

There is exactly one game keeping me from running Linux as my main OS… and that’s iRacing.

Sadly, they won’t (not can’t…) ship the flag in EOS (née EAC) that enables anti-cheat support on Linux. It would work, but they just don’t have the resources to support a whole other family of OSes.

So, between that and the abject murder of WMR for my Reverb G2, I’m stuck on Win10 for the foreseeable.

Over here we've been saying for years that gaming on Linux is a far better experience, with better framerates and better stability.

Just you're kind of SOL if you want to play anything that isn't based on some flavour of Quake or Unreal engine.

Well, that's different now. See? Told you. Faster, smoother, less crashy.

Oh, you want Microsoft Office? Yeah well you're probably using Office 365 these days anyway. Everything's in a browser. No, it looks just the same. Edge? It's less crashy in Linux, weirdly.

AutoCAD? Nah. Still SOL.

Open source sickos: Yes... hahaha... YES!

Honestly, I'm just surprised it took this long, and this much end-user abuse, to get things to where even casual enthusiasts are realizing that Microsoft (any proprietary vendor really) is NOT their friend, and looking long and hard at giving Linux a go. But I'm glad y'all are here.

Gaming on Linux is approachable because decades were spent working around the obstacles created by Microsoft and the work that Microsoft did to steer people away from open standards.

That sounds less than impressive.

Funny timing. I just said screw it the other day and wiped an old laptop to install Linux. I'm using budgie at the moment, but it's been pretty smooth sailing.

I suspect the combination of modern Linux + + Steam + LLM to troubleshoot and learn may see more conversions like myself

Please don't install some weird trendy distro. I'm starting to think that Microsoft is sponsoring them just to make sure that people come running back to Windows, complaining, saying "not ready for prime time." Just install Debian. Stable. Or Mint or even Ubuntu. Move over to something bizarre when you know why you want it.

Call of duty 6 and now 7 will never work. They’re checking for TPMs and yelling about secure boot. Insanity.