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    [โ€“] imetators@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Ship laptops with LM and people will stray on Linux. Some might switch due to windows OS locked apps like ms365 but for most watching YouTube and maybe managing photos is all they do.

    I run dual boot and honestly, if only all things which run on windows would run on Linux without tribal shamanism rituals, is never ever had to switch. But my favorite DAW is not running Linux. My occasionally useful editing software is not there (but kdenlive is cool tho). My very specific apps for games are not running native or at all.

    When I'm not using these, I just flip a switch and run DAS with Bazzite. And I love it. But you just can't substitute everything windows offers. It is a gaming and working software OS after all.

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    [โ€“] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

    It is in mixed states of ready. Each distro has something it's ready for and something it isn't. It'd be nice if all the ready parts were in a single distro, but that's an XKCD 927 issue. I am hopeful that Valve puts thought and effort into making SteamOS a solid desktop on top of a solid gaming platform.

    [โ€“] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

    Month and a half into using Mint Cinnamon... frankly it's hard to feel like I'm not still using Win10. What comes to mind immediately is that file management dialogs in apps are less consistent with how the file manager itself works, whereas in Windows it's all more uniform. But IMO that's very minor. Overall UX feels the same to me.

    Note: I am not a computer gamer so can't comment on how games work on Linux, and also I've used Ubuntu and BSD in the past. Just had Windows at home to be consistent with work. I retired several years ago and it still took me this long to switch over.

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    [โ€“] MITM0@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

    It's ready enough, but at the same time not ready. It could be better

    [โ€“] crozilla@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

    I never see much love for ZorinOS, but I find it a very solid replacement. I still use my Macbook for certain things, but I am slowly moving away from even that thanks to Appleโ€™s spying and whatnot.

    [โ€“] iwasnormalonce@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    How do I make the change less scary? I made my pc like 10 years ago and not looked at it since. I just use it for personal admin now and Rome 2 total war twice a year.

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    [โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    I switched 15 years ago. It was ready then. It is ready now. I was in my teens and have used it ever since.

    [โ€“] graycube@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

    The main push back i get is in order to maintain soc2 compliance the IT department needs to run auditing software on the laptop. Microsoft intune barely support linux and is years behind on the os versions it will work with. IT does not want to run multiple audit software packages.

    [โ€“] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

    I'm at the point where printers, bad WiFi, local file sharing/casting, crash recovery, GPU compute, even some driver issues, stuff like that just works in Linux (CachyOS specifically), but doesnโ€™t in Windows.

    Windows is getting progressively worse.

    I still dual boot a very-stripped Windows for games, HDR stuff, and anything that requires a weird driver (like phone tethering), but man, Microsoft just keeps removing or hiding things I use to make Windows sorta functional.

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