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stathibus ◴[] No.35323176[source]
It's gets easier and easier every year to want an alternative to Windows, but it remains impossible to actually switch, at least for me.
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outsomnia ◴[] No.35323331[source]
What's this year's lock-in / excuse... games?
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1. vladvasiliu ◴[] No.35323628[source]
Well, yeah. It's less of a hassle to run games on Windows. Also, in my case, photoshop and Lightroom.

So, as another poster said, my solution is to have two pcs. A laptop with Linux I use basically all the time, and a desktop with an actual GPU for when I want to play or mess around with my photography.

This arrangement works well enough, since for my everyday needs the iGPU is more than enough, and I would rather not lug around a 10-pound brick with a dedicated GPU. And, in my particular situation, it's actually cheaper since my desktop is a hand-me-down from work which only required a new GPU, which at the time was beefier and cheaper than what I could have had in a laptop.