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1725 points taubek | 3 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.735s | source
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kstenerud ◴[27 Mar 23 06:10 UTC] No.35323424[source]▶
I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Mate on Friday and WOW, color me impressed!

The only reason I stuck with Windows on my desktop machine for so long was gaming, and the last time I tried switching over was 10 years ago. Spoiler: it was a shitshow.

This time, things are MUCH better! The Mate desktop environment is simple, stable, clean, does the job and gets out of your way (kinda reminds me of Windows 2000). Steam's Proton makes running games a breeze. All of my favorites just work. I could even run battle.net as a non-steam game, USING Steam's Proton!

And the kicker? Blizzard's recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I've never before seen such sorcery.

So bye bye Windows, except when I'm running one as a VM.

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birracerveza ◴[27 Mar 23 07:40 UTC] No.35323948[source]▶
Sadly there's still a few very heavy hitters that make Linux a no-go for some.

Genshin Impact and Fortnite are unusable.

Unreal Editor requires Windows too.

And I don't know how usable VR is on Windows.

Plus the random assortment of windows programs for which there could be a Linux equivalent but you really need that one that only works on Windows for some reason.

But at this point it's just a matter of time, I guess.

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1. incompatible ◴[27 Mar 23 08:27 UTC] No.35324255[source]▶
As a long-time Linux user, I have to wonder how much better my life would be if I had access to all of these. My naive guess is about 0%.
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2. birracerveza ◴[27 Mar 23 08:52 UTC] No.35324398[source]▶
Oh yes for sure, the fact that Genshin Impact and Fortnite don't work on Linux is actually a point in favor of Linux lol. Many don't see it that way though, sadly.
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3. smolder ◴[27 Mar 23 19:41 UTC] No.35331337[source]▶
A massively multiplayer combat-waifu simulator with the typical f2p monetization traps doesn't appeal to everyone? (OTOH, I'd say Fortnite is actually pretty fun since they added a no-building mode.)