Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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.

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.

> 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.

This!

What keeps me working on Windows (besides the fact that I somehow have completely missed the in-OS ads) is the time it would take me to replace all the random little quality of life apps that I've gotten used to. I'm sure there's a great Linux clipboard manager that does everything Ditto does on Windows but I don't have to go and find it, get used to it, figure out all the quirks (and the things it lacks that Ditto provides, and all the things that it provides that Ditto lacks, etc, etc).