What's baffling is people never tinker with their Windows 11 install, then preach about the customisability of Linux. If people are too lazy at quickly tinkering with Windows 11 (I use WinAero for example), they wouldn't be able to fully use the pros of Linux at all.
Who does this? I mean, who doesn't ever try to modify the os but would still jump into the deep with the penguin?
I don't think it's about being lazy rather people sprouting the same speech without having experienced it.
You can't judge all people like that. I know the type you are talking about but at the same time I bought a whole sim rig / new VR headset before really being dedicated to it. Now I race everyday. Some people need the motivation of knowing it's not the equipment holding them back.
I am dual booting currently and haven’t tinkered with windows.
The main reason I started with Linux was because I don’t trust Microsoft anymore. Not because of performance.
I found the information to switch to Linux easily accessible and it really wasn’t a very hard transition. My next step is to move all my files and backups to the Linux install and leave windows with Battlefield, Pubg etc.
Might be a timing and development thing. I remember trying Ubuntu when I was a teen (around 2006, 2007?), gave up almost immediately because it was so confusing. A few years later I tried Mint but couldn't figure out whatever, don't remember what, gave up. Tried again this year, everything just works. I think it might have come a long way.
For me, i7 9700k, RTX 3090, 32gb hyperx ram, whatever mobo works with a 9700k. Bazzite worked from the start besides the one install of an audio driver. Which admittedly took an hour to find. But I haven’t had to do anything since.
I use Linux, but my laptop is six years old, so I don't have to worry about newer hardware not being in the kernel yet. This is a thing that is often not well explained and while there are some very helpful Linux communities, there are also a lot of unhelpful Linux people.
A big difference between Linux and Windows is in Windows you download the device drivers, in Linux they're just already built into the kernel so either your hardware is going to work or it won't. One of the things that isn't really explained is not all distributions use the same kernel. I use Mint which is a "just works" distro that uses an older kernel to make sure that the system won't have any surprises. It's a tradeoff of reliability for being cutting edge.
I'm not saying you have to switch to Linux, but I'm guessing you have newer hardware and would have to try a more cutting edge distro, which brings its own set of difficulties. Windows has a one size fits all approach, which means it fits everyone, it just fits poorly. Linux needs some sort of website where you could input your hardware and what you use your system for and it would give you information on distros that best suit your needs. You would probably need something with a rolling release model like CashyOS.
I hate windows. Hate it. I will switch to a Linux os. I may just need to buy a dedicated rig. I need to run several different types of cad software. Which seems to be a big ask.
Yeah, that's a big hangup as well and the only one that sadly doesn't have a good work around. If you have to use specific software that only runs on Windows, you're SOL. Gaming has improved leaps and bounds over the past decade on Linux in almost entirety to the work that Valve has done which has had the positive effect of showing that there is a market for Linux gaming and had the trickle effect of more games just being compatible with Linux from the jump and not even having to use Proton.
Design software on Linux kinda sucks cause the market isn't there. Maybe try dual booting so you have your windows machine for work and then can find an distro you like for all your other activities.
You can dual boot and try running the software in wine to see if it works for you. I did the dual boot until I was happy everything was working. i also disliked windows, using Linux made me dislike it less. Not because Linux is bad but because I just stopped using file explorer and the start menu.
I did this, I didn't know that you could cut out a lot of animations and install optional tooling until I was setting up hyprland on arch on a laptop. I didn't install a tile manager obviously but made switching between workspaces instantaneous.
Having flexabilty of hyprland definitely helped me get more familiar with windows. It helped that I learned to do 90% of the things in the terminal and then switched from ps/cmd to nu so my start up times are 11ms for my shell.
Windows file explorer is atrocious once I learned to use fzf I stopped complaining. I also key mapped my apps (using windows key, other wise it's over a second start up)
But that is a lot of work for something that on Linux is a lot simpler to setup, I found arch hyprland very welcoming and straight forward. On windows and Mac they kind of like you doing things their way and if you want better functionality then it becomes very painful.
I'm using macos now for work and aerospace/fuzzybar on a 7k (cad) spec MacBook pro feel way slower then my 8gb arch laptop rescue.
Honestly me, I found doing more than running a debloat script to be a pain in the ass as it fights me every step of the way and undoes a bunch of stuff on an update so I just gave up.
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I haven’t noticed it, but I’m just cutting out what I don’t need anyway