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Linux has been "good enough" to be a daily driver for years. There is very little you can't accomplish with it unless you are running some very specific software that won't run under Wine/Proton well. Even then, you could just run a VM and have a crappy windows install run in seamless mode so you can run the software that won't work well under emulation.

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>I'm all-in, baby. I'm committed. If upgrading any distinct component of my PC didn't require me taking out a loan right now, I'd be seriously considering switching my GPU over to some kind of AMD thing just to make my life slightly, slightly easier. I've had it with Windows and ascended to the sunlit uplands of Linux, where the trees heave with open-source fruits and men with large beards grep things with their minds.

Linux has been "good enough" to be a daily driver for years. There is very little you can't accomplish with it unless you are running some very specific software that won't run under Wine/Proton well. Even then, you could just run a VM and have a crappy windows install run in seamless mode so you can run the software that won't work well under emulation. Archive: https://archive.today/6JNW2 From the post: >>I'm all-in, baby. I'm committed. If upgrading any distinct component of my PC didn't require me taking out a loan right now, I'd be seriously considering switching my GPU over to some kind of AMD thing just to make my life slightly, slightly easier. I've had it with Windows and ascended to the sunlit uplands of Linux, where the trees heave with open-source fruits and men with large beards grep things with their minds.

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I once spent damn near a week getting audio drivers working in redhat in the late 90's. That was "fun".

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I remember my first job, CompUSA. I saw packaged copies of redhat for like 100 bucks. I remember asking a few of the guys about it because I'd never heard of Linux, and they just said it was a funny version of windows that doesn't work right. Like those weirdos who used OS/2 with Lotus Notes and stuff.

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That is funny. I did have commercial copies of Redhat and Suse at one point very long ago. I don't remember what they cost. I think the suse one was from a garage sale for dirt cheap and was one of the ones where the like 10 CD's came with a book on it too. I never really liked suse.

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STILL Don't like Suse. Well....OpenSUSE. Maybe I'm just using it wrong, I don't know. But every time I try that fucking distro I have numerous issues that I can't easily fix. And as a gamer, I'm not fucking with a distro that spits errors because a lib or runtime isn't downloaded or installed correctly. Or my video drivers broke during an update. I also hate their packaging system, so there's that.