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>> "If everything you do on your PC is web browsing, watching online videos and listening to online music, give Linux a try."

What??? A Linux install can do much more than a Windows install. Especially considering wine emulator.

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I think what they meant was: if you don't play AAA games, or use specific software (Adobe, office, etc.), your safe to migrate.

Even if you play AAA games you can migrate!

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3lno0t/gpu_pa...

I successfully followed this tutorial using Arch Linux as my primary OS and emulating Windows in QEMU with PCI passthrough to the graphics card. Unfortunately, I had too much lag in my Oculus Rift since I didn't have a dedicated USB PCI card to pass-through, but the performance overhead for AAA games was minimal and I was able to max out Fallout 4 with no noticeable performance decrease.

Thanks! I've definately done the GPU PCI passthrough to play AAA games on linux, before steam for linux came out.

Honestly, I can't think of a time where I my linux machine couldn't do something essential that my windows machine could. But vice versa is another story. Try to run a server on regular windows desktop and it will want to reboot every week for updates. I'm wondering why I got downvotes...maybe simply because I sounded combative or fanboyish...

Exactly. Also, stability in Linux is a never-ending game. Today it works, tomorrow it breaks.

If all you do is use a browser, the real answer isn't Linux, it's a Chromebook.

Which of course is Linux. But still.

Not anymore, new Chromebooks support Google play store apps.

not to mention crouton is easy to install, giving you an Ubuntu or Debian chroot allowing access to tens of thousands of packages.

If you entrust Google with all your data, then yes.

>Especially considering wine emulator

Er, wine is not good. Good luck playing any game with networking or 3d graphics...

Easily disproved lies, go have a look at the wine APPDB if you're not just trolling. Most of the time if something doesn't run right, it's due to DRM or bleeding edge DX features.

Every time I try I find either bronze or silver. Graphical glitches in five year old games aren't "bleeding edge DX" problems.

It really depends on the game. I've had consistent success playing StarCraft and Warcraft III multiplayer with Wine. Morrowind and Oblivion also work well in my experience.

Those are very old games...

YMMV but Wine runs 95% of D3D 9 games just fine.

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