- Software compatibility.
- Wanting upgradable hardware that doesn't require new machine + $1000 expense atop it for double the RAM.
- JACK/ASLA/PulseAudio/GStreamer audio madness shouldn't be forced on mortal man.- Thanks to infusion from Valve, Wine now works really well. The recent game Helldivers 2 constantly crashes on my friends's Windows PCs, but it has not crashed for me. The Windows users are asking a Linux user to host the game!
- This will almost sound like a joke, but after JACK/ALSA/PulseAudio/GStreamer did not do the job, now there is yet another, the new PipeWire. Anyway, it works great and its bluetooth headset support is better than what I have experienced on android/osx/windows.
re: Bluetooh, my experience with it on Pop_OS! with PipeWire has been, not great.
Something in that stack seems to often misunderstand that when I switch from HDMI -> bluetooth headphones, I want the sound going to the headphones..
VLC, Firefox, even Steam seem to run into this so it doesn't appear to be isolated to a particular program.
So last decade.. PipeWire is the latest game in the town.
On a more serious note, PipeWire has worked really well for me and it really aims to unify all the previous usecases to one. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ...
Steam has done gods work with proton, and many games run shockingly well under it, but many game devs refuse to support Linux games (as usual, indie’s are the best) and do things as trivial as ticking the “enable EAC button on Linux”, gaming on Linux is a frustrating experience at times.
- most of them don’t even work
- EAC has Linux support, devs literally just need to tick a box in their configs. It’s so straightforward. EAC is junk for a bunch of other reasons, but that’s a side topic.
I’ve gotten many games to work shockingly well - even multiplayer ones, but the performance is like, 10-20 fps below the windows version (different m2, same computer),
If anything, all the proton/deck work Valve did, gives Indies one more reason to not support Linux natively (game works on Linux anyway).
It runs the programs I use.
I turn on my laptop and login... and there is was, waving at me at the bottom of the screen... "Here I am, try me!" type of thing.
[I know, it was not "waving at me" but it was made obvious by popups]
Surprisingly, I was not angry or even thought to myself "I did not install this!"
I think that says alot about my views on Windows.. or Microsoft in general. I am actually a GNU/Linux user but I do have 1 laptop purely for one company I work for. I am slowly moving it away from Windows (Windows Servers, Windows Programs, etc) to run on Linux.
As far as I am concerned, any job I get that are using Windows... they need to provide me a laptop.
Honestly just fed up it. I just accept that I really do not "own" my copy of Windows.