Taurus
07-20-2021, 12:28 PM
I played around with various Linux desktops too in the past. My favourite were Linux Mint Cinnamon and Ubuntu LTS. Both have good support for Nvidia GPUs... with Ubuntu working great out of the box. Mint was a bit more fiddly to get up and running with an AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU.
I liked their cleanness with less background services running. (compared to Windows) It's also better for your security conscious... knowing that Microsoft isn't spying on your every move!
Linux gaming has come on with leaps and bounds too using Steam's Proton compatibility layer... about 90% of Windows games work now!
There is a slight performance hit though... I'd say about 10-20%. It's still really impressive compared to the old days were only a handful of games work. Unfortunately, my favourite game - Rocket League has stopped support for Linux and can only be played in Single Player mode with no online! 
I always end up coming back to Windows though! As you said, there's always a favourite program that you miss and in my case - a feature omission that is really annoying. Missing simple things like desktop icon shortcuts or copy and pasting in the file manager. There were probably different versions of Linux desktop that had those extra features but in general going back to Windows just felt a whole lot easier.
That's not to say I'd ever prefer a Windows server... Linux is definitely my preference all the way for that!
I liked their cleanness with less background services running. (compared to Windows) It's also better for your security conscious... knowing that Microsoft isn't spying on your every move!
Linux gaming has come on with leaps and bounds too using Steam's Proton compatibility layer... about 90% of Windows games work now!
There is a slight performance hit though... I'd say about 10-20%. It's still really impressive compared to the old days were only a handful of games work. Unfortunately, my favourite game - Rocket League has stopped support for Linux and can only be played in Single Player mode with no online! I always end up coming back to Windows though!
As you said, there's always a favourite program that you miss and in my case - a feature omission that is really annoying. Missing simple things like desktop icon shortcuts or copy and pasting in the file manager. There were probably different versions of Linux desktop that had those extra features but in general going back to Windows just felt a whole lot easier.That's not to say I'd ever prefer a Windows server... Linux is definitely my preference all the way for that!
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