Asklemmy

I've been having this weird issue with wifi where it will just switch itself off (shown in NetworkManager as "no available connections") and not allow me to restart the OS normally. It's like the driver is crashing or something. Hardware isn't the issue, otherwise it would have happened on Windows. Drivers can be an issue, as NVIDIA users know too well. Games can be a bit choppy on Linux if you use ray-tracing, probably due to drivers as well as the intermediary processes for getting games to work like DXVK. This was my experience with Cyberpunk 2077. Game modding can be an issue due to .NET not being fully there yet, especially if you have games that are glitchy and require stability mods for a good experience. (e.g. any Bethesda game that exists.)

The only thing keeping me from full-timing Windows is the fact that Windows 11 just plain sucks. I feel like I have to use it, rather than want to use it. Compared to even a bog-standard KDE setup, the Windows experience is miserable. As for Mac, I have a Hackintosh but Apple really loves to render everything on the GPU side and it's chugging my ol' GPU. Maybe I need to go get an M-series MacBook this year.

About 23 years ago I couldn’t make it boot when I plugged in a USB hub.
And since, my life just became too invested in Microsoft/Adobe products to be able to use something else as a daily driver.

But I “use” Linux every day - whether it’s the PiHole, the NAS, the server that runs my 3D printer, or WSL in Windows PowerShell. I’m about to spin up my own OPNSense router, too.
Weird trajectory on WSL - I learned Unix commands using MacOS terminal for a previous job, but I generally abhor windows command line (it just doesn’t work with my brain). So now when I use commend line in windows, I default to *nix.

It sort of works out that I use Macs for personal use, Windows for work, and Linux to run the systems of my life.

I asked someone with a lot of experience in the matter which distro to use and their recommendation was way below my standards.

Having to mess with it every time I turn it on.

Historically, because it breaks fairly often. Building an OS that runs on all reasonable hardware without explicit cooperation from hardware manufacturers is tough.

I am dual booting because I bought a nice OLED monitor with HDR and Linux doesn't support it yet. For certain games with nicer graphics, HDR is really beautiful.

The moment Linux support HDR, I nuke windows for good.

I wanted a new laptop and the I/O on them were ridiculous. I switched to USB-C for most of my stuffs and the available Laptops in my country had one or two USB-C port. They need to step up on this field.

I still use Linux for a NAS, but had to switch for my Laptop. :(

It's just too much work, and I've only ever experienced Gnome in the distros I've tried and hated it. Windows is far from perfect but I know it like the back of my hand. Every step of the way in trying to use Linux for me was a chore.

I have incompatible hardware.