I’m ngl I am genuinely considering using Windows 11 instead of switching to Linux once Windows 10 reaches end-of-life

playing games is just such an important part of my life and I know Proton has gotten drastically better but games still run worse overall on Linux (thanks to shitty video card drivers, which isn’t Linux’s fault) and also tend to be glitchier too (thanks to Proton not being perfect yet)

also Linux just frustrates me a lot lol. like… a lot. it’s so fucking arcane and when you search for help everyone is so smug and elitist

the spyware on Windows 11 worries me, but I’m hoping that O&O ShutUp 10 is going to be enough to disable it all

@kasdeya one option, if you have enough space for it or you have two drives, is to dual boot Linux and Windows 11. That's what I did. I use Linux for everything I can, and Windows for anything I can't get to work properly on Linux.

I found that over time, I ended up using Windows very rarely only for a tiny handful of games that I played less and less often. Nowadays I only boot into Windows a few times a year.

@emberquill I’ve thought about this! I did this at one point with Kubuntu, I think, but I ended up never booting into it unfortunately - so it was kinda the opposite of what happened with you. it’s an interesting option though! I honestly might try it again but with Arch which is what everyone is saying I should be using lol

@foxysen that sounds like a really good idea - maybe if I did the same thing then some of Linux’s quirks would start to make sense

@foxysen ooh - thank you!

@kasdeya I'd say that if you mind anticheat rootkits, you might want to avoid an OS known to be spyware. (It has SYSTEM privileges by default. It is the system.)