I Switched From Windows To Linux (As A Gamer)

Yeah, same here; except my first exposure to Windows was 3.1. Been using Windows ever since. I dabbled with Linux in the late 90's, a distro that no longer exists and while I learned a fair bit, I was still an impatient person. I tried Linux Mint in 2013 "just because" and that lasted for all of six months until I couldn't get a couple of my Windows games to work and just went back to Windows. When 10 came out, I didn't have system issues peer se, I was just unhappy that after i installed it, I would spend another hour turning things off or removing junk I didn't want. I had then realized that Microsoft was slowly removing control even from "power users". When 11 was announced, I was not impressed and about two years ago I dual booted with Arch Linux. I needed the space, and I am on newer hardware anyway, so I decided to wipe all my drives, reinstalled Arch from scratch and have been Windows free since around June 2022, not a bad 40th birthday present; a slew of new near top of the line hardware and a clean and snappy OS that does what I want it to do, not what some corporation wants. And not a moment too soon with the "Recall" crap... no... Sorry Microsoft. I've known you since I was 10. 1992 was my first computer i built on my own, and MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.1 was there for that momentous occasion and Windows has been there for most of my life. But you are no longer relevant to me. I know enough to either fix issues myself or know how to find/ask questions to get help when I need it. Half my life is over already so, I just want to play my games in peace.

Linux mint is a lot better than Ubuntu on the community. Maybe I should consider building a new computer just for Linux.

Thats last 3 comment in the opening is't true. 1) Linux is easy to install just follow the instruction. 2) Windows have more virus than Linux just like Android have more virus than iPhone. Because the majority using windows and android. 3) Linux can boot in windows laptop or mac. They need small resource than windows.

Nice video, could have mentioned some of the elitists in the linux community, but im happy you havent dealt with that enough to feel the need to include it. Keep it up!

Welcome to the club, m8 Stay safe and enjoy the ride

0:41 And that's the problem with Linux. When this happens to someone trying it for the first time, they will not research what went wrong and try to fix it. Instead, they wipe their drive, cut their losses, and proceed to reinstall Windows and never look back. My issue with Linux is that, of course, as a creative professional, my proprietary software isn't available, so I wouldn't get my job done on Linux.

You open the conversation by saying that you talked about how to run Genshin on Linux XD. I play Genshin since a while and of course on Linux. First I had it in WINE, but after some rendering issues I switched it to Steam Proton and now it runs perfectly. Wellcome to the world of the penguin!

My first experience with Windows was a little bit of 98 with most of my early days being on XP. Didn't really have any problem with Windows as a whole until Windows 8 since it was pretty much trying to be Android without anything that made Android great. Then Windows 10 came and while it was a lot better than 8, it was filled with telemetry and bloatware. Now Windows 11 is pretty much the true downward spiral stage of the whole Windows landscape and Linux starts becoming very appealing to most users. I was interested in Linux when this year started and started using a couple of distros a few months ago and am already satisfied with my experience with it. I use Linux Mint on my laptop and Bazzite in dual boot on my desktop; Had zero issues on my laptop and user-made errors on my desktop since I was wanting to customize grub and write rules on the Bazzite drive while in root (GParted is recommended but I didn't know at the time). While I do acknowledge that it's gonna be a while before more common users try out Linux, I personally prefer Linux over Windows since it has everything I would possibly want from an operating system while Windows either doesn't or it's harder to implement

I am using both Windows (10) and Linux (Ubuntu) for specific needs. The reasons I still don't make a complete switch are: - Specific needs. There are still a lot of work that I can't do on Linux, either due to not supporter or I don't want to have to run through emulators. This include working softwares and games. - When I encoutered issues, tutorials or answers often didn't help because my environment was (likely) different from them. - The "superior race". I know Windows 11 and Microsoft's movement are bad, but it is far better that people who use every single nanosecond to brag about how superior Linux is. (There are good people as well.) The last one is the biggest reason.

I'm currently on the verge of going down the path of Linux, despite all the issues I had and saw friends have with it(mainly because of language or random bits old of laptop hardware not working) since I've been battling with game crashes for the past 3-4 days, started on Windows 10, now on a clean Win11, but yesterday evening I was already looking up what flavor I'd go with. The constant crashing due to the OS being essentially corrupted out of nowhere after AN UPDATE, the constant "do this, try this" BS along with the "update now, update now, update now, update now" stupidity, not even mentioning the updating without user input. I don't really care about compatibility, because games I play currently work on Linux, I'd probably go down the path of dual booting anyways, that could solve the issues, the only program that could be problematic is SolidEdge, but I can live without that. If Linux works out I might give Mint another go on my laptop as it has Hungarian localization and would work for my mother as well. EDIT: Here we go. Opted out of fucking OneDrive and look at that, OneDrive is enabled and saved all my shit AGAINST MY INPUT.

I've been using Windows since 95a/NT4. Windows 10 was annoying but 11 finally got me to move my machines to Linux. Started with my laptop last year and my desktop a few months ago. I still have a Windows mini pc for some work stuff and the transition hasn't been without issues but I'm finally at the point where I'd rather deal with Linux issues than Windows ones. It helped that I use Linux on servers and am familiar with Linux as a desktop OS (and man has it gotten better as a desktop OS in the last few years). It's been really interesting to see so many people at least trying Linux of late, even if it doesn't work for them. Really tells me MS has screwed up as far as the desktop experience goes.

I think I'm going to try GNU/Linux again and maybe use a Windows VM for other stuff related to my Channel. (Minecraft Tutorial Stuff) From what I see Linux can see an uptrend and I think this is the best time to switch and reclaim our freedom from Microsoft Windows... 👑 Also, nice video!

Windows creates problems, you create problems for Linux. 😂

I've been using Windows 7 - 10 before switching to linux. A friend of mine constantly told me to just make the switch everytime I had some weird issues xd One day, I was extremely angry, because of some Windows issues. Windows had one last blue screen before I basically rage quitted Windows. I first tried to get all my windows softwares running on linux though - Which was a big mistake in my opinion. Used CrossOver and other software to get them running... At some point, I just gave in and searched for alternatives instead - Some of which were even better. I tried many distros before settling on NixOS for now. I also had the advantage that I don't play games like Fortnite. Glad to hear it's working for you well :)

one good tip for beginners looking to switch: Lock linux as the default boot in your dual boot setups, this way you only use windows when you NEED to, and you'll always boot into linux when you don't choose, or just leave your PC to turn on while you go grab a snack or smth

welcome to the fam bro hope you enjoy it here!

I switched back in 2018 and I'm doing just fine.

i've had my far share of using Linux over the years and even make a video on my take on it.

wine and proton don't work on my zorin os install ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ guess i'll just have to keep my dual boot install of windows in order to play games, ig

When you had BSoD errors with Windows, did you do a memory test or use memtest86 to test your memory? I had BSoD/drive timeout errors every few days and then did the memtest and sure enough that was the problem. Luckily, I still had warranty and they swapped out the fault ram, now it works fine. But now I use Linux (Ubuntu) mainly instead of Windows.