rtfm38
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Use Ubuntu because wanted to try hyperland and niri (window tile managers) and installing those on ubuntu is easy.
Played around with Linux over the years but always got some issues here and there that I'm too lazy to fix and of course back then, gaming wasn't very well supported and there's no Chatgpt to help you.
I'm kinda surprised at how fast and seamless current iterations of linux distros are now. I'm not even using the leanest distro (like arch) out there and already I feel it is much snappier than Windows 11 and of course it's not spying on you and selling your information.
Not going to lie, there are some hiccups in the beginning because I use torrent to download the distro and had some issue installing ubuntu but after redownloading it and creating a bootable usb, did it install correctly, had some issues with sound as well but that's because of Niri and got it sorted with Chatgpt help. Even downloaded steam and try to play some games which ran without any issues, although the loading times are slightly slower than on win11. Of course games that require kernal level anticheat programs won't run on Linux, there are workarounds but I'm too lazy to go down that route. So currently I'm dual booting win11 and Ubuntu.
If you don't require any particular windows-only programs to work and just do general internet surfing and use online tools like google docs or Afinity (which is an excellent free alternative to photoshop) then I would say Linux as it is today is more than capable of meeting almost all your needs.
I set my computer to boot into Ubuntu/Niri by default and when I want to play some games I reboot into win11. Side effect is that I'm not gaming as much and a little bit more productive because steam is not just one click away.
having said all that, of course depending on your hardware, your experience may vary, some windows programs that you want to run in Linux through wine have weird issues like needing discrete graphics and won't work with integrated graphics. Of course all these issues are easier to resolve if you like to tinker a little bit and get some satisfaction solving problems. If you can't stand tinkering and using the command line then better just stick to windows.
Played around with Linux over the years but always got some issues here and there that I'm too lazy to fix and of course back then, gaming wasn't very well supported and there's no Chatgpt to help you.
I'm kinda surprised at how fast and seamless current iterations of linux distros are now. I'm not even using the leanest distro (like arch) out there and already I feel it is much snappier than Windows 11 and of course it's not spying on you and selling your information.
Not going to lie, there are some hiccups in the beginning because I use torrent to download the distro and had some issue installing ubuntu but after redownloading it and creating a bootable usb, did it install correctly, had some issues with sound as well but that's because of Niri and got it sorted with Chatgpt help. Even downloaded steam and try to play some games which ran without any issues, although the loading times are slightly slower than on win11. Of course games that require kernal level anticheat programs won't run on Linux, there are workarounds but I'm too lazy to go down that route. So currently I'm dual booting win11 and Ubuntu.
If you don't require any particular windows-only programs to work and just do general internet surfing and use online tools like google docs or Afinity (which is an excellent free alternative to photoshop) then I would say Linux as it is today is more than capable of meeting almost all your needs.
I set my computer to boot into Ubuntu/Niri by default and when I want to play some games I reboot into win11. Side effect is that I'm not gaming as much and a little bit more productive because steam is not just one click away.
having said all that, of course depending on your hardware, your experience may vary, some windows programs that you want to run in Linux through wine have weird issues like needing discrete graphics and won't work with integrated graphics. Of course all these issues are easier to resolve if you like to tinker a little bit and get some satisfaction solving problems. If you can't stand tinkering and using the command line then better just stick to windows.
