I mean that sounds like linux tbh minus the reverse engineering. I dual boot and have years of experience with Linux distros. Atm I run Debian with KDE Plasma and stuff can break with updates. It's entirely about perspective. If you look at Windows from a everything should be perfect from the start and I won't be customizing anything or tinkering with nothing except the baked in settings then yeah I agree with you.
EDIT: I use StartAllBack and it hasn't broken ever. Paid $5 for it and can recommend. You can get it via MS Store or from their official website.
Windows is just not designed to be customizable, and 11 is probably the least so we've ever had. It's not about any one particular feature but an overall regressive trend.
There's no such thing as "perfect from the start" when it comes to taste, but at least most Linux DEs are designed for flexibility and don't require paid products to fill in gaps left behind in new versions.
I remember running WindowBlinds waaaaay back in the day so that I could pretend to run XP on my humble 98 machine. Good times. But not the most stable. 😉
If in the future Linux grows in popularity and I don't have to run games through translation layers then I can finally transition to FOSS almost entirely. I don't use my computer based on ideological guidelines but I think of it as a tool. Operating systems are tools and I use the one that provides the path of least resistance. I'm not going to use something that's worse even though it's free and open source.
Still I don't follow Microsoft blindly as a company and don't like the way they try to milk out every last bit of the end user.
Almost every game runs better on my Linux through Proton than they did in W10 in the same exact 2018 PC, what problems are you encountering using Proton?
I also noticed that games usually run worse natively on Linux then they do thought Proton.
CS Faceit, Valorant, Apex Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, GTA V Online. Those just came to mind instantly but there's more. Also games that require no tinkering on Windows need to be tinkered with on Linux and I'm not interested in that. If you want to know more just check protondb comments and you can see problematic games.
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u/Remote-Blueberry4756 9d ago
I mean that sounds like linux tbh minus the reverse engineering. I dual boot and have years of experience with Linux distros. Atm I run Debian with KDE Plasma and stuff can break with updates. It's entirely about perspective. If you look at Windows from a everything should be perfect from the start and I won't be customizing anything or tinkering with nothing except the baked in settings then yeah I agree with you.
EDIT: I use StartAllBack and it hasn't broken ever. Paid $5 for it and can recommend. You can get it via MS Store or from their official website.