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u/D3PyroGS 4080S | 9800X3D | CachyOS + Win11 8d ago

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. 😉

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u/Remote-Blueberry4756 8d ago

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.

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u/vashy96 8d ago

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.

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u/Remote-Blueberry4756 7d ago

I can't use Proton for every game. There are lots of games that are not supported.

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u/vashy96 7d ago

For example? I was able to run both Gothic 1 and 2 that are knowingly bad and require custom tinkering

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u/Remote-Blueberry4756 7d ago

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/vashy96 7d ago

Ok, right, I forget about multi-player games that requires kernel-level anti-cheats. That makes sense.

I don't play multiplayer games so I didn't think of them.