What OS are you maining?

[MattKC]

Yeah... about that......

Man, Longhorn had some beautiful styles that never saw the light of day. I only ever used them as uxthemes on XP (or saw them in screenshots)

[Sakuradanceru]

Man, Longhorn had some beautiful styles that never saw the light of day. I only ever used them as uxthemes on XP (or saw them in screenshots)

same, my personal favourite from the time was Plex

the now dead XPde for Linux used it as the default theme too

[NickJSPY]

Its a mix for me Windows 95 XP 7 10 11 and Ubuntu and Arch

[flatrute]

Windows 95

and Arch

Based.

XP 7 10 11 and Ubuntu

Cringe.

[JohnSkeleton]

I use win 10 right now, i'd love to switch to linux but this is a gaming PC so i have to deal with microsoft being ass

[flatrute]

I use win 10 right now, i'd love to switch to linux but this is a gaming PC so i have to deal with microsoft being ass

I have heard from time to time that Wine and Proton can deal with many games nowadays with little to no configurations. You can try dual booting or simply installing Linux on a new drive.

[MattKC]

I have heard from time to time that Wine and Proton can deal with many games nowadays with little to no configurations. You can try dual booting or simply installing Linux on a new drive.

Yeah this is my experience. I don't even use my Windows VM for gaming anymore, pretty much everything I play runs perfectly on Linux with Wine/Proton. The only times it still gets caught up is on some anti-cheat implementations for multiplayer games, or occasionally on really new games (e.g. Halo Infinite initially used a ton of DX12 stuff that was never implemented in Proton/DXVK, but I'm pretty sure they've got it working now).

[flatrute]

Yeah this is my experience. I don't even use my Windows VM for gaming anymore, pretty much everything I play runs perfectly on Linux with Wine/Proton. The only times it still gets caught up is on some anti-cheat implementations for multiplayer games, or occasionally on really new games (e.g. Halo Infinite initially used a ton of DX12 stuff that was never implemented in Proton/DXVK, but I'm pretty sure they've got it working now).

I know that pain staring at An Anime Game

[altair]

Kubuntu

I'm new to the whole linux thing (still have Windows on dual boot, attachment issues) but I have no major complaints so far. KDE feels like Windows with some actual thought put into it and I find myself logging into Windows less and less over time.

[MattKC]

KDE is OP. I'm mad it took me so long to switch to it, but it just works exactly how I want it to. As you say, it's got the familiarity of Windows (by default) but can be tweaked to work exactly how you want without having to deal with any of MSFT's boneheaded decisions.

[wisecar]

I know that pain staring at An Anime Game

You'll laugh but my approach has been to run it on PS5 and use Chiaki to stream to my PC.

[flatrute]

You'll laugh but my approach has been to run it on PS5 and use Chiaki to stream to my PC.

Seems like a fine approach. How is the latency? (Also do you know what exact game I was talking about? Just to be sure...)

[wisecar]

Seems like a fine approach. How is the latency? (Also do you know what exact game I was talking about? Just to be sure...)

Of course, a certain game where one can wish (after buying said wish with a currency that you can optionally unlock with another currency which you can buy with money) to hopefully unlock even better anime characters with which to explore, where the anti-cheat prevents it from running on Linux and where even naming it can be considered risky by some...

Latency with chiaki is genuinely really, really good. I use it all the time to play on my Steam Deck and there's no discernible latency at all between it and the TV.

In some games it is evident - for example in the RGG games (Yakuza, Judgment) timing things like darts can get a bit trickier but for "typical" gameplay it works shockingly well.

Interestingly enough I've noticed Chiaki seems to run better on Linux than Windows...

[flatrute]

Of course, a certain game where one can wish (after buying said wish with a currency that you can optionally unlock with another currency which you can buy with money) to hopefully unlock even better anime characters with which to explore, where the anti-cheat prevents it from running on Linux and where even naming it can be considered risky by some...

I still find it ridiculous that we have to self censor like that

Latency with chiaki is genuinely really, really good. I use it all the time to play on my Steam Deck and there's no discernible latency at all between it and the TV.

In some games it is evident - for example in the RGG games (Yakuza, Judgment) timing things like darts can get a bit trickier but for "typical" gameplay it works shockingly well.

So unless one is playing rhythm games such as DJMatt...I mean DJMax the solution is about as good as far as local network streaming goes? That is good to know.

Interestingly enough I've noticed Chiaki seems to run better on Linux than Windows...

Most well programmed software generally run better on Linux as far as I can tell.

[wisecar]

Most well programmed software generally run better on Linux as far as I can tell.

Indeed - I still run Windows though I'll probably switch to Linux sooner or later, but I used to run macOS and something I find amusing is with my current system I've found it consistently benchmarks higher in Linux and even, yes, macOS, than it does in Windows (despite having an AMD CPU).

It does make me wonder if there's something just "wrong" with the Windows scheduler...

[SONIC122]

chrome OS

[flatrute]

chrome OS

What sort of laptop are you using, then?

[SONIC122]

chromebook X360 11MK G3

[yoshi]

I use good ol' Winny 10 on my main PC, but I do have a laptop with Arch on it and it works well. I'm not sure if I'll fully commit to Linux when Win 10 support gets dropped, but I do like using it from time to time.

[flatrute]

I use good ol' Winny 10 on my main PC, but I do have a laptop with Arch on it and it works well. I'm not sure if I'll fully commit to Linux when Win 10 support gets dropped, but I do like using it from time to time.

You can simply first list what you do the most on your Windows machine and then look for alternatives in Linux.