deegeese ,
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Any reason I should move off Win10?

odium ,

Yes, Linux doesn't spy on you and let's you do more customized stuff

deegeese ,
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Linux is great, but most games still require Windows.

electric_nan ,

If you already use Steam, you might be surprised by how many games are supported on Linux now. Lookup protondb.

deegeese ,
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According to protondb, only 40% of the top 1000 games work, or am I missing something?

brenticus ,

40% are verified as at least playable on the steam deck. Another 40% seem to have no rating at all.

74% are at least gold tier in user ratings, which basically means they run fine.

eskimofry ,

Are you going to claim that you play 400 games, let alone 1000? Besides, you can always use windows in a VM and do GPU pass-through. But i guess the convenience of windows is hard to give
Only time will tell when people will get fed up of taken for a ride by corporations.

odium ,

Source? I game a lot on Linux and have only ever found two games which I couldn't play on Linux. Genshin and valorant which have incompatible anti-cheats.

That's not to say that most games which have anticheats don't work. A lot of them I've tried do work like helldivers 2, ow2, titanfall 2.

caseyweederman ,

That hasn't been true for years.

eskimofry ,

If you can invest 30 bucks, crossover claims to make any windows app work seamlessly in linux. Otherwise, there's still wine to cover 90% usecases.

Worst case, you can run windows in a VM.

misanthropy ,

Anti cheat forces most people to still run windows for a number of games

eskimofry ,

Then this discussion doesn't apply to those people. I don't like the argument that Linux isn't ready for mainstream yet but the reasons quoted are often some game that is itself a niche.

Edit: this is why I specifically said 90% use cases in my previous comment.

possiblylinux127 ,
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https://www.howtogeek.com/738967/how-to-use-steams-proton-to-play-windows-games-on-linux/

https://www.protondb.com/

possiblylinux127 ,
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I think accounting might kill me

PlantJam ,

Do you hate everything about windows 10? Upgrade to 11 and everything is different just to say that it is.

catloaf ,

Security updates stop next October.

kylian0087 ,

Not if you have the enterprise LTS version. That is supported up to January 12 2027. And uh is free arr.

lud ,

You should absolutly not pirate in an enterprise environment.
Leave your pirate hat at home. Remember that it's bossman's money.

kylian0087 ,

I totally agree with that. Don't get me wrong I never said to pirate in a enterprise environment. But at home might be a different story.

lud ,

You commented in sysadmin so I assumed you were talking about work.

trustnoone ,

If you have low blood pressure issues, moving to win 11 is a great way to increase it.

possiblylinux127 ,
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Its going EOL soon? Its called planned obsolescence

vikingqueef OP ,
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Back and forth like always

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