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    Right? All of these comments are like “it’s just as easy as gaming on Windows. I just have to make sure I run these specific commands in my terminal or my PC bricks, nothing runs as well as on Windows unless you have 20 years of experience with Linux, and you still need to keep a dual boot of Windows for those pesky games that aren’t Linux-friendly (re: 99.9% of games). I’m so much happier on Linux and will never look back!please shoot me in the face now and end my pain I’m so happy!”

    Like whatever lies you guys need to tell yourselves lol. I’ll stick with Windows until it’s as easy as hitting play. Also would be nice if the UI didn’t look straight out of 1995.

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      You’re in the wrong thready, buddy. Absolutely no one is saying that.

      99% of games run out of the box with no more issues than on Windows.

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      Get Nobara os if you want a plug-and-play experience. Valve is doing an amazing job pushing Linux gaming

      And I dunno where you’re getting the ui thing from; most distros look and feel much better than windows even by default these days lol

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        Mint was the most recent distro I tried and it looked like a potato, but sadly didn’t taste as good.

        With Nobara, can I install any and all applications and games I’m currently running on my PC, with zero additional steps, and does this OS get driver updates for my 4080 on the same frequency as Windows? Can I install Steam and play any game in my library with zero additional steps? If that’s the case, I’ll make the switch right here, right now.

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          Mint looks amazing though imo, better than windows by default I dare say

          You could just change the theming and stuff if you didn’t like the default look. Linux is basically infinitely customizable after all. Distros and desktop environments just make it much easier.

          With Nobara, can I install any and all applications and games I’m currently running on my PC, with zero additional steps

          It’s not zero additional steps on windows either though; on windows you’d still need to download and install directx, opengl, vulkan, etc and find and install the correct .net framework versions for many tasks. I remember windows having its own fair share of hassle while I was on it until a few months ago, even aside from how slow and bloated it is.

          Nobara basically takes care of similar setup on Linux for you, making some additional improvements like proton GE (modified version of Valve’s proton to further increase compatibility and performance) and I’m pretty sure the drivers are just a modified version of the latest official ones. You could ask in the discord server for more info.

          And you don’t need to ‘switch’! You could set up dual-booting instead; some invasive anti-cheats are only made for windows right now so some of those games don’t work yet.

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            Have you even used windows recently?? Mint doesn’t look bad but it’s nowhere as good or even better than windows. (I use arch btw, not a windows user)

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              Yup. Was dual-booting up until a few months ago. I much prefer the default aesthetics of mint/cinnamon and gnome over it, though I did change mine around to fit my tastes better (which I tried and failed to do on windows)

              All the useful menus in windows 11 are buried inside the new ones and they still use the old windows xp style menus; they didn’t even bother integrating them with the new design. Even the default file explorer doesn’t use the accent colors you set lmao

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                All the useful menus in windows 11 are buried inside the new ones

                That’s UX; not UI

                And the not using accent colours is either intentional or a bug; if it is a bug then you can’t blame windows for it, because this side also has it’s fair share of bugs. And windows’ design philosophy isn’t customisablility, but rather ease-of-use, right? (even though it fails a lot at that)

                But yeah, Linux can definitely look cooler than windows with a little effort.

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                Even the default file explorer doesn’t use the accent colors you set lmao

                That’s just an outright lie.

                Source: I’m looking at my lime green default file explorer right now.