[Cialug] Death of Winblows?

[Hakan E. Duran]

I think I can even challenge the game arena for linux. I have been an
exxclusive desktop linux user at home since about 2005. It is true that
you may need to occasionally fix things that an update may break but it
has been improving steadily. I realize that it only takes so little to
turn this trend around in the bad direction, but a boy can dream, right?

Lately, I have been gaming in linux too. I am not a major gamer by any
means, but steam client is native to linux, and game producers are more
aware of the linux crowd than before. My currently favorite game Valheim
is native to linux and runs without any hiccup. Never tried solutions
like proton, but I am hearing that there is improvement on that front as
well. I used to dual boot before 2005, and I still have a Windows 10 VM
that I can rdp to by remmina for mainly creating PowerPoint
presentations for work, but I find myself using it less and less often.
Windows 11 may have a positive effect on linuxers too.

Hakan

On 21/10/28 04:04PM, David Champion wrote:
> Linux desktop has been very good for productivity and general purpose use
> for years. Also since a large percentage of what people do is in
> browser-based apps, your OS isn't really that important, so why waste your
> life running Windows or waste your money running OSX? None of my personal
> computers are new enough to support Windows 11 requirements. The only thing
> I need Windows for is for a few games, and a couple of Windows only
> applications that I use occasionally.
>
> Linux is behind for gaming, but only because game companies choose not to
> support it. On games that do have good Linux support (i.e. many Steam
> games) the performance is great. Steam has sometimes pushed for more Linux
> support, they have the market share to force the issue if they really
> wanted to.
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 1:07 PM Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
>
> > I am glad Linux is getting better with multi display systems.  That is good
> > news!  I know it keeps making good progress with gaming as well, and I
> > really hope that continues!  I look forward to the day I can load linux as
> > the bare metal OS for my main workstation.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 1:02 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> > >
> > > > With respect to multi-monitor setups, Linux has come a long way.
> > > Betweenhome and work I have five multi-monitor setups (three monitors on
> > my
> > > mainwork system) and they all work just as well as any Windows
> > > multi-monitorsetup that I've used.
> > > > And as can be seen with the Print Nightmare debacle Windows has its
> > > ownshare of problems being introduced by updates. I'm sure we could spend
> > > allday listing other times where Windows updates broke people's systems.
> > > >
> > > Agreed. Grabbed a four-port miniDP card when I rebuilt my main
> > workstation
> > > last summer, .. no problems at ALL.
> > >
> > >         Lee
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