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After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all (www.theverge.com)

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 28 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

There’s ridiculously little difference between Windows, OS X and GNOME nowadays. Once you realise that most of your Steam library works and you’ve hated Office for at least ten years anyway, that leaves browsers, which are exactly the same. Most users don’t want to fiddle with settings, installers and drivers, they’ll just accept what the machine comes out of the box with.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

There is more to it though. The one feature i miss from windows is casting.
I dont mean chromecast, i got that working. I mean wireless casting to a tv or projector. The windows + k feature.
Ive yet to get that working in linux...
Besides that, im a happy linux person

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 3 points 3 hours ago

Everyone’s got something they’d miss. For me it’s Affinity (though that’s on the way, it sounds like) and Microsoft Flight Simulator. It’s insane, but MSFS is the 800-pound gorilla; it’s not just visuals, but almost all the new stuff (like Beyond ATC) is targeting MSFS.

[–] epicshepich@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

When my college classes went online because of the pandemic, I'd sit in my parents basement and cast my homework to their TV. Those were the days.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Life is more than browsers you know...

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 3 points 7 hours ago

and various Linux distros have gotten so good at this now. You can install something like Bazzite, PikaOS, hell even CachyOS with their recent update of switching from Octopi to Shelly and you can be up and running within a matter of minutes without having to worry about drivers or fiddling around with settings. PikaOS for example is probably one of the smoothest linux installs I've ever tried. easily within 15minutes I can have steam open and downloading games. within 30 I can be playing. and that's without downloading drivers or playing around with settings.