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I'm a Windows User (Hello, there are dozens of us)
My laptop is Kubuntu (KDE+Ubuntu)
My college laptop was Linux Mint
My main PC is Win-10 LTSE.
Why: I need exceptional anti-cheat support because I play competitive online PvP shooter games religiously, and Virtual Desktop (VR Streaming Application) doesn't run under Linux.
Should I think about not doing that and install Bazzite instead?
Well there's the problem, huh?
....the Enterprise? You use the Enterprise?
Personally, the issue is ease of installation and configuration of programs.
Some things (edit: admittedly, most of the "important basics", such as web browsers, Steam and Office-suite equivalents) are just as simple as they are on Windows and iOS with just clicking a button and using a wizard of sorts, but some things need you to parse a series of terminal prompts and figure out how to rewrite parts of the instructions to fit your particular machine and setup.
Often I end up missing or misunderstanding some step and it doesn't work and I have no idea why.
It's not impenetrable and it's not a problem exclusive to Linux, but it does make setting things up a bit more of a chore.
I got Ubuntu on a laptop now to test out how to use that as my daily OS before I commit to figuring out how to swap over my Windows 10 desktop sometime next year and it admittedly is MUCH EASIER now than when I last tried around 2008, but I still run into problems.
I'm currently trying to schedule a weekend where I can diagnose why my raspberry pi won't boot after a power outage when it's survived that in the past and another weekend to figure out why the self hosted tandoor app I got successfully running a few months ago suddenly stopped and cannot run now, even after what I thought was a clean install.
I wanna switch. I do. But so many steps of it are full on projects. I'm learning a lot and it gets easier every step of the way, but it's still at a state where I need to schedule time to address these things that "just work" on Windows.
Edit: I understand why this is the case. A lot of these things are free, open source projects made by teams who don't necessarily have the time and resources to make their program out-of-the-box ready for every conceivable software and hardware set up out there. And I understand why someone might think that a corporate backing of resources might be able to address that issue, but I agree it isn't really isn't in accordance with the goals of Linux or helpful to the point of moving away from these corporate structures.
Before big commercial companies can succeed with the mainstream, flatpak permission handling that is as smooth as Android and iOS. Not everything is going to be in the distros base package manager and devs need a way to distribute software that can be expected to work on any of these devices. No confusions over why they're system doesn't know what to do with a deb or rpm file. Flatpak is the closest thing right now to something with universal adoption. After that it's a slow and steady grind for market share. Like how Macs market share 20 years ago isn't very different from where Linux is today
I think a hardware company could succeed better by marketing the devices as creation devices. Focus on Blender, Krita, Ardour, Darktable, Kdenlive, etc. Pretty much the niche Macs were marketed as 25 years ago getting regular people interested with stuff like garageband and imovie
