No kidding. I'm about to dip my toes into games on Linux just because I'm sick of how much more and more Windows has essentially become a live-service game.
I wish Valve made a desktop version of their SteamOS, I find it to be way more intuitive than Windows; I also love the way you can update software/drivers just by typing it into the search bar and automatically being able to download the app/driver from the search bar. It blew my mind that Linux had that kind of functionality.
Plus, with majority of worthwhile games running on SteamOS, I have no need for Windows on a pure gaming rig. The problem is that SteamOS doesn't play nice with Nvidia drivers -- so until they get that sorted, it makes Linux a bit more cumbersome to use for certain games.
if you're gonna get into linux, start with Fedora or Ubuntu, they're basically the dominant distros, so the community support is going to be bigger.
Ubuntu is a bit bigger and more user-friendly, Fedora is more bleeding-edge (which makes sense since it's effectively where RedHat beta-tests all the features they want to add to RHEL )
You can thank Apple for that practice by the way. They were the first to come up with the idea that you're just renting your property from them.
Would you like to update Windows?
-yes
-yes but later
-no but actually yes
No kidding. I'm about to dip my toes into games on Linux just because I'm sick of how much more and more Windows has essentially become a live-service game.
I wish Valve made a desktop version of their SteamOS, I find it to be way more intuitive than Windows; I also love the way you can update software/drivers just by typing it into the search bar and automatically being able to download the app/driver from the search bar. It blew my mind that Linux had that kind of functionality.
Plus, with majority of worthwhile games running on SteamOS, I have no need for Windows on a pure gaming rig. The problem is that SteamOS doesn't play nice with Nvidia drivers -- so until they get that sorted, it makes Linux a bit more cumbersome to use for certain games.
if you're gonna get into linux, start with Fedora or Ubuntu, they're basically the dominant distros, so the community support is going to be bigger.
Ubuntu is a bit bigger and more user-friendly, Fedora is more bleeding-edge (which makes sense since it's effectively where RedHat beta-tests all the features they want to add to RHEL )