Linux is just a different set of headaches and ones you don't have decades of familiarity with circumventing. It's a case of the devil you know, but goddamn do I hate what it means for the future of PC gaming, or just PCs in general.
I still feel like I should give it a try and just have two computers: productivity and gaming. That way I spend less time on a Microsoft product.
If you want to start using Linux, and you're not trying to use it for gaming, I'd run it in a VM. You can even then boot your computer off the same Linux image that you run in the VM, if you set the thing up right.
I run Linux all the time, but I've never had the inclination to try and game on it. I do keep separate PCs for gaming just because gaming and all the twiddling you have to do tend to interrupt actual work. Make you reboot, and shit.
I think there's a threshold at which it simply stops being viable. It's the "no man is an island" principle. You can't prosper by cutting yourself off from the whole of humanity and you can't realistically cut yourself out of these digital ecosystems either. Mitigate where you can, but ultimately these systems matter and it's important that they be shoved in the right direction because otherwise we will suffer the consequences. You can't really opt out.
Linux is just a different set of headaches and ones you don't have decades of familiarity with circumventing. It's a case of the devil you know, but goddamn do I hate what it means for the future of PC gaming, or just PCs in general.
I still feel like I should give it a try and just have two computers: productivity and gaming. That way I spend less time on a Microsoft product.
It sucks, but doing it right is the only way to go forward. De-google, De-Microsoft, De-Amazon, De-Mastercard. We just have to.
If you want to start using Linux, and you're not trying to use it for gaming, I'd run it in a VM. You can even then boot your computer off the same Linux image that you run in the VM, if you set the thing up right.
I run Linux all the time, but I've never had the inclination to try and game on it. I do keep separate PCs for gaming just because gaming and all the twiddling you have to do tend to interrupt actual work. Make you reboot, and shit.
I think there's a threshold at which it simply stops being viable. It's the "no man is an island" principle. You can't prosper by cutting yourself off from the whole of humanity and you can't realistically cut yourself out of these digital ecosystems either. Mitigate where you can, but ultimately these systems matter and it's important that they be shoved in the right direction because otherwise we will suffer the consequences. You can't really opt out.
Yeah, but nobody ever tries. I'm like the only one I know that tries, and it's not too bad because there's all sorts of little ways around stuff.
It's true that no man's an island, but you have to support anti-parallel systems if you want them to exist.