Turns out the reply in my thread telling me the best way to combat not caring about Linux is to care about Linux was absolutely correct.
I picked up a laptop, installed Linux Mint Cinnamon, and I’m already obsessed. I haven’t had this much fun with a PC in a long time and it’s just a cheapo Dell Inspiron 3520.
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I’ve been daily driving Linux since Debian 1.3 in -97.
There’s certainly been tough times with some printers in the past, to be honest I haven’t thought about device/software compatibility in years.
Everything (I need) just works.
Can you be more specific about what is not doable and what is not doable simply? AutoCAD? Excel?
Turbo tax, but the web option is available. I think handbrake doesn’t support hardware acceleration? I forget… this may not be accurate…
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I’m daily driving Linux for years now and I don’t really see what you can’t do with linux unless you want some of the few Microsoft or Mac specific software that doesn’t run in wine or so.
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I’m not sure where you’re getting that idea from. Almost anything designed for Windows works flawlessly through WINE or Proton. If I do run into an issue I usually find that Windows users are also having the same problems so it’s not a Linux compatibility issue. Every once in awhile I’ll have to run winetricks or protontricks to install a dependency. Overall, Linux compatibility is pretty incredible these days, in my opinion.
All bar 3-5 games out of 600 on steam I have work on Linux through proton and wine. I also have my games from gog and ea play and they all work too. The only thing else I use my pc for web browsing, occasional email and occasional word document. Linux does everything that I would’ve done on windows.