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Matriks404 ,

Dual boot but only if you have spare disk for Windows, or alternatively run it in virtual machine.

Mango ,

I play BO3 Zombies on Linux, and I do not pay money for that divinium.

yamanii ,
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I’m playing Wuthering Waves that is a more fair genshin impact and the dev is actively blocking Linux so far, so I’m not switching.

Strangely enough mihoyo themselves are letting linux players alone nowadays, both Genshin and ZZZ work without needing a VM, but they were also hostile against them in the beginning with genshin.

Emmie ,
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Thankfully I managed to purge gacha games from my life despite all the sunk cost feeling. God I miss the times when entertainment was innocent and not trying to rob me

shira ,

fyi, wuwa stopped blocking Linux about a month ago, it runs on base proton now without tinkering, tho I can’t guarantee it will keep working

Xylight ,
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i played valorant then tried cs2 and preferred that, and as a benefit it runs on linux

AdrianTheFrog , (edited )
@AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world avatar

I have a reverb g2 and the only linux projects that support it don’t work with the controllers

Microsoft is going to kill WMR in the next couple years so I’ll probably switch then, luckily it seems like people are working on controller support already so hopefully that’s stable by november 2026

AnUnusualRelic ,
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I don’t use it (haven’t used Windows in decades), but I kept a small partition with Windows 11 on it which I boot from time to time as I enjoy watching what it’s becoming.

It’s like watching a slow motion industrial accident. Horrifying fascination.

possiblylinux127 ,

Virtualization exists

Samsy ,

I had to work with a win 11 system today. I needed to fast move through a lot of pictures with the m$ image viewer, every time I delete a picture it does a fucking slow animation which just steals my time.

Okay, I went to the win-settings and removed animations. Photo-app still does animations…

FU M$.

possiblylinux127 ,

Time to write a powershell script…

shalva97 ,

I like that it works

iLL_Behaviour ,

Been on Mac for years now. I love hot corners.

possiblylinux127 ,

Gnome is better in my experience

Crikeste ,

What the fuck is all this anti-Windows 11 talk? I have never had a problem with it. Is it because of functionality or something else? Because, functionality wise, it’s been fine for me. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Oh shit I didn’t realize this was in Linux. Welp o7 I go down with my ship lmao

Lazycog ,
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Brave of you to walk into the lion’s linux den with that

Crikeste ,

I was genuinely like, “oh no no no no” when I noticed. But oh well, it’s kinda funny to me.

Lazycog ,
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Yeah I got a laugh from the edit as well, this is a meme community after all.

possiblylinux127 ,

Well I find it perfectly fine to use in a VM

paddirn ,

I used Win10 mostly without issue and when I transitioned to Win11 that went without issue as well and it’s been pretty much smooth sailing the whole time. The few annoyances I had with it, I was able to find something that fixed the issue, it just works. The only thing I really didn’t like was that the only reason I transitioned to Win11 as early as I did was because of an update they sent out that made it sound at the time like I had to switch over, something about the wording made it seem like I had no choice, I remember it being a bit confusingly worded. I had wanted to hold out as long as possible on Win10, but because of that went ahead with the switch. It’s been fine since then, but I would’ve preferred not having to switch because of that.

Dicska ,

I’m just guessing, I’m still using Windows (though I would have made the swap literally decades ago if the games I like in particular ran on Linux just as fine): it’s not about functionality; Windows was designed to be a great tool to do your business.

It’s everything else that you pay in return, the price being the least of the problems. Forced ads, forced software, insane amount of “telemetry” (half of which is just data collection for their own gains), to name a few. Year by year it’s getting harder, more complicated and more tedious (and less and less doable) to remove all the forced ads, reverse all the forced program defaults and automatic bloat. If you have to look it up on the Internet how you need to edit the registry to be able to stop certain processes/services that annoy you, then it means they don’t want you to stop the annoyance. A few patches later you can’t even do it. Dishonest stuff like that.

If you’re fine with everything that Win11 means, including stuff that drives others up the wall, then Win11 is for you and there’s nothing wrong with that.

As much as others here love to shit on certain games (like League of Legends or Valorant), I still find them fun to play and I wouldn’t want to say goodbye to them just because otherwise I’d prefer Linux. There’s a reason they aren’t supported on various OS’s at the same time (developing anti cheat on multiple systems is just super labour intensive, and opens up way too many loopholes/exploits/bugs for cheat developers), and it pretty much applies to ANY multiplayer game. If I only played single player games I would switch in an instant.

morbidcactus , (edited )

I really dislike the locking of the taskbar to the bottom, having to click twice to see all my right click options, having to dig through multiple layers of menus to find a setting, not a fan of copilot being pushed in the OS (though I did totally use cortana back in the day, had some somewhat nice assistant features like traffic monitoring to recommend when I left for work), generally not a fan of for lack of better term “streamlining”, it’s mostly minor annoyances and the like but they add up.

I do really like Auto HDR, winget being there ootb (I think? Was amazing when I migrated work computers), windows terminal is straight up fantastic. It’s still definitely useable, it’s just only on my work machines (no choice, but I live in the terminal, text editors and browser for almost everything so OS doesn’t really matter much to me) and my desktop, run linux on everything else.

Resol ,
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I only continue to use Windows 11 because dual booting Linux breaks my Windows installation for whatever reason. I’ve been told that putting each OS on its own separate SSD works fine, but it’s hard to do when you’re using a laptop that you’re not sure whether or not it has an extra NVMe slot or even a SATA slot.

Virtual machines are my only fix.

FangedWyvern42 ,
@FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world avatar

VR is literally the only reason my next PC will still have Windows.

SilentObserver ,

Windows 11 may be the first major version of Windows that I never use on my own personal rig. I’ve used 98, XP, 7, 8/8.1, and 10 throughout my life. But I’ve got no reason to touch 11 when Arch (or fill in with your distro of choice) with KDE exists. It’s just a much better experience.

Shoot, even my daughters share a computer with endeavorOS+KDE installed and they have no problems using it. Windows 11 would refuse to even install on that same machine.

Taleya ,

Ugh, my field (tech) means i have to have more than a passing familiarity with it

SilentObserver ,

It’s definitely different if you’re getting paid for it. I plan to get into I.T. within the next year or two if I can, so I’m sure I’ll have to get familiar with Windows 11.

I mean, technically I do use Windows 11 daily at work. Gotta be able to order stuff, send emails, and manage my time card. All that is done on a Windows 11 PC. But nobody is paying me to put it on my home PC, so I’m not going to.

possiblylinux127 ,

Some people these days are actually looking to give up Adobe. You know it has to be bad for them to want to make massive changes to there workflow. I think it has to do with Adobe using your data for AI.

Lanky_Pomegranate530 ,

I dual booted Linux Mint with Windows 10 on my gaming laptop so that I wouldn’t have to upgrade to Windows 11 or buy a new computer.

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