Or do you keep a few Windows/Mac PCs lying around?

You know, just in case you need to run an app/game that only works perfectly on Windows/Mac and WINE/Proton wouldn’t run it?

Been thinking of Linuxifying my Laptop eversince I enjoyed Linux after defecting to it (from Windows) in my main PC (a Desktop).

  • [moved to hexbear]
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    2 years ago

    The vast majority of my computers run some form of Linux. The only ones that aren’t are those running older versions of Windows (XP on an old Atom-powered Acer Aspire netbook, 98 on an old Thinkpad) or ones that can only run Windows (cheap Baytrail Atom laptop I bought for some classwork that has weird proprietary drivers for it’s guts that only runs properly with the stock Windows 10 install).

    All that aside, everything else is Linux, mainly Arch-based with the occasional oddball machine running something like Void or AntiX.

    • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]@lemmygrad.mlOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      (XP on an old Atom-powered Acer Aspire netbook, 98 on an old Thinkpad)

      Aren’t those operating systems “dead”? I don’t think any new software would work on operating systems that old. Have you thought of switching to a more lightweight Linux Distro (Linux Lite, or basically any distro that has XFCE/LXQT as its Desktop Environment)?

      All that aside, everything else is Linux, mainly Arch-based

      I too use an arch-based distro btw.

      • [moved to hexbear]
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        2 years ago

        I mainly use them for retro gaming, and WineGL performance on them (way too old for Vulkan and DXVK) is abysmal at best.