Ive switched back to linux
Posted by Plenty-Package-3809@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 17 comments
I’ve actually been using Linux for a long time, but I was forced to use Windows 11 for a while — mainly because of my NVIDIA GPU. I hesitated to return to Linux because of that, but after all the recent scandals, I’ve had enough and fully switched to Debian 13.
And let me say this: that difficult, incompatible, and clunky Linux from around 2020–2021 is completely gone. Now everything has an alternative — and a good one. The system is stable, drivers work flawlessly, and software is easily accessible.
It honestly feels like a breath of fresh air.
What do you think? Don’t you agree that the Linux desktop has gotten much better lately?
sublime_369@reddit
No ticker-tape parade this time friend. It's one per customer. Welcome back.
legitematehorse@reddit
To me it's good enough to do my work. Still a lot remains to be done, but I like where things are heading. Next year I will upgrade my gaming pc, and see no reason to install windows.
anthony_doan@reddit
Unfortunately some of the popular games uses anti cheat system that is Window only.
Fortunately I don't game anymore but I think this is an obstacles for people who are into those popular games.
Boring-Equivalent137@reddit
Only an issue with a select few online games and if your using steam or wine compatibility shouldn't be an issue. In my opinion a lot of really popular games aren't online so I have no issues
StevieRay8string69@reddit
Amazing how you hear Linux users complaing how shitty Windows is more than Windows users. Its like every post has to mention Windows sucks because your looking for some sort of acceptance. You'll never complain about another crap distro, just Windows. Makes me wonder if many secretly use Windows. I use Linux Mint. Its great but does it tower over windows? Not by a long shot.
anthony_doan@reddit
Your post complaint is like water is wet.
anthony_doan@reddit
I thought it was good enough around 2020-2021 and even before then.
Perhaps you're using new hardware and now using hardware that is a few years old?
Microsoft is forcing people to logged into online account to use Window 11. You cannot have an offline account and use Window 11.
It's spyware now.
SG_87@reddit
Switched to Linux a while ago. The only reason I still have my Dual-Boot up is 3D-CAD. Unless Solid works gets a serious Linux competitor, I'll stay OS-locked for work.
ResearchingStories@reddit
FreeCAD is a minimum viable product. But it is improving quickly. I have donated to it and I highly suggest you do as well.
TobberH@reddit
Yes, CachyOS is blowing my mind right now on how good everything can run, it's amazing and I don't even have my Windows partition in my system anymore.
ZorakOfThatMagnitude@reddit
I've been on Linux for a very long time. I will say the Linux desktop on AMD hardware has been great the whole time. NVIDIAs Linux drivers were good until the company got into big data and decided to drive those customers to their server hardware. I think all their Linux resources were put into that and desktop driver support was a tertiary concern or an afterthought.
They also didn't want you to run their windows virtualized, either. I say that because their drivers would detect if they were running ina virtualized environment and shut down. I used to run a windows gaming vm on my Linux box and could pass the video card through to the vm, where the OS would pick it up and install the correct drivers(or I'd install them manually). The drivers would start and then exit, giving an error equating to that it saw it was running with virtualized hardware and exited. Sent the card back and bought an AMD 390, which worked with some kernel parameter changes. I've been full AMD ever since.
What I'm guessing now is that NVIDIA built out enough capacity so that it's easier/more cost effective/faster to buy into their data center rather than try to make your own on the cheap using gaming cards. Sorta like streaming music rather than buy/rip/store it.
_silentgameplays_@reddit
Linux works fine compared to Windows chewing up SSD's with their AI slop updates and telemetry running in the background.
AMD GPU's work fine if you have the latest couple of gens, NVIDIA latest gens have some issues in DX 12 games, otherwise also fine, as long as you don't use Wayland on GTX series and are not on a rolling release distro.
Debian Stable is very polished now, but if you are not tired of troubleshooting updates, then Arch Linux or it's forks are also fine.
C1REX@reddit
I’m coming back after a super long break. Probably 15y or so. It’s surprisingly good now. Almost everything just works.
I’m especially impressed how good gaming is now. What I hope will improve are GPU drivers and codecs. By drivers I mean Radeon and Nvidia app, HDMI2.1 support on AMD, hardware encoding in video editors, etc.
jikt@reddit
I think the thing that sucks the most about Linux is having an nvidia GPU. Not because it's a bad experience but because if there are any oddities in the way things are running you can't get help past: oh, nvidia gpu...
It's not that way for everything, but I'm currently in a state in my laptop with a 4060 where my computer will randomly start spinning up its fans while asleep and requires a hard reset. I just shrunk my bazzite partition to 60gb and switched back to windows for now.
It's kind of gutting.
I had a desktop with a 4070 to super running bazzite and it was superb! I had to sell it for power and space reasons.
If I'm ever in a position to buy another laptop (or PC) I'm going to avoid nvidia, especially when I see that there is far less fps loss between windows and Linux on amd.
This turned into a ramble but basically Linux is the best it's ever been right now no matter which GPU you have.
Hour_Bit_5183@reddit
This is great! Hell yeah it's improved across the board. LOL microsoft literally sparta kicked their own OS into the AI pit of doom. I literally see more users every day switching away from the madhouse.
Plenty-Package-3809@reddit (OP)
I was using it normally and I stayed in Windows with my new computer with Nvidia GPU, but enough of the Windows adventures.
Hour_Bit_5183@reddit
Same. I am so sick of the AI slop. Like why does it even go in the OS in the first place? Vibe coding OS updates is also a big no no and forcing cloud accounts ROFLMAO...