Alright, I have a ton of Windows 10 machines, a couple OSX machines, and a few Linux machines for various purposes. Don’t let anyone here fool you—Linux is great, I’ve really enjoyed it, but NO distributions of Linux are easy, effortless, and just /work/. They ALL require some heady maintenance, they all WILL run into issues more than Windows or OSX, they WILL require a lot more learning than Windows or OSX, and there are programs that won’t run on Linux (or are prohibitively difficult to get working on Linux.)
Still, I have been loving Linux. I refuse to get Windows 11 EVER, so I’m now using Windows 10 LTSC IoT on all of my video game computers. If you want a computer that you turn on and click buttons and games appear on screen and work great, Windows is for sure the only way to go. That’s why all of my video game machines are Windows.
I don’t have a video for ya unfortunately, all of my Linux learning is through forums, documentation, and bouncing ideas off friends who know a lot more than me. There are some distros that are very user-friendly and “just work” great out of the box, but no matter what you do, they WILL require special maintenance. You will find programs or games you want to run that just don’t. There’s often alternatives, and in my experience, the alternatives are always free which is cool.
I think for your use case (and my use case for playing games), Windows is still the way to go. If you can get Windows 10 LTSC IoT and crack it (and run something like OOSU10 to turn off all the spyware you can,) you’re good for almost a decade!
(honorary shoutout to OSX—Lemmy overall hates Apple, but fuck em. There’s a reason every dev and programmer I know have an OSX machine, most of them using it for their main work machie. OSX is rock solid and works incredibly, and Apple’s hardware is acutally good for the price now unlike the mid 2000s when they were insanely overpriced for what you get. You can get an M4 mac for 500-600USD and they’re insanely efficient and powerful… Just NOT for games, my Steam library on my OSX computer is extremely limited compared to Linux or Windows.)
They ALL require some heady maintenance, they all WILL run into issues more than Windows or OSX, they WILL require a lot more learning than Windows or OSX,
You will run into issues with any computer. OSX is the worst of them all, it drives me crazy.
It is somewhat hardware dependent that is for sure. My cheap $400 new laptop is perfect. There is nothing to do, for over two years now. Everything just works. The gaming laptop on the other hand has a slight lag on audio that I had to do some work with due to a hardware device that wants to sleep when there is no input.
In general though: for all the time wasted waiting for windows to actually do things, and for all the stupid shit windows pulls that I have to fix, I use Linux because it is the most reliable and stable. By far. I need it to be able to get to work, where I remote in and manage windows machines that are a pain in the ass.
Alright, I have a ton of Windows 10 machines, a couple OSX machines, and a few Linux machines for various purposes. Don’t let anyone here fool you—Linux is great, I’ve really enjoyed it, but NO distributions of Linux are easy, effortless, and just /work/. They ALL require some heady maintenance, they all WILL run into issues more than Windows or OSX, they WILL require a lot more learning than Windows or OSX, and there are programs that won’t run on Linux (or are prohibitively difficult to get working on Linux.)
Still, I have been loving Linux. I refuse to get Windows 11 EVER, so I’m now using Windows 10 LTSC IoT on all of my video game computers. If you want a computer that you turn on and click buttons and games appear on screen and work great, Windows is for sure the only way to go. That’s why all of my video game machines are Windows.
I don’t have a video for ya unfortunately, all of my Linux learning is through forums, documentation, and bouncing ideas off friends who know a lot more than me. There are some distros that are very user-friendly and “just work” great out of the box, but no matter what you do, they WILL require special maintenance. You will find programs or games you want to run that just don’t. There’s often alternatives, and in my experience, the alternatives are always free which is cool.
I think for your use case (and my use case for playing games), Windows is still the way to go. If you can get Windows 10 LTSC IoT and crack it (and run something like OOSU10 to turn off all the spyware you can,) you’re good for almost a decade!
(honorary shoutout to OSX—Lemmy overall hates Apple, but fuck em. There’s a reason every dev and programmer I know have an OSX machine, most of them using it for their main work machie. OSX is rock solid and works incredibly, and Apple’s hardware is acutally good for the price now unlike the mid 2000s when they were insanely overpriced for what you get. You can get an M4 mac for 500-600USD and they’re insanely efficient and powerful… Just NOT for games, my Steam library on my OSX computer is extremely limited compared to Linux or Windows.)
You will run into issues with any computer. OSX is the worst of them all, it drives me crazy.
It is somewhat hardware dependent that is for sure. My cheap $400 new laptop is perfect. There is nothing to do, for over two years now. Everything just works. The gaming laptop on the other hand has a slight lag on audio that I had to do some work with due to a hardware device that wants to sleep when there is no input.
In general though: for all the time wasted waiting for windows to actually do things, and for all the stupid shit windows pulls that I have to fix, I use Linux because it is the most reliable and stable. By far. I need it to be able to get to work, where I remote in and manage windows machines that are a pain in the ass.
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