[Cialug] Death of Winblows?

[David Champion]

Linux desktop has been very good for productivity and general purpose use
for years. Also since a large percentage of what people do is in
browser-based apps, your OS isn't really that important, so why waste your
life running Windows or waste your money running OSX? None of my personal
computers are new enough to support Windows 11 requirements. The only thing
I need Windows for is for a few games, and a couple of Windows only
applications that I use occasionally.

Linux is behind for gaming, but only because game companies choose not to
support it. On games that do have good Linux support (i.e. many Steam
games) the performance is great. Steam has sometimes pushed for more Linux
support, they have the market share to force the issue if they really
wanted to.

-dc


On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 1:07 PM Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> I am glad Linux is getting better with multi display systems.  That is good
> news!  I know it keeps making good progress with gaming as well, and I
> really hope that continues!  I look forward to the day I can load linux as
> the bare metal OS for my main workstation.
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 1:02 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> >
> > > With respect to multi-monitor setups, Linux has come a long way.
> > Betweenhome and work I have five multi-monitor setups (three monitors on
> my
> > mainwork system) and they all work just as well as any Windows
> > multi-monitorsetup that I've used.
> > > And as can be seen with the Print Nightmare debacle Windows has its
> > ownshare of problems being introduced by updates. I'm sure we could spend
> > allday listing other times where Windows updates broke people's systems.
> > >
> > Agreed. Grabbed a four-port miniDP card when I rebuilt my main
> workstation
> > last summer, .. no problems at ALL.
> >
> >         Lee
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