[Cialug] Death of Winblows?

[Dave Hala]

Honestly, windows isn't that bad.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 5:58 PM Hakan E. Duran <ehakanduran at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think I can even challenge the game arena for linux. I have been an
> exxclusive desktop linux user at home since about 2005. It is true that
> you may need to occasionally fix things that an update may break but it
> has been improving steadily. I realize that it only takes so little to
> turn this trend around in the bad direction, but a boy can dream, right?
>
> Lately, I have been gaming in linux too. I am not a major gamer by any
> means, but steam client is native to linux, and game producers are more
> aware of the linux crowd than before. My currently favorite game Valheim
> is native to linux and runs without any hiccup. Never tried solutions
> like proton, but I am hearing that there is improvement on that front as
> well. I used to dual boot before 2005, and I still have a Windows 10 VM
> that I can rdp to by remmina for mainly creating PowerPoint
> presentations for work, but I find myself using it less and less often.
> Windows 11 may have a positive effect on linuxers too.
>
> Hakan
>
> On 21/10/28 04:04PM, David Champion wrote:
> > 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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