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D. Flame Mar 10 @ 6:24pm

What programs or games did you give up to switch to Linux?

For me, it was just CSP. I never managed to get it working on Linux. Everything else just worked or had a suitable replacement.

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vkobe Mar 10 @ 6:29pm

window 10

Rio Mar 10 @ 6:38pm

copilot

Vinegaroon Mar 10 @ 6:39pm

Sniping tool and MS Paint. The Linux versions just don't do it for me. Those two on windows were just so simple and user friendly.

Krypto Mar 10 @ 6:41pm

On Windows, I don't have to ♥♥♥♥ around with Proton layers.

Electric Cupcake Mar 10 @ 6:51pm

The only ones that matter are peripheral controls like G Hub and ICue.

♥♥♥♥ every company that doesn't have a Linux fronttend, or doesn't have complete on-device persistent settings. Piper works okay for Logitech mice, but SCUF and Corsair and Razar stuff is SOL.

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The Tunnel Ratencio Mar 10 @ 6:53pm

I am looking forward to see steamOS but before that i might change to linux after steam stops working on windows 10

D. Flame Mar 10 @ 6:59pm

Originally posted by Vinegaroon:
Sniping tool and MS Paint. The Linux versions just don't do it for me. Those two on windows were just so simple and user friendly.

Even Windows 11 removed Paint. Windows 10 paint was the first time paint was ever useful, so of course they abandoned it.

Krypto Mar 10 @ 7:00pm

Originally posted by D. Flame:
Originally posted by Vinegaroon:
Sniping tool and MS Paint. The Linux versions just don't do it for me. Those two on windows were just so simple and user friendly.
Even Windows 11 removed Paint. Windows 10 paint was the first time paint was ever useful, so of course they abandoned it.

Paint is still on Windows 11.

D. Flame Mar 10 @ 7:02pm

Originally posted by Krypto:
Originally posted by D. Flame:
Even Windows 11 removed Paint. Windows 10 paint was the first time paint was ever useful, so of course they abandoned it.

Paint is still on Windows 11.

The paint on Windows 11 is garbage. It is not the Windows 10 version that was actually good. Windows 11 just downgrade the OS and apps and upgraded their spyware, which is why I switched to Linux.

Last edited by D. Flame; Mar 10 @ 7:03pm

Krypto Mar 10 @ 7:03pm

Originally posted by D. Flame:
Originally posted by Krypto:

Paint is still on Windows 11.
The paint on Windows 11 is garbage. It is not the Windows 10 version that was actually good.

So? Paint is still there.

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A&A Mar 10 @ 7:17pm

Nothing

*VM in the background*
*Also planning to build a PC that allows VM to use hardware acceleration.*

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libadwaita (she/her) Mar 10 @ 7:26pm

Never really used Windows as my main operating system for long enough that I'd use some piece of software that wasn't on GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux has been my main operating system since 2011, and so I would make sure that any software I use would run on both platforms up until I ditched the dual boot in 2021.

The only reason I kept a Windows partition around was to play games, and at a certain point Proton got good enough that every game I cared about worked flawlessly on Proton. There was no reason for me to run Windows since there was no software (including games) that I used that wouldn't run on GNU/Linux.

So the answer here would pretty much be none, because I wiped the Windows dual-boot when everything I used worked on GNU/Linux.

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