[danielheath]

It's definitely difficult at first - the loss of polish, and the extra up-front setup to make it nice.

If you do try again, my advice is: Play to the strengths of the new OS.

MacOS makes decisions for you (usually good ones), but you're SOL if you don't like them. This culture affects native apps, too.

For me, getting good results out of Linux has been a question of putting in more up-front work to figure out what I actually want the computer to do. The result is... very comfy.

[cheeze]

The big problem for me is that there just... isn't a way to do a lot of things on Linux without a looot of effort.

I use Linux as a daily, but I still have a windows computer for all the things you can't do anywhere else. Random executables that I (begrudgingly) need for work, life, etc.

It's definitely getting better, but it's still not quite there. I still need my windows computer for various things that have no alternative.

[ascar]

Yea similar for me. I run native linux for work, but a windows machine with a Ubuntu vm for private use. I just can't get around certain things only being really available on Windows.

Though I have a harder time thinking about macos things that are lacking in Linux apart from the Microsoft Office and the Adobe Suite. Especially since the dev experience on Linux is much better considering your servers or embedded devices are running on linux and macOS just adds an unnecessary layer of complexity to your dev environment. yea, you often don't realize it, until you work with C (which might sneek in as a library in your favorite higher language written in C for efficiency) or something else "native".

My point being it's much harder to get rid of windows than getting rid of macos. Even with a Mac I still needed a windows machine at least for games. But many people maybe just need pc + office + Adobe which is exactly mac.

[tracker1]

Which is why I'm so glad that Valve/Steam are putting in the efforts they have been, even if it's yet another (less) walled garden. I don't play games a lot, but appreciate their efforts all the same.

[heavyset_go]

Thankfully WINE's licensing ensures that Steam's compatibility layer doesn't get stuck in their walled garden exclusively, and all Linux users get to take advantage of Proton and their upstream WINE contributions for free.

[tracker1]

Exactly.

[BLKNSLVR]

I usually set up any new computer of mine as dual boot Linux (default) / Windows.

The Windows installation remains largely untouched and unconfigured, and only used for when there's no other option than a damn .exe. It's permanently there as an option when required.

[danielheath]

I bought a second computer with windows about 5 years back.

I think I've booted it about 20 times in 5 years.

If I really need windows (eg to connect itunes to my phone, or for testing websites in IE), I use a virtualbox VM.