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Not him but I'll echo the same thing. Unless I absolutely have no other choice, I'm not going back to this setup.

It's how I "gamed on Linux" for a couple years. Support is basically you and you alone. The dev for Looking Glass is active but the man isn't your personal tech assistant so often you're just doing A/B testing to make something work.

For me, I just didn't want to fiddle with my home desktop that much. I went back to Windows.



The fiddle factor is why I'm using W10 as well. Linux is great, but on the desktop I just need things to work as-is. Linux on the desktop still doesn't have that. Maybe next year ;-)


> Linux on the desktop still doesn't have that

It does have it if all you want to do is develop, browse the web and similar things.

Including windows games into the things it needs to run without hassle is kinda unfair in my opinion, as that's pretty far from what this DE is used for regularly.

I went back to windows on my home pc because off games too, but my work environment with Ubuntu/regolith was significantly less painful to setup then the WSL hassles I had to jump through on windows before.


Sort of. I bought a HP Probook laptop in 2018 and install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which works perfectly except something minor fixed with a kernel update; however when I update to 20.04, sleep is just broken. Every time the machine sleeps it forgets that the keyboard exists. As much as I dislike Microsoft, stuff like that just doesn't happen with Windows.

I'm still suffering with Linux for largely philosophical reasons at this point, but quite frankly if I wasn't such an opinionated nerd I'd just go to a normal Windows machine at this point.




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