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5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux today (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

How is the support for linux on M-based Macs these days?

Is it viable ?

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Asahi has made some good strides. Might be worth checking out.

[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe on M1,but after some heavy dispute, Asahi Lina, main dev of the graphics driver, stopped working on it and does not feel safe coming back. Also, it was in rust

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[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I just wish games worked fine on Linux.

[–] baropithecus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good news, an overwhelming majority does work fine, and a significant number of those actually run better than on windows. I just switched to Linux on my desktop pc (because of win 10 EOL and because fuck microsoft) and I'm amazed how smooth the experience has been.

[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I read people online saying this often. But I’ve neve been able to play things without hiccups on Linux before.

With very very few exceptions.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do

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