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Your telling me!

With all the updates that brick Windows 10 or 11 and or make it slow as shit, I don't know how people put up with it. I have had this laptop for about 6 years now running Mint and I haven't gotten any problems, yet if I compare with parents newer laptop running Windows 11 I have had to fix botched updates by Microsoft 5 times in the past 1 1/2 year since it was bought and this 6 year old laptop runs circles around it on boot and doing anything.

For any specialty programs I use Lutris with an install script for convenience (has more than just games) or I google to find out what special dependencies the program might need for the WinePrefix.
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Yep, gaming is really the only place I see any difficulty , and I don't game much. And hell, most modern games have figured out it makes sense to add Linux builds.

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Merdellow 2y ago

Even with games, it's stupid easy with Lutris and even easier with Steam + Proton. Gaming on Linux has come a long way since the early days with the contributions of Valve. It's only games made between 2007-2012 that I have had issues running if their isn't a install script. Most popular games are catalogued and have an install script so it's pretty point and click. Graphics drives aren't an issue anymore either as Mint pre-installs the Nvidia stuff and with the recent open sourcing Nouveau should get better.