Is baby duck syndrome genuinely difficult to break or is it just something you think you can't overcome in the name of trying a better option?Or should I just dual-boot into Linux for gaming and leave Windows for all the other computing shit I do with my PC?
It's not, but like yeah it's not gonna be a perfect since you will have to change up what you do.The average person doesn't really nor really should be expected to understand the particulars of what a "distribution" entails but it's actually not AS complicated as it might seem.At one point in time people made fun of windows for having a really complicated scheme for distributing windows, I think it was with Vista where there was an egregious amount of versions you could pick up.But generally, it's less painful than you might imagine to switch over, unless you have a really particular fancy for modern online multiplayer games
>>722827213Of course I might also be a bad judge for "how hard it is" since I switched over to linux back in 2014, so I do have some experience with it, but even back then the experience wasn't too bad outside of DXVK not existing and wine not being great for modern vidya.
>>722826640Linux is just inferior and that's the truthYeah windows has shitty updates and spyware and whatnot but it JUST WORKSUsing Linux is like using Esperanto, sure you can get by with it but you'll run into issues far more often and resolving them will be more annoying than if you just used what everyone uses
Until every program and game works with no tweaking or hassle it will always be an inferior option. I don't know why this is so hard for you jeets to grasp. You act like modern multiplayer games are not extremely popular and anything that's broken was never worth using anyway.
>>722827432You've never used linux
>>722827475That's not even true with windows man.Just yesterday I had to troubleshoot shit for my brother.
Windows is abusing its monopoly but linux has 0 chance to compete, Android is more of a competitor to windows than linux. Linux is not for users
>>722827670I wasn't saying it was, baby duck syndrome only works if your option is clearly superior, dumb retard.
>>722827702Yeah but I work in enterprise IT and still prefer Windows...
>>722827817That's definitionally not a factor for baby duck syndrome.
>>722827858It is the literal definition you stupid jeet.
>>722826640Steam OS is Linux anon.
>>722827432How is Linux inferior?
>>722828010No, it's about habit forming behavior.
>>722826640>Or should I just dual-boot into Linux for gaming and leave Windows for all the other computing shit I do with my PC?It depends on what you need. If you're an artist who needs programs only available on Windows/Mac then probably. But otherwise you should just check and see if what you want to do is doable on linux (most stuff is) and just stick with linux.
The whole "baby duck syndrome" thing doesn't take simple preference into account.Sure I will accept that a lot of preference can be born from "well I've used it all this time, no reason to switch now" but even being open to trying new things doesn't mean you won't simply LIKE what you use typically, warts and all.It's not exactly the same but I feel like I gave macOS a completely fair chance to show it's a stronger option for casual computing than Windows (first by building Hackintoshes and eventually just outright owning Mac computers) and it never pulled ahead. Maybe it's because I'm too "sophisticated" to use an OS that caters to non-computer literates but either way it definitely reinforced why I like using Windows (to the point I will never buy a Mac again after macOS drops Intels next year, since I cannot be bothered to pay a premium price to be locked into a single computing paradigm that will never live up to how I want to use a computer).If I could find a way to use Linux effectively in the same way it might be a way to judge It (maybe the macOS partition can become that on my MacBook after next year).
I switched to Nobara a month ago, and outside of a small learning curve, it's been great. Every game I've wanted to play or have tried just works. I set up dual boot windows just in case, but I haven't started it since the initial setup.
When I'm using Windows I feel like I'm fighting Microsoft to take out the bloatware, telemetry, advertising and then after all that it's still garbage.When I'm using Linux I feel like the OS just does what I want it to, and not a million other things in the background that I wish I could turn off.These days Windows gives me such a headache that I prefer Linux, my games run just fine, especially with AMD.
still not using linux
>>722827213sovl
>>722826640>baby duck syndromeWindows literally looks shit since 8 and other than pages in file manager everything became shittier including system requirements. 5GB RAM usage in idle isn't good and isn't justified. >>722827432>Windows just worksTry running Beetle Crazy Cup or any similar old game without voodoo wrapper. Also shader handling in Windows is horrible.
>>722826640>baby duck syndromeCope from newfags and shills.>started with 95, 98, used NT at school, XP at home, then skipped to 7, stayed with 7 until 2024 moving to linux7 literally just worked until it was forced by outside influences wanting complete control to be as inconvenient as possible (despite still working)There was zero reason to drop it that isn't related to the desire to control the product and its users. There is no technological leaps that required it, most new "features" were already ported back to 7 including DX12. Kernel functions and literal function renames also ported back to 7.Everyone calling 7 holdouts "baby ducks" are either employees or people desperately trying to justify their poor decisions by creating a social divide to feel better about themselves.
>>722830390>I have to use DXVK to use windows 7 still>I'm very smart and sticking it to microsoftYou use slightly more stable vista.
>>722826640dual booting is retardedjust get a new drive and install linux on it instead of having them share the same driveget cachy OS until steamOS releases and use those unless you have to boot into windows for anything
>>722830589If you're tech illiterate, get bazzite instead. Nobara is also solid alongside CashyOS.
>>722830509https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/world-of-warcraft-uses-directx-12-running-on-windows-7/It's not an impossibility, its market control.
>>722830710>Willingly playing World of Warcraft and Win 7 these days>Expecting ANYONE to take your opinions seriouslyHonestly as embarrassing as people that say they NEED windows for fortnite.
>>722830884>UH NO THAT ONE DOESN'T COUNTShill or newfag, call it
>>722826640I tried installing nobara with a dual-boot setup and it accidentally the Windows EFI and I couldn't get into Windows anymoreIt's been two months since
>>722830979It was probably just doing you a favor.
>>722830979Rookie mistake.This is why I never have two OSes on the same drive.
>>722831304Well to be fair you shouldn't do this with windows because it will actively try to kill your other partitions.Ironically this is what got me to switch over to linux full time since it killed my grub and ironically made my computer boot directly into linux way back when.
>>722831304Even if you physically remove your main drive and install another OS on a second drive, it can still overwrite the EFI entry for your original OS. At least that's what Windows did to my Linux bootloader. It's not hard to fix, just something to keep in mind when setting up dual boot.
>>722831494Windows update fucked my GRUB once, I was able to repair it after spending hours learning how it works so that was a lesson.Now I simply change the boot device.
>>722826640Steamos is linux
>>722831968Yeah, I know, but I didn't bother saying so in the OP.It's a weird distro, though. MattKC has had some hiccups trying to get his Wii U GamePad emulation software to behave correctly on a Steam Deck (particularly with how it handles wifi).
i picked cachyos because it sounds like the kind of thing i can smugpost about
>>722827213Arch has archinstall, which is a TUI installer that will werk.>>722827475Not even Windows can run Windows programs without tweaking or hassle, and it's much more annoying or impossible to run some programs on Windows.For the few gotchas like CAD software I run a Windows VM and it is fine, much better than trying to get the inverse to work.>>722827817Baby duck syndrome works regardless, it just has to be the first thing you imprinted on.>>722830509And 8/10/11 are just slightly less stable Vista with tablet UI.
For me, it's the 8TB NTFS drive I can't be bothered formatting.
The only downside to gaming on Linux foe me is no kernel level anticheat support. Pretty much every game I play works in Linux, it's just the ones with kernel level anticheat ones that I can't play like bf2042 and some of the newer online games.
>>722833828the linux foundation is never letting spyware in just because of some compslop corposthe only way this changes is if valve buckbreaks them into supporting linux anyway
>>722832997I hope you have a backup Anon.
>>722826640>dual-boot into Linux for gaming and leave Windows for all the other computing shitPeople used to say the exact opposite: Windows for gaming and Linux for everything else.Funny how Linux being good for gaming now suddenly makes it bad for everything else because Windows must be good for something because a billion normies can't be wrong.
