This raises an interesting point actually… I have a new Win11 machine but my old Win10 one is just being kept around for low level, non essential tasks. I don’t have any essential apps left on there really now. I signed up for that extra year of Microsoft support that was offered but when that runs out I guess what a perfect time to have a play with Linux and see what all the fuss is about.
Just do it
You’re describing the oldest Linux gateway in the book—experimenting with a secondary device. Make sure you copy any data you care about off your PC, pick a distro that looks neat, and try it out!
Don’t worry too much about picking the “right” or “wrong” distro. It’s very easy to switch once you get the hang of Linux in general.
Unless you rely on pirated/cracked games, CAD or Adobe software, Linux will be a massive improvement to your computing experience.
What kind of issues do you expect with cracked games? Maybe I’m lucky, but the 20+ cracked games I tried worked perfectly fine in WINE.
Maybe my experience is outdated. I had about a 20% success rate in getting Windows executables running in Wine without fiddling.
So for a while now I only game via the Steam client, since I don’t pirate or mod games anymore.
Maybe things have improved in recent years, I wouldn’t know.If you actually mean wine, there’s your problem. You should run games with proton. I use lutris for cracked games with proton, and rarely have issues with games not working.
Could also be a difference in the games. But I just dump the folder into the default wine prefix and run them from there.
So far the only crack that hasn’t worked for me was Far Cry New Dawn. I’ve read on that one Russian forum that cracks for their newer Denuvo games don’t work on Linux… but I have serious doubts I’d even want to play their games based on their track record.
I welcome all windows refugees. Join us when you are ready and your use case is met.
When Linux can give me apps that I need and can use then I switch 100%. Until then will have to keep using 10 for now.
The surface pro 3 still runs the same shit it came with in 2016? and my girlfriend mocked me for spending so much money. I guess I gotta move on.
