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With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be these computers’ only secure hope, what do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I did, discord was a mess (the systray icon not working and couldn't stream audio), no parsec host support and other little things.

Yes, there are alternatives/workarounds but it's too much of a hustle to play some games if the alternative is w10, I already know how to optimize it/solve common issues and for this specific case "it just works"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Do you mind me asking which Distro you had used? I recently switched from w10 and haven't had any issues with discord or audio.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which distro did you use? I have a win 10 laptop and I might switch over to a Linux distro

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I been using Nobara instead of Windows for about 4 months, so far haven't had any major issues. Updater works and hasn't broken anything yet, found installs Nvidia drivers without issue. Only issue I have is that the few times I stream on discord for friends it doesn't capture audio.

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