Gaming on Linux either works on Linux or the game requires a rootkit malware to run.

I refuse to call it "kernel-level anti-cheat." That's like calling a sucking chest wound "alternative breathing"

Why not just play games on linux?

Gaming on Linux works now. I play every game I care for.

While going for another program, ideally non proprietary, with a native Linux version would be ideal, I would not be surprised if running Photoshop on Linux with wine was a viable option these days. Or will be in a not-too-distant future.

As for games, what the others have said. Unless you're into a specific multiplier game with a kernel level "anticheat", then it should be fine.

In fact, I suspect Photoshop, rather than gaming, is much more likely to be the reason you'd have to dual boot.

I'm still using Windows 11 just from inertia, but I've been putting my kids on Linux Mint and Bazzite depending.

I don't think I can get away from Windows, as a professional .NET developer, but I won't likely have more than the one Windows laptop at this point. My entire home lab and home infra is Linux of one variety or another. If we count VMs, then I overwhelmingly using Debian.

Windows users want a menu button in the lower left corner and shit to work after a short installer. How the fuck do you keep messing that up?

Capitalists are literally Mt Krabbs:

"Squidward! New rule! All customers must fill in this survey about the details of their day before they order!" Drops a giant stack of papers on the counter

Squidward sighs "Why are we doing this?"

"Because then I can sell their information for more MONEY! Hyukukukukuk!"

Who can ever forget the "Remind me in 3 days" bullshit.

Also UI that operates near instantaneously. Not waiting for the option I want to pop in.

Windows 10 IoT LTSC is supported until 2032. That's a problem for future me...

Hopefully by then I've switched to an employer that allows me to run Xubuntu in the office. Right now my hands are tied.

All my remaining W10 machines in the house are just in a holding pattern because I haven't bothered to move them over to Linux yet. For me (and hopefully many others), its just lack of free time and procrastination. There is zero chance they'll go to W11 for me personally.

I feel bad about the people who have no choice but to make a Microsoft account and then not being able to change the default browser app due to Family Safety™

It really isn't for most people though.

You're expecting that people will seek out alternatives. I expect the more likely reality. People will just stop using PCs completely outside of work.

It's not a matter of how easy something is. It's a matter of human perspective. Right now they think of PCs as being "Windows". In much the same way some of our moms would say "I bought you a Nintendo game for your xbox!"

And instead of buying non-compliant software, she actually DID buy an XBox game. And called it Nintendo.

Same way down in the south you might overhear someone order a coke. To which the waitress asks "what kind?" And the reply is "Sprite".

Kleenex/Tissues.

You get the idea. To them PCs are made by Windows and thats all they know. They just know they don't like the AI they gwt forced to use at work. So instead of using it at home, or using an alternative, they figure they can just watch youtube on their phone.

YOU use a PC as a PC. Most other people use PCs as a browser to go to facebook, and youtube, and instagram. All the things that make you cringe, thats what a PC is to them.

So when you say "You can customize everything in linux!", their response, from someone who used WindowsXP for 15 years and never once changed the wallpaper, will be "but why?".

Hopefully that can help you see the difference between "it's easy" and "it's a thought that runs through their brain at all"

Eh. I installed Linux Mint this weekend because I was sick of Microsoft's bullshit and I had to connect my PC to my router with an Ethernet cable to install a driver for my wifi adapter from the terminal. I am quite tech savvy and was very comfortable with this whole process and it took no time at all, but my wife who knows barely anything about computers would have probably given up the moment the Internet didn't work when Mint installed. Most people use routers that they rent for too much money from their ISPs and don't even know you can plug shit into the backs of those routers yourself. The moment the wifi doesn't work on the new OS even though the password is right, it's game over for their ability to troubleshoot it. That is why Linux won't get normies on it anytime soon. After that my experience has been extremely smooth and I have been able to do anything I've wanted to do without touching the terminal (although I prefer terminal commands), but that initial hurdle is just way too much to expect from the average person who just wants to get on Netflix and Facebook asap.

Wash yourself in the soothing glow of Mint's DE and be born again!