yea maybe i should use Linux for web browsing and shit, and only use Windows for games(esp ones that need anti cheat installed). Will i? Eh. “if you want to feel like you actually own your PC” is pretty hilarious though. Every post about Linux has that “there are dozens of us” energy.
Been running dual-boot Linux and Windows for a few years now for the reasons you mentioned. I have the boot menu set to a 1s timeout and to default to Linux so it’s easy if I want to boot to windows on start-up with very minimal impact on my boot time, although I rarely boot to Windows at all these days.
I play a lot of indie games and so some of them have stability issues with Linux, especially if it’s a recent release, because they have small dev teams but generally my experience has been that Linux gaming is really good, better than I expected, even despite my experience being a bit of an outlier on the worse end of the scale. Most of the time performance is noticeably better too.
In terms of “owning your PC” it does sound hyperbolic but every time I boot into windows I get forced to deal with updates on windows’ schedule (wanna boot to windows to run some utility for a quick 5 minute job? Hah, too bad! You get to have forced updates and you will reboot when we tell you to and now you have booted back into windows you have to get more updates and reboot again for some reason) and all the user account control measures and shit. I can’t just run certain programs on start-up without the UAC prompts and I literally have to open submenus just to say “yes, I want to run this program and no, I am not concerned about the risks” or I can disable all the security controls and get ridiculous notifications that I have threats detected with my PC and, when I try to scan for threats it will tell me that none are found and it’s only hidden within submenus that the “threat” is that my UAC settings are lower than recommended. Bruh, I set them lower because I don’t want to have to deal with constant pop-ups making me confirm that I want to run the program that I just started. That’s not a threat and I chose that so I don’t need to be told to attend to the security center to figure out the threat that the security center doesn’t inform me about only to discover that windows doesn’t approve of my user-defined settings.
You get used to Windows being this way and always having mostly useless training wheels on it which dictate how and when you will use your OS but it’s genuinely frustrating to go back to it when you’ve been free from it for a while.
Not gonna lie - my experience with Linux is occasionally that I want to do something but I don’t know how to do it whereas my experience with Windows I that I want to do something and either it won’t let me or it routinely puts up a series of roadblocks to actively discourage me from doing something even when I specifically chose to do that thing. So it’s a choice between two different frustrations but overall my Linux experience has been trading a constant stream of Microsoft-induced frustrations for skill issue frustrations on Linux and the occasional “Why the fuck would in have to set up a hotkey binding for bringing up the system monitor when there should be one pre set upon installation?” type of frustration.
