Game Maker is still only in beta for Linux. They warn against working on serious projects on it because it can just randomly break them.
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I use all three. I have Windows on one of my machines that I use occasionally for gaming. I use Macs for work since that's what all my corporate machines comes with and I daily drive Linux and use it for all my home servers.
I tried to daily Linux on my laptop but gave up after about 6 months. The two major issues for me were the speakers amp and the fingerprint reader not being supported. The speakers wasn't that big of a problem because audio still worked so I could use headphones or Bluetooth. The fingerprint reader not working grew to be a major annoyance though, it's so much more convenient to use than typing out a password.
Minor compatibilities aside, Nothing that Windows itself has to offer, maybe some wallpapers I can just get online anyways lol
Sometimes not feeling like being part of the online friend group. But I won't switch to Windows, it's just too bad.
Inconsistency of things, can't change things easily, random outdated stuff that would help if it wasn't abandoned several years ago and patched together to barely work. Gaming on Linux isn't good, so so much distros and not a lot of information besides "whatever you like". Hard to find things online because of outdated posts or just "top 10" type sites.
Windows is just plug and play, with a few apps that remove most annoyances. Nearly all games and modding of games are mostly just works.
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I'm having weird issues with my Wifi where it will just suddenly stop working (Plasma will show "no available connections") and I have to hard reset the machine because Linux won't shut down otherwise. It's not a hardware issue since it doesn't happen on Windows.
It almost sounds like when I tried a wifi dongle on my mother's desktop. I found out it was deprecated thanks to the manufacturer dropping support for Linux drivers. It worked fine on windows though.
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I only play two games and cant for the life of me get them to run properly on linux, and i only start the computer when i want to play so windows it is.
@ani honestly temple os just does what I need my computer to do nothing else can come close to it. I have tryed everything.
There occasional hiccups with Linux that are sometimes by design, like Flatpaks not having access to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. This makes some things need minor workarounds where they wouldn't otherwise, because there aren't enough people on Linux to make these workarounds the norm. I don't really mind, but it is nice not having to do anything like that on macOS (although there are other issues there, like not having access to /usr/bin in the first place :P)
At the end of the day, though, the development workarounds necessary on Windows are absolutely insane. Even as well documented as they are, I am very glad I don't need to touch Windows ever again because they still suck.
What on earth is a TempleOS?
I own an IT company. We are some sort of base metal partners with MS. I remember a huge box of "Select" CDs turning up back in the day. Nowadays we get demands for customers. ie we should be making more cash for MS. Its all one way - take, take. take.
I'm not a massive fan of owning a company and working for another one. So I don't. MS are receding into the rear view window.
Drivers for the Tobii eye tracker do not officially exist.
Brain damage
I'm thinking about whonix+qubes... Just because it's the best... https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes/Install
The main problem that I heard is that it is power hungry for some reason
Ever since I tried windows 11 on a laptop given to me I've been using Linux exclusively. It's been about a year now and I thought I would have issues with games, but every game I actually play runs just fine, and usually better than on Windows.
I don't see myself going back at all. Even for my college classes for windows exclusive software (just requirements for degree) I use the provided cloud vm from the school. Every time I go into the VM it just reminds me more how I don't want to go back to Windows.
At least on pretty much all distros, you can customize your desktop however you want. Can't even move the taskbar anymore on Windows 11.
Edit - this addition:
I've even built my latest PC with the express goal of never running Windows and I'm extremely happy with it.
My optimus laptop freezes sometimes when using the nvidia card. Idk why, I should look at the logs sometime to figure out what causes it.