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Omfg i love this reply! Someone choosing Windows bc its best for them who keeps an open mind and is willing to try FOSS operating systems?! Holy shit thats a fucking win! Forgive me for simping harder on linux than trump does for putin when i say this, but these sorts of comments do more (imho) to spread Linux than harping on about how great it is to ppl who likely dgaf.
Im not gonna try and sway u, but im thrilled u tried and went with whats best. I make music and the DAWs on linux are.... ill not say... so i do get it. I could run on a VM, but due to the size of the projects im running, ive yet to try it for fear of the VM or the DAW within it crashing. Its the one thing that i do all the time that forces me to keep my dual booting PC's windows partition, tho it aggrevates me so. So im doing kinda what u said, Linux is my "everything but music" OS, and windows is dedicated to just that and literally nothing else. I literally only installed firefox on it prolly a year after installing windows due to it not being used for that purpose.
Im glad ur open minded, im glad u tried what u did. Your mentality makes me happy. I hope windows gives u less trouble than i know its capable of generating, best of luck to u, incredible internet stranger!
I appreciate the enthusiasm. I really do love Linux conceptually and I think it can provide a great environment for certain games (Hollow Knight runs great), software dev (as long as you don't need visual studio), web browsing, etc. My laptop has an HDD and came with Win10 pre-installed. It was so fucking slow that I thought I got scammed on the hardware end. 10 minutes to boot, another 5-10 stuck at the desktop waiting for something simple like a browser to load, zero performance in games and unfathomably slow UI in all applications. I installed Linux and all of those problems just fucking vanished. 2 mins to boot, a clean and responsive UI, and maybe a minute or so at most to get a browser open.
The problem is that the annoying bullshit AAA devs do to their games makes it unreasonably difficult or impossible to get them running on Linux. I do hope some sort of solution is found, as I'd love to be running full Linux in 5-10 years.