What Linux does better than Windows

IOPS said:
I feel like if you're going to mention that it's missing by default, mention it's available via homebrew?
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It's not even available by default anyway on a variety of distributions and installation options anyway. There are plenty of options to have it on Windows too but this is one of those weird articles.
 
The only reason I don't have Linux on my gaming PC is for the gaming aspect of it. I know steam is working towards better integration, but its not going to happen overnight.
 
Soul Assassin said:
You should set up Timeshift to take snapshots of the install to easily roll back if they do break something or just to have to be able to quickly reinstall Mint and have all your configurations.
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+1

Yes, I saw Timeshift and it looks great. I think I set it to once a week as I wanted to first understand what it did.
 
R4ziel said:
The only reason I don't have Linux on my gaming PC is for the gaming aspect of it. I know steam is working towards better integration, but its not going to happen overnight.
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The problem is still going to be multiplayer games, people played CSGO on Linux for the sole reason of cheating because it didn't have VAC on Linux.
 
Stillie said:
the only reason i have not gone to linux is due to the lack of gaming (tried this many years ago with wine) and was battling to get any game running decently on it. How is gaming these days on linux, especially around AAA games as i dont want to have linux and not be able to play a AAA game that comes out (not that there are any at the moment that interest me)
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One option is to run your games in a windows VM with hardware pasthrough to the GPU, runs at near native speed.
 
konfab said:
It might be weird for you, but some people use their Macs for things other than browsing Facebook and editing cat videos.

The community has implemented a lot of functionality from the open source world on OSX in the form of package managers like brew.
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I'm actually a Mac user, I'm aware of what the OS is capable of, the hardware is also very good. I use to be Anti Apple, now I wonder why. Runs a powerful OS and powerful hardware as well, unlike Windows it just works out of the box.
 
ponder said:
One option is to run your games in a windows VM with hardware pasthrough to the GPU, runs at near native speed.
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^This.

I saw Wendell mention this -but it sounded like quite a "process".
I believe he mentioned that you needed a separate graphics card to take full advantage, though.
Basically one dedicated to the VM.
 
Sl8er said:
^This.

I saw Wendell mention this -but it sounded like quite a "process".
I believe he mentioned that you needed a separate graphics card to take full advantage, though.
Basically one dedicated to the VM.
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I think the gpu used by linux just needs to be fast enough bandwidth wise to accept the copied framebuffer data from the one used by windows so it does not have to be very powerful. Wonder if an igpu will work?
 
ponder said:
I think the gpu used by linux just needs to be fast enough bandwidth wise to accept the copied framebuffer data from the one used by windows so it does not have to be very powerful. Wonder if an igpu will work?
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No idea...but my un-expert ( :laugh: ) opinion would be, "probably not".
 
Package management: look at chocolatey, great package manager.
Bash for windows.

@OP Thanks for telling me about the windows key + shift + s key. I just shortcut ctrl-shift-alt-s for snipping tool instead.

Linux is nice though, depending on the variant of course.
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Just upgraded my wife's Windows laptop to Mint last week after a hard drive failure. Windows10 was also killing the old laptop, a dual core celeron with 8GB RAM (only picked up 4GB).

Running like a dream now but granted it is only used for browsing (back office is LAMP on Raspberry PI ).

My wife has had no problem using Mint, nor her assistant. Even the sound started working again on the laptop after we thought it was physically broken. Must say Mint is looking way better these days.
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You were running 32-bit windows. And probably a driver issue for the sound.

You can pick up a Win10Pro licence for ~R300 on Carbonite these days.
 
Used to run Ubuntu for more than 6 years and very happy with the system. Now trying Manjaro and this works well. I prefer Manjaro over Mint
 
PhireSide said:
Has anyone here tried Elementary OS?
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Yes, it's decent. I moved to there from Mint Rebecca.
Elementary is really a good replacement for Windows 10, and so is Mint, but Elementary really makes itself very simple to use.

I then installed Ubuntu 16.04LTS and enjoying it so far.
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Just upgraded my wife's Windows laptop to Mint last week after a hard drive failure. Windows10 was also killing the old laptop, a dual core celeron with 8GB RAM (only picked up 4GB).

Running like a dream now but granted it is only used for browsing (back office is LAMP on Raspberry PI ).

My wife has had no problem using Mint, nor her assistant. Even the sound started working again on the laptop after we thought it was physically broken. Must say Mint is looking way better these days.
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Check out the Mate desktop environment as well. I use both Cinamon and Mate, depending on how much performance the laptop can put out.

Love Mint.
 
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