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Finally boarded the ship! And all it took was swallowing my pride.
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Swallowing your pride...
And giving up driver compatibility. And giving up Office. And giving up any kind of compatibility actually. And giving up Steam and Steam games.
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Have you tried Linux in the last 5 years?
Right? Driver issues were a solid complaint well over 5 years ago, now it's Windows that has much more driver problems than Linux systems do.
bluetooth works out of the box in most distros ive tried, so does my nvidia gpu, you can use office in a browser or one of its foss alternatives, and ive had no issues with steam either thanks to valve giving a fuck about linux. what are you going on about?
All of the already mentioned + office is a browser tool nowadays. I work in a company that uses MS stack, my only os is fedora and never have I had issues or missed anything.
Office - browser extensions when you have to use them, libreoffice when it's for personal use
Compatibility - almost all hardware has Linux drivers, or at a minimum Linux has drivers that will be drop in replacements. My 3080 ti just required me getting the appropriate Nvidia package (which mt distro took care of), and nothing else has needed any configuration at all. My case and motherboard rgb lights are all controlled by openrgb (to turn them off, I don't like rgb) and it worked out of the box.
Steam and steam games - not even close? Steam has official packages on most (or all) package managers so it works natively, and 90% or more games work seamlessly with proton on Linux even if they aren't verified for it. Basically the only games proton can't run are games with kernal level monitoring for anti-cheat, but even those are migrating to support Linux slowly. The steam deck even runs arch Linux lol, they wouldn't sell $400-$650 gaming systems that couldn't run most games that they themselves sell
Office sux