Roune104

indigoer
Linux is not straightforward and easy to use, unfortunately 

Anyway,i agree with you,i have used Linux for 5 months and then switched to Windows OS.

Smart move.     

Thanks for this Post. I was just talking to a coworker about Linux and now I've rekindled my interest

Put twister os on my Raspberry Pi 4  (4Gb)
was fun to try the different layouts
 
it has been a few years since my VAX VMS - Unix days
 
You do need a fan if you over clock the Pi

Twister OS: Make Raspberry Pi Look like Windows or macOS

from tomhardware artical
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/twister-os-raspberry-pi-look-like-windows
 
 

lisamery
Here I'm happy to read the topic in this forum! Nice, go to Linux. Go to Ubuntu! I want to learn Linux as my secondary operating system. On my backup PC, I want to install it.

Best to start with a dual boot setup

lukashik

ty_ger07
A Windows game needs Windows. You can run some Windows games in a virtual Windows environment or Windows emulator, but the performance is usually quite bad. That is pointless, yes.

Linux in general is not generally good for gaming. Lots of driver, feature, and developer support is missing in the Linux gaming space. Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in support, partnerships, and agreements to assure that DirectX is the most popular game rendering API. A free Linux industry run by volunteers is not going to compete.

What are the benefits of Linux over Windows? It is usually free. It is open source. It can be more secure. It can be faster and better optimized. It can be more flexible and customizeable. It can be an easier platform for developing and deploying specialized hardware and software solutions. That sort of thing. It's what boots up when you plug in your modem or router or turn on the screen for your in-flight entertainment system in the headrest in front of you. It is the original heart of the Apple and Android operating systems. It is the workhorse and often unspoken backbone of your integrated electronic life. If you own a "smart device", it's likely running on Linux. From your computer to an internet site, Linux is almost certainly somewhere in between.

I agree with you. Compared to Windows, Linux is just crude development.

Linux has its place in the enterprise environment, but I don't recommend it for consumers. 

thanks for the thread

I've been a windows user my whole life, but I might switch soon. Windows is really me off nowadays.

Having had to support Linux (RHEL) in an Enterprise environment, I can say that when it works, it just keeps going. When something goes wrong......yeesh.
Used to toy with Zorin a while back. It was the closest thing to Windows for me :)
Nowadays it's just Raspian.........

abagailsflorist
Having had to support Linux (RHEL) in an Enterprise environment, I can say that when it works, it just keeps going. When something goes wrong......yeesh.

 
I've had a bit of the opposite experience: ever since I started to use Linux, I've noticed just how hard it is to fix anything broken about Windows. Sure, when Windows works, it just works, that's kind of its appeal, but when something's broken, there's usually zero community discussion or documentation about how to fix it. Linux might sometimes be a pain in the ass to fix (though a lot less so these days...Linux has come a long way), but there's usually at least a lot of community support you can draw on to actually fix problems that arise.
 

rjohnson11
Linux has its place in the enterprise environment, but I don't recommend it for consumers. 

I'd say there are definitely use cases for Linux with consumers, just not ones that are all that common in a community like this, with a lot of gamers with fancy new hardware. Besides the obvious appeal to enthusiasts and tinkerers, one of the biggest upsides of Linux is keeping old hardware functional with an actually supported OS. A lot of people don't like having to buy a new computer every four or five years, and you can keep old hardware alive for a remarkably long time with a lightweight Linux distribution. And since old hardware is typically the best supported hardware, you probably don't have to worry about anything not working out of the box. It's much better to use a current, lightweight Linux distro on older hardware than an obselete, out-of-service version of Windows that's not getting security updates anymore.
 
I'll grant you in recent years Microsoft has addressed many of the most glaring problems with Windows, so the case for Linux on the consumer desktop isn't as clear as it was back when Windows was an unstable, buggy, insecure mess of an OS, but Linux still has all the security and stability it always had, and its usability to non-technical users has come leaps and bounds past where it was just a few years ago.

Well if you are confortable with linux use it , i perso use it for server uses only

Yea linux is cery stable and do not use much ressources i like

Even gaming on Linux has gotten better, though i would still recommend Windows if the primary use is gaming.

Personally, I like linux distros as server OS, and Windows as a workstation OS

Depends what you want to do on your O/S - I use Windows most of the time but I also love Debian and Parrot.

I enjoy using Linux for general use type stuff but for decent gaming, we are stuck with Windows.