• AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    #NobaraGang. I gave Mint a go a few years ago and just never really got anywhere close to replacing my Windows install.

    I’ve gotten 90% of all use cases handled by Nobara at this point. The main outlier being my sim racing setup just because according to forums the drivers for all the peripherals are just really not ready for adoption yet. My sim rig will stay on Windows for now as the whole reason I invested in a proper cockpit and peripherals was to reduce the friction involved with enjoying the sims. Also, anti-cheat seems to be a no-go on Linux for now so as an iRacing enjoyer, Linux is out of the question for the time being.

    That said, my entire home studio for recording (incl. Hardware peripherals), my daily driver use case and all my other gaming needs are currently met by Nobara. I’m so happy to be able to end my reliance on Microsoft.

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      5 months ago

      I’m so happy to be able to end my reliance on Microsoft.

      Microsoft is a frequent contributor to core Linux technologies these days. Lennart Poettering to Microsoft has probably been the most prominent move but there are others that work on Azure Linux and WSL who also upstream their work.

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        5 months ago

        What I was trying to say was that I’m happy to be free of Microsoft’s ability to just sunset an operating system version that I liked and replace it with an even more privacy-disrespecting, ad and AI-bloated nightmare.

        Nobara is at least under my control in a significant way. Windows, like so many other software solutions these days wants to treat me like cattle and I want no part in that.

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          5 months ago

          What I was trying to say was that I’m happy to be free of Microsoft’s ability to just sunset an operating system version that I liked and replace it

          I figure you weren’t a Gnome user during the 2.x to 3.x transition times.

          Nobara is at least under my control in a significant way.

          Yes but also Nobara isn’t an LTS distribution. Its versions get sunset way sooner than any major release of Windows.