Sometimes i wonder why windows is getting heavier and heavier each release but in other hand linux is getting lighter and lighter each update ?
Fun fact: if you run a newer kernel version on old hardware you will get better performance than running a kernel from when the hardware was released. It pains me when people run some old version of Debian on a 25 year old laptop. It is best to run something current.
It depends. On older devices there isn’t much testing of newer versions of the kernel so they can be more broken than older version.
Case in point, recently on an old laptop (~12 years) I noticed video performance was really bad which I later found out was due to modern distros defaulting to the
iHDintel graphics driver. ButiHDis only supported from 5th gen (Broadwell) onward. So, on older devices anything depending on the graphics driver for hardware acceleration (like video decode) fails and falls back to software rendering.The kernel scheduler is much better in newer versions
and feels like it got better recently. when i used kernel 6.2 on my (high end) hardware, everything froze when copying a large amount of files. on 6.8 there’s just a bit of delay. still not as good as I’d like, but maybe some day.
Haven’t Debian and most other distros stopped supporting “i386” for quite a while now? I remember reading something like that, but they still have 32-bit isos up.
IIRC a bunch of distros moved to i586 or i686 as their minimum CPU version, which means packages get compiled with instructions that aren’t supported by 386 and 486 CPUs. So those 32-bit ISOs only work on relatively recent 32-bit chips and will crash on chips which are 30+ years old.
With SteamOS coming to 3rd party handhelds, hoping we get SteamOS gaming desktops. Windows 11 isn’t it.
You want Bazzite. It’s a Fedora based atomic distribution designed for gaming. Pain in the ass to install any app that isn’t flatpacked, but it makes gaming super easy. It works on handheld and on desktop.
I’ll be running 10 until I have to switch to Linux. I’d switch now but I can barely be asked to take the trash can out, let alone set up all my stuff again.
I am also on this sinking titanic. I’ll probably have to dual boot win10/Linux just for Nvidia related work and maybe gaming too. Not really looking forward to all that, but it’s fast approaching like they say.
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Interesting take, it’s also not what I do.
I really hope we get at least 3% of those users to switch to Linux
I did although I’m not as proficient as I’d like. I also converted my mother in law by giving her a raspberri pi for bill paying and the internet.
I made the switch from windows 10 to Linux a month ago and it’s been great overall, and no major issues with gaming so far
I kept usin Win7 way past after Microsoft stopped supporting. It was only when Steam stopped working that I switched to Linux. That’s just on my gaming PC though. My daily driver is running on MacOS.
My cold dead hands!
I use to be on Windows 7 until last month, where Steam definitly refuse to start. Now I’ve switch to Ubuntu. No regret.
