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    [–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 22 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    I will likely go back to mint once Windows 10 is done. 11 is pure trash.

    The major hang up I have is gaming. I have an Nvidia card and it's never behaved well with Linux. I also like GTAO but I will no longer be able to play it. Most of my other titles work fine.

    I don't know what I'm going to do yet.

    [–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago

    I switched to Linux Mint several months ago. Thanks to Proton, All my Steam games that I bought for Windows run great. (I'm using an nVidia RTX 3060). And any older games like "Deus Ex" or "Giants: Citizen Kabuto" run under Wine, using the default settings.

    [–] nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    pop!os reportedly packs in and handles the proprietary nvidia drivers for you, which can be a pain to handle yourself. i haven't tried it nor do i have nvidia but i see it highly recommended a lot.

    [–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Am using Pop!_OS for video editing (DaVinci Resolve Studio) and gaming with nvidia GPU. I don’t have to think much about the operating system or GPU drivers, they work perfectly fine and get out of the way when I need to do some work.

    Also have it installed on both kids’ PCs (both with nvidia GPUs) and my wife’s laptop (AMD iGPU). My son has installed a few GNOME extensions to customize; my wife and daughter have left it pretty much stock. It’s about as unobtrusive as an OS can get.

    I will always have a special place in my heart for EndeavourOS, but right now, I feel like I have a more solid foundation with Pop!_OS.

    [–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    have you tried Kdenlive and Olive? i heard those are very advanced and open-source. I will also switch to those from InShot

    I got my start with kdenlive and still pull up some of my old project files in it, yeah. It’s really good, has a much better feature set than one would expect.

    I got into the Blackmagic ecosystem with an Intensity Pro 4k capture card and was pretty happy to see that they offer native Linux support, even if it is for Rocky 8, so I snagged one of their Resolve Speed Editors, which came with a Resolve Studio license, and I’ve been using that ever since.

    [–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

    i heard good things about Bazzite abd Ubuntu/Pop OS with nvidia support

    [–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    I too am in a conundrum. I like the idea of Linux a lot, but pretty much all I use my laptop for is a) Excel and b) very rarely games, neither of which make sense to use Linux for.

    I'll build a home server at some point and I think that'll be my start.

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Have you tried Libre Office? It's an open source Microsoft Office alternative that works pretty great. You can try it on Windows.

    [–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

    In my experience people who really use excel are always going to need excel.

    Also in my experience excel runs great on Mac Laptops, which are so much better than any other laptop I’ve touched in the last 20 years. If you’ve tried their touchpads you’ll know what I mean. Total game changers for ~~truly mobile computing~~ working without a desk.

    [–] dufkm@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

    In my experience people who really use excel are always going to need excel

    That's my experience too, unfortunately. LibreOffice is lagging too far behind O365 on features that you can reliably cooperate on spreadsheets across applications. Something like e.g. XLOOKUP is a fairly recent addition in Calc.

    [–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

    If your system supports windows 11 then dual boot for the games you want windows support for.

    Then you have a bare metal option for those games and you can run whatever distro you want along side it.