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Yep, I had the same thought. I run Win10 on my desktop and PopOS on my laptop; I plan to keep running Win10 for as long as possible, but if this cloud-based nonsense is the future, I'm not hesitating to also switch my desktop to Linux. This stuff is so ridiculous.

Can't find the package "bullet", I guess i'll need to google it. Oh, there are dependencies i need to install first. Can't find them via apt though. After three hours of googling I find a forum post from 2008 that describes how to compile the dependency yourself. My question in a Linux forum is already locked because there was a similar question in 1997 in which neither of the commands nor software packages or links even exist anymore. I try compiling myself, but it seems i need another piece of software for that. That thing was abandoned in 2012, replaced by another one, then another one in 2018. It doesn't compile though, no matter what i do. I read somewhere that the whole distribution i use is not up-to-date enough and i need to install a nightly bleeding edge upgrade that contains the needed dependencies. I do. After reboot, my audio doesn't work anymore, the resolution is 500x133, there is smoke coming from my mouse and coffee pouring out of the buttons of my screen. I decide to use a completely different distribution, because the one i chose was for noob losers anyways. Three hours later, after three failed attempts of installing because seemingly i exhaled in the general direction of the USB-stick while it was written, I manage to install the right boot manager so that my windows partition isn't lost in the abyss, install the correct drivers for everything, set the keyboard to german three dozen times so i don't become psychotic when i try to use the terminal, save the princess from the evil lord and provide the village with enough resources that they survive the next winter, i finally open up the terminal to install "bullet".

There are dependencies I need to install first.

I really hope it's different now, but about a decade ago I tried to use Linux for multiple years and I really tried to like it, but it has always been a pain in the ass as soon as you try to set up something that is a little more fringe/advanced like software for music production.

I only own Linux and macOS devices, except for my gaming PC. With Steamdeck and SteamOS I am really hopeful to eliminate this last Windows installation in the next few years.

protip: when you install windows 10, disconnect the internet. Then it will say you have to create a local account. No MS account bullshit here. You can't do that on windows 11 though. If you don't have internet, you cna't install windows 11. But if you install windows 10 first using this trick, then upgrade to windows 11, you will still have a local account. Or just use linux.

The what?

Most of the games I'd use Windows for I cna run easily and just as well with Proton on Linux (Arch).

You need to enable Proton for each game in the right-click settings but once you do you can sinatll anything.

In fact Irecently played a cracked version fo Hades without using Steam. It just installed and ran using Wine.

majority of games run just fine on linux/proton, some don't but only cause devs are stuckup and won't allow proton in the anti-cheat (destiny, rust, lost ark, to name a few)

Most of the games I'd use Windows for I cna run easily and just as well with Proton on Linux (Arch).

You need to enable Proton for each game in the right-click settings but once you do you can sinatll anything.

In fact Irecently played a cracked version fo Hades without using Steam. It just installed and ran using Wine.

and if your internet is out or shit, you can't even use your computer. I'll pass.

What do you mean? If you're dual-booting Windows and Linux, Windows Update will reliably mess up the bootloader because who wouldnwant to use another OS?