Those of you who still use windows for one reason or more, where do you draw the line about the shitty things microsoft is doing? By drawing the line I mean using some other operating system no matter how bothersome it might be.
Not judging or anything, i’m just curious where the general mindset is about it.
I haven’t made the switch off of Windows, but I have started dabbling in Linux. I am ok with tech, better than the average person, but I don’t know anything about programming or coding or any of it. I have a Raspberry Pi, some other electronic stuff, and a book that is project based teaching of python. I’ve spent the last month or so reading up on self hosting, Linux, and other open source stuff.
My biggest hesitation is World of Warcraft. It’s the only game I play, it’s the only game I’ve ever really played, and I don’t want to lose access to that. I have started looking into how wow is run on Linux. But I’m not ready to fully switch yet.
You can play WoW on Linux, though there may be a few extra hoops to jump through when installing the BattleNet client. Hell, there was even a test case where someone got it running on their SteamDeck as a proof of concept.
It runs in Wine or Lutris, which acts as a compatibility layer. The compatibility layer doesn’t emulate Windows directly. It just translates the Windows-specific stuff into something that Linux can use, and vice-versa. That’s why lots of games can actually run better on Linux, because you’re running a Windows native program without fully emulating Windows. So you don’t have all of the Windows bloat that tends to bog down gaming PCs.
I’ve played it on Linux by installing Battle.net through Lutris. There are guides specifically about how to do it.
Yeah, I’ve started reading the guides on how to install it. Wow is the one thing that has really given me pause, the only thing really. But Windows is getting so frustrating that I am actually making myself comfortable with Linux so I can switch.
Do you have any guides specific you would recommend?
THANK YOU! I will check them out.
I have been a Windows user since I started using computers in the 90s and wow has been my biggest hesitation. But with all the stuff Microsoft is doing with AI, ads, and data, it’s the first time I’ve considered and started actively looking into switching to Linux. There are so many instructions and things I don’t understand, but it’s nice to have something recommended by someone who used it. So again, thank you!!!
I played Dragonflight just fine. I hope you can get it working.
Thanks. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get it working, so I reinstalled Windows. It kept freezing at install then when trying to log in. But I’m going to try again when I have some time off.
Why anyone is OK with Microsoft’s key logging of everything including passwords is beyond me.
I thought this was about recall but no, there is a second keylogger in Windows lol
Step 4: Toggle the switch off under Getting to Know You. The keylogger is now off.
Well that’s not creepy at all…
I use windows because the fire code mandates it, and cause having sunlight in rooms is nice. Also I can see the weather and when the mail arrives.
My dog’s use Windows to spot their dreaded enemy, the squirrel.
We will never be able to repay them for this vigilance
Still looking for an alternative to FL studio. Spent lots of money on it. And I’m really just hoping they will sooner than later support Linux.
Not familiar with it personally, but I know it gets used on Linux. I’ve seen a friend of mine play with it once back when it was still called FruityLoops on Windows a decade ago, but I’ve never personally had it.
There will be a little bit of a hassle initially, a dash of typing in the console, (which shouldn’t scare you, but some people freak out if their screen has to look like the 80s, even if just for a minute-even if they are 80s/90s kids) but it seems like it works fine once you get it set up.
I don’t know anyone using it personally but going by mentions of it and several pages showing directions to get it running (via Wine) seems to indicate it works.
Anyone familiar with it can add more info, I’m just going by the fact that directions to install it exist.
Wine will help run a bunch of things that are Windows-only. It’s not perfect and doesn’t work with everything, but FL studio seems to be one it does (based on what I see- again I’d wait to see if someone who uses it chimes in).
I’ve looked into the wine setup, and while I do see some people having success with it, even the successful ones say it’s quite unstable and very laggy on audio processing.
Fruity loops was a long ass time ago It makes perfect sense that worked.
I’m on FL studio 2025, prob soon to be 2026 if there is an update.
As soon as I find an alternative to dual booting just for FL, windows is bye bye
I don’t know if it “worked” back then either. At the time my friend hadn’t switched to Linux either.
Win7 was still current back then. I don’t know about him, but I started to look for a way out when I first installed 10. And by the time 11 was just being hinted at, everything I heard just redoubled my resolve to switch. Honestly having candy crush on the start menu was the straw that broke my willingness to look past the “convenience” of a commercial OS.
