Well Windows, it has been fun, but for a week in Linux will decide your fate.
lol
But anyways guys who else is switching and why? Whats your distro and desktop enviornment? I'm personally switching because all the games I mostly play are supported and I love, and I mean love, tiling window managers. They are so good for my workflow and productivity. My WM is i3 and base is Ubuntu.
Kinda off topic, but I was reading a post from a few months back, and someone stated you could actually get 10-30% MORE FPS in most games by running Windows in KVM with pass through. May I ask why only a week?
Just switched over to manjaro from debian. I love that you can customize everything easily, and it looks beautiful. I will say though the /lib /usr/lib thing is strange
and pacman has ruined my default manjaro gnome install many times so I just went with xfce. Some packages were conflicting and all it did was give me a quick warning and it wouldn't reboot. I wonder if it's common for an arch user to break their machine every once in a while with updates, considering that the mainline arch doesn't really test them. I'm lucky manjaro does.
LinuxMint with cinnamon DE ATM, but I've been switched for over five years. Started on Ubuntu netbook remix and I've tried a bunch of different distro's/ DE's. I only made a windows box to play AAA titles on then immediately reboot.
Awesome is also a very good tiling WM (used it for quite some time), and the configuration files are in lua, which is a bit easier to learn than Haskell.
Gnome also has a tiling extension (shellshape), this is what I am using right now.
I switched almost 8 years ago. That doesn't mean, I am some kind of guru, but I can solve most of my problems. Started with Gnome 2, tried Gnome 3, KDE (3;4), LXDE (still using it on my ancient machines), XFCE, and several WMs. Never got used to full tiling manager, but I somewhat simulate in my Unity set-up. I enjoy the user- friendliness of Unity and still can tile my windows the way I like it.
If I may ask, what is your reason for switching? I approve of your switch, just curious.
I was using Linux just about 24/7 while booting into Windows to use programs that aren't Linux compatible. However when I brought my 970 GTX it buggered the whole OS up and I've yet to get it working properly which is extremely annoying. I will tell you this has really affected my choice of purchasing another nVidia product in the future. So I've been back on windows for my machine machine. I was running Debian 7 with GNOME 3. Currently my laptop uses Open Suse 13.1 (I think) with GNOME 3. It's been a joy and it's so fast! On a Core Duo 2 :P.
Its possibly a debian/nvidia issue. The binary drivers are a bit of a hassle occasionally. I will say that ive not had many problems in the past with nvidia on Arch Linux or Gentoo(variants).
That said, I agree about thinking about future purchases. I moved to an AMD GPU just recently (last couple of months) and im so glad I did. I still have the choice of the catalyst binary drivers (which again require some manual configuration) but the free software radeon drivers work_really_ well.
I have thought about switching to linux but I decided not to because I don't have any problems with windows (yet) and I have 80+ games on steam so chances are a lot of them are not compatible with linux.
A week to test how things go and if it runs smoothly, then i'll throw Windows into a box using Zoltan's what if I want everything forum post and also one I found on Xen VGA passthru. I wanted to do it for a while but didn't have the time/money for a AMD based graphics card, my current card is a Nvidia GTX 650 Ti Boost Super-clocked and the guide said I would have to hard/soft mod it into a Quadro but didn't see my specific card. Also could anyone recommend a compatible card with Xen/KVM? (Budget is up to 250$)