Who here uses Linux Round the clock, Main OS and everything?

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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I mean, being petty about what OS and browser employees use is just a result of your bosses being a “manipulative ass” and a “pure idiot.” When your workplace has a bunch of little, stupid problems, in reality it’s usually just one big (but still stupid) problem. “Good job” includes “good boss.” this is what “work culture” really means: how nice it is to work there, not how many nerf guns they have.

basically, i’m throwing my lot in with the “find yourself a new job before you break” crowd. : ) good luck!

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Creating threads about Linux is popular here isn’t?
It feels like a repeat. Aren’t there like dozen of threads already on who uses Linux and Why, and why not…?

JUST DO IT!!!

see if it works out and if you got questions probably some Linux guy here will help. Its all about your personal preferences and your strength to embrace total freedom and singularity!
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But this is where the menly men who use it 24 hours 365 days a year are.

And those other places are for the lame dual booters. /s

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I don’t use it on my gaming rig because there’s no point. But I use it on every other machine.

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Yup it’s skyrocketed, just hope this forum can still remain pragmatic and not turn OS racist.

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Uplay. You’re OK with using Uplay. Not even Windows only people are OK with Uplay.

@Baz We’re incredibly lucky that BSD users don’t carry the same political zealousness that their namesake school does haha

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What problems are you talking about with Uplay?

To me it’s no different than Steam/Origin, as in, they are required to use for many games nowdays which is unfortunate, but it is how it is atm.

It’s gotten better than it used to be. But would I say I’m OK with it? No, I use it because I have to for the game, simple as that.

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It has a history of hard-locking systems, corrupting data, several flavors of just plain not working, and it is avoidable for most ubi titles.

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Maybe in older titles, but I don’t think you can in For Honor’s case.

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UPlay really isn’t as bad as it used to be, at least its better than Origin for which I constantly have issues with. Although It would be interesting to see if Ubisoft/EA followed Steams example and release a client for Linux, my guess is that it’ll never happen unless Windows takes a major downfall.

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Arch Linux 24/7 365x4. Debian before that since 2010. Dos 4, 5, 6, Win3.x, NT blah blah blah before that. Unix and X on a Sun Sparcstation in CS at University (that was like discovering how to breathe - back in 1989). Anyhoo, Windows sees CPU cycles in a VM when running AutoCAD Civil3d because that is the only engineering software that can do what must be done. When there is a viable Linux alternative they will get my money and free marketing. BrisCAD is slowly gaining ground but 5 years back or so. When gaming it is ONLY on Linux as a matter of principle; since that is a voting block of 1 - not so at work.

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Yea, probably a pipe dream on that, unless MS somehow excludes EA and ubi on the new uwp initiative.

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I just want all my games on Linux, I’ll probably move to Fedora and do GPU passthrough after I get a Vega card/possibly Ryzen as well and call it a day, having to boot into Windows for gaming is a pain.

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that already just works ™ on arch btw. if you don’t want to do the obnoxious install (which I don’t blame you for) just use antergos. it’s an arch system with an easy button installer.

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GNU/linux, full time now since windows went crazy, Just a little bit on games with windows as other boot drive for Cyan Obduction, not a great gamer and can do all I want on Linux browsing, etc not hardcore as still learning, used MS since 2.11 or even before, /rant shame to see corporate stratergy to overide users like they are now, dumb down and force feed /rant

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My main issue at the moment is that I only have a 4690k and 8GBs of memory and my guess is that performance in the Windows VM will be very poor with this hardware configuration. At the moment I get really close to using all of my memory when running Windows VMs, Sometimes I’ve even used all of my memory and a fair bit of swap and had my system lockup for a while until I close Chrome.

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the only limiting factor here is your memory. grab one more 8gb stick and you’d be golden.

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If I can get some cheap DDR3 I would, at this point DDR3 costs as much or more than DDR4 in some cases and I’m likely to upgrade to a newer platform within 12 months so I’ll have to decide whether it is worth it or not.

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I personally have been using Arch on and off (mostly on) for about 2 (maybe 3?) years. I’ve switched back and forth between GNOME and KDE/Plasma as a desktop environment but I’m thinking of trying more Desktop Environments and seeing which ones fair better for me.

So far, KDE and GNOME both fit, for different reasons. I’ve kept KDE on my laptop though, since it’s nicer for a touchpad than GNOME 3 is.

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You can add me to this list, Linux will pretty much work for all my needs without a hassle. The only thing I ever use my windows VM for at this point is occasionally playing league with my friends.

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