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PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop" (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

The games I like to play actually saw performance gains when switching over.

Yes. That's part what got me to let go of my dual-booting habit.

When booted to Windows, I would get tempted to play something (that I had installed on both sides) lazily without rebooting back to Linux, and it would suck.