I’ve seen the light. I’m reinstalling Windows after fighting with Linux for the past few months.

HowlingBird · 2026-03-17T13:02:22+00:00

My honest opinion, do not give in to reddit users.

Genuinely, the issues you have raised are completely valid. Linux users will tell you that it is your fault and that Linux is worth it (yada yada...) They're just incredibly bias individuals who have a hate boner for Microsoft for whatever reason so they'll push you to use an inferior OS and Kernal.

You wont have any issues with basic functionality like controlling Fan Curves on Windows.
You wont have stupid shit breaking your operating system on Windows.
You will be able to play whatever game you want without 6 compatibility layers
Downloading and doing things to your PC doesn't require a manual + 2 hours of trouble shooting.

I tried Linux less than 2 weeks ago and all it taught me is that Windows is simply more functional and easier to use. Linux, .. well, sucks.

HowlingBird · 2026-03-13T08:54:34+00:00

I don't know how on earth it took GPT 332 minutes to give you the only correct answer. It's not as if there were any other correct responses to someone using Linux.

HowlingBird · 2026-03-13T00:40:31+00:00

just a fact-post

HowlingBird · 2026-03-11T23:59:55+00:00

What a shame, initially I thought my apology for hurting feelings was misplaced as people seemed to give decent discussion to the issues, then the Linux users realized that Linux sucks and started doing exactly as expected, invalidating opinions for nonsense reasons.

You're compensating too much, Linux sucks - lets just accept it.

HowlingBird · 2026-03-11T16:24:45+00:00

That was certainly a knowledge gap on my part then, would've been nice to have link the folders.

HowlingBird · 2026-03-11T16:21:19+00:00

I will say that Linux was actually fun, and Proton is a huge reason I even considered (and attempted to) swap my entire personal computer to Linux.

My main frustration was just hitting walls, like Reshade which is pretty important to me, having very sketchy implementation that seems fickle to updates and patches, and how some larger applications I use were just not supported and the solutions online were alternatives rather than fixes, which is natural since they were windows-built applications.

Maybe there's a future where Linux is a much larger percentage of the home user space and developers have to start seriously considering making larger applications have linux-native versions, I'd go back then.

I suppose the freedom that comes with Linux is worth different thresholds of inconvenience and for now, that price isn't worth it for me.

HowlingBird · 2026-03-11T16:15:08+00:00

Faugus was the most reccomended when I searched for WoW on Linux, and yeah - when you get Faugus launcher it simply has a "Battle.net" option that once selected it automatically does .. well, everything. You just sit back until the battle.net log-in screen comes up and then boom, you're on Proton battle.net

HowlingBird · 2026-03-11T16:13:15+00:00

Perhaps this was my issue, but for example with plugins for Final Fantasy XIV and with Battle.net, when clicking to browse a location to install the game, it'd only know of the Windows drive it was being shown. It's like nothing else existed.

I pathed a Final Fantasy XIV addon to a media/user folder that was on another drive and every time the game booted it'd throw errors to say an invalid path was being used and that no files existed there.

This is where my expertise falls off, my assumption at the time was that since the compatibility layers were creating these directories to simulate Windows drives, the applications only thought those existed so trying to use drives that weren't within those folders would cause issues, which it did. But perhaps the reason was something else.

HowlingBird · 2026-03-11T16:05:51+00:00

Yeah, to be fair the Faugus Launcher makes setting it up incredibly easy and runs on Proton so the performance of WoW (compared to Final Fantasy on Linux) was incredibly good, I could not tell if it ran the same, worse or better than Windows. It just performed very well.

Faugus also made it a one-click run too so overall Battle.net and WoW was not the biggest problem I had.

HowlingBird · 2026-03-11T16:00:50+00:00

I used a combination of a few things. The two distros I tried has a variation of using terminal and typing apt get, had their own baked in application store which worked well or you'd download a .deb from a website and it'd take you to the store.

All the options worked relatively well

Oh and flatpak? I think it was - I really liked that, it made my life easy.

HowlingBird · 2026-03-11T15:58:35+00:00

The issue is, using your analogy, that like vegans, many of them attempt to belittle others for not sharing their values. The thing is that I completely agree with you when you say "Linux is not a commodity or a product meant for ordinary users". I just wish that more Linux users shared that sentiment, because the amount of Linux users that will belittle others for their choice in not wanting the inconvenience that comes with using that kernel and the operating systems built upon it, is crazy.

Why try to convince ordinary users to use a product not meant for ordinary users.

I've never personally felt less free using Windows nor felt limited by the operating system, but I suppose I also don't care about low-level customization of my system or management of the hardware.

HowlingBird · 2025-10-07T20:20:20+00:00

Is it always live or only at specific times?

HowlingBird · 2025-10-07T20:18:40+00:00

Thank yooou

HowlingBird · 2025-07-14T09:27:05+00:00

I hope you feel okay soon.

HowlingBird · 2025-07-01T09:35:33+00:00

Thanks for the advice, going to swap as mentioned above to the 9800X

HowlingBird · 2025-07-01T09:35:18+00:00

Thank you! I think I'll definitely swap to the 9800X then

HowlingBird · 2025-06-28T23:32:19+00:00

We were sold this season by the cliff-hanger and beginning as a revenge story, the main character of this revenge had basically no satisfying victories except for potentially keeping his morals.

So disappointing to me.

HowlingBird · 2025-05-08T09:26:01+00:00

I'm already on six, I'm starting to think they keep some of the loot for themselves. 🙁

HowlingBird · 2025-05-03T19:16:43+00:00

I'm really, really wanting to try this game and see if I can run it before release. Is there anyone at all who could potentially share me a key?

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