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I was gifted an SSD upgrade for Christmas!!!

Because it's such a huge upgrade in performance from the cheap drive I've been using till now, I'll be looking at moving my OS to it

The easiest way to do that is a fresh install (especially as there are a few issues with my current Win install) but it does also mean it's time for the tradition!

What is The Tradition you ask?

Well every time I have to reinstall my operating system, I try to use Linux as my full time operating system for a week!

Now... I've done this before many times and I'm currently on Windows because there is usually some "deal breaker" that prevents me from switching full time (I used Linux as my main OS for 2 years back 2010-2011, as I had no issues)

The last deal breakers I had where just:

  • Screen Sharing on Linux through Discord has no Audio
  • Clip Studio Paint didn't have full compatablity
  • Some games I couldn't play

Since then though,
I no longer use CSP as my main drawing software as I've moved to Krita for 90% of my work. Also CSP for the version I'm stuck with (I'm not going to upgrade to 2) has genuinely good compatability on Linux now for everything but it's cloud services (that I don't use)

With video games, 100% of what I actually play regularly works great on *nix now thanks to Proton and the efforts of Valve. This is now a non-issue as the only games I occassionally play that won't work on Linux now (Fortnite, Valorant) I can honestly live without

As for the Discord thing... this is my biggest concern and may still be a deal breaker through my test. It's been YEARS and has been the most requested feature in Discord's support forums for 2 years now. I understand that the community has some work arounds, but all of them seem rather complicated to setup or use through Mic streaming, which is terrible for QoL. This is all 100% on Discord btw who for some reason don't want to support the *nix market segmant EVEN WITH the Steamdeck now exisiting and a lot of new users wanting the feature. We have screen share on Mobile(iOS/Andriod), ChromeOS and Mac, but not the Linux desktop...

I'm still going to try The Tradition as there are a LOT of things that I greatly appreciate about Linux that I've missed being on Windows, but ultimately I only have the one computer and I need it for getting not just work but also relaxation done with

Ultimately I'll choose what's right for me and I'm likely going to post updates here for those interested!
But if it's still Windows after all this time I'm going to be very sorely disapointed

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digitalfox
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Seeing this from the fediverse, best of wishes with your Linux trial-run adventure!

I didn't realize Discord's Linux desktop app lacked audio capture for streaming, too. When I have to, I've been using it in Firefox with the Mic workaround, which is.. not ideal, agreed.

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MewMus
@MewMus

Considering I spontaniously share my screen to friends maybe 1-2 times a DAY it was genueinly the main thing that had me switch back last time despite all of the other QoL improvments I actually had on Linux

It's been an issue for such a long time and after promising one time "yeah we'll go look into that" it's been silent for years and I'm pretty certain isn't ever going to get fixed

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Oof, yeah, I can see how doing it every day magnifies the problem for you.

The whole "run some commands/a script to create a null PulseAudio device" then moving your game audio over to that and it's still microphone (maybe even mono?) quality…

With the Steam Deck existing, maybe folks will see to automate the setup to at least make it able to "detect which game is focused/playing, shove that audio over the mic." Maybe. Possibly.

(In a similar vein, Valve still hasn't automated audio switching or base station power management for SteamVR, but the community managed to semi-hackily automate it.)

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linux has come a long way, but there's always some snag catching the tail somewhere which makes it less than ideal for full time general usage. i keep a smaller ssd with linux on it for my dev environment but i almost immediately switch back to windows after i'm done for everything else just so i know everything will Just Work (mostly)

at the very least, it should be exciting to see the little ways things have been polished up since the last time you honoured The Tradition !

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MewMus
@MewMus

There are a lot of things on Windows that certainly don't 'just work' unforuntaly

Specifically

  • Windows will routinely reset all of my graphics tablets settings
  • It also has really inconsistant application of it's colour management
  • I have a lot of issues with file managment in particular as well
  • I use a side mounted task bar, but if I ever do upgrade to Win11 that functionality is just gone

That said none of these have been "deal breakers" just regular frustrations

The only close to 'perfect' OS I've ever daily driven was MacOS and I'd rather not go back to that for a lot of moral reasons mostly (the same reasons that really don't want me on windows either)

I'm always excited to try again and I'm sure I'll once again learn different things as I do so!

Nothing is ever perfect, but I like that FOSS has the potential to be customised to my needs far more than anything else

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