I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.

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    8 months ago

    I too haven’t used Windows in around 6 months. The Ubuntu experience has been much smoother and less punishing on my battery life. Most of the Steam games I tried have worked nicely on Linux.

    I still keep the Windows partition lying around because of some gamedev and art software that I haven’t tried on Linux. Also the Linux experience for tablet mode for a 2 in 1 is subpar compared to Windows.

    But overall, I don’t really miss Windows at all, and I dread the thought of booting into it, having to wait 1 hour for it to update; then debugging why file indexing is running at 100% cpu, why antivirus is slowing down compilation times 300% compared to Linux, and why the hell standby mode refuses to work and starts running the fans at full power at 4 am.