Yeah, have to be honest, gaming has gotten A LOT easier on Linux now. Thanks to Valve of course, Linus was right after all, Valve will save the Linux desktop.
Installing Linux on a personal laptop for just browsing or music, video, movies, whatever (older laptops that just struggled with Win10 on them), yes, and I have done that for some of my customers (those that asked for a recommendation or just said “do whatever, just get it working”). But, in large production environments with software that is absolutely tightly tied with AD and MS, no way. I have done it, but the man hours were just… too much… and the pay was a few percent over my regular salary. I know I bit more than I could chew as soon as I said yes, but I really wanted to try to get things working with Linux. It was a challenge, I have to admit that, I like challenges, lol 😂. But was it worth it? Absolutely not. Custom wine patches, custom this custom that… I had to make my own custom repo with patches just to get things working, mod code, add new strings to patch in newer releases… it was a nightmare to be honest. That is not a 1 man job. Still, even if I had help, it’s just not worth it. Hiring someone to do custom patches and maintain the repo vs. 1 or 2k USD to throw in Windows licenses… I mean, you get the idea. In the end, it’s just cheaper to buy the damn licenses 🤷.
IDK about sustem76, we don’t have that where I live. We do have lappys with Linux preinstalled, but as soon as someone buys one, they just ask me to install Windows on it 🤷. They’re cheaper cuz you don’t pay for the Windows license and afterwards I just use KMS38 on the Windows install 🤷.
Yeah, have to be honest, gaming has gotten A LOT easier on Linux now. Thanks to Valve of course, Linus was right after all, Valve will save the Linux desktop.
Installing Linux on a personal laptop for just browsing or music, video, movies, whatever (older laptops that just struggled with Win10 on them), yes, and I have done that for some of my customers (those that asked for a recommendation or just said “do whatever, just get it working”). But, in large production environments with software that is absolutely tightly tied with AD and MS, no way. I have done it, but the man hours were just… too much… and the pay was a few percent over my regular salary. I know I bit more than I could chew as soon as I said yes, but I really wanted to try to get things working with Linux. It was a challenge, I have to admit that, I like challenges, lol 😂. But was it worth it? Absolutely not. Custom wine patches, custom this custom that… I had to make my own custom repo with patches just to get things working, mod code, add new strings to patch in newer releases… it was a nightmare to be honest. That is not a 1 man job. Still, even if I had help, it’s just not worth it. Hiring someone to do custom patches and maintain the repo vs. 1 or 2k USD to throw in Windows licenses… I mean, you get the idea. In the end, it’s just cheaper to buy the damn licenses 🤷.
IDK about sustem76, we don’t have that where I live. We do have lappys with Linux preinstalled, but as soon as someone buys one, they just ask me to install Windows on it 🤷. They’re cheaper cuz you don’t pay for the Windows license and afterwards I just use KMS38 on the Windows install 🤷.
System76 are the people who make Pop! They make laptops designed to run Linux that come with pop preinstalled