<story><title>Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabloid-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Mate on Friday and WOW, color me impressed!&lt;p&gt;The only reason I stuck with Windows on my desktop machine for so long was gaming, and the last time I tried switching over was 10 years ago. Spoiler: it was a shitshow.&lt;p&gt;This time, things are MUCH better! The Mate desktop environment is simple, stable, clean, does the job and gets out of your way (kinda reminds me of Windows 2000). Steam&amp;#x27;s Proton makes running games a breeze. All of my favorites just work. I could even run battle.net as a non-steam game, USING Steam&amp;#x27;s Proton!&lt;p&gt;And the kicker? Blizzard&amp;#x27;s recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I&amp;#x27;ve never before seen such sorcery.&lt;p&gt;So bye bye Windows, except when I&amp;#x27;m running one as a VM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lexandstuff</author><text>This will surely be the year of the Linux desktop.</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabloid-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Mate on Friday and WOW, color me impressed!&lt;p&gt;The only reason I stuck with Windows on my desktop machine for so long was gaming, and the last time I tried switching over was 10 years ago. Spoiler: it was a shitshow.&lt;p&gt;This time, things are MUCH better! The Mate desktop environment is simple, stable, clean, does the job and gets out of your way (kinda reminds me of Windows 2000). Steam&amp;#x27;s Proton makes running games a breeze. All of my favorites just work. I could even run battle.net as a non-steam game, USING Steam&amp;#x27;s Proton!&lt;p&gt;And the kicker? Blizzard&amp;#x27;s recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I&amp;#x27;ve never before seen such sorcery.&lt;p&gt;So bye bye Windows, except when I&amp;#x27;m running one as a VM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>birracerveza</author><text>Sadly there&amp;#x27;s still a few very heavy hitters that make Linux a no-go for some.&lt;p&gt;Genshin Impact and Fortnite are unusable.&lt;p&gt;Unreal Editor requires Windows too.&lt;p&gt;And I don&amp;#x27;t know how usable VR is on Windows.&lt;p&gt;Plus the random assortment of windows programs for which there &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; be a Linux equivalent but you really need &lt;i&gt;that one that only works on Windows&lt;/i&gt; for some reason.&lt;p&gt;But at this point it&amp;#x27;s just a matter of time, I guess.</text></comment>