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  • I really want to like Linux, I really do and I only ever install it on laptops that have aged.

    But it never reaches my desktop, my mainstay, because it can’t do 100% of everything I wanted to. One day, I sat down, opened up a notepad and tried to see what games or what software would work on Linux. My distro of choice would’ve been Mint, here. So, I found a detailed wiki and combed through what games wouldn’t work outright, even with Steam installed. I counted about at least 20+.

    As for software, there is no Notepad++ and I refuse to go without it or settle with alternatives. I don’t mind alternatives, but I’ve been using a computer since I was a kid and for years I’ve had to move on from things I once cherished and happily had as my load-out series of programs to install. I’m just tired of always having to do it and I wasn’t going to, to use Linux.

    Linux just seems to me, to be best geared for lightweight users at best. Very few can wing it with no problem (obviously long-tenured users and/or programmers). If checking your mail, browsing and streaming is all you care about without the Windows nonsense, with some scattershot choice of gaming, then Linux is for you.