The original post: /r/linux by /u/Dapper-Inspector-675 on 2025-01-21 06:03:08.

So I’ve wanted to go Linux as my main OS for a long time, however I was always quite limited to me playing a lot of Games being dependent on Office due to Education etc.

But after 2 hard weeks, I’ve finally switch to Linux to be exact NixOS.

Well you might ask, why I went with a rather unknown distro; I tried it and loved the following aspects:

  • Declaratively writing packages and configuration, was always my dream, I loved scripting windows installs as much possible anyway.

  • No more package dependencies conflicting due to each package being seperated

  • No company likue Canoncial/Microsoft behind.

So now I talked about Gaming being important to me, and wow I amazed, stunned, I read about heroic and being able to play non-linux games without anticheat on linux, and I always expected it to be buggy, laggy and far from ready, but some of my Games (Farming Sim 19/22) both worked out-of the house, with cloud sync, even the manual import of a dvd from farming sim19 to heroic worked just fine, amazing!

Next thing Office, while I still use Office, at least I can now on linux, I discovered WinApps:

https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

And they are sooo amazing, it takes some time to understand their docs, however the process is actually really straightforward!

Then you have a docker Win11 VM accessible via Browser with RDP viewer, can install Apps normally and WinApps will link them and make them look like real native apps on linux, and it works actually amazingly well via RDP application streaming!

So overall I can say I’m really happy I finally got rid of microsoft windows almost entirely. Sadly I still have to use Windows for certain Anti-Cheat games, however with my pc always first booting linux, the usage of windows will decline more and more and I certainly believe / hope that with the rising SteamDeck we’ll see more Games support Linux as well.

Why are you still on windows?