Windows 11 is for video games and Excel, not running docker compose and servers. Windows Server is for running servers.

▲ hurfdurf 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

  Windows 11 is for video games

Not even that anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJEo6Kb6Rhg

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protoster 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Coverage is still partial because some VERY popular games do not run on Linux due to anti-cheat

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ErroneousBosh 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Anything you'd want to play runs on Linux.

One that people keep commenting on is Battlefield 6, which has an absolutely perfect user experience in Linux.

If you play it on Windows it's a slow, buggy, crashy, half-finished mess that barely works is just no fun at all.

On Linux, it's perfect. It doesn't work at all, so you don't waste any time trying to enjoy the slow, buggy, crashy, half-finished mess.

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simoncion 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd say that coverage is very, very substantial, but incomplete because some games use anti-cheat that is either extremely invasive and heavily relies on Windows internals, or is anti-cheat that the devs have configured to reject running in Proton.

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protoster 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, it's very good. However, basically-every-current-multiplayer-shooter is a big missing category.

	▲	anonymars 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		BTW as someone increasingly fed up with W11 and thus feeling homeless: how well does VR work?
	▲	simoncion 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> basically-every-current-multiplayer-shooter is a big missing category. Weird. I've been playing many multiplayer shooters from Proton with my Windows-using friends. I suppose this is one of those "am I friends with people who pretty much only play CoD or Fortnite?" things.

▲ yxhuvud 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you think gamers want any of that?

▲ bsuvc 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Except developers run docker compose locally all the time.

And even if I am just using Excel, my work still deserves to be respected by the operating system.

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throw1234567891 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, they do. Then design your workflow in a way that tolerates an outage. What if electricity goes out? A lightning strike? It’s a no-brainier.

Excel stores unsaved data in temp files on disk, just like your vim. Many Windows apps do because of the described behaviour. Use the right tool for the right job.

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anonymars 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Do laptops and hibernate not exist where you live? Do lightning strikes reset your computer monthly?

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pathartl 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not that I disagree with you, but some of us still use desktops because laptops don't always get the job done. That being said, how hard is it to hit ctrl-s

	▲	anonymars 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I originally wrote "and UPSes" but naïvely thought, "surely I can elide that for brevity" As for ctrl-s, wasn't running docker containers as a developer a prominent part of this conversation?
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throw1234567891 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t know where you live, but where I live, my Windows admins send me notifications about planned upgrades.

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perryizgr8 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've a solid UPS.

	▲	throw1234567891 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		so you know what I mean

▲ steveBK123 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Linux is for running servers

	▲	throw1234567891 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you’re some linux hardliner then that’s what your world looks like, sure. Windows Server is for running Windows servers.

▲ BiteCode_dev 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My clients didn't get the memo

	▲	throw1234567891 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Have they gotten the memo reminding them “schedule and execute your updates to avoid waking up to a login screen”? I feel sorry for you having to work with clients who run production workloads on Windows 11.