looking for a system that scans my existing games, gives a “yes it all works” or “no and here’s why”, that I can use to actually migrate
Well, you can connect your steam account to protondb and tap on “explore” button. That will not cover any software\games, but at least something. Altho, I would say: why you even want to switch at this point? Like, if you can withstand windows bullshitery but not linux bullshitery - stay on windows mate, no one will judge you. That why I staying on linux for example, even tho my work as junior system administrator mostly requires me to work with windows. I just can’t go to home, boot my pc and acknowledge the fact, that windows “updated” driver of my 7900xtx and I can’t play damn minecraft for 10 minutes before bed, cause I need to spend at least 20-30 minutes to fix that shit. I just can’t. Yes, my arch linux may broke on occasion cause of update or smth like that, but at least I have full control about that. And if something happens, it’s usually cause you decided to do something, not cause Microsoft decided silently “fix” their security issue in “Print Spooler” and broke all shared printers in the facility I working in.
I have been progressively disliking Windows since 7 - I feel it peaked with Vista, tbh, I was incredibly excited for that OS and even was a beta tester and provided feedback. I hated 8 (never owned, but I worked on customer’s machines that had it and 8.1). I dove into 10 the day it went gold and it’s been a ‘oh fuck, what is this shit’ ever since. 11 I tried for a month before reverting to 10 (yay disk imaging!) and I don’t know what I’ll do when 10 goes eol in like 18 months (for this desktop anyway, see below).
I’ve used Win from 95 all the way through 11, and I started trying and in some cases using Linux distros starting back in… 03? Knoppix was my first, then Ubuntu and it’s various flavors, straight Debian, Arch and it’s many spinoffs, Fedora… I want it to work. It’s the project car in the field with “potential”. It could be great. But every time you try and work on it, you find something weird, some oddity, some gotcha, and give up and let it sit. Until next time. Rinse and repeat.
I installed W10 Enterprise LTSC a month or so ago on my ThinkPad (non-gaming), as it is supposed to get security updates for much longer, as I understand it. I tried to put Fedora on the ThinkPad, but the Snapdragon X55 modem doesn’t work, and that is the reason I got this machine, so that’s DoA. There are fixes but they are for older versions of distros and literally none of them work (again, install *nix, try to make it work, get frustrated, revert). It’s like, unless you’re in this very boring typical user status, as soon as you step beyond that, it’s nothing but frustrating. And I hate that - again, I want this to work, but it just doesn’t. I have years of similar stories, and I’m just like… I’m trapped in this cycle of wanting to enjoy a system that fights me every step, for one reason or another. So after almost two decades of it, I’m like ‘it just doesn’t work until I see proof otherwise, and I’m going to be stuck until that changes’.
Honestly, by working in IT you may found out, that every soft suck in some way or another. Windows - constantly broke itself by updates\not working as intended in the first place + frustrating UI\UX decisions; Linux too complicated and don’t user friendly enough beyond “install firefox > use firefox > turn off pc”, also breaks down at time; Mac OS too closed source, to the point when to install some regular soft like wine you need to “unlock” your OS and reboot PC after some tinkering, also hackintosh almost death at this point, also poor apple decisions about feature set support, like recent drop of 32 bit applications or not supporting Vulkan, or dropping support of openGL and etc., also weird course about gaming support, it’s like they change their mind every damn month about it, so almost no game publishing company wanna work with them.
Everything sucks man, seriously. At this point it’s just “pick your poison”.
Well, you can connect your steam account to protondb and tap on “explore” button. That will not cover any software\games, but at least something. Altho, I would say: why you even want to switch at this point? Like, if you can withstand windows bullshitery but not linux bullshitery - stay on windows mate, no one will judge you. That why I staying on linux for example, even tho my work as junior system administrator mostly requires me to work with windows. I just can’t go to home, boot my pc and acknowledge the fact, that windows “updated” driver of my 7900xtx and I can’t play damn minecraft for 10 minutes before bed, cause I need to spend at least 20-30 minutes to fix that shit. I just can’t. Yes, my arch linux may broke on occasion cause of update or smth like that, but at least I have full control about that. And if something happens, it’s usually cause you decided to do something, not cause Microsoft decided silently “fix” their security issue in “Print Spooler” and broke all shared printers in the facility I working in.
I have been progressively disliking Windows since 7 - I feel it peaked with Vista, tbh, I was incredibly excited for that OS and even was a beta tester and provided feedback. I hated 8 (never owned, but I worked on customer’s machines that had it and 8.1). I dove into 10 the day it went gold and it’s been a ‘oh fuck, what is this shit’ ever since. 11 I tried for a month before reverting to 10 (yay disk imaging!) and I don’t know what I’ll do when 10 goes eol in like 18 months (for this desktop anyway, see below).
I’ve used Win from 95 all the way through 11, and I started trying and in some cases using Linux distros starting back in… 03? Knoppix was my first, then Ubuntu and it’s various flavors, straight Debian, Arch and it’s many spinoffs, Fedora… I want it to work. It’s the project car in the field with “potential”. It could be great. But every time you try and work on it, you find something weird, some oddity, some gotcha, and give up and let it sit. Until next time. Rinse and repeat.
I installed W10 Enterprise LTSC a month or so ago on my ThinkPad (non-gaming), as it is supposed to get security updates for much longer, as I understand it. I tried to put Fedora on the ThinkPad, but the Snapdragon X55 modem doesn’t work, and that is the reason I got this machine, so that’s DoA. There are fixes but they are for older versions of distros and literally none of them work (again, install *nix, try to make it work, get frustrated, revert). It’s like, unless you’re in this very boring typical user status, as soon as you step beyond that, it’s nothing but frustrating. And I hate that - again, I want this to work, but it just doesn’t. I have years of similar stories, and I’m just like… I’m trapped in this cycle of wanting to enjoy a system that fights me every step, for one reason or another. So after almost two decades of it, I’m like ‘it just doesn’t work until I see proof otherwise, and I’m going to be stuck until that changes’.
Super frustrating :(
Honestly, by working in IT you may found out, that every soft suck in some way or another. Windows - constantly broke itself by updates\not working as intended in the first place + frustrating UI\UX decisions; Linux too complicated and don’t user friendly enough beyond “install firefox > use firefox > turn off pc”, also breaks down at time; Mac OS too closed source, to the point when to install some regular soft like wine you need to “unlock” your OS and reboot PC after some tinkering, also hackintosh almost death at this point, also poor apple decisions about feature set support, like recent drop of 32 bit applications or not supporting Vulkan, or dropping support of openGL and etc., also weird course about gaming support, it’s like they change their mind every damn month about it, so almost no game publishing company wanna work with them.
Everything sucks man, seriously. At this point it’s just “pick your poison”.