Wait a minute, lemme think…
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Nope, got nothing.
I miss the comfort of having a single OS (not multiple distros to choose from), and a father who would reinstall the OS when I broke it too much again.
I miss the Macromedia Flash games, bringing games to school on a floppy disk labeled “homework” (then discovering I’d only brought the shortcut).All of this is just nostalgia, and while I miss it, I’m happier now with my Linux Distro.
I’ve customised the desktop environment, broken the OS and reinstalled it myself (several times), and copied games to another device while forgetting to copy the folder containing my save files.
I guess some things stay the same.Yes I miss Share x video capture and paint.net, their Linux counterparts aren’t as strong
I use Linux 100 percent full time. I have to remote into windows, Azure, deal with Office 365 and Windows servers for work.
I always do it from Linux because I need something to just work and is reliable.
I miss NOTHING about windows. Using it ALWAYS reminds me of how bad and anti productive it is. Every day I curse something about it. I left when Windows XP came out, the enshitification was clear.
I am writing this now because once again, windows is doing stupid things that are pissing me off.
If windows went away tomorrow I would miss absolutely nothing, and in fact would be a cause for celebration. Although I would probably have to work harder, because the only good thing about windows is if you are getting paid to deal with it, everyone knows it is slow and wastes tons of time.
Playing games with kernel level anti-cheat. Some of them were pretty fun. I get why they don’t support Linux, but it is still annoying.
Vendor support. Some hardware and software vendors still only care about Windows.
No. There used to be some nice things on Windows, but Windows 11 has thoroughly ruined them.
The other day i couldn’t play a multiplayer game with my friend. So i had to boot up windows and the xbox app to play a game on steam that “works” without the xbox app we swear. So after booting up windows after a few months now i can confidently say that i don’t miss a thing
The ability to update Xbox controllers, though when mine dies I’m probably switching to a similar priced high end brand with better joysticks.
And on that note, I also miss being able to assume anything I want to use or install is available for my operating system. I was looking a month or two ago at buying one of 8bitdo’s pro 2 controllers, but it didn’t support Linux. I never had to check if anything was windows compatible, everything either was or loudly said it wasn’t.
Still not going back
They work out of the box, but the firmware updater is what’s windows only (pro 2 and pro 3 at least). Not even a MacOS version of the firmware tool.
The larger issue I found with them was that hollow knight and silksong didn’t capture the triggers properly on their Linux version making them unplayable. Also the games would crash once in a while. You have to run the windows version with proton to get a solid experience. I read it was due to outdated Linux input libraries used by unity or whatever game engine it uses.
Ok so no worse than Xbox controllers (and actually probably better if I learn to use wine). Good to know. I should’ve asked on here when I was looking
I probably should mention I’m on bazzite, so a lot of things just work out of the gate, not sure about other distros.
Fair enough. It was actually for my batocera, so maybe. My desktop is nobara, so things should be similar to bazzite
Remote Desktop to my machine doesn’t work as nicely as windows. It doesn’t auto resize the session I connect to.
The maze screensaver was kinda cool.
That and all the themes for 98 Plus
Task manager program used to be good in the Windows XP - Windows 7(?) period. It’s kinda terrible right now and the ones in linux don’t feel quite right for me.
The font rendering in windows is unmatched. I have a 1080p screen so I have yet to just super resolution my way out of this problem.
The one thing that bugs me is having to look up whether periferals work with Linux. Still have odd issues with ones that work like Logitech mmo mouse I have to start Piper every time I log in pretty much to set the DPI. If I ever get around to buying something like a stream deck I’ll have to tripple check it will play nice. Not the end of the world, just little annoyances.
The only other things I miss are COD and LoL, honestly though with how toxic the communities are or can be idk that I’m missing anything of value just haven’t found anything that scratches the same itch yet.
Clippy
