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I can't program, but I only use Linux on both my laptop and desktop. All I really do on my computers is browse the web, light photo/video editing, print the occasional document, organize my photos, and play A LOT of video games. I was dual booting windows for a bit there for the games that won't work on Linux, but I soon discovered that those games weren't really worth dealing with the annoyances I had with windows for how often I actually wanted to play them... except CoD, but I have an Xbox so I just play that there. Deleting my windows partition was a great choice.
I am so, so close to doing the same. Still have a small partition carved out for CoD and Windows. I just find myself booting in to it less and less.
Thank goodness MicroVision seems to be keen on continuing to flog that dead horse with a Warzone focus, means I can finally be free.
yeah, if it weren't for my fiancée playing idk if I'd still be playing CoD at all.
get them addicted to BattleBits Remastered, runs smoothly on Linux and is fun as shit.
Only thing keeping my windows partition alive is the pain it seems to be to set up sim racing gear and games and servers on Linux.
I'd be in the same situation if I wasn't too broke for any of that