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I switched to Linux last month. Very much over having their AI slop and "telemetry" rammed down my throat.

"You're in so much trouble when she gets home"

.....

Promptly blew away Win 11 (didnt even boot it).
CachyOS, w' XFCE
Installed the cool "Chicago95" theme (Win 95)
Loaded up Lutris with my old-school GoG games (and a few in Steam)

More success with CachyOS w' XFCE
But now I'm in "odd-ball Apple AMD GPU driver hell"
/sigh

Hmm - Heroic doesn't seem to like something....
Having a little more success with Lutris.

Screw it. USB audio dingle thing.

Grrr. Mac Audio.... sigh..

2011ish i think

Tried MX Linux. Nada.
Next Xubuntu Minimal...

With Cachy, switching from cachy-proton to proton-ge gave me another 5fps on both Avg FPS and 1% lows

These are purely unscientific, random benchmarks, so take with a bucket of salt.

The mobo's for the i5 and R5 are both cheap-as-chips boards. A Maxsun H610 and a (very) cheap Jginyue B550 from Aliexpress. Mem is the same pair of DDR4 Corsair sticks.

Benchmarks are CS2 DE_Dust2 Benchmark
The R7 machine, the 1440p is actually 3440x1440 (ultrawide)
All installs were simple. Install the OS, set the best (and install where needed) Proton, Run.
On the i5 and R5 machines, I gotta give it to Nobara (and its what i now run on my main PC)

On another note, ive finally taken the plunge and blown away Windows on my main machine.
And no, Im NOT running Arch BTW.

More photos....