I regularly buy new games on release on Linux without even checking, play with friends on windows and have yet to be burned

Helldivers was a bit janky to begin with but with some custom launch options it ran fine

Generally hardware compatibility should be identical across all distros, as most drivers are baked into the kernel

The exception being Nvidia drivers, you have to install those yourself pretty much everywhere

Lowest maintenance possible is probably gonna be bazzite as people are saying

The anticheat thing is a pain

No, I apparently missed that but

Nix is the best solution anyway imo

Personally I’ve been using outlook via pwa for months anyway

If they’re gonna put it in an electron container anyway you be may as well cut out the middleman and just use the web app Microsoft’s ones are actually quite good now

I thought outlook had been electron for a while

I’ve been using the outlook pwa on Linux for some time with no issues, maybe try that instead if it’s causing problems for you on windows?

Usually the reaction you’ll get trying to convince someone to use an operating system when they don’t know or care what an operating system is

I’d like to interject for a moment, what you’re referring to as Linux is actually gnu/linux/churbleyimyam

I don’t think DE really means much for security, your biggest concern is always going to be the software you run having the same privelages as you (IE filesystem access)

This is a great middle ground suggestion

If you have a laptop and a desktop put it on the laptop fully rather than dual boot

Until proton came out I kept dual booting but I always ended up booting into windows because I didn’t know how to do x on Linux

When I just wiped windows completely and put it on my laptop I distro hopped for a bit but never went back

Ended up switching my PC over too after about 6 months and I no longer own any windows machines, nor feel the need to besides the odd firmware upgrade of a peripheral or something

True, I used bluestacks once or twice and concluded it was bloated and possibly dodgy so never really used it

You can think bigger than that, as an example from the other day, I got it to a Display implementation for all of my error types in rust, it generated nice user friendly error messages based on context and wrote all the boilerplate around displaying them

Also got it to generate a function that generated a unique RGB colour from a user ID, did it first try and I could use it straight away

Both those things would’ve taken me maybe 15 minutes by hand but I can generate and proofread them in seconds

That said, I don’t use copilot I use chatgpt, it’s intentional when I use it not just being shoved in my face all the time which might help my opinion of it

Of course but presumably on occasion you do work in other languages? I work in all kinds of languages and so jumping between them it’s pretty handy to bridge the gap

I think you could definitely still get value out of generating simple stuff though, at least for me it really helps get projects done quickly without burning myself out

For small one off scripts it makes them actually save more time than they take to write (for example colleague had to write the permissions of a bunch of files recursively into an excel doc, chatgpt did 90% of that I did 9 and he did 1 lol)

Ah I read or as of, thought op said dropping support of dual boot

Sorry I meant nix-shell -p, I didn’t read your original comment properly apparently

It’s definitely an option as op wants to run one script from the sounds of it, nix-shell not nix shell is perfect for that

It’s a bit needlessly confusing that there are two entirely separate commands with the same name and thought you were talking about the original one

Windows is dropping support for dual boot?

nix shell -p works without flakes enabled

It’s so hard to eat this soup with this fork you gave me why the hell did you put so many holes in it?!

It took me so long to get this mentality down

I still take enjoyment from writing code well but I no longer give a shit what happens to it once it’s done

Prob half my projects were just my manager deciding we needed something on a whim and then never using it