Windows is for gaming. Linux is for business. 

 💯💯 

 Linux gaming is getting pretty decent. Can’t imagine installing windows to play a game these days. 

 Proton makes me hopeful for the future of Linux gaming. 

 Under what setup, I tried some triple a games like Assassin Cred Odyssey and Hogwarts Legacy and the performance was a lot slower on PopOs 

 depends on the game, sometimes games are faster on linux even when emulating d3d. Pretty crazy. 

 Games I’ve played on linux recently that work great and have amazing performance on my RX5700:

Overwatch 2
Red dead redemption 2
BG3
No mans sky 

 Too many games don't work, it's worth it!

Plus get to keep those sweet cuda cores for AI stuff on Linux, no need to radeon 

 I'll play a game once or twice a year nowadays but mostly curious how you can match windows performance for just that use case  

 I uninstalled windows to get more space for games on linux, but mostly out of spite. Sometimes games dont work, so I shake my fist and move on. 

 Agreed, though I'm handicapped with my dependence on ESRI GIS software. Some day I'll grow up and learn open-sourced geospatial. 

 Windows is for the 🗑️ 

 Used to be. 

 My standard of living went up after completely removing windows. 

 Now that sounds about right! 

 This is also my setup, with M.2 drives it's super easy to have a couple 

 really would like to get rid of windows but can't ... clients / blebs I'm servicing are all windows. 

 Now that I run windows inside linux, it's finally stable. Windows won't get updated with good tech like zfs/btrfs, so I'll just run it inside 😆  

 How are you running windows in Linux? I'm trying to find a good solution.  

 Im using Unraid (paid distro). It uses KVM. You need to do a good amount of manual adjustments in the xml to pass hardware through properly for windows and set the iommu.
Look into Proxmox. It seems like a FOSS alternative to Unraid. Im unsure if it has all the data safety features as I havent looked into it myself. 

 In the process of dumping Windows in favor of Linux.  PowerShell and VScode work very well on Linux so won't be dumping these 2.

I need new hardware to remove my dependency on Windows OS. 

 Using Linux over 10 yrs as a daily driver. I was struggling a lot in the beginning because of the MS Office suite. But LibreOffice is really good nowadays and with google suite and other cloud solutions no one really have to rely on MS for work anymore. The browser became the productive environment.
The next evolution is coming with the popularity of flatpaks in my opinion. So it does not matter which distro or version you use anymore. Installation of apps are also simple and just 3 clicks away. 
I use Debian 12 as a base (rock solid) + apps as flatpak to be always up to date. 
Linux is like nostr -- it puts the user in the driver's seat!