Orkhepaj: imho still better just to use win10
and you can use all the apps and games
I prefer the workflow setup I have in Linux. Windows isn't very flexible - you do things the Microsoft way, or not at all, and I don't like that. Linux allows me the flexibility to do things the way
I want to. Add to that the bloat, and the privacy concerns of Windows, and it just isn't very compelling to me at all.
HappyPunkPotato: What is your replacement for this? That's the one thing I really miss from Windows. I've tried Clementine and DeaDBeeF but they're just not as good!
Orkhepaj: sadly nearly none of the linux apps are as good as the windows apps
This hasn't really been my experience at all. I mostly use open source software, and much of it is cross-platform, so its really the same software regardless of OS. I'm not some zealot that is going to argue that everything is better, there are definitely some things where there isn't a direct replacement available in the open source world, but generally, these things are in the cases of high-dollar proprietary software.
For day to day use, web browsing, multimedia, office tasks, there's absolutely nothing in Windows that can't be done just as well on Linux. Nothing.
HappyPunkPotato: What is your replacement for this? That's the one thing I really miss from Windows. I've tried Clementine and DeaDBeeF but they're just not as good!
There isn't really anything that is exactly like foobar2000. I ran it with WINE for awhile, but that was too much of a pain. In the end I moved on.
I now use mpd as my music player, and I hit it with lots of different frontends. It's a whole different paradigm than foobar2000, but I've come to prefer it. I can play music from the terminal using mpc or ncmpcpp. I can play music with a GUI using Sonata. I can control music from different computers, and from my phone using the web interface of mpd. It's maybe not as pretty as foobar, but it's way more flexible.
HappyPunkPotato: I find some programs are better on Windows and some are better on Linux. Foobar2000 is the only one I used regularly and haven't found a good enough replacement for. Obviously after using Windows for years before switching to Linux I think Linux is much better or I'd just switch back!
Orkhepaj: many people are reluctant to accept they were false and stick to their bad choices
I know, right? If people could just admin that the money they spent on Windows was a waste, and quit pushing it as the be-all and end-all operating system, that would be great. :)