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My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's not like it's difficult to switch these days. Try something like Bazzite or Nobara and gaming should work out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bookmarking this comment, never heard of those distros!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They are gaming and content creation specific distros designed to work out of the box for those use cases. Lots of patches and stuff to improve performance and compatibility for gaming. Some hardware compatibility stuff is added too, such as bazzite having different images for laptops.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Keep in mind it's still a drastic reduction in security by default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? Windows isn't very secure to begin with. Bazzite in particular is one of the more secure Linux desktop distros as it's immutable and comes with SELinux enabled by default. It's secure enough to actually cause me problems lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a real challenge to get a fully encrypted system with secure boot (easier now but still hit or miss with Linux) and tpm.

What you're describing is the user never security model which is as you said restrictive enough to be annoying, and more controlled than windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't use or particularly believe in secure boot.

I have a fully encrypted root partition, with automatic unlocking using the TPM. Wasn't even that hard to setup either. Bazzite makes it fairly easy to enroll a secure boot key if you really want that, as do some other distros. Nothing you are describing is that difficult.

A lot of systems use AppArmour instead of SELinux, as this is easier to work with while still providing enhanced security.