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Only because it’s not as important for them to keep it, they make a lot of money from other properties

Buy it for the convenience and for the good Devs, pirate it after if they try taking it away. You already paid for it

Sure but they also seem to share quite a bit of GUI code at least. Couldn’t all of these just be plugins for a core *arr service?

Cg peers?

It doesn’t? Louis spends quite a bit of time going over why they aren’t fully open source and how they’ve arrived at that result.

It’s really nice that printers just work on Linux while windows requires you to dig online for drivers, even worse when it’s an older printer, but how often do you change printers? Once you’ve set one up on windows you’re not likely to make any changes.

Because interacting with other windows users is painful.

Because gaming and gaming modding in particular is still fairly windows centric

Because many windows apps are not available on Linux, and you end up being forced to use alternatives that usually don’t hold a candle to the proper one.

Because text rendering scaling is still integer based and trying to do say 120% scaling will result in a weird look.

Because having an issue on your system isn’t solved as easily as updating a driver.

Because VR support on Linux is fairly non existent.

Because you’ll always be a second tier citizen to the cool new apps that get released.

Linux might be a great upgrade if you only use windows for web browsing, but if you’re a windows power user transitioning to Linux can be painful and in my experience primarily a downgrade.

Backing up your own physical media is a legitimate and legal privilege though