Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?
Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?
Ask them what they want to do.
Gaming? Windows. SteamOS is great but there are too many games that require Windows.
Creatives? MacOS. Yeah, you can do all that (and more!) on Windows machines, but the creative space is largely all Mac all the time.
Office Productivity? Anything. Libre Office is cross platform.
Want to complain about how you don’t fit in and it would be a better place if the world would just accommodate you? Linux.
I’d say it depends on what types of games you play. From my understanding, the big issue with Linux and gaming is incompatibility with anti-cheat software. If you aren’t playing competitive PvP games that use it, you generally don’t need to worry about this.
It’s mainly multiplayer games with anti-cheat malware. If they prefer single player games, they’ll be fine.
I’d even go further and say that it’s primarily PvP games. I think most multiplayer PvE games are ok too.
Honestly there aren’t that many games with Windows requirement. A game not working on Linux is usually due to an anticheat with kernel level permissions, that is, games that contain a rootkit.