There are tons of games for Linux, and I've installed a few. If you use Linux, please tell me what your favorite games are.
I play a lot of Warzone2100. I've always been a fan of real time strategy games
There's a lot of things that I don't miss at all from Windows: crashes, lock-ups, problems with updates, and more. I haven't had a single problem with Linux yet.
I was going to say that I haven't had many troubles with Windows, but, ironically, I wrote this post a few times on Internet Explorer, as it kept crashing or doing weird things while I was typing. I decided to wait until I got on a Linux computer to try again.
I know Windows gets a lot of complaints for bad updates, but I've never been hurt by one. I have, however, had two issues with Linux updates in the 1.5 years I've been using it. The first was an old Virtual Box package that caused the computer to fail at startup. The Linux Mint forums went wild over that one, and it was fixed within a day, but I wasted a weekend trying to figure it out.
The second update problem was a recent kernel update that got ahead of publication of its relevant Broadcom drivers, leaving me without WiFi. That one was trivial. I reverted the kernel and waited for the Broadcom drivers to appear in my updates and all was well.
Overall, though, I much prefer Linux. It runs very cleanly, without so many unwanted background processes, making it more responsive. It also doesn't come packed with bloatware. I have full control over updates.
I also played around with one Linux computer and one Windows computer, learning to get them to work together. I decided that it was a lot easier to use the Linux computer to hack into the Windows computer than
vice versa. Maybe it's just me.
I recently had to reinstall Ubuntu though, sadly. It messed up my virtual box and caused me a lot of hassle.
I wonder if it was that guest account package for Vbox that conflicted with the login. Lots of people got stung on that one. I reinstalled several times that day, trying to figure out which update was the cause. When starting from that far back it was fairly impossible to narrow it down to one, because my handful of updates turned into a huge list, and I barely remembered the names of the things that got updated before the unexpected happened. I'm zealous about backing up my files, but that one scared me into leaving the Window open, so to speak.
Nevertheless, I'm on a Linux machine at the moment, and I have successfully posted without losing it to a crazy Internet Explorer.