What operating system do you use?

[Stan]

Kind of a boring question I know, but for those who care im just wondering what OS do you use? I personally use windows 10. I used to use win 11 but 10 runs better. I know way too many touhou fans that use linux so maybe theres some linux heads here. maybe theres some mac users or even some people who use modded OS's? Just a random question

[Sun.]

The flood gates have been opened...

 

[Stan]

48 minutes ago, Sun. said:

The flood gates have been opened...

 

Ominous

[Fer123p]

I use a M4 Mac with crossover to play mainline touhou games. It works pretty well and even lets me use a controller. It's been pretty easy to install thanks to the pre-patched downloads from this site. 

[Ballast]

Currently I use Windows 10 but since my computer doesn't have a TPM, I won't be upgrading to windows 11 and I might end up switching to linux.

[Idioms21]

windows 10 is the optimal choice for my 15 years old machine. can't really be rocking a win11 but with win10 about to be destroyed i'm confused on what to do, I can switch to linux which is way less hungry for resources but its like i gotta assemble my motorcycle before riding it and so much games i want to play cant even work for it so its not an option, meanwhile microsoft is a piece of shit and i can never get used to win11 no matter how much ive been exposed to it

[Ballast]

47 minutes ago, Idioms21 said:

windows 10 is the optimal choice for my 15 years old machine. can't really be rocking a win11 but with win10 about to be destroyed i'm confused on what to do, I can switch to linux which is way less hungry for resources but its like i gotta assemble my motorcycle before riding it and so much games i want to play cant even work for it so its not an option, meanwhile microsoft is a piece of shit and i can never get used to win11 no matter how much ive been exposed to it

I know right, each os gen seems to just get worse and worse. I like the idea of linux myself but I am just not really interested in spending the time to learn Bash any time soon, but unfortunately there aren't really any alternatives other than windows and linux. I suppose you could just continue to use windows 10 the only problem with that being the lack of support. It will make it harder and harder to use windows 10 safely and some apps won't work for 10 as they move on to 11.

[Idioms21]

49 minutes ago, Ballast said:

I know right, each os gen seems to just get worse and worse. I like the idea of linux myself but I am just not really interested in spending the time to learn Bash any time soon, but unfortunately there aren't really any alternatives other than windows and linux. I suppose you could just continue to use windows 10 the only problem with that being the lack of support. It will make it harder and harder to use windows 10 safely and some apps won't work for 10 as they move on to 11.

at some point win10 is gonna be the same as window where the moment you connect to the internet a hundred malwares is already gonna be installed in your system with how much exploits hackers are gonna find and microsoft is not gonna patch it so at some point using win10 further is gonna get more and more dangerous. and the only response microsoft has to people with weaker machines is to just buy a better one like, the whole reason i have a weak machine is because i aint got the money to buy a better one let alone buying an activation key for like a $100 which they totally expect you to do. you'd expect with advancement in technology qol would get better but instead its getting worse and worse, can't even have an os that works right out of the box without any useless nonsense that comes with the package

[Ken Hisuag]

As the son of a software engineer, I was raised with intimate awareness of how bad pretty much every reasonable option of operating system was; as with many things in life, it can sometimes seem like a "pick your poison" scenario. I personally continue to use Windows 11 despite despising so many aspects thereof, simply because I'm too intimated to change over to something else with different but ultimately comparable problems. If you want a perfect operating system, you ultimately have to build it yourself, and if you have the time and skills for that, you probably don't even need to. On the bright side, this is a relatively mundane problem to have, so nobody should be losing sleep over it.

[Stan]

Linux looks cool for how customizable it is but I am just concerned that all my games will stop working on it

[Setsuwa]

I use Arch Linux as my main operating system, I switched from Windows 10 because I was starting to dislike how Windows did things and I was starting to become more privacy conscious.  I use i3 as my window manager and SDDM for my desktop manager. I play mostly Roblox, Etterna, and some Steam games but I haven't actually tried to get Touhou to work on Linux. I have a small Windows 10 partition for Final Fantasy XVI, Stepmania (I haven't been able to get my L-Tek Pro 2 to work </3), Touhouh games, and some other things that don't work on Linux.

On 2/11/2025 at 11:12 AM, Idioms21 said:

windows 10 is the optimal choice for my 15 years old machine. [...] so much games i want to play cant even work for it

Sorry, I don't mean anything negative when I say this but I felt something in me when I read this. I think Linux is very underappreciated lately. The belief that Linux can't play games is for the most part outdated. I play a lot of Steam games and to my suprise most games that I play actually work flawlessly. It's not difficult to get running either, you just need to download steam and Proton-GE, take a minute to configure a couple settings within the Steam client and you're pretty much done, forever. The exception for this is getting Nvidia drivers to work, it was kind of difficult for me. At least that's what I did, it may be different based on your hardware or distro. Though it is true that a lot of really popular games such as League of Legends, Destiny, or Valorant don't work or have difficulty working under Linux. If you're still considering making the switch, you can consult https://www.protondb.com/ to check what Steam games you play are compatible or not. If you're concerned about Performance, I suggest using a lightweight desktop environment like XFCE or going with a window manager instead, like i3. Linux is still ultimately for developers who are able and willing to learn a whole new OS and take time to solve problems, so I would say to expect to run into an issue every now and then, and if that happens then there are many communities online that will help you, such as the Arch Linux discord server or r/linux4noobs. Sorry for all the words. If you have any questions or concerns I would be happy to reply to you here or through messages.

[Deliverer8099]

I had been summoned; this was the first post that made me make an account.
It is I, the Linux user lol

On 2/12/2025 at 6:30 PM, Stan said:

Linux looks cool for how customizable it is but I am just concerned that all my games will stop working on it

As Setsuwa has stated before/above me, you can use ProtonDB to check the compatibility with your Steam games. There's also areweanticheatyet, and you could also try searching up the game + Linux on a search engine or Youtube as another alternative to see if it works. After you get to know what of your current games works and doesn't work, you could make an informed choice. Though you might also want to consider that there could be games in the future that you would like to play, but those ones won't work on Linux. Cloud gaming does exist as an option, but I don't know how you feel about that. There's also dual-booting, where you can have multiple operating systems installed and you can use whichever you'd like. You could also try out Linux in virtual machines to know if you'd like it enough, or to get more familiar with it before switching, if you will.

[suyu_]

Windows 10

[Polo Rossi]

Windows 10

[DigitalDa5h]

I use Windows 10 but, I have plans to switch to Linux. Although it's harder to play Touhou on that OS, it's better than Windows 11