Long story short here: I tried making Linux my main OS on my PC. I had it dual booted with Win 11 on a separate SSD. Win 11 was going to be solely for work purposes since it was crucial.
However I noticed that I had begun to migrate slowly back to Win 11 because I’m a gamer and Linux just doesn’t get along with my graphics card, so games are almost impossible to play well.
I’ve succumbed to the idea that my PC will just solely run on Win 11. (I do use Linux on a laptop tho). So I got some debloat tools to shut off most of Microsoft’s annoying spy shit and manually uninstalled the rest like Cortana. I also have pihole running on my raspi5 so my PC is connected to that, plus I use ProtonVPN. I use Firefox with plugins like ublock, privacy badger, etc.
I want to try to make Windows as private and away from Microsoft’s prying eyes as much as possible. Got any other recommendations?
AMD no question. Avoid nvidia drivers And markup, and drivers get better with age. 6700xt best budget go up from there.
As a former nVidia user, I cannot stress enough how much better gaming is on Linux once you’ve switched to AMD. My experience with gaming on Linux with nVidia was stressful, annoying and frustrating. And most of the problems stemmed from their shitty Linux drivers. Heck, from December 2024 until recently even their WINDOWS drivers were ass.
I am not touching anything nVidia until the open-source drivers are up to par with AMD’s and it looks like that’s going to take a long, long time indeed, if ever.
Preach.