Blog Post | Year Of The Penguin?

I've been a casual Linux user for years now Ever since I was young and my uncle breathed new life into my dying laptop by installing Puppy Linux, I've had a lot of love for the scrappy desktop underdog.

But I've always ran a dual boot or a secondary system with the penguin, reluctantly keeping Windows in the drivers seat - leaving me as somewhat of a novice, even after years of use.

Unfortunately, like most, I've never had reason enough to make the full switch over.

Until recently.

For years Michael-Soft has insisted on loading up a twelve gauge, pointing it directly at their own feet and blasting away with what seems like a blatant disregard for their user base. What was once a respected operating system has since become a bloated cocktail of spyware and adware.

In my lifetime, I don't think Microsoft has ever been great at software but they have always remained the default with Apple as an upmarket competitor and Linux as a niche alternative.

Reflecting on the many years I've spent with Windows I can't begin to count the amount of issues I've had and in recent years they're increasingly common.

for all its great features, Linux desktop had always struggled with compatibility issues. Leaving Artists, designers & gamers like myself feeling like it wasn't work the hassle.

But in recent years that's slowly been changing.

Wine has always been an impressive piece of kit and with the addition of Valve's Proton tech it seems like the tides may finally be turning.

Linux is more approachable and compatible than ever before. In a lot of cases it's more convenient than installing Windows. Even complex beasts like Arch are becoming easier to install.

With Windows' decline getting increasingly worse and Linux steadily on the uprise, it's seems like the dawn of the Linux Desktop may finally be upon us.

With that said, it's time I dive head first into making

Linux my daily driver... The future is now, old man.

I'm going to start by installing Zorin OS on my PC, An Ubuntu based distro designed to be familiar and easy to use.

Why Zorin?

• I'm currently developing a handful of games using Unreal Engine 5 and Ubuntu is recommended in the system requirements.

  
  

• I've already been running Zorin as a secondary system on an old laptop for a year or two now and it's remained stable and reliable.

Zorin is going to by my daily driver on the PC. I'll be distro-hopping on my old laptop and I have a spare M2 SATA for trialing other distros on the PC without having to install over the current system.

I'm also going to keep windows on my current laptop as a secondary system for now, mainly because it's packing a Nvidia card and I don't want to deal with that just yet.

Both the CPU & GPU in my PC are AMD based and installing Zorin was a breeze.

Whether daily use and development goes as smooth

as the setup is yet to be seen but one thing is for sure, we're moving ever closer to creating the riced up machine of our dreams.

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