Great to see that Linux is starting to become more and more mainstream like this (maybe this means Adobe might finally start fully supporting it someday). I love Linux Mint, too (heck I'd argue it's much better than the more well known Ubuntu which it's source code is based on) and I wish I could get it installed on my main and only computer with the kind of luck you've got.

I would drop Windows in an instant if any software (games mostly) I would ever want to use would run exactly the same on Linux as it does on Windows without any emulation or 3rd-party program.

Open-source is the future.

Great to see that Linux is starting to become more and more mainstream like this (maybe this means Adobe might finally start fully supporting it someday). I love Linux Mint, too (heck I'd argue it's much better than the more well known Ubuntu which it's source code is based on) and I wish I could get it installed on my main and only computer with the kind of luck you've got.

I tried Ubuntu as well as many others of its flavors, and none of them came without its issues. Mint so far has been the most reliable.

And yeah, all we need to do is to convince all the average users (those who just use their PC to browse some social media, listen to music and other basic stuff) that there is a free alternative that's free, faster and easier to use, but all those people seem to just stick to windows simply because that's what their PC came with.

I would drop Windows in an instant if any software (games mostly) I would ever want to use would run exactly the same on Linux as it does on Windows without any emulation or 3rd-party program.

 

Open-source is the future.

If you're not already, dual-booting is an option. I too have a win7 partition to play my games on (since using wine is... not really reliable in my experience)

I tried Ubuntu as well as many others of its flavors, and none of them came without its issues. Mint so far has been the most reliable.

And yeah, all we need to do is to convince all the average users (those who just use their PC to browse some social media, listen to music and other basic stuff) that there is a free alternative that's free, faster and easier to use, but all those people seem to just stick to windows simply because that's what their PC came with.

Yeah, convincing people to switch is going to be pretty hard. I already know of 2 examples where I completely screwed up the whole process of getting people to switch, and I definitely should be running Linux on my main computer anyway before I even think of getting others to switch.