This is a small note to declare that I’m Windows-free (again :)

Since I rebuilt my desktop PC in 2020, it has been mainly a Windows 10 machine, for gaming reasons heh. I was never really found of dual-boot, because you mostly end-up settling in using one system and the other one gets ignored.

After having experienced, for a few days, the Windows 11 that came pre-installed in my personal laptop, I promised myself that I would not upgrade to it and when my Windows 10 went EOL (October 2025) I would just purge it and move back to a Linux-only machine.

Well after performing some big feature update in the last months, this jackass O.S. started being more obnoxious with advertising Windows 11 and how I should prepare to upgrade soon, even if their own hardware detector thought my PC was not ready for Windows 11 (which turns out was a missing BIOS update, which I tracked down and promptly did before formatting my drive).

I have had been a very good experience with Fedora both in my personal laptop and my work laptop for the past year or so, including the upgrades from 38 to 39 and 39 to 40 were very easy and with no issues at all.

Plus, SteamDeck really showed me that yes Linux is ready to be a gaming machine. Maybe there will be some stuff that does not work well, but I have so many games in my Steam account plus all the open-source ones that I think I can play the ones that does so and show support for them.

One thing that I’m still considering is replacing my GeForce 2070 Super with maybe a Radeon RX 7800 XT or RX 7900 GRE. Both would be a solid upgrade in terms of performance (while keeping the power consumption), but I would also do it very much for avoiding using NVIDIA’s proprietary driver (for now, I’m still relying only on Nouveau).