Web Outlook is pretty decent IMO. Of course it depends on if you're using Outlook to actually read a Microsoft-based email account or if you're using the Outlook app to read a non-Microsoft email account (eg gmail.)
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well, I mentioned that because I have several email accounts, including gmail, that I handle with Outlook and it's the best email app I've used. Web Outlook is just as good, but you can only handle a single account afaik.
I found outlook for Linux using the pack manager, shall test it later.
Huh, let us know how you like Outlook for Linux. I've only ever tried using the Outlook Web methods and, as you describe, it's only available for a Microsoft-based email account (eg my old @Outlook.com address.)
it does the job. It's simply like some kind of SPA and it only allows you to use a single email account as you mention. I added the account I use to exchange emails and it works fine.
I have the other accounts set on Thunderbird, but since I don't use them to send emails, it's okay. It's better than nothing. I still prefer the Outlook app for Windows 11 but it's the outlook web experience in desktop Linux for a Hotmail account.
Tbh I expected something more akin to Outlook for W11 but since I just use an account to reply to and send emails, I realised it isn't that bad. The issue I have with Thunderbird is that I have a long "conversation" via emails sent and received (100+ emails in total) and it's a pita to look for the email of than conversation I want to exactly reply to.
It's much much easier in Outlook for W11.
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made a bit of distro hoping and I switched from Manjaro to Linux Mint, and will settle with it. I'm going to miss Wayland but scaling the image is possible using Cinnamon even it is experimental. It doesn't have HDR support but I am fine with it.
The software is working much easier from the get go in Linux Mint, although it lacks a Font Manager from scratch. I missed a Suspend option without using the Terminal but now I know you just have to go to the Shut Down option and there will be a Suspend -Sleep in Windows- button.
In order to use Outlook for Linux I had to install Snap so I preferred no to and instead of using the SPA like Outlook for Linux, I just connected to my classic Hotmail account with one of my browsers and I'm using Thunderbird for other email accounts.
Regarding games, I tested very little but the performance of games at 4096x2160 -the max of my TV- is as I expected. I use BFI on the TV and I though games on Linux would run more slowly than on Windows, but it depends on the game, some run faster than on Windows and are slower.
What I'm having more trouble with is getting Epic Games Store to work using Lutris. Or the Ubisoft Store and so on. But the installation has been possible from the get go, on Linux Manjaro I couldn't get it to work.
What I missed from Linux Manjaro is the Windows key and + and Windows key and - to Magnify the image, or basically zoom the image in and out but now I know how it works, so another problem solved. It's working just fine, I'm not gonna change. Whan I was studying, we used Ubuntu and that's the most familiar distro to me, but Linux Mint is pretty similar, but nicer, at least for me.
(on the Magnify option)
In Systems Setting App, just remember to click on the Accessibility icon. then in Desktop Zoom section, check ON for the "Enable zoom" setting.
The software is working much easier from the get go in Linux Mint, although it lacks a Font Manager from scratch. I missed a Suspend option without using the Terminal but now I know you just have to go to the Shut Down option and there will be a Suspend -Sleep in Windows- button.
In order to use Outlook for Linux I had to install Snap so I preferred no to and instead of using the SPA like Outlook for Linux, I just connected to my classic Hotmail account with one of my browsers and I'm using Thunderbird for other email accounts.
Regarding games, I tested very little but the performance of games at 4096x2160 -the max of my TV- is as I expected. I use BFI on the TV and I though games on Linux would run more slowly than on Windows, but it depends on the game, some run faster than on Windows and are slower.
What I'm having more trouble with is getting Epic Games Store to work using Lutris. Or the Ubisoft Store and so on. But the installation has been possible from the get go, on Linux Manjaro I couldn't get it to work.
What I missed from Linux Manjaro is the Windows key and + and Windows key and - to Magnify the image, or basically zoom the image in and out but now I know how it works, so another problem solved. It's working just fine, I'm not gonna change. Whan I was studying, we used Ubuntu and that's the most familiar distro to me, but Linux Mint is pretty similar, but nicer, at least for me.
(on the Magnify option)
In Systems Setting App, just remember to click on the Accessibility icon. then in Desktop Zoom section, check ON for the "Enable zoom" setting.
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the classic tools of GNU for which Linux is called GNU Linux are going to be rewritten completely in Rust, it seems, so maybe Linux is going to break any bond with Richard Stallman, who had a bunch of utilities for an OS but lacked the OS kernel that Linus Torvalds created.
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There is no such thing, an operating system is software that manages hardware and software. Before the operating system, each program had to manage this.
As this would be problematic, this was already solved in the 60s, with IBM's OS/360 being one of the first OS.
In the case of Linux, it is itself a kernel, but from the beginning, GNU software has made Linux an operating system. However, no one talks about GNU/Linux, just Linux.
one of the new improvements in the 6.14 kernel, aside from the fact that the Intel drivers are now native on any Linux kernel from 6.12+, is that the Intel Arc power consumption has decreased signifcantly when they aren't under a big load, like say when using the desktop.
after trying both Manjaro and Linux Mint, here's what I found.
Personally, there are things I found easier in Manjaro, such as using KDE Plasma versus Cinnamon, but Linux Mint was also more intuitve in some ways.
The display options are easier to use in Manjaro and it handles the scaling options quite better. Also the "Magnifier" -the name the Magnifier app receives in Windows- is a feature already enabled by default, which you have to enable in a separate option in Linux Mint.
Something I loved about Linux Mint is that it already comes with a default text editor and a Notes program. I especially missed the Notes program in Manjaro.
At the same time, Linus Mint by default misses some features, such as the Font Manager. You can install them manually and all that, but Manjaro recognizes the .otf format by default, while Linux Mint doesn't. In Manjaro, it was like Windows: you click on the font and the Install option appears; in Linux Mint, nothing at all.
I like the update manager better in Linux Mint, and well, it doesn't give strange errors like it did in Manjaro, where it told me there was an update pending, but then you looked and in fact there was nothing, and the solution was to refresh the database.
Manjaro has more package managers -but I don't like too many tbh- compatible by default, but I liked the software installation in Linux Mint much better. Since it's based on Ubuntu, some programs are super easy to install.
I used the Terminal for both, but it's actually fun, although I noticed I lost some skills using the Terminal, when I was studying I knew a lot more commands and how to handle Linux much better, my scores weren't that bad in Linux exams.
Sound management seems much more natural to me in Linux Mint. In Manjaro, you see a ton of devices, and sometimes you don't know if you're choosing the TV, PC speakers, etc., because it lists Pro Audio and a few outputs but the names aren't clear, while Linux Mint only lists the devices that are actually needed.
Manjaro doesn't come with an email manager. Linux Mint comes with Thunderbird, which I had to download in Manjaro. Still, my favorite is Outlook, but hey, I use the SPA version or a browser to log into my Hotmail account, and I can get by without it.
Then, in programs like Telegram or Discord, Linux Mint gives me much more security. I mean, those two apps work perfectly in both Manjaro and Ming, and I pin them to the taskbar. But in Manjaro, even though it indicated that if I close the program, it shouldn't remain in the taskbar or as a background apps, it showed you the number of messages you had in Telegram or Discord, and I don't like that. It gives me the feeling that I didn't have them closed. Linux Mint, on the other hand, shows you the icon in the taskbar, and as soon as you close it, you see a normal icon without message numbers or anything. Simple and intuitive, and you know the program is closed.
Mouse options are much more intuitive in Manjaro. The mouse in Linux Mint is fine, but the cursor options are harder to find, and you have to select the pointer in the appearance options instead of the mouse, something that is more natural in Manjaro. And a very good idea of KDE Plasma with Wayland in Manjaro, which I miss in Linux Mint, is that if you make quick circles with the mouse, a giant mouse cursor suddenly appears. It's a very nice touch. For some things,
Linux Mint sped up everything, for others stuff Manjaro Linux was faster or more intuitive. Both are my favorite Linux distributions. Ubuntu isn't bad either, mainly because it was the one I learned and studied Linux with back in the day, and that always helps.
In regards to games, I still don't trust Linux very much to become my main OS for gaming. Not that I care. Still, I gotta say that things seem to have improved a lot compared to 3 to 4 years ago when I used Linux exclusively for everything for a a few months. The games I tried worked flawlessly. The most recent one I tested is Legends of Eisenwald at 4K, and it ran fine.
Personally, there are things I found easier in Manjaro, such as using KDE Plasma versus Cinnamon, but Linux Mint was also more intuitve in some ways.
The display options are easier to use in Manjaro and it handles the scaling options quite better. Also the "Magnifier" -the name the Magnifier app receives in Windows- is a feature already enabled by default, which you have to enable in a separate option in Linux Mint.
Something I loved about Linux Mint is that it already comes with a default text editor and a Notes program. I especially missed the Notes program in Manjaro.
At the same time, Linus Mint by default misses some features, such as the Font Manager. You can install them manually and all that, but Manjaro recognizes the .otf format by default, while Linux Mint doesn't. In Manjaro, it was like Windows: you click on the font and the Install option appears; in Linux Mint, nothing at all.
I like the update manager better in Linux Mint, and well, it doesn't give strange errors like it did in Manjaro, where it told me there was an update pending, but then you looked and in fact there was nothing, and the solution was to refresh the database.
Manjaro has more package managers -but I don't like too many tbh- compatible by default, but I liked the software installation in Linux Mint much better. Since it's based on Ubuntu, some programs are super easy to install.
I used the Terminal for both, but it's actually fun, although I noticed I lost some skills using the Terminal, when I was studying I knew a lot more commands and how to handle Linux much better, my scores weren't that bad in Linux exams.
Sound management seems much more natural to me in Linux Mint. In Manjaro, you see a ton of devices, and sometimes you don't know if you're choosing the TV, PC speakers, etc., because it lists Pro Audio and a few outputs but the names aren't clear, while Linux Mint only lists the devices that are actually needed.
Manjaro doesn't come with an email manager. Linux Mint comes with Thunderbird, which I had to download in Manjaro. Still, my favorite is Outlook, but hey, I use the SPA version or a browser to log into my Hotmail account, and I can get by without it.
Then, in programs like Telegram or Discord, Linux Mint gives me much more security. I mean, those two apps work perfectly in both Manjaro and Ming, and I pin them to the taskbar. But in Manjaro, even though it indicated that if I close the program, it shouldn't remain in the taskbar or as a background apps, it showed you the number of messages you had in Telegram or Discord, and I don't like that. It gives me the feeling that I didn't have them closed. Linux Mint, on the other hand, shows you the icon in the taskbar, and as soon as you close it, you see a normal icon without message numbers or anything. Simple and intuitive, and you know the program is closed.
Mouse options are much more intuitive in Manjaro. The mouse in Linux Mint is fine, but the cursor options are harder to find, and you have to select the pointer in the appearance options instead of the mouse, something that is more natural in Manjaro. And a very good idea of KDE Plasma with Wayland in Manjaro, which I miss in Linux Mint, is that if you make quick circles with the mouse, a giant mouse cursor suddenly appears. It's a very nice touch. For some things,
Linux Mint sped up everything, for others stuff Manjaro Linux was faster or more intuitive. Both are my favorite Linux distributions. Ubuntu isn't bad either, mainly because it was the one I learned and studied Linux with back in the day, and that always helps.
In regards to games, I still don't trust Linux very much to become my main OS for gaming. Not that I care. Still, I gotta say that things seem to have improved a lot compared to 3 to 4 years ago when I used Linux exclusively for everything for a a few months. The games I tried worked flawlessly. The most recent one I tested is Legends of Eisenwald at 4K, and it ran fine.
The only important Gnu component on a Linux based OS like SteamOS is basically glibc. I don't understand why people bring up Gnu in 2025.
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I'm just going to sneak in here and ask. For those with experience among different distros, which one would be recommended for a gamer (emulators, Steam, GoG) who wants to transition from MacOS/Windows to Linux but doesn't have a lot of interest or patience for learning the ways of the terminal more than absolutely necessary?
I really want to abandon Windows and MacOS, but I also know myself. I have a low threshold for adversity and find little joy in making things I require to work. Not my best character traits, and something I'm working on, but no use pretending it's not true.
I really want to abandon Windows and MacOS, but I also know myself. I have a low threshold for adversity and find little joy in making things I require to work. Not my best character traits, and something I'm working on, but no use pretending it's not true.
in this case, for the less possible friction Linux Mint might be out of the box one of the best distros if not the best. It's easy to use.
Issues you might find:
- you want to install certain app or feature. Maybe it's already available like Magnifier, which is "native" and it's fast. Basic text editor...., you have one. Notes..., you have an app,
Taking screenshots is also native to the OS. Prnt Screen takes a full screen screengrab. Caps + Prnt Screen takes a screengrab of the part of the screen you want..., etc etc.
However, you might come across situations where you will need the Terminal of Linux to install an app, but that's not a big deal, and the Terminal is very useful and nice to have.
.sh files are the typical batch files in Windows. Basically those are Linux executables, so to say, although in some cases you might have to give those files permission to become executable.
Other than that, with Linux distributions like Linux Mint or Zorin OS it's sooooo easy. Ubuntu is also pretty easy -I studied using it for Linux and other subjects-.
In regards to gaming. Steam is almost automatic.
Go to Settings--> Compatibility --> toggle the option "Enable Steam Play for all other games".
That's it.
For GoG. Use Lutris. Also that's it.
With Epic Game Store games and Ubisoft and EA App, I haven't managed to make it work correctly, but I am almost there.
Steam and GoG work just fine for me from the get go, but I don't think Linux Mint is the best Linux version for games. However, I don't know which one is either.
if someone else can help you with the best Linux for gaming, it'd be great.
If you want to basically convert your computer into a "console" with built-in support for emulators, Bazzitte might have everything you need.
Nobara is also a gaming focused Linux distribution.
This guy talks high about a Linux OS that I never ever used, Cachy OS -among others, haven't watched the entire video yet-. He summarises the best Linux distributions at the end, the 6 top version for gaming but I didn't get there yet. He uses the typical Tier list graph most people use.
He also mentions PikaOS is the surprise Linux distribution of the year and places it at the very very top. I had never ever heard of it. The video is from the past month, so very recent.
if someone else can help you, it'd be nice.
It's also worth remembering / mentioning some of the things that don't work.
Don't get me wrong, I've still got a Fedora 41 box I'm using for Steam gaming and, for the most part, the games I want to play on that box are mostly OK. It's getting better as time goes on, and maybe we're quickly approaching the breakover point where it's good enough to do >70% of the gaming your Windows box might have otherwise been used for. Sadly though, there's still a lot left to work on.
- At the moment, any raytraced Windows game running in Linux will require an NVIDIA RTX card and may still have a LOT of problems, if it runs at all. Bleeding edge VKD3D (DX12 -> Vulcan wrapper) supports a lot of features, but for now AMD and Intel haven't arrived at the raytracing support party.
- Overclocking and fan control of any NVIDIA card requires Coolbits, a function of their blackbox 3rd party drivers and a hard dependency on using Xorg as your user interface. Even in the best of times, this can be troublesome to get enabled and near-always breaks anytime a driver or kernel upgrade happens.
- Even with how good Proton and Wine have become, there's still a LOT of games that do not work right, or do not work at all. It's worth checking on the Steam / Wine / Proton forums for support of the games you love.
- When you do find games that "work", you may still find they inexplicably crash to desktop for seemingly no reason. Sometimes these are linked to broken dependencies, one common example is the DotNet frameworks that often require either WineTricks or ProtonTricks to get force-installed, and even then sometimes just don't work right.
- Audio also isn't a solved problem for a number of games. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's really broken, sometimes it doesn't work at all.
Don't get me wrong, I've still got a Fedora 41 box I'm using for Steam gaming and, for the most part, the games I want to play on that box are mostly OK. It's getting better as time goes on, and maybe we're quickly approaching the breakover point where it's good enough to do >70% of the gaming your Windows box might have otherwise been used for. Sadly though, there's still a lot left to work on.
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There are over 300 GNU software packages in Linux distributions and all of them are important for the functioning of an operating system. Coreutils, bash, cpio, diffutils, findutils, grep, grub, gzip, gcc, nano, gparted, stow, freefont, etc. In 2025, GNU software will be very present and form the Linux operating system.
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If you don't have the patience to learn, it's better not to even try. This applies to any type of transition. No one is born knowing how to use Windows; you think it's easy because you've been used to it for years. When you transition to MacOS, you'll have a lot of adaptation problems, a completely different interface, and other details. People usually adapt because they pay a lot for their Macs and need to justify the expense by making an effort to learn how to use them.
On Linux it's the same thing, it's another operating system, things are different. If you try to use it as if it were Windows, you'll get frustrated.
that's right. You can also find that you can't suspend your system because of an inhibitor -according to the terminal- and you just have to type "systemctl suspend -i" and that's it.
I'd wholeheartedly recommend @Color me Dan to give an user friendly Linux distribution a try, 'cos in some of them, like Zorin OS, the adaptation can be quite quick. For gaming though, I don't know, I had mixed results, pretty much what @Albuquerque described, from using Linux exclusively several months, 3 years ago.
Some games ran really fine, some of them crashed to the desktop for no apparent reason, others didn't launch, etc. Things have truly improved a lot! Especially after the release of Steam Deck.
Steam Deck's launch is a pivotal point for Linux in gaming. Not only it runs a lot of games, now developers make their games Linux compatible so they run on the Steam Deck, and that step is really a HUGE one. That's why Microsoft should pamper not only the OS a little more, but also gaming on PC, 'cos as time goes on Linux is becoming a powerhouse at gaming.
well, I finally watched the entire video on the best Linux distributions for gaming, and it's much better than I expected. I learnt a lot about the Linux distributions I didn't know and how things have changed for those I knew.
Tbh I had never heard of Clear Linux, which is an Intel distribution. Also, there are super stable and immutable distributions, like Cachy OS and Bazzitte, maybe some more like that? which are super super stable and being immutable the core and root files can't be changed -even if you are an admin-.
The guy in the video, who spent two years using Cachy OS and never switched, said he could have uninstalled it out of boredom, not because of anything else. So stable. It's also interesting that the Cachy OS kernel is compiled based on your exact architecture—x86-64-v3, x86-64-v4, Zen4, etc.—which significantly increases system speed.
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