I've tried Linux several times over the past 10/15 years and always came back to Windows for gaming and because of the complexity of Linux.

I've switched again beginning of this year (to Linux Mint) because I was so fed up with Microsoft's pushing on W10 and because of their policy on privacy as well as on what you can control in W10 (like it does what it wants regarding downloading updates). I now have a dual boot, using W7 only for playing Battlefield 4, I switched the kids computer completely to Mint, my dad's computer also and my mom's as well.

I must say that if I was not so angry about Microsoft I would maybe not have remained under Linux as it's still very complicated when compared to Windows. I'm running into issues all the time. To make Steam work I needed to either switch to proprietary drivers for my AMD card or suppressing some Steam libraries conflicting with the OS's libraries, that's after hours of forum surfing when it's a double click away in Windows. Then I installed Tomb Raider and it wouldn't launch either, some more hours of reading and I found out that I had to replace a file in the Tomb Raider folder by a file of another working title of my Steam library, this also never happens in Windows. Then Tomb Raider launches but says my driver is not supported so I play laggy because after many more hours of reading I didn't find out which driver would be pleasing Feral's launcher...
Then on the kids computer I made the mistake to install proprietary drivers on Mint 18..... seems they were not supported, black screen on boot up and I was left with a terminal and no clue on how to fix that. So instead of doing the usual Start in recovery mode > Select the last Windows save point > Restore working parameters, I just reinstalled the OS from scratch.

All in all I'm hanging in and slowly learning how everything's working but it's definetely not a smooth experience for someone addicted to Microsoft's clickodromes :)

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