Dominatrix is a fresh updated port of Ritual Entertainment's SiN

I think you're missing the point that for many of us users, Linux is a full replacement for Windows .

BSD/Solaris with Wine, Linux with Wine/Proton, and macOS with CrossOver won't replace Windows. You turn off the emulator, and you have to deal with the Unix-like operating system.
Users don't have a full replacement for Windows 9x/NT - It's hard to recommend ReactOS. I can say that FreeDOS could replace DOS, and ArcaOS is the great alternative for Windows 3.1.

That was my point. I don't want an NT-like experience. I do not wish to emulate the way Windows works, nor do I want my OS to become Windows.

When something breaks, I want a proper error message for example. Not just "Something went wrong. Contact your admin. 0x342342" - where googling "0x342342" results in a Microsoft help page that states "well it could be this, so try this, if not it could be this, so try this, or it could be that so try this. Or it could be none of these, so try re-installing your OS".

In most cases, their suggestions simply don't work and the ultimate "solution" is to re-install Windows, after running you around in circles.

I do not want that experience at all, nor do I miss it. I should never need to re-install my operating system since that's not fixing a problem, that's working around it. If you need to re-install to fix a problem, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the OS. Just give me the verbose error and where it failed, and let me fix it. Don't give me random suggestions and say "could be broken here, here or here, we just don't know". That's just plain annoying and not helpful.

I do not try to emulate Windows at all and all of my applications are FOSS or open source with the exception of games.

In all honesty, I never even think about Microsoft or Windows in the slightest, they're just not a part of my life. They haven't been for many years, and never will be again. I do things the Unix-like way and I very much prefer that.

So for me, Linux replaces Windows entirely.

I have low expecations about Linux. You can easily find hardware that doesn't support Linux or barely works. I don't blame Linux, but it can't replace Windows in this area. However, I can avoid buying problematic hardware if I use Linux, which can give me a better experience.

Similarly, Linux has many applications and games that we can use. We can accept them with all the issues or jealously look at Windows versions.

Considering I never actually look at Windows nor use it at all. I never look at Windows in a "jealous" way. I simply do my work with Linux applications and the unix-way without much further thought.

In 99% of cases, the applications I use work just fine, and I am able to do all my work and hobbies without issues.

As for hardware, it's been a very long time since I had any sort of compatibility issues, and I do buy some obscure hardware sometimes.

We overestimate Linux with Wine/Proton as a replacement for Windows. Users are smart enough to notice that they have higher expectations than even the playable state of a game for Windows.

It's just terrible marketing for Linux, and people shouldn't promote it in this way.

But promoting it in a way which falsely makes it sound terrible is not going to help either.

Some users may want the Windows experience and want to stick to it, and that's fine. For those users, I simply suggest they stay on Windows. Since clearly that's what they want and prefer, anything else will never be fit for them. I may recommend they move up to Windows 11 for the best Windows experience and to ensure they keep up to date/secure if they are using an older version. Beyond that, they're not my problem.

However, for other people who do not want the Windows experience I will happily help them migrate to Linux if they ask.

TL;DR: Not everyone wants a NT-like experience and for many of us Windows is simply not necessary, and we have fully replaced it with Linux.


Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 25 November 2023 at 9:08 am UTC

at this point the only feature I can think of in Windows that I miss when I'm not at work is the way it's really easy to change file names.

Windows makes it even easier than selecting a file and hitting F2? Or (at least in Thunar, Xfce's file manager) selecting multiple files and hitting F2 to rename them all using anything from simple replacement to regular expressions and audio tags. If it was any easier, I bet I'd be doing it accidentally all the time.

In the Windows file manager, if you click on a file and kind of hold the button down, it puts a cursor on the filename and you can change it. So, pretty easy. In Mate I haven't noticed anything except right-click the file and pick rename from a list of actions, which is a bit clunkier. Testing . . . oh, the F2 thing seems to work in Mate's file manager too, I'll have to remember that.

at this point the only feature I can think of in Windows that I miss when I'm not at work is the way it's really easy to change file names.

Windows makes it even easier than selecting a file and hitting F2? Or (at least in Thunar, Xfce's file manager) selecting multiple files and hitting F2 to rename them all using anything from simple replacement to regular expressions and audio tags. If it was any easier, I bet I'd be doing it accidentally all the time.

In the Windows file manager, if you click on a file and kind of hold the button down, it puts a cursor on the filename and you can change it. So, pretty easy. In Mate I haven't noticed anything except right-click the file and pick rename from a list of actions, which is a bit clunkier. Testing . . . oh, the F2 thing seems to work in Mate's file manager too, I'll have to remember that.

KDE can do that with dolphin

Dominatrix is also an awesome and free game on steam, and it has been deck verified.
Try it out!


Edit: *Dominatrix simulator
It would have been so much fun if it was just Dominatrix ;-).

How is it in VR? Ha ha!