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    [–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do you know how many grey beards have waited their entire lives to have a girl ask them what Linux is. You've made a lot of irc mods jealous tonight. Stack overflow responses are going to get super spicy for a couple days

    [–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I'd love to have a girl, or anyone for that matter ask me that. Though preferably not with the phrase "what the fuck" in front of it. I'd rather them ask me about it out of pure curiosity rather then out of distain and annoyance.

    [–] churisotophu@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

    This guy is spitting the facts

    [–] cole@lemdro.id 7 points 1 year ago

    get yourself a girl who not only knows what it is but runs it with you :)

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    [–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

    Everytime I scroll past something from this community my eyes bleed. Y’all wanna fuck windows users so bad

    [–] cacheson@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] cacheson@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I don't think I can from kbin. ![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/680/203/ac5.jpg), right?

    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Oh, I didn't notice you were on Kbin. Sorry.

    [–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Should’ve been on Linux smh my head 😔

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    [–] xkforce@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

    Unfortunately gaming is about the least Linux friendly hobby there is. For most tasks you can find software that will make it relatively painless to wean people off Windows but many games, especially new ones, dont work out of the box on Linux. Most of the time, theyre going to have to fiddle with things to get games to work, if they can work and youre going to have to justify to them why they should do that.

    [–] Synthead@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago (10 children)
    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    This literally happened to me:

    1. Install Kubuntu 22.04 and Steam on my kid's PC.

    2. Download Brickrigs, his favorite game.

    3. Crashes on title screen

    4. Spend the next week sporadically troubleshooting when I get a free few minutes here and there.

    5. After week 2, I finally decide for shits and giggles to download and install the "official" AMD driver from AMD's website instead of using the built in kernel one like every goddamn reply on every forum post has been telling me to use, because the PC's GPU is about ten years old at this point and the driver that came with the distro doesn't work with it.

    6. Lo and behold, Brickrigs works.

    THIS is how Linux "works", a LOT of the time.

    [–] zurohki@aussie.zone 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    The new amdgpu kernel driver only launched in 2015 and it was buggy and unstable for a while. GPUs from around that era default to using the older radeon kernel driver which lacks Vulkan support.

    Polaris (Radeon RX 400 series from 2016) and newer just work, older cards can take some prodding.

    [–] slaecker@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've seen this exact situation so many times.

    1. Ask the community about gaming on Linux
    2. Get the response that it works (install Steam and play)
    3. Install Steam
    4. Game doesn't work
    5. Invest hours in troubleshooting
    6. Have the community explain why it doesn't work in your particular case
    7. After hours of fiddling get it working

    I've been in this situation myself so many times. I like fiddling with my system but even I ended up dual-booting Windows just for gaming.

    [–] Johanno@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Let's get this image then fixed.

    Linux gaming works (most of the time without any issues)

    What you should know before you switch to Linux:

    Not every Hardware is supported as well as on Windows. Old Hardware may work better or worse than on Windows. New hardware may not work at all. Don't buy sth. that isn't at least half a year on the market.

    Check protondb if your games do run on linux. For some people even silver there isn't an enjoyable status. Gold should be working as on windows with minor issues and platin is works just fine.

    Be ready to learn a new operating System! Linux isn't Windows and the terminal is key to fix issues.

    [–] rbits@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Or Nvidia either according to all the people telling me my problems aren't valid.

    So if you want a good time with Linux you need and AMD GPU or integrated graphics, and it can't be too new, and it can't be too old.

    I think linux's image is pretty accurate

    Also "Be ready to learn a new operating System! Linux isn't Windows and the terminal is key to fix issues." I agree. I think that's not a good idea for a lot of people though. So I think posts like OP's are kinda stupid. People shouldn't try to push Linux on people who shouldn't use it.

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    [–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    3: try every proton version
    4: try proton GE
    5: (proccessing Vulcan shaders)
    6: change launch arguments
    7: use protontricks to install some weird dependancy
    8: sacrifice your pets firstborn at an alter to achieve a running state

    Not that hard lol, get good bitches. Also fuck you for wanting to play rainbow 6 siege. All my homies hate rainbow 6 siege.

    [–] lesteross@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    What if game is not on steam and it's online game that I'll get banned if I use 3rd party client?

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    [–] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    So far I've only had an issue with one game (easy to fix, I just restarted steam). I'm relatively new to Linux. (Switched because I didn't feel like paying for windows when I built my PC). To be transparent, I did use Linux a bit 5 years ago in school. But I don't think that counts.

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    [–] j891319@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

    I used to also think gaming and Linux are not really that compatible, but Proton being built into steam makes it easy to run pretty much any game out of the box now.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's really a bit like what we used to do when we poked at autoexec.bat and whatnot when running DOS games back when dinosaurs roamed the land.

    It's not really complicated, you just have to prod here and there until it works (unless it just doesn't because some kind of anti-consumer software lock just won't play nice with Wine, although that's becoming less common nowadays).

    OTOH, things that aren't Linux friendly... corporate accounting, an awful lot of dedicated software for niche industries... There's no lack of things that are still complicated in Linux.

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    [–] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I use both Linux and Windows (Linux professionally, windows personally)

    Got a buddy of mine that will wax on for hours about how windows is pointless and should have been replaced by Linux years ago. I'll then go "Cool, so uh, did that game download yet? Lets play!" Then start up the game. Four hours later and he's still trying to get the sound to work or make the graphics display while continuing his rant on how user friendly Linux is.

    Like, Linux is great and all, but fuck me, it's not user friendly.

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    [–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    FYI, the creator of an original Arch-chan is RavioliMavioli: https://raviolimavioli.github.io/ . The pic above seems to be a derivative work.

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 27 points 1 year ago

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    [–] Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's not a religion it's just some damned software

    [–] cacheson@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

    Y'all are very serious for a meme community

    [–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

    Its not something that effect's your every day live its just a book

    [–] PowerGloveSoBad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our Motherboard and Server?

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    [–] mojo@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Can tell you're that type of friends if you're replying with anime reactions

    [–] init@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

    When she gets onto Linux:

    "Now we just need to get you onto Arch!"

    [–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I knew about Linux when I was 10, and Linux was only like 2 years old at the time. How does someone be online in any capacity these days and not know about Linux? Linux users are everywhere and they never stop talking about Linux!

    [–] crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour Linus Torvalds

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    [–] DreitonLullaby@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I heard the name Linux from Minecraft being available on "Windows, Mac, & Linux" when I was maybe 12-13 (2014-15), but I never looked into it, and all I thought of it was it was some kind of really obscure operating system. I wondered why I'd never seen a Linux computer in tech stores. And Windows seemed perfectly fine, so why would I need to use it? "It probably has some crazy UI that nobody can understand"(except I didn't know what 'UI' was at that age)

    That's back than... I've been using Linux as my daily driver now since mid 2021, and I've been on Manjaro for nearly 1 & a half years.

    However, I've met barely anyone who even knows what "a Linux" is. I've met a guy who was only using Kali Linux because he wanted to hack or something; and a friend at my church who manages a lot of the technology and computers: him and his father tried using Ubuntu about 10 years ago when he was a late teen. Than there's another guy at my church who, despite never having used Linux in his life; surprisingly new a lot about it and was able to help me solve a display issue I was having earlier this year. I've nearly gotten my Mum onto Linux Mint for her laptop 😂, because she really only makes documents, browses websites, and checks emails, and really doesn't need to be paying for Windows & having updates forced on her regularly. As a matter of fact, I'm downloading it for her as I type.

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    [–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    We’ve got Linux and eggs, eggs sausage Linux and ham, Linux Linux sausage and eggs, toast juice Linux and ham…

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    [–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] elxeno@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    So can I play Microsoft Flight Sim on a 5120x1444 ultra wide or is that asking too much?

    [–] Lizardking27@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Ugh. The only posts I ever see from this community are about windows. I thought this was a Linux community. Blocked.

    [–] cacheson@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Sorry, I promise that the next one will be about not being able to exit vim

    [–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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