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    [–] Ronno@feddit.nl 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    The problem is that Linux is only ready in certain cases. For me, it isn't there yet, because I can't use it for my gaming machine. Every time this is brought up, Linux enthusiast shrug it off as "no big deal", you can game on Linux, just the games that use kernel level anti-cheat won't work. Well yeah, that's a bit the issue, I still like to play some of those games you see?

    Meanwhile, I have Linux Mint running on a laptop that I bring on vacation. I don't game on that one. Then Linux works just as well as any other OS, no issue.

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 10 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

    That's not "Linux isn't ready", it's "I still play games from companies that like to fuck with me."

    It's fine, and we get it. But Linux isn't ever going to fix that.

    Edit: We are seeing a lot more care from companies now that the SteamDeck is popular, so I hope your favorites get some relief.

    I've accepted that I'll need a weird rig to play my favorite games that come from developers with shitty practices.

    Ironically, mine tend to be Linux rigs emulating Windows to get things just right. But we do what we have to do play our favorite games.

    Anyway, I'm not judging you, or your gaming choice.

    I'm judging the game developers for choosing shitty tools that make our lives harder.

    [–] Elkot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

    Before I bought a Steam Deck I had never used Linux but now I really like it, honestly I'm tempted to install SteamOS on my PC as it's only ever used for gaming anyway

    [–] Huschke@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

    Go for Bazzite. It's basically Steam OS but with extra stuff that makes it "just work", even on an Nvidia GPU.

    Once Valve releases their official Steam OS, you can always switch to it.

    [–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 minutes ago

    Steam OS, it's not released to the public yet, but I know others waiting for it too.

    [–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

    Same, before steam deck I remembered my literal 15 year old terrible ubuntu experience. Nowardays I can say for from my experience as an ex MF mentioned in OP, is that those MFs think is a linux experience, is just projecting current state of windows.

    [–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

    Tried it again a few months ago when HDR support first dropped in KDE. It didn't work at all. Everything was desaturated and dim. Literally the opposite of what HDR is supposed to do.

    I'm giving it another year before I try Linux again. Hopefully the bugs are sorted by then.

    [–] iwasnormalonce@lemm.ee 1 points 17 minutes ago

    How do I make the change less scary? I made my pc like 10 years ago and not looked at it since. I just use it for personal admin now and Rome 2 total war twice a year.

    [–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    Ok, I'll bite. I tried Ubuntu a few months ago. Logging into Eduroam was a bit of a process, but eventually I figured it out and it worked. Then one day the internet didn't work and I had no idea why. Something to do with the network drivers. Then I was trying to use OpenOffice (or LibreOffice? The one that came with the OS), and I use Zotero for references. The Zotero plugin had a bunch of glitches that made me not trust it. The Internet (back on Windows) assured me that it worked fine, but it was way glitchier than the Windows version.

    The bottom line is that I just need this stuff to work because I don't have time to debug. I love the idea though; maybe I was using the wrong distro.

    [–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 minutes ago

    Idk eduroam works fine on my thinkpad. Other than having to conf some files and not having to install random programs for basic functionality linux offers, its more reliable.

    [–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

    Yeah depending on your hardware things like that can still happen sometimes. I don't think it's a lot more common than on other OSes. It's especially not really usual for something as basic as network drivers to misbehave though, especially suddenly. For what it's worth, my experience trying to use Zotero on Windows on both MS word and LibreOffice writer was also a glitchy mess. Anyway, hope you try it again another time when you are under a bit less pressure and it works out better for you then.

    [–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world -3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    Bazzite is your answer in most cases imo. It's the most functional distro Ive ever used

    [–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

    I love how you're getting downvoted. Kind of says it all

    [–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

    I daily drive it right now on my gaming rig. It's fairly stable, it has a few issues though like display color tweaking out upon waking up out of sleep or Bluetooth just straight up deciding it's done for the session and forcing me to reboot.

    [–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

    Linux was ready for me 15 years ago.

    [–] dan@upvote.au 21 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

    I stopped using Linux on my desktop PC in 2007. Last year I switched back, and wow everything is so much smoother now. Video, sound, webcam, networking, all worked perfectly out-of-the-box. No more messing with fglrx for hours to get ATI/AMD graphics working. No more figuring out ALSA vs OSS vs PulseAudio vs whatever else. I don't know what the sound subsystem is even called now, because I don't need to know. It just works.

    KDE is beautiful now, too. I tried a few desktop environments and liked KDE the best.

    Great time to switch. I've been using Linux on servers since 1999, but it's totally viable for desktops these days too.

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