I don’t want windows to disappear. I want it to admit defeat by slowly migrating towards a linux kernel.
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Alpine and NixOS are lonely? Nani?
Some people “I don’t care why it doesn’t work, it’s Linux’s fault!”
1·13 days agoYou’re ramming a square peg into a circular hole and saying the experience is underwhelming 🤷
Possibly, but it doesn’t really change that things that just work on Windows (e.g. your preferred choice of GPU and games) doesn’t on Linux.
Sure, but that’s like saying that windows doesn’t work well on a raspberrypi. You put an operating system on badly supported hardware and you’re going to have problems. Not much windows or linux can do about that. The major difference in this case is that the issue is with the hardware vendor NVIDIA, the trillion dollar company that ignored and refused to support Linux for more than a decade.
Admittedly, I only tried 2 games on steam. One worked flawlessly. The other one was Red Alert 2 that does not work flawlessly even on modern Windows.
It needs a tweak to run on ProtonDB for Red Alert 2. As for the other things, yeah, it’s understandable that it doesn’t work well on linux. Unfortunately, they are made specifically for windows and in development. Some of them could work if they’re written in (I think) Unity or Unreal Engine which have a simple toggle to compile for linux. Maybe sending a quick message to the developer to tick that box could help.
Most of your problems are probably down to NVIDIA 🙁
As for wine settings, why are you messing with wine when you have steam? Are your games supported?
Underwhelmed? Do you miss random update restarts? We can help you out to have that if you like 😉
Not sure what I fall under 😅 I want privacy and will pay for it, but I won’t go all the way to a pure GNU OS where only certain open-source is allowed. IMO buying a new Pixel phone for GrapheneOS is still contributing to Google and does more harm than good.
That’s a good explanation. Thank you.
I don’t understand the linux/programming socks meme though. I’ve met way more overweight, unshaven, smelly nerds than people wearing striped socks anywhere. At one convention there was one single person with cat ears, but that was it. Where does this association even come from when it’s so rare (at least in my experience)?
Had me until the first point. Well done🤣
Wasn’t Signal messenger also funded by the NSA+DARPA? And TOR too?
How slow is qubes? I imagine that virtualising everything is slow. Does it have a containerised mode?
Ahoi, Genosse! Wie läuft die Germanisierung? Verbreiten Sie erfolgreich das Wort von Linux in Ihrem Heimatland?
(Übersetzung von DeepL)
If an Arch linux user hasn’t told anybody they use it, are they really using it?
The hate is towards the community members that spam “arch btw” and telling new users to install arch.
It used to have a graphical updater. I don’t know why they did away with it…
Some people just don’t have a sense of humor 🤷♂
I spent the day yesterday trying to get kubuntu to update to the new LTS on a friend’s laptop. All because plasma5 was being slow at login. Well, after a few hours, it was finally updated and we spent another 2 trying to find out why plasma6 was now slow.
The whole time I was thinking “why the hell did the update require the command-line” and “this feels like punching myself in the face”. I wanted a quiet, productive saturday and spent it on linux instead.
Ubuntu is not ready for non-technical folk in these cases. Without me as support, my friend would’ve been lost on the “most user-friendly distro”.
Linux is amazing tech and the ecosystem built around it is better than windows and mac for many things, but still fails at random, supposedly simple tasks. Yes, windows and mac too, but it’s much more visible on linux.
Matt Parker also wrote a linux driver himself! Much respect.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.