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When my elderly, and tech illiterate family ask how to switch from Windows; Iβm sorry but Iβm not telling them to use Linux because theyβre going to harass me nonstop for tech support.
At best this will be the year of macOS, because thereβs a store I can send them to for all their questions.
This is going to be my Year of Linux, finally taking the plunge. Nothing special, just a used laptop running Mint to replace a Chromebook (who's hardware has finally failed). Gonna try to replace my gaming PC next year once I've got more of a handle on the different distros and have played around with them (and more money).
2025 lets gooooooo (the year needs at least one win)
Linux would be cool but the games I primarily play ate only on windows and doesn't play well in VMs, and dual booting just isn't worth the hassle.
What games do you primarily play?
Mabinogi is the biggest one holding me back, some one posted a link with some potential fixes so im gonna give some of those a go later/
Sounds like you need to play better games then
Probably but I like what I like so it's whatever at the end of the day for me.
what's "ate"? edit: oh it's just a type for "are" isn't it
i would recommend getting an extra ssd, installing a beginner friendly distro (mint or pop for instance) and just boot it up occasionally, see what works, what doesn't. i got into linux like this, gradually, over years
Oh I didn't even see that typo.
But yeah I've tried this and I just found my self booting less and less into Linux, to me it made more sense to just keep my PC on once I'm done playing, or alt tab out and work on other stuff with the game running in the background.
However this old MMO is getting a unreal update sometime in the next few years so I'll probably give it a try again and see if it's able to run once that comes around.
idk which mmo it is but i would assume an older engine runs more reliably on linux than a new one
actually, for me, trying and failing to run star wars republic commando a few years ago on win 10 was what pushed me to really look into gaming on linux, and after installing it via steam, enabling steam play, i just clicked play and it ran great, i was shocked
and you can add any windows executable to steam (although it's a bit janky), enable compatibility, and most of the times, stuff just runs
heroic launcher also is great, but a bit more complicated
It's Mabinogi (crappy Korean MMO)
And yeah you would think so but the engine is a mess and it has something to do with the Anticheat. People have found fixes but it's not "playable" to me at least in any content that's end game.
You gave me an idea though so I'll probably try on my laptop at a later date.
check out the protondb page, maybe something helps
(filter for the appropriate gpu and distro but the latter is less important)
https://www.protondb.com/app/212200
huh looks like some updates have been made ill look through this more later, thank you!
Chicken and egg. Canβt have the gamers without games and games without the gamers. Valve and the steam deck might have changed that. Even if small, if that portion of 0.0x percent of the market buy games and it is enough to offset the developing costs to port the game, companies will do it since it will make business sense.
These threads are always hilarious. People are not switching to any kind of desktop. They are moving away from PCs entirely. There is an entire population who only use a phone as their computer.
Android is Linux. Still a win LOL
I truly yearn for the day i can just plug in a phone into a dock and use it as a PC honestly.
They arent the strongest phone out there, but the PinePhone (and Pro) can do exactly that. I am heavily considering one for a second phone to play with
Samsung Dex?
nah you don't need dex get termux and x11 and hook it up to a monitor mouse and keyboard. Dex is way too limited for what i wanna do with a phone PC, and phones aren't really there yet.
If it wasn't for the non-uninstallable crapware, that would indeed be a consideration.
Lain is what prompted me to switch to Linux! Watching a character who doesn't yet understand computers fuck around with a computer really inspired me to fuck around with my computer