As a Windows 10 user I swear 11 just exists to force me to learn more about Linux. I dun wanna learn a new OS! I have too many hobbies and I just want steam and league. For now I'm just paying attention to all u Linux nerds and taking note. If Microsoft forces my hand I think mint looks like the easiest to setup based on what comments I've read.
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Even if you don’t use Linux, play HOTS over League
what kind of setup do you have? Its not super easy to give recommendations without that info
I installed Linux Mint on an old laptop five years ago, it was pretty easy to set up. If you're coming from Windows, you shouldn't have much of a problem. It's pretty intuitive. I think I was using the Cinnamon desktop environment, which I'm sure has only improved since then.
Honestly the worst thing for noobs is how different LibreOffice is
Because it's windows?
install Linux andnret rid of this bullshit
I very much switched to yahoo, cuz google just didn't let me find anything. I am running windows 11, they're still updating the somewhat older but less shitty builds of it
I finally had enough of Win11 and downgraded to 10. What a difference! I can actually reliably change my audio outputs again with 2 clicks! I can get to old school settings panels with less hassle and digging too.
I know this comes off as a kidnapping victim saying “My old kidnapper let me use the shower”, but until all my games run well in Linux, I’m stuck here.
Everything runs fine on Linux, just follow the ten pages of commands and technical procedures to get them working and installed with your particular hardware.
...I like tinkering, but I don't like tinkering with stuff that should already just work by now. Linux should already just work by now, I keeping waiting to switch to it, I keep finding out nothing has changed, and you still need to know a bunch of archaic command line stuff just to get the basics working.
They like it that way.
When did you last use Linux, 2006?
I install steam. I press play. Game runs.
Only really exception is the ones that force the installation of a rootkit (kernel-level anti-cheat) in order to play, which I wouldn't play on Windows either because I don't want a rootkit from a random dev on my machine.
Not sure why you'd think I'm just talking about games when I said "everything".
Huh? You specifically replied to someone talking about Linux not playing all their games:
but until all my games run well in Linux, I’m stuck here.
You then continued this talking point:
Everything runs fine on Linux, just follow the ten pages of commands and technical procedures to get them working and installed with your particular hardware.
So yeah. I thought that because that's exactly what you were doing. What's confusing you here?
Yah, but apparently that person is wrong according to everyone here, and I'm wrong for agreeing with them more broadly (I sarcastically said "everything runs just fine" not "all games").
So in light of this new information (being told what I was talking about), I'm changing my vote.
I don't use linux because of its users being shitheads. Nagging smug fuck face shitheads, with no social skills, or communications skills, who would prefer to try to pressure you into their cult than just talk like normal people.
Now let's check in with a more recent thread on the topic.
Installing most Linux OSes has been easy enough for decades, but a program not in your distro’s repos could be a nightmare to get working.
On no, a desenting opinion, y'all better go downvote them, zealot fucks.
Lmao you're so angry
Take the L. You entered a discussion where someone was talking about gaming, continued that discussion, then became rude when I was continuing to talk about gaming, now you're flying into a frenzied rage because you can't talk like an adult.
Seriously, why can't Windows users talk like normal people, rather than angry, whiny shitheads? Why do they need to justify their cult behaviour so much? It's weird.
Wah wah wah someone downvoted you, what a travesty, your poor fee fees 🥺
I just don't like wankers telling me what I was saying, or who deny all failings of something because it's their chosen sacred cow.
You were either talking about gaming or went off on a completely different (and entirely inaccurate) tangent.
Then you got really, really upset. It's not that deep. Just take the L and move along.
Sorry, are you still trying to tell me what I was talking about two days later, and after I've provided you links to other people who also feel the same way?
.. and you're tell ME to move on? That's embarassing. Do you not have anything else in your life?
Grow up child, when you do you'll realise not everyone in life is going to like the same things as you.
You might also learn that conversations aren't about tallying up your "wins" and "losses", or controlling what both sides mean...
I'm sure you'll make at least one more reply, as people like you tend to have to get the last word in... I'll tell you what buddy. I'll let you. Seems like you need it.
Yawn. Just take the L mate. Accept the loss. You entered a discussion about gaming then threw your toys out the pram when the discussion was about gaming, because you're a child.
It's not that deep. I don't know why you keep trying to talk to me. Do you need the attention, is that it? Mammy and daddy not give you enough at home?
mint just works
Which games do you play? In my experience the only ones that haven't worked are ones with a hefty (kernel-level) anti cheat or similar. Proton is surprisingly good at emulating windows games!
Total War games are buggy on Linux despite having linux “ports”.
Star Citizen also runs poorly on Linux. They’re meant to support it at some point so maybe in a decade…
Most games I play work on Proton. It’s Destiny 2 that will get your account banned if you use Linux. I’ve invested too much time at this point to risk a ban, so I’ll need to wait until I finish the last DLC before I switch. I’ve run Suse and Redhat in the past, but the last time I attempted to game on Linux was Team Fortress 2. Based on my experience with SteamDeck, it wouldn’t be hard to get most games up and running.
ah haha so as someone who stopped at 7, because 8 was too invasive:
your games won't run there for long, dear. soon, more will run on Linux.
I would do the same, but then I'd have to go back to Win10's laughably awful implementation of HDR support, and I can't have that. So instead I downloaded SoundSwitch to fix your first issue, and installed StartAllBack to fix the second (you could also simply pin the Control Panel to the Start menu).
installed StartAllBack to fix the second
I'm already aware of this (how could I not be? The story was on the front page for days) and I'm not worried about it. This isn't the first time Microsoft has blocked alternative taskbars; somebody always finds a workaround.
that sounds really fiddly and tedious, why moy just use Linux?
I dual boot Arch but mostly use Win11, cause KDE's implementation of HDR is even more fiddly and tedious. In 11, all I gotta do is enable the setting to use HDR, and it just works. I don't even have to calibrate my display cause my monitor has a setting to automatically process HDR content for me. All I gotta do is leave in-game calibrations at their default setting, and the monitor does the rest. Literally couldn't be easier. Win11 can even automatically convert SDR games to HDR (called "AutoHDR"), and my nVidia GPU can do the same for videos (streaming or local, unfortunately I can't find the setting in the Linux Nvidia drivers). And it just works effortlessly.
So yeah, that's why I still use Windows11. No other OS makes HDR so easy. (But TBF the monitor helps a lot too; LG C1, BTW.)
Its because they want us to change to Linux. I know i sound like a typical lemmy user already but i changed to Mint a month ago and loving it. I've only used the terminal a couple or times but was not entirely necessary.
I find I'm forced to use terminal less on Linux than windows.
Yeah I'm frequently having to open powershell/windows terminal or worse, attempt to navigate the shitshow of complexity that is the windows registry to do the most basic things.
I don't have to do that on my Linux machines.
Plus since MS fired most of their QA team, there's been the occasional crazy issue. My audio wasn't working for months after a windows update. I did a system restore, I uninstalled and reinstalled audio drivers, but nothing worked. Then months later, suddenly it did. That just isn't acceptable for a product that costs as much as Windows does, and continues making even more money by spying on the user and selling the information.
I feel like because of the decline in usability of windows since 7, and the perpetual improvements to Linux, we now see Linux being the easier (as in ease of use) choice.
If Dell/HP/others started putting Linux on most of their machines, I don't think it'd cause issues for most people at all.
yeah. Linux now isn't necessarily better than windows 7, but its a hell of a step up from windows 11.
and they fuck with the appearance enough; you could just tell people they're on windows still anf they might believe you.
What the fuck, right? I’ve been on linux for more than a few years now, and I haven’t had any headaches equivalent to the shit windows was doing constantly. Like 80% of my files were made read-only and my privileges to change permissions were completely revoked for seemingly no reason. And that was just another, run of the mill issue.
sounds like a skill issue to me. if you were any good at computers, you would've stuck to windows. have you even read the manual?
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