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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I've beeb gaming in HDR for years, that is definitely a deal breaker for me. Shocked honestly that with OLED monitors blowing up, linux still doesn't support HDR?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Steam deck is the only linux device that does AFAIK, via their in-house compositor Gamescope.

It's on GitHub, but I have a feeling some of the HDR specfics that would be needed for an open source linux implementation could be at the ransom of some standards body, like 4K 120fps support on AMD graphics cards under Linux

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It's maddening. Somehow valve figured out how to get it to work in steam os in gaming mode but it's still MIA in the desktop

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A friend came to my place with his Linux laptop, to grab some privateered games off of my Nas.

Couldn't connect to anything on the network.

He was like 'yo let me try these command lines'

When he was done fiddling around his computer wouldn't boot.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That friend sounds like they were pretty stupid or they just had an unrelated issue at the same time.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a typical Linux user ;)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah maybe like in 1995... If you're having this kind of issue in the present day, you'd have to be shooting yourself in the foot very very intentionally. (An example is a broken custom Arch or Gentoo setup, which you shouldn't be using anyway unless you know exactly what you're doing.)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've been regularly trying whatever Linux distro is supposed to be good on and off every other year, and there was always something that made me go 'that should be working right out the box' and then spend too much time fixing it.

So not just from 1995.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you're not able to connect to a NAS for some reason, that's almost definitely on you or your friend in this case. But even that aside, expecting a one to one transition has always felt odd to me... You don't switch from an Android device to an iOS device or vice versa with the expectation of everything working one to one. You usually understand that there's a lot of differences involved.

There's ofc things like VR that I will admit Linux is quite far behind in, but for general use, Linux is problem-free for the most part these days. And you definitely don't end up having an unbootable system pretty much ever unless you intentionally fuck it up. Like yeah, Linux lets me uninstall the kernel or bootloader if i choose to do that (it will try to warn me ofc) and that would render the system unbootable. But that would be me being irredeemably stupid, not the operating system's fault. Hell, some distros like Tumbleweed even come with a better snapshotting setup than both Windows and macOS, making it pretty much impossible to fuck it up that badly.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

My Nas is a standard truenas scale installation with standard SMB shares that all my windows computers pick up instantly without any or extremely limited fiddling.

I'm not some nooblet that doesn't know shit, tyvm. I've been using computers for decades.

I don't expect a one to one translation between using windows and Linux, but I do expect basic functionalities to be, well, functional out if the box.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

this is the other thing linux communities are well-known for: blaming the user for not being good enough.

i think the last time my linux failed to boot there was a power outage...but the machine was a laptop. before that it was running an update (fedora/nobara). before that it was installing void ("installation complete" -> reboot ->grub recovery). before that it was running an update (pop_os). Before that it was running an update (manjaro, this was during a brief moment when it was very popular and linux folks claimed it was user friendly and suitable for moderate users). I've managed to recover from most of those cases listed above, but with the exception of manjaro that was 2023+2024 right there.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does mint have trial/dual boot easy install like Ubuntu?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, any distro with a live ISO will allow you to try it on a USB and dual boot if you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But does it have the easy dual boot setup flow of Ubuntu? With that you tick the option in setup and it basically does everything for you, just asks about disk allocation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's not a feature of Ubuntu, more so the installer itself. I'm sure many distros, especially Ubuntu-based one will ship with the exact same installer. Idk if mint uses the same installer, but it would really surprise me that the option isn't available.

Thankfully it's pretty easy to confirm by yourself. Grab a USB key, flash the ISO and have a look at it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah sweet, I'll give it a go then. Need to figure out the flavor I like by the win10 support cutoff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Awesome! I haven't looked at mint in quite a few years, but I would recommend cinnamon as the default.

MATE and XFCE are mostly targeted towards older hardware.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I am wondering how many people give up because their exact program isn't on there.

I get having to use Adobe software if you are an industry professional, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about people who don't want to change because qbittorrent is not the same as utorrent. Or peazip is different than 7zip.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

sometimes the alternatives are even ok!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Both qbittorrent and 7zip are FOSS projects that are perfectly available on Linux. There's actually very few software packages that aren't also on Linux, but they have a strong pull. Like AutoCad, Photoshop, video editors, DAWs, etc. Is specialized niche software, not everyday software that usually stop people. Also, they are unfamiliar with a workflow to do certain things on Linux's DEs.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'm somewhat of a creator myself and I mostly use creative software that has Linux versions (will move to Linux once Win 10's support expires and/or I somehow get enough money for a new PC), and they're legit better than Adobe software for my usecase. Photoshop is nearly unusable for digital painting (it's more of a photo-editing software with some drawing capabilities), Krita is pretty good, and my only pet peewee was that some of the brush compositing modes had confusing names and were hidden deep inside the menu, but then I found "greater", which can somewhat mimic the behavior of the default CSP brushes.

Also can someone recommend me a guitar amp modeller (preferably an open-source one), that is available on Linux, so I won't suffer from both the demo of Guitar Rig came with my Arturia Minifuse, or with trying to get one running in Wine with all their complicated copy protection schemes?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The biggest problem with Linux (other than the whole "most people give up the second they see a terminal" thing) is software availability, which will hopefully improve as Linux gains market share.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

2024 is indeed the year of the linux desktop

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