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"I'll move to Linux if it runs every game I want" just say that you never will move (discuss.online)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I hate when people say that they'll only move when it has 100% support

People who say 'cant wait for steamOS to come out so that I can move to it' is also very similar

They never will try Linux, even if what they want comes true

They won't do it, whether they just fear change or think it'll break stuff or they can't bother

And I'm not going to lie, I don't hate them or debate with them for it, I just hate the bold lies they tell just to get with the crowd

"Fuck you Microsoft, I'm moving to Linux" says the individual that would never move if they haven't already

Frankly, I probably wouldn't move either if Windows didn't permanently break my ethernet and WiFi drivers, and reinstalling windows wasn't harder than installing Linux, fucking hell

Either way, these people kick up hype for a Linux that will be so much bigger but they never arrive

Maybe they will, due in fucking 2028 or something when they invent a really easy way to use built in Linux tools to move your files from NTFS to Linux and then when you launch steam you have a perfect library of Linux compatible games that are as good or better than windows

And don't lie, even now with 80% compatibility it feels more like 60%, whether because it depends on the system one runs or because the performance drops just make it not worth it...

At least don't lie that you'll move to Linux at a goal post that you'll just move whenever you get close, maybe say that you'll move to Linux when you finally get a new pc with a new disk or something?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Frankly, I probably wouldn't move either if Windows didn't permanently break my ethernet and WiFi drivers

I think this might be colouring your expectations a bit, and you might be projecting your experiences on to others.

I've said for years that it was gaming that was holding me back from running Linux full time. I don't do a huge amount of gaming, but it is important to me, so for many years it was a deal breaker.

Now, gaming is good enough, even though it's not perfect, and I moved to linux full time around 9 months ago.

People aren't "lying". They just have different priorities to you...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That list keeps getting smaller

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Why does it matter? All that matters is that plenty of people do use Linux - literally millions of people. There is a healthy vibrant ecosystem of distros, and devs working on Linux.

I don't care if people aren't interested in Linux. I'm much more interested in ensuring those people who choose Linux are happy because that is good for all.of us.

And the best thing anyone can do is donate to the projects they care about. That helps projects fund development and support. It's much more useful than trying to convince people to try Linux when they have no real interest in it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Switching from Windows to Linux was a refreshing experience. I’ve never encountered any problems running Windows games on Linux.

The only thing I miss is ShareX.

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

The games I want: emacs, golang, docker, nginx, prometheus, grafana...

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago (9 children)

If the game doesn't run on Linux, there's a good chance it's using a rootkit and should not be installed on windows either.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I hate when people say that they'll only move when it has 100% support

Why do you give a shit what os others use?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Frankly I started to hold Linux like it was a religion, but beyond that admission it's not that I care about them but them constantly saying shit like so which they know they don't actually believe in or will do

Imagine advocating for a protest just for you to not even show up

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I mean, I think protests are important but I have to work to stay out of the homeless shelter

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I've been playing with linux since the mid 90s. I have it on majority of my devices, but my main is still running windows 10. Exactly because it doesn't run everything I need 100%, nor do I enjoy spending hours trying to get things to work anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I feel the someway about people who say "I'm moving to Linux after W10 support ends".

I think it takes one of two things for people to move.

  1. Linux has to have several features that are unavailable on Windows that makes it worth swapping.
  2. Windows has to do something so egregious that they no longer consider it viable.

In my case, I swapped back 3 years ago when ads appeared in explorer for a preview version. In combination with the work the community had done for Valve to consider the steam deck worth selling with Linux, I was confident enough that I could have a good enough experience with Linux.

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

That's a perfectly legitimate approach. Switching your OS is always a hassle. I can understand that people like to stick with what works for them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think the only thing that will really push adoption is if more systems ship with Linux preinstalled and those laptops are advertised primarily with linux. People aren't going to go buy a usb drive, figure out how to download an image and how to download and install a flasher and how to use that flashing tool, not when google and apple actively hamstring computer literacy in schools. They probably won't even click the "budget penguin thing" unless they already know what it is and have been sold the story of linux on that specific laptop.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The problem with that mentality is that you can easily run an OS without support for a very long time and win 10 LTSC support ends in like 2032.

anyone thinking of switching should just dual boot with separate drives and linux as default boot. I still have my windows drive but it's been a few months since I've needed to boot into it at this point and honestly don't think there's any reason left.

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

Linux actually has stuff that makes it worth switching too, but it's ones that would require reinstalls to notice and that's quite infrequent

On windows people dread reinstalls, on Linux it could quite literally happen every time you boot and you notice nothing changes

But these can't easily be advertised and can't be felt easily either

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

It's mainly Linux enthusiasts who evangelize other people to use it. So if others don't want to move to Linux, let them be.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I can understand if the game they play is online and it has an anti-cheat that makes it uncompatible with Linux. (Mainly game devs not allowing Linux to work). Otherwise, my experince with gaming on Linux has been pretty good

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