- cross-posted to:
- linuxmemes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- linuxmemes@lemmy.world
Cross posted from https://piefed.zip/post/1076915
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I’m waiting for the Steam Machine. I’m lazy.
(Linux since 1995. But desktops are Windows 10 and macOS.)
Still have Windows 11 on my laptop just to get around the fact that some games that are definitely compatible won’t start on my pc (also too lazy to get those games starting on there). The moment I have a Steam Machine I’m getting this laptop straight onto an operating system it deserves!!
People still out here saying that Linux isn’t user friendly while I all my friends never touched the terminal the whole time they use mint and steam os
So now: open terminal -> type in “ping 172.0.0.1” -> fullscreen the terminal -> pretend to be hacker
less +f /dev/urandomSudo dnf update…
“OMG UR A HACKER”
*127.0.0.1
I mean you could also open three terminals two left one right snapped to the side of the desktop, one runs htop the big one runs cmatrix and the bottem one is just ping 1.1.1.1
That would actually have useful information on it though.
or even better, run btop
Cat an html file.
Whats the most user friendly distribution? I had some Ubuntu version some years back and it was ok up to a point where the software center (cant remember what its called) refused to install updates / programs and even the terminal didnt deliver.
I most likely f’d something up myself with some terminal commands. Didnt even try to do anything special, just updates and stuff like that and always followed some sort of instructions
i tried several distros and eventually ended up sticking with pop_os because it’s nvidia friendly. there were some hiccups with updates and such in the beginning, but now it’s working fine.
fuck MS and fuck windows
ZorinOS is very beginner friendly and visually similar to Windows, it’s a good option to try.
I mean from all the stuff you get at default I would recommend Mint just because you rarely ever have to touch the terminal and it just works. And well if you game alot and want a bit of console feeling steam os or bazzite. Well every distro can basically what every other distro can just the initial packag is different
That’s only true until you need to use it for work and install some proprietary software, or really do anything more complex than browsing the web and using steam.
Twelve years ago my brother’s ex girlfriend’s wife attended Bottles for Christ where she witnessed a fight between two emerging authors, one was a woman who’s name escapes me but the title of her book was “the girl with the dog dick tits”. She didn’t take kindly to another authors adaptation of the classic “pizza clowns from space hell”, claiming it was rubbish and a direct insult to writers. They argued over several bottles of wine until the referees announced the winner was a different author who had written a cookbook about making dinosaur sashimi. Everyone thought it was ridiculous because you would have to figure out time travel in order to even get dinosaur meat, that is until a young descendant of Alberto Weinstein came up with a way to incubate dinosaurs from nothing more than the DNA contained in oil. Unfortunately he died of sepsis before testing out his theory and no one ever got to eat dinosaur sashimi.
Bottles for Christ never happened again after that year, 32 people died of alcohol poisoning and another 210 were hospitalized with severe liver problems. At least those 32 people got to meet their Lord in the end so I guess bottles for Christ wasn’t a complete waste of time.
Honestly I’m 50/50 on whether this deserves downvotes bc on the one hand, wtf, who asked? On the other, it’s c/memes, and this is a MEME
I just don’t understand why there were so many authors at something called bottles for Christ. And why were there referees?
How the fuck did you get me to read that whole thing? Bravo!
Tried to. It doesn’t like my pc. Not buying new rig for it. Win 10 LTSC it is. ^^
( Honestly tho if you have modern hardware in any meaning of the word, try it. )
If you’ve got a potato, try Linux Mint or one of the extra light distros, like PuppyLinux
Not exactly potato, but my performance on Linux sucks ass and I believe it’s mostly due to drivers. I am mainly gaming as of now, so not running games I can run on Windows is no go.
GTX 750 + i-4460. So yeah, low end but servicable…on windows. Tried Linux Mint, Nobara and CachyOS. My benchmark was Fallout 76 and Hogwarts Legacy. On windows both work. On Linux, no matter the distro, Hogwarts dies pre “press start” and F76 blinks, lags and freezes. In both cases after I already set settings as low as I could, lot lower than Windows.
Oh and yeah I tried various fixes and tricks, used both steam proton and GE, tried to adjust commands. Nothing worked. And all I am asking for is to match windows performance.
Legacy nvidia hardware is not a great experience on linux. I have an nvidia kepler gpu that makes gaming on linux borderline possible. Soon as i got some new hardware, everything just started working.
you have to remember that proton is translating Windows software to Linux while you play so the fact that it works at all is pretty great, but of course it’s not a great experience you’ve had!
Have you tried experimental proton versions in the compatibility settings? Also do you have the proprietary nvidia drivers?
Frankly Linux, especially gaming, is not ready without plenty of command-line foo
Tried commands, tried proton experimental, tried gametime or whatever it’s called, tried switching dx’s and all that. And yeah, used proprietary, except on cachyOS which I believe supports my hardware out of the box.
And honestly, I didn’t need co.mand line for anything when I tried and. Spent a week on it, made it mirror more or less my wi dows config software wise.
Only thing that, except gaming, pissed me off is Linux not being able to read my portable HDD. “Yadda yadda, suprblocm damaged, yadda yadda”.
Windows, seemingly, didn’t get the memo as it opens it without a problem.
WINE is not an emulator!
translating! not emulating!!! (not sure what the appropriate word is)
It’s a native implementation of the win sys call libs, so it doesn’t need to translate anything, but I see you meant like someone translated it, but you made it sound like it should somehow cost performance, as if it is being emulated or something.
Linux will really take off when Valve finally releases the desktop version of SteamOS.
Why would they do that?
Because of the name? Because there are already a lot of immutable Linux distros from which I really dig Silverblue or if you want KDE kinonite.
there are already a lot of immutable Linux distros
Exactly. There are a lot, and that’s confusing for most people. The fact that people have so many choices makes them less likely to switch. Most people want ease, simplicity and convenience.
And with SteamOS for Desktop there is one more. Yay…
Yeah, one more with the name recognition, like you mentioned. People don’t know what Silverblue is, they don’t know what an immutable distribution is, and, frankly, I don’t think they’re interested in learning. But they know Steam. Sad, perhaps, but true.
If they aren’t interested in learning they will complain that MSO, Photoshop, Premiere doesn’t work as well. Nobody is helped, everyone is miserable. They can just stay in their walled garden or even migrate over to the golden cage aka MacOS.
they will complain that MSO, Photoshop, Premiere doesn’t work
That’s true. They will. But maybe if enough users switch to SteamOS, Adobe, and other software developers might port their software to it. That’s really the only hope for widespread Linux desktop adoption.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe more people will be willing to endure a learning curve for the freedom and openness of Linux, but I think that path to widespread Linux adoption would take a long time, if it happens at all.
Isn’t it obvious? What Linux really needs is a big ol’ corporation to swoop in and give it a good PR boost. Worked really well the last time…
Then fill it with closed source blobs and turn the original platform into obsolity.
Ublue life just push the button
