As a windows main but steam deck user, can confirm Linux being confusing.
Fucking wine prefixes.
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year agoBuild a pc.
Install linux.
Get confused by linux.
What the fuck does linux want from me???
Rip hair out.
Be bald.
People confuse you for skinhead.
Wear wig.
Wig blows off on sunny windy day.
Lose wig.
Be sad.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Laser@feddit.org 1 year ago
What’s confusing about wine prefixes apart from the fact that wine itself doesn’t come with a graphical interface to manage them? On a Deck, Steam should handle these for you
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Calling them “prefixes” is about the total of the confusion. Call them “instances” or even just “boxes” and it’s suddenly clear what they do.
(The only reason I’m not using “sandbox” is because they don’t really provide sandboxing from a security point of view, only a kind of separate instance with its own configuration but with access to everything via the Z drive)
Once you figure out what using a different “wine prefix” only really means a separate “Windows” with it’s own config there’s nothing confusing about it.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Oh I know what prefixes are. Configuring them is the bitch part
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
To be fair, it’s just because windows is the most used and common desktop operating system and the two OSs are different. People would be confused about windows too if the tables were turned.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also the Linux community is toxic and overcomplicates things for no reason.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is true to a large extent. No one goes out of their way to make Linux easy.
Don’t get me started on GitHub.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was led to believe you could put windows on steamdeck? Am I wrong? I don’t have one.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You could, but you wouldn’t
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 1 year ago
You definitely can. The UI from Steam OS (Linux based) is much better though.
Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You forgot the part where you get angry, bevause your hdmi doesnt work with linux
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Use rats as wig
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Honey, don’t look”
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is absurd. Where’s the step to grow a beard and become a hobbit?
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Step 0
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I agree for the most part but it really does “just work” for gaming. If you use Chimera or Bazzite it works almost just like a console.
chakan2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No…no it doesn’t. Ask me how I know.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Yes…Yes it does. Ask me how I know. Actually I’ll just tell you: I use it every day.
Iapar@feddit.org 1 year ago
It doesn’t for everybody. What is so hard to grasp about the fact that your experience isn’t a general truth?
Valencia@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’d be cool if that was true… But I installed nobara on my brand new PC and kingdom come crashed when I fast traveled, Hades 2 ran at like 20 fps, and dragons dogma just wouldn’t launch. I get Linux is cool and all but I don’t have time to troubleshoot every game I install anymore…
Raptorox@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
How do you know? Are you some kind of wizard?
chakan2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am indeed. I’m actually pretty proficient with OSX and Linux…but fuck me…getting games to run is a whole new level of hell. I fucked around with it for a day or two trying to get my gaming laptop to run steam games in Ubuntu…wasn’t worth it.
wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bazzite is the answer you search for. Learn the terminal & eventually get a grasp on why atomic distros are cool and you’ll be okay. I was on windows for years & when I learned the terminal for that it was like I was giving God powers.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only thing I’m trying to install linux on is my Raspberry Pi. Upon googling Bazzite, it doesn’t seem to support Raspberry Pi.
Also, I’ve been trying to learn terminal off and on for 15ish years, with no luck. I’ve been trying to get the fan to work, unsucsessfully on my raspberry pi, for 4 years now. Apperently I have to compile some code…I don’t know what that means…
grozzle@lemm.ee 1 year ago
the benefits of Bazzite are centred around it having good performance with nVidia / AMD / Intel GPUs.
RasPi doesnt work with those GPUs, so it makes sense Bazzite wouldn’t support it.
Iapar@feddit.org 1 year ago
Compiling means that you take code then run that code trough a program that checks if the code works like intended. After that it will put out a binary/exe/whatever that you can work with further.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And I have no idea what that means.
How do you reboot? You click start>power>reboot.
I know what that means.
Ask me to compile a script? Uhhhhh…
aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
What the fuck are you on about? I just build a Raspberry Pi based console running RetroPie with a custom cooler, fan, and power button with LED indicator. Check out my recent posts to 3D printing.
I compiled nothing but RetroPie since the Pi 5 isn’t officially supported but it was dirt simple to do. Install Raspbian, clone RetroPie repo, run install script.
Once again, you just suck at computing.=
MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Boy that’s a lot of work just to play some old crap from more than 30 years ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So you’re stating on this post that you understand coding, and know how to compile. You’re trying to “insult” me by saying I suck at computing.
Except I’m not insulted. You know who else sucks at it? EVERYBODY. It’s like an auto mechanic trying to insult you for knowing how to change a muffler, and how it’s so easy.
I don’t know how to change a muffler. I just want to drive the car. Just like everybody else.
I just want to push a button, have my fan work, and play retro games. I don’t want to have to bash in terminal. I don’t want to compile a program. I just want to play video games.
And you know who else just wants it to work with no programming knowledge needed? EVERYBODY.
THAT is the reason that after 30+ years linux is at an all time high user base with less than 5% of the market, despite Apple being expensive as hell in a tough ecconomy, and Windows being universally agreed on as being dog shit. People STILL don’t want to switch to linjx because NOBODY understands it or wants to deal with it.
They’d rather deal with Windows 11 spying on your screen, or paying an assload for a mac than deal with linux.
wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Worst case scenario you can take it apart & put it back together to maybe find a defective part. Terminal is tricky because of the language barrier. It’s all just coding with extra steps which isn’t meant to dumb it down.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, and I don’t know coding. I need it dumbed down.
aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Linux is easy.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I love Linux. I’ve moved both my PC and laptop to Linux this year and gotten rid of Windows completely and I’m loving it. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed doesn’t get enough love.
That being said… Linux is not easy guys. This guy is full of shit. But I would still recommend trying it if you’re an enthusiast with this sort of inclination.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Like anything, it’s easy once you know how it works. Knowing how Linux works only takes several years.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Show me your hair.
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It can be. But people don’t usually read instructions or ReadMEs or Docs first?
I will never under why not. Did you know:
National average Proficient 34% Basic 65%That is totes a big ooof and explains a lot about many people. @.@
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It really explains why assembly instructions are mostly useless pictures now.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, that also saves money on localization costs, when you’re selling to people across many different languages.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
May I introduce you to republicans, and the bible belt?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If I had to read documentation first, I wouldn’t be using Linux. We write software so we can automate things, so we should be able to automate away most of the troublesome parts until we’re just left with a useful device that does its job.
mycelium_underground@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And Windows is hard
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not compared to using a console.
aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Fisher price makes some good toys if you want something easy to play with.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You are the reason why people think Linux fans are obnoxious twats.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same to your “Linux is easy” comment then.
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wait till you realize PlayStation is just Free BSD. 😏
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Might be based on FreeBSD, but much in the same way as Android is based on Linux, it doesn’t provide you any of the freedoms that a typical Linux distro does.
mp3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That you don’t have admin access to. Good for not fucking it up, bad for freedom.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Consoles are easy, and I love my PS5 for chilling and playing games, and I love my Linux PC for its power and freedom from corporate bullshit.
gregor@gregtech.eu 1 year ago
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