Well, actually Linux is shit productivity-wise. Setting up the system and messing with it is easy and fun, trying new open-source alternatives is great, and all my games work without a hitch. I just can’t seem to find the time to get actual work done !
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semperverus@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThe goalposts have moved to hopefully their final position
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99% of my games don’t work! I’m not switching!
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About half of my games don’t work, I’m not swiching!
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20% of my games don’t work but the ones that do are all perfect, I’m not switching!
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10% of my games don’t work and Valve is pushing for functioning anticheat with EasyAntiCheat and BattleEye, i’m not switching!
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You are here → 0.1% of my games don’t work because of holdout companies being assholes and refusing to support Linux despite the massive success of the Steam Deck, I’m not switching!
At some point you have to ask yourself if it’s the companies thats holding you back or if it’s really actually you who are holding yourself back. Switching is gonna always require some kind of sacrifice or another, and currently that sacrifice has never been this minimal.
gaael@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
No it literally doesn’t work it’s not compatible. Also don’t be a bitch Linux does not have the same perfect out of box play. Every game I can just run it without needing to worry about it being compatible. You literally need to use Proton which is *hint *hint compatibility layer that is not 100% compatible. There are games I literally can never play because it’s Linux. Also I have to manually add scripts to the startup which is not beginner friendly. Troubleshooting took me more time than windows ever did so no excuses from you Linux lovers I never once needed to troubleshoot running the OS from start. Also if you are using a 4K screen in 2024 not a single one of them works except for a few like Pop to me this is the only embarrassing part.
semperverus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Honestly it sounds like you suck more than linux does, because I have never had any of those problems. My 4k monitors have all worked perfectly, and with wayland i have a successful mixed resolution/scaling/refresh rate setup.
If anyone is being a bitch, its you. You sound salty as fuck.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I thought your first post was slightly aggressive but this post goes too far. We should be preaching the ethics of free software first; while always remembering everyday ethics so we don’t end up as hypocrites.
From what I’m hearing, Microsoft wants to ban anti-cheat and plenty of other kernel-space software. They are possible security issues (along with all of Windows).
semperverus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My post you are replying to is absolutely aggressive and was 100% intended to be at the time. I am calmer now though.
The original post was not written with any aggression in mind. Could you expand on how it sounded that way? I didn’t feel any aggression until they started namecalling and making unfactual claims.
Daveyborn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Average response when I ask for help with linux on forums
trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
No it literally doesn’t work it’s not compatible. Also don’t be a bitch…
That is a really interesting way of asking for help. Next time I need help, I’ll try being obstinate and predetermining that the thing I need help with just doesn’t work while calling them a bitch and see how that goes.
I usually try actually asking for help and refrain from calling the person I’m talking to a bitch.
DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah because you use the few distributions that work with 4k like I explained. There are enough that literally don’t work because you need a 1920x1080 or similar monitor to then switch DPI to make 4k compatible.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
4K monitors don’t work in Linux? Lmao that’s demonstrably not true.
And what the hell ki d of scripts do you need to run at startup?
DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Out of the box 4K monitors don’t work on every Linux distribution. You need to modify them after but you can’t if you are using 4K. You need a 1920x1080 or smaller resolution first before you can use 4K. I should have said out of the box you can’t use 4K.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is literally an outright lie lmao
Veneroso@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So which Linux distribution is the most pro-Israel? I think that I need a little more convincing.
(Obligatory and huge /S)
(Also probably Oracle Linux because of course)
semperverus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Interestingly, the Linux foundation had to remove several Russian maintainers recently because of the sanctions.
I have not looked into the details on the matter, but from what I gleaned it seems like they did not want to (don’t punish the individual for the sins of their government), but were made to. Linus Torvalds apparently made a statement on the matter that I still need to go read.
I could be very very wrong on this and am open to being educated.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I did a quick Google and this came up.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I still dualboot because I have games that don’t work right, but every instance of that in my case seems to be problems with DXVK. In some cases, but not all, I’ve noticed it severely degrades performance, and in others, it seems to break certain features, such as streaming video. I actually had one game that I finished about 90% of before I encountered a sequence with a projector playing a video with important information. That would only display on Windows without DXVK, which was… unpleasant.
Of course, the most extreme DXVK problem I ever encountered was about two years ago, but I can’t remember what game it was. What I do remember, however, is the extreme and rapid flashing it caused as the visuals horribly corrupted. IMO, DXVK functionality seems to still be one of the bigger hurdles.
semperverus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So the projector thing isnt from DXVK, but rather from the Windows Media Foundation library. Basically, there are a bunch of video codecs that are completely illegal to reimplement locally because of the patents on them.
The good news is that Valve is working on a major workaround, and just pushed it out to Proton Experimental recently. They’ve had okay-to-good support for video codecs up until recently (right around after you had that problem), and now it should be moving towards great-to-perfect.
grubbyweasel@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Relax. Choice of operating system is entirely a personal one and you’re turning it into some kind of obligation. The Linux community has enough of a stigma behind it without this cringe nonsense
vala@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It can be a political decision tbh.
grubbyweasel@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
its a personal decision that can be made for political reasons i.e. none of your business quite frankly and i say this as a Linux user myself
semperverus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think that talking about how you want to switch but then claim the thing you want to switch to sucks because of totally fabricated reasons is cringe.
I don’t think everyone should switch, but i do think that people walking around spouting out bullshit that they clearly have no idea about should be called out and shut down.