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IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I have ran GNU/Linux since the early 1990s. Practically since it first existed. Distributions like MuLinux, Yellowdog Linux, Slackware, Debian, etc. This generally has lead to multiple difficulties. Sometimes I had to dual boot to get around said difficulties. Around 2010, I got good enough with WINE, software work arounds and alternatives that I didn’t need to dual boot anymore. I did like to play various games still back then, but around 2010 Valve’s GNU/Linux support was improving (unless my memory deceives me)

This post has made me feel that for the first time, all that struggle was worth it, heh.

On a side note, there’s some sort of dark irony with personal ownership dying under capitalism. I feel like the majority of us hate all these subscriptions models, but we keep playing along .vs. becoming cave hermits.

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OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Cave hermit here and I was delighted the first time I launched Quake 3 Arena on a linux distro. I’m wading deeper into the linux pool since Microsoft has lost their mind. Ads have no place in an operating system.

Gaming has tied me to Windows for decades, but thanks to companies like Valve and System 76 the long awaited shift may continue accelerating.

I’m glad to be here to see it.

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- bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We used to have a lot idle PCs at work back in the day. I brought in a bunch of live CDs with some Linux distro that had a bunch of games on it (Quake, UT I think, and 4 or 5 others). We’d fire them up and have a lan party in the office, fragging each other for hours… all powered by Linux and leaving no trace. It was great.
  
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- IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My System 76 laptop I bought a few years back is still alive and well. Ubuntu MATE or Manjaro I typically run now. Sometimes it makes me feel like a sellout running those distros. I know that’s a goofy thought. Is underdog syndome a thing? Ha.
  
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anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah there is a lot that was promised with capitalism that turned out to be not so.

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- jhulten@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Turns out we weren’t the Capitalists.
  
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  - IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    We’re, “Glorified indentured servants”, 1800s USA Irish immigrant style.
    
    …An I think that is the best case scenario.
    
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1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I felt it was worth it from day one. Had so much fun over the years with it too.

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