Thread 106896369

what SPECIFICALLY is keeping you from switching to linux.
for me?
>clip studio paint
>various pornographic Japanese videogames games

trannies

>>106896369 (OP)
>japanese
grow up

.exe

>>106896369 (OP)
>SPECIFICALLY
Windows just works.

>>106896396
>tranime
opinion discarded

>>106896369 (OP)
>what SPECIFICALLY is keeping you from switching to linux
Windows and macOS has over 300 million LGBT devs and over 2 million trans devs, has official LGBT support, official LGBT websites, official LGBT phone numbers for mental support, has official LGBT merch, wallpapers etc. and list goes on. Linux only has 8 LGBT people in the whole world without any LGBT related things anywhere. I am trans and will never use facist nazi Linux ever. Fuck your Luke and fuck your Pewdiepie. I am also jobless so I don't mind tinkering with regedit, debloat and activation scripts, ESU, LTSC, group policy, task manager, powershell/cmd, fixing broken updates and I don't care about +30 thousand new CVEs and bugs every month. I only use Autocad and Photoshop so I have to have Windows 7 where those don't work because maybe I need them some day.

>>106896396
except when it doesnt

>>106896369 (OP)
>what SPECIFICALLY is keeping you from switching to linux.

I just cant handle not being spied on by the NSA FBI and CIA i mean i have nothing to hide and clearly the corporations know best for me

also i want to drop 1000 dollars every 5 years for a new laptop so i can have the latest and greatest features of Microsoft + copilot PC's

>>106896401
>>106896418
CRY, HOMOS

>>106896369 (OP)
My national ID card comes with a hardware key for accessing various government services, its software only supports Windows. I also have to file monthly tax forms for my business and for some reason they only work with Adobe's shitware.

>>106896369 (OP)
>every program has to be on the system partition because of Linux's rigid file structure. Meaning I have to start over everything I I decide to nuke the distro. It completely renders extra drives and partitions useless because I can't install games on it. Not every game has a portable torrent I can use. Also, I want executables, and to not have to write a whole ass screen of code just to play Lula 3D

>>106896429
>clearly the corporations know best for me
It's downright frightening that people like this actually exist.

>>106896460
You could probably set something up with symlinks and shit, im too dumb for that. Personally the only programs so big i had to store in a different hard drive were movies or videogames. Which you can do on Linux.
Also with lutris it's very easy to do executables for windows. But again, if you don't want that friction it's fair

>>106896396
>>106896401
also this
tranimeshitters = retard consoomers from r*ddit

>>106896369 (OP)
>SPECIFICALLY
i need my shit get done NOW.

>>106896504
Buzzword buzzword buzzword
I hate you and the people you reply to>>106896504

>>106896512
You are posting on 4chan sir

>>106896437
cry abt what?
im on loonix, exclusively, since ~5 years now

>>106896460
>>106896500
the what???
you go to your binary path
and just launch it

>>106896515
yea i know you hate me
but i dont really care about you in return
kinda. youre like a squeaky chew-toy
but i dont hate you, for certain
its just-
why cant you keep dumb opinions to yourself?
its not smart to suck up to big corpo
if youre a windows user you know full well it doesnt "just werk"
and since youre on 4chan you know full well someone is gonna point that out to you

They implode randomly

>>106896531
What binary? Most pirated games come as a .exe installer

>>106896563
I use Linux, retard I just hate you for being online and brain fucked. These types of nerdfights are annoying

>>106896369 (OP)

For me it’s Adobe Creative Cloud. My employer pays for the license so I can use it for free on my own equipment.

I also cannot complete basic workflows like:
> Take a phone call
> Take a screenshot, cover up sensitive info and send it to someone as an SMS
> Unlock my laptop with a wireless keyboard fingerprint
> Run obscure software like Falcosoft MIDI Player to listen to MIDIs with an emulated Roland SC-88

Linux is nice for people on the spectrum to focus their attention on and get it “just right.” Linux might be the most autistic thing ever conceived now that I think about it.

>>106896369 (OP)
Most of the games just werks on proton in the current time. Just copy it from steam.

>>106896456
We have that card too and it works fine on linux.

>>106896580
it is a binary, only with a name ending in .exe
/bin/sh also is a binary, but that one doesnt

>>106896598
oh, so you werent even the one i called out
well
tranimeshitters ARE consumergroid retards, and most of them are from the lgbt persuasion
and you hate me for pointing that out.

notice how nobody bothered that anon>>106896429
bc hes a high iq tranimeposter
and being high iq he can post whatever he wants

the other avatarfaggot isnt. so he gets callled out

>>106896615
I get the first one but all the others sound perfectly doable

>>106896369 (OP)
No decent and easy to use art program.
NO ICONS IN FILE PICKER

>>106896369 (OP)
Nothing because I'm willing to fight and not be fucked in the ass like some homosexual cuck.

>>106896635
>tranime
It's time to leave, cockbreath. You don't belong here.

wayland and nvidia cards

>>106896635
I'm both of the first two (you)s here
>it's a binary
obviously I know its a binary, it's just not executable without setting up something in wine. It's easy but it's also annoying for some.
>buzzword buzzword buzzword again
Kys, people like you should be lobotomised.

>>106896644

>sound perfectly doable
I call them out because there is “sound” and then there is “are.” I have a solution in front of me that is already perfectly doable. I do not need to figure out what the solution would be in Linux.

A Linux user might say, “just have your phone next to you and pick it up. Why do you need your computer to do it?” The answer to them is “you’re right, you don’t,” but once you have it you expect it.

Since OP is asking for specific reasons why I won’t use Linux, my examples highlight Linux as an OS looking for a problem to solve within my jurisdiction. There really is no “true” OS to switch to. They all have their pros and cons. To me, understanding their various quirks is more productive than isolating myself to Linux and its distros exclusively.

>pic related, standard Linux distro

>>106896646
>art program
Krita is cool
>icons in file picker
??? Works on my machine

I'd have also said video games, but on the contrary,
valve continuously kowtowing to the demands of payment processors made me sick and ashamed of ever supporting them through the bigger titles

>onedrive
Just dont want to interrupt my workflow. I love my linux vms, but just dont want to mess with my data.
Windows docker desktop almost broke the camels back but i got it to run cross platform with python
Getting tired of my 2 core laptop getting hammered by onedrive though.

>>106896714

To add to this there are a couple things Linux is great for:

> Getting your files out of a failing Windows Installation partition with nothing more than a Live Boot USB
> Running really old hardware like it’s close to new
> Avoiding corporate ads (OneDrive, Copilot, etc.)

I put Mint on a dying Toshiba P770 once and was surprised by Linux’s superior touchpad driver. It was better than the OEM driver.

>>106896369 (OP)
Don't know Koikatsu and AA2 works perfectly via lutris specially with installers.

CSP literally VM it.

>>106896531
kek

>>106896460
you mount different partitions (or even drives) where you want them. Theres fstab flags for ordering mount order
First time you do that you probably have to chown ownership to yourself but never after that

Its like mounting the D drive in a folder in C so its a confusing thing coming from windows but hell I have an entire drive dedicated to steam games mounted in my home folder which itself is a different partition and its way more flexible when you get a grip on it

>>106896865
nofail else systemd will crash cause an fstab item is missing one day

Nothing at the moment. For years I was developing Windows software so I used Windows.

I'm on Linux at least 95% of the time but what's stopping me from nuking my Windows LTSC partition is my pragmatism - some shit either takes too much effort to make work on Linux, some shit straight up doesn't work. I know I can spend hours trying to get things to work and that I may or may not succeed, but I also know I can just restart, boot into Windows for that one thing I know will just work.

>>106896865
>you mount different partitions (or even drives) where you want them. Theres fstab flags for ordering mount order
>you have to mount a separate physical drive in a folder inside of the OS drive in order to use it.
This is mental instability, Anon. It truly boggles the mind how you morons expect wider linux adoption.

>>106897087
Mounting d drive to This PC is any different

>>106896384
>trannies
The troons belonging to which side?

>>106896369 (OP)
Don't have much time and I'm not sure how to do it, meaning I don't have much time to learn how to do it.

>>106896369 (OP)
My main personal machine is still Windows (10) because I have a 2080ti and I'm told Nvidia Linux support is still quite shit.
I run Fedora on a work igpu-only Intel machine and Bazzite on an AMD APU gaming HTPC, and those both work great.

>>106896369 (OP)
I'm not into that sort of stuff but have you looked into two tail launcher? Also gog has games like that. Or do you just mean ren,py games? Those work you know...
And winboat that other thing. You're welcome

>>106896396
lol no
it just breaks differently

>>106896369 (OP)
That video games are controlled by Valve Corporation under Proton and they refuse to release the library for having open source Proton for others to create. People stop calling it open source if you can’t run Proton without Steam Client. No, Wine and other software aren’t good enough to use if I still have to use Steam to download the games.

>>106897447
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
Looks pretty open source to me.

>>106896369 (OP)
have you tried wine unironically
it works very well nowadays, just install dxvk first which involves copying 2 dll files

>>106897456
>iTs OpEn SoURce
Can’t use it without Steam Client as it states in the readme file. Valve Corporation refuses to release the library files that contains Proton calibrations. Does not support new features people have been asking like Nvida ray tracing. Unnecessary ram usage because of Steam Client. Force to make an account to use Proton.

It’s not open source.

>>106897087
yeah its not intuitive to windows users so I get it, but it really opens up when you can seamlessly just have a bunch of drives in places without having to put a bunch of links or directing programs to like the D drive

Like steam isnt even aware I have a different drive, none of my shit cares my home folder is its own partition. It knows what paths are at stuff and gives 0 shit how its mounted
You set it up and you just have more space, no working around it like constantly telling programs to save to D instead of C

or dont and just mount new drives in /mnt and you get the same windows workflow

>>106896615
>Linux is nice for people on the spectrum to focus their attention on and get it “just right.” Linux might be the most autistic thing ever conceived now that I think about it.

TRVKE

>>106897512
not the guy you replied to but holy shit,
you CAN use proton WITHOUT steam client
ray-tracing, various vendors' upscalers, frame generation have been working for years now on AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA
what are you on about seriously

>>106896405
>>106896429
nice satire
>>106897512
>>106897447
>Most users should use Proton provided by the Steam Client itself
>Most users
>linked post
>https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561
>Proton, the tool that Steam Play uses to provide Windows compatibility, contains a custom version of Wine as well as additional libraries developed alongside it. It's fully open-source and available right now on GitHub!
>If you're familiar with building open source projects, you can even make your own local builds of Proton; the Steam client has support for using those to run games in lieu of the built-in version. Join the discussion in the issue tracker and share your patches and testing results with the rest of the community!
>can make your own local builds of Proton

>>106896724
The more popular normie distros like mint don't support icons in the file picker.

>>106896369 (OP)
Directory Opus
Proprietary Drivers
Proprietary Software
Obscure legacy software, tools, utilities, and programs
Softimage XSI
Lack of portability in your programs that is somehow even worse than on Windows
Hammer.exe
HLMV

>>106897531
so how are native linux games installed then?

>>106896396
riley enjoyer

>>106896369 (OP)
I use it. But it feels too much like a bloated commercial OS. I think it's the GUI that is the problem.

>>106897155
Linux

>>106896460
literally filtered.

>>106897701
there are different desktop environments. I thought the same until I tried KDE, which feels pretty close to windows and macos for me

>>106896369 (OP)
The fact that linux uses one dependency for all packages, meaning if one maintainer decides not to give a shit, a lot of software will stop working. I want a distro like Arch but with multiple dependencies so when a software needs it it can use it. This is backwards compatibility and no Linux distro has it, which is just silly. It's not a serious operating system without it.

>>106896635
>tranimeshitters ARE consumergroid
i know for a fact you are barely 18 years old. kill yourself now before it's too late, faggot.

>>106896369 (OP)
What's the Khlav Kalash of Linux distros?

>>106896615
>i need to answer phone calls from my desktop
>i also NEED a... wireless... fingerprint scanner
i cant believe there are people actually like this in the world. its so sad that your faggot ass is the type that gets catered to.

>>106896369 (OP)
I have to use Adobe Applications for my job—specifically Illustrator and Photoshop—for +8 hours a day.

Inkscape and Gimp are utter dogshit compared to the paid versions.

>>106897818
Especially when Mac does it better. The person you're replying to is definitely indian.

>>106897818
Typical response whenever something that works on other operating systems isn't working on Linux.

>>106896369 (OP)
Linux isn't AI native like Windows is. End of story it's useless and already left behind.

>>106897512
Use one of the 1,200 forks if you're having problems.

>>106896369 (OP)
>what SPECIFICALLY is keeping you from switching to linux.

not enough gay guys

>t. mac user for ever

>>106897687
same was as windows, just pick a location you want it at
For me its in my home folder but its arbitrary. If its like doom or w/e that you can actually get off a package manager it’ll go into the linux equivalent of program files but its kinda rare since most games arent open source. The standard is to dump those kinda programs in /opt but its your choice

Like the big thing is how little linux gives a shit about devices on a user level, it just knows paths and files, there is 0 fucking with drive letters or fixing installs if you move shit and some registry entry has an aneurism, or a your links are broken now. Maybe not enough to stop using windows over but I like the linux approach better overall

>>106897721
Yeah because Windows 12 will have Linux Kernel.

>>106897727
>filtered
You're gonna format your C drive and format every other drive while you're at it as well because they're treated as one.
Troontards need to rope.

>>106898063
you dont format /, you format like sda1 or the drive itself but thats how every OS works nigga what are you on about

>MSI Afterburner and especially RTSS
I know there are similar programs for Linux but none that work on a driver level with Nshittia.
I'll use 10 LTSC IoT for now and if 12 is garbage as well probably switch to Linux then.

>>106896369 (OP)
>>106896369 (OP)
windoze just works.
also windows is backed by one of the biggest companies in the world and nearly all developers support this OS because it has the highest market share

meanwhile linux desktop experience is maintained by people doing it basically for free and app developers don't really care about an OS that has a laughable market share and a bajillion of variations (distributions) when with windows you have versions 10 and 11 which are not really any different from a dev's perspective

>>106897818

I can’t believe your faggot ass is concerned about it. I work a 9-5 and my MacBook was paid for by work. I bought myself a cheaper model for shits and giggles with savings interest so that was free too.

Aren’t you supposed to be playing Battlefield 6 right now, edgelord?

>>106896384
Fippy

Do Linux users every do anything fun or productive?
All I see them doing is tinkering and posting their desktops.

>>106898234
I do.
I wish I had more time to tinker instead

>>106896369 (OP)
having to use an app store to install software

i prefer to install it directly, like on windows or macos

>>106898183
its not free if you have to be a wageslave for it. literal slave mentality thinking you got anything for free.

>>106896418
>thirdparty software breaking the os
not windows's fault dipshit

>>106898234
>fun
the games i play work fine, they work fine with windows too (except one because it's too old)
>productive
as a desktop user? no. server and network fags do a lot of work tho.

>my job requires the use of Adobe Apps and OneDrive
>/g/: w-why don't you switch to Linux???

I have a job.

>>106898272
>please log in to your microsoft® account to access the windows store® to have a license to access this application® (subject to terms and conditions®)

>>106898316
you will NEVER retire

>>106898316
pretty shit reason to use spyware os in your free time. oh wait, you are a wageslave, you dont have free time.

>>106898317
but you don't have to use the store on windows

that's linux's problem

>>106896468
The satire is a reality here: >>106896615
He WANTS all of that. He wants to be told what to do. He's too dumb and lazy to do otherwise and projects instead claiming that anyone not existing in such a state is mentally deficient.

Everything runs on linux. Windows is the frontend for the nigger cattle to control and monetize them even further. You see, people like him will literally get butt fucked if they think it's the most convenient way to acquire something and then call you a fag for acquiring the same thing in a better way without getting buttfucked.

>>106898324
>house and car are totally paid off
>b-but you use Windows 11~~~!!!

Is this the "price" the Windows-chad has to pay?

If so what's the price the Linux-cuck is paying?

>>106898301

I wake up every morning enjoying the work I get to do. So it was free.

To be fair though you’re right too though because you think work is just wage slavery. Maybe that’s all you’ve ever experienced. I’m sure there’s a Linux distro or twelve out there for you that helps you thrive in your shortsighted and/or broken ass worldview.

>>106898174
And this one here. He eats shit sandwiches because "everyone else does", but what he doesn't tell you is that he really enjoys the taste, too. I wouldn't care, let them eat shit, however he'll claim some failing on your part instead of admitting that he's a shit eating automaton that can only perceive his existence in terms relative to all the other shit eaters.

>>106897989
>just pick a location you want it at
>just pick a location
>in linux
It is truly amazing how disconnected from computing linux users are. Maybe if your shit OS was made for actual use cases and not for fedora wearing pseudo intellectuals you'd have more than 2% of users.

>>106898378
>>106898412
>use windows and you magically have a paid off house, car, and job you love
corporate shills are getting desperate lmao

>>106898427
>pulls market share out of nowhere
corporate shilling playbook needs an update, this "get a job" and "market share" bullshit only works on corporate types.

ShareX
Nvidia RTX Voice (and no, deepfilternet with easyeffects is NOT good enough)
Playnite

>Linux-cucks say it has better privacy
>*owns a smartphone*

>>106898484
no i dont. who are you talking to?

>>106898473
like shaming gentoo users that they are wasting their time compiling.

>>106896369 (OP)
for some reason I can't find a proper code editor similar to notepad++ no bloat, no electron, no slugginess, opening in less than 1 second (very important)
they all felt laggy or glitchy or too bloated like vscode, or too terminal oriented like emacs vim, there was one that I liked but was a literal notepad.exe with 0 features, so they always felt off to use.
I think the lag when opening the file manager or any software is my main reason

>>106898462

Ah, I live in an apartment right now. Working on getting a home though. Want to have a 20% down payment.
My car cost me $8600 back in 2018 and is alright. Might spend $25k here in the next year or so though to upgrade.
It’s not just using Windows. It’s using Windows/macOS/Linux

Anything else you want to try and dunk on while I’m here?

>>106896405
Windows and MacOS = Pink Capitalism
Linux = Unironically mentally ill management

>>106898557
pluma

>>106898557
>notepad++
notepadqq
it's quite literally notepad++, but linux
you could also install notepad++ through playonlinux, i run a couple 3270 terminals through it with zero issues

>>106898412
>i enjoy work
lying faggot or stockholm syndrome slave.

>>106898559
you are a slave to money and on your deathbed you'll realize you wasted the gift of life for nothing. even worse; for the benefit of corporations.

>>106898692.

Have fun in pover/g/. You’ve got a miserable journey to the grave ahead.

>>106898755
holy niggercattle

>>106896369 (OP)
I'm a lazy fuck who loves using my mouse for everything, and every time I tried Linux I had to sit upright and touch my keyboard every so often. Fuck that

>>106898344
>Everything runs on linux
Or I can just sit down, click an icon, and have what ever I wanted to watch/listen/play run without a hitch. No wrappers, no emulators that have to fixed by trannies, no waiting for other autists to fix or implement the new thing that came out, no hunting for dependencies and running into the one dependency out of 1000 that is out of date and therefore not working.

>>106896369 (OP)
Clip studio paint is the only thing I miss from windows, although I doing well with Krita

it's not posssible to set my desktop icons freely, only align to grid

Windows 11 > Linux

>>106898774
>No wrappers, no emulators
>while running shit on windows 10 or - even worse - 11
oh you sweet summer child

WINE won't run Paint.NET and ShareX. I can't use my computer without these two.

>all this sperging on troons
Erm... Guys? Software? OS?

I had to do bullshits with the terminal just to not have my laptop run out of battery in minutes and even then the duration is much worse than windows
sometimes you don't want to be a tinkertranny and want something that just works out of the box

>>106896369 (OP)
>Cps
I have a friend who got it to work on Mint. And she's no computer wizard either.

Not me, but speaking with regard to normalfags it's things like enabling to boot from removable media to install that keeps them from switching.
t. 10 years on Linux and counting

>>106896724
I tried Krita, killed myself, came back as a high IQ baby that learned how to use computers after five minutes of birth, installed csp, never went back

>>106896369 (OP)
My own inertia. Only that.

>>106896369 (OP)
Lazy nezumi.
No I don't care if Krita has a stabilizer we use it for its scripting abilities and the fact it can apply stabilizing to -any- program; not just constrained within a singular art program.
(i'm an animator).

The fact the system design was deprecated before the implementation even began.
All the complaints the Unix authors had with Unix itself resonate with me.
It's a great first attempt at a general purpose operating system in the 70s but was already superseded by the 90s when Linux began. It's now 2025 and I have to conform to these standards when trying to develop the system. When you consider alternatives it just feels like an incredible waste of time and effort to target POSIX, let alone use Linux.

>>106896369 (OP)
bad hardware support, they don't make laptops for linux distros, to be specific power management is pretty much nonexistent on desktop linux, also most of the application software important from work/school pov doesn't work on it

>>106899190
that is so cool
too bad wayland means itll never be possible on linux lmfao

>>106899029
same here

lack of screenshotting features easily available on Windows, macOS and Android means that Linux is toy OS

>>106896369 (OP)
I play shitloads of h-games and they all run fine in wine

>>106899378
Considering the new windows 11 screenshot tool is a blatant kde ripoff go fuck yourself bucko.

>>106898302
>It's someone else's fault!
Windows shills looking more like Linux shills every day

>>106898996
>windows so advanced and user friendly you don't even notice the wrappers and emulators
The user friendliness that only a mega corp can bring.

>>106899398
who cares about built-in screenshot tools, when real features brings as always 3rd party software which is - as always - non-existent on Linux or poor quality

>>106896401
>>106896437
>>106896504
You guys cry tranime, but image that is LITERALLY a tranny v-tuber's mascot who got banned for cheating and battlefield and there was a huge controversy over whether or not he cheated (i.e basically he did cheat and troon defenders were sucking his tranny cock and claiming transphobia)

>>106897768
NixOS

>>106899509
>You guys cry tranime, but image that is LITERALLY a tranny v-tuber's mascot
>got banned for cheating and battlefield
>he did cheat and troon defenders were sucking his tranny cock and claiming transphobia

>>106899585
Wojak me all you want, I'm just saying, the word tranime in this case is not wrong kek.

>>106897865
This is the lowest IQ post this day so far.

>>106899614
a-hah
i thought that was to say were wrong, my bad
we dont single people out who avatarfag with girl-oriented anime bc we dont like the girly genres of anime
we do that because what you described weems to be a pattern with girly anime avatar

i have yet to see a rotten person who uses, idk, jin roh, or attack on titan, or even berserk or baki avatars
maybe bc people who are into these genres just dont use anime as avatars

>>106898692
Why not choose to get paid for something you'd do anyway?

>>106898774
>Or I can just sit down, click an icon, and have what ever I wanted to watch/listen/play run without a hitch.
Linux was the first time I've experienced this.

>>106896635
we want standalone installers

>>106899662
>shonenshit

>>106899799
everyone does but even on windows from time to time you have to install a framework or another
even if i think its a problem emerging from the tools and methods used more than limitations of technology but i might be wrong
its about the communication layers and features one has on their OS
the dependency thing on linux is the same, only a step farther
but yeah, i too think self contained installers, or as self contained as possible are a sign of good craftsmanship

>>106899814
the equivalent of what id call "tranime"
but the target audience is male ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
also its well known
i dont think you know stuff like conan or kyo or gto
which may or may not be shonen, im not a mangaku
i just know the media

>>106899773
Who you trying to fool here, me or yourself?

>>106898427
im not even following, you already pick where you want games installed on windows? It defaults to program files just like linux games would default to home?
Or steam has its own installation ig
I didnt think installing programs put og default locations was peak autism, i guess I am out of touch unironically

>>106899509
>banned for cheating and battlefield
Nope, objectively did not happen.

>>106896369 (OP)
>>various pornographic Japanese videogames games
Not an issue for me. Baldr Sky and Sengoku Rance, recently

>>106897865
E = mc^2 + AI

>>106896369 (OP)
>tried to play pic related on linux mint
>read forums for hours
>install this, install that
>game doesn't run
>gemini could not even help me
>gave up and installed a fresh win10 install with mas script
>game runs now
Fucking hell. Never again.

>>106899995
It defaults yes. But I can then pick where I want it installed. Yes, I know this must sound like black magic to a troontard, but it is true.

>Or steam has its own installation ig
Completely disconnected from reality.

>>106896369 (OP)
Switched to Win 11 LTSC and while it's not perfect, it's not terrible either.
Don't have any reason to switch when everything I need is working.

>>106897596
>Uses games from Steam to prove you can play games without Steam
Really…

>>106897624
That means shit, “you can make your own compatible version without ours”. Stop defending Valve decision to not release the compatibility library. That’s like saying go get water without our bucket patent.

>>106897870
All relay to Valve Corporation, there is no actual way without Valve Corporation.

I give up nigga stay on windows, you need to be gatekept from this shit at your reading level

For me mainly
>the taskbar on multi monitors is unusable
>not all games work
>audio is still terrible for some reason
>adobe and MS office suites
>im not autistic

>>106900624
wait no! please keep trying to convince me, it feels lonely over here..

>>106896369 (OP)
What SPECIFICALLY makes you encourage braindead normalfags to contaminate my special Linux world? Literally WHO can be so retarded to trivialize the good stuff. The internet is shit exactly because tons of normalfags flooded the cyberspace with their fucking smartphones. Do you want MORE of that you fucking retard?

>File Explorer!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Control Panel
>Taskbar (Funny that these three are the same exe)
>Install Wizards

Windows 11's, Mac, and all WM's or DE's on linux are garbage so I'm using MAS to get those 3 year ESUs and staying on Win10Pro as long as possible

>>106896369 (OP)
mostly because i have nvidia hardware
windows just werks anyway though
>>106901601
>I'm using MAS to get those 3 year ESUs and staying on Win10Pro as long as possible
Same

just get two ssds to run linux and windows. all problems solved

>>106899215
who stops you from using xlibre?

>>106896369 (OP)
I can play all the eroge with linux, don't know what your problem is specifically but it's likely that you just don't know how linux works
>paint
oh this is a troll thread

>>106896460
That's simply not true at all

>>106900450
>All relay to Valve Corporation, there is no actual way without Valve Corporation.
Even if this were true (It's not), who the fuck cares?
Valve's incentives are aligned with yours. They want you to be able to play games no Linux, they built a hardware platform that completely relies on that technology to function, and be economically viable.
And are you really arguing about this in a fucking thread about "why not Linux" of all places?
What sort of retarded reasoning is that
> I don't like that Valve's project that has made it so nearly all games work on Linux doesn't perfectly fit my contrived model of what open source ought to be. So instead I'll keep taking it up the ass from Microsoft and use Windows.
That's got to be the most schizo take I've ever seen.

Poor scaling options.

>>106900450
>All relay to Valve Corporation, there is no actual way without Valve Corporation.
Even if this were true (It's not), who the fuck cares?
Valve's incentives are aligned with yours. They want you to be able to play games on Linux. They built a hardware platform that completely relies on that technology to function, and be economically viable.
And are you really arguing about this in a fucking thread about "why not Linux" of all places?
What sort of retarded reasoning is that
> I don't like that Valve's project that has made it so nearly all games work on Linux doesn't perfectly fit my contrived model of what open source ought to be. So instead I'll keep taking it up the ass from Microsoft and use Windows.
That's got to be the most schizo take I've ever seen.

>>106896429
dumb fucking nigger award

>>106896369 (OP)
>clip studio paint
Try FireAlpaca.
https://firealpaca.com/

>>106903169
>he thinks csp is ms paint

So we're both retarded

My own ability to solve problems.
>just google it
I do and then I'll try copypasting the solution but it doesnt work for whatever reason and eventually i give up and just reinstall windows where everything I want to work just works.

>>106896369 (OP)
What does clip studio do that Krita doesn't?

>>106896369 (OP)
It does not do anything better than Windows for the purposes which my Windows machine is used for (gayming and casual web browsing).

>>106896369 (OP)
>what SPECIFICALLY is keeping you from switching to linux.
every single person i have ever seen use linux or advertise linus uses it in ways i dont or dont care about or just makes a cool desktop to look at
another reason is its always "if you do xyz it works just like windows" or "ok well sure YOUR favorite program doesnt work but there is a similar one :)"
well im already using windows so, like a vegan advertising "impossible beef" its "just like real beef" ok well i can just eat beef tho?

so its like well, windows isnt advertised to me, its just the default and obviously everything that is on pc works on windows, there are no questions and the things i want to use it for it works perfectly without thinking about anything
and there is no windows ++ there is just windows, everyone is on the same platform

also there is a huge "well linux xyz is SOOOO light weight!" ok well im not using a thinkpad from 2006 so "performance" is irrelevant to me.
that could have been an argument in well 2006 but it just isnt now.

if windows ever goes subscription only
like its literally impossible to use windows at all without paying $15 a month and you cant go to an earlier windows because Microsoft forces all developers to remove support for earlier OS then i would probably move to linux
but there is also i chance i just sell all my pc/android stuff and go full mac/ios.
im sure faggots here will screech for 500 hours about how its an even worse ecosystem but compared to the yearly bullshit i deal with with pc/android it seems more conducive to a simpler more relaxed life.
but mac is even less of a fully fledged gaming platform than linux was a decade ago.
so it would have to be console + mac and THAT would be cancer.

>>106897150
ive never had to mount a drive in my life
so yes

>>106903716
>mac is even less of a fully fledged gaming platform than linux
Apple Games exists dude.

>>106896369 (OP)
VR

My old ass macbook refuses to die and linux would severely degrade its trackpad, battery life, and ability to sleep. If not for those problems I would use linux.

>>106899919
He's not lying. On certain devices, for certain tasks, Linux really does just werk.

>>106896384
>>106896405
>>106896635
>>106898344
Stop being fags

>>106902604
You do you fucking burgoid.

pirate all my games and software
and mods
both often difficult, and occasionally impossible, on linux

>>106904173
It isn't a bailout. It's an investment. Argentina's new Free Market policies are set to make Argentina the strongest economy in South America. Once again TRUMP cannot do wrong. He is the Dealmaker in Chief.

>>106904180
>its not a tariff its a trade deal

>>106896384
what? what the fuck, you people are even more retarded than i tought

>>106897865
>AI native
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

>>106904228
Correct.

>>106900338
try to install a linux game on windows, bet you would gave up and reinstall linux, your example is retarded because only retarded things can be derived from a fucking retard

>>106903613
>No it’s not true that the only library in Proton is lockdown to a Corporation like Valve.
There literally is no option to download the library. Stop declaring things that aren’t true.

If they wanted people to play on Linux they should’ve promoted native Linux apps and actually supported Linux OS. Not a few or exclusive OS like SteamOS that just track your activity.

It’s not their hardware, the Steam Deck is a piece of junk from China with build in AMD, doesn’t support Nvida, no intel and no Snapdragon. A laptop HP can run better Linux then the Steam Deck, if something like HP can do better than Steam Deck is a disaster.

They are lying about open source. Proton library (not open source). SteamOS (not open source). Steam from Chromium open source (not open source).

Wake up steamie.

>>106904412
Excellent. Now explain why I'm supposed to care about any of this.

>>106897087
Why is it difficult? My dead grandmother has been mounting drives into the file system root for at least two centuries. If an undead grandma can do it, don't you feel like a complete and utter moron for being such a baby?

>>106896646
Krita is really good. Dave Rapoza has been using it for 2-3 years.

>>106897865
Based

For personal use? Nothing. I'm already a big fan of FOSS programs like LibreOffice, Octave, and KiCAD. Arduino IDE and ST-Link run on Linux just fine.
For school? Probably just Microsoft 365 (formerly Office), but then again, Google Docs can do most of the work Microsoft Office can. Some of my instructors have given me permission to use FreeCAD instead of Siemens NX/Autodesk Inventor, so there's that.
For work? Practically everything at work runs on Mac OS X, so almost nothing. Occasionally we got a few devices here and there that interface with a program that need a computer that runs Windows, but we already got a special computer just for that.

I've been working over the last year on persuading my boss to adopt Linux, but he's adamant in his belief that Mac OS X just works and that anything else, even Windows, is "too complicated" to work with.

>>106904465
>I don’t care about corporate lying to my face for profit
They not only lied about open source but by continuing to support Valve Corporation, you also help them do illegal business. They committed fraud on Australia customers for not offering refunds. They lied to German government about ownership. They are liable for stealing patent from small businesses in the USA. Lied about adult games when credit cards demanded the removal.

This is the company you’re referring to. This is the corporate business you are supporting.

>>106896369 (OP)
Pretty much the only caveat I see here is creative suites like Adobe and Autodesk. But even then Maya runs on Linux and Adobe is facing lots of competition for photoshop, for drawing at least Krita is amazing. Say it with me, the year of the Linux desktop is slowly approaching.

>>106904638
Oh no. Anyway, gotta go check out some new video games on steam.

>>106896384
>>106896395
>>106896396
based. I don't need to read more.

>>106904569
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>>106896369 (OP)
My low IQ.

>>106896369 (OP)
>Be me
>Install basic bitch distro Ubuntu
>Six months later the boot volume it created by default fills up with old kernels and the system won't boot
>Fuck around for several hours figuring out how to safely remove old unneeded kernels
>Finally get back into the OS and can continue about my day
>A week later an update swaps out the entire GUI for a different one, and it doesn't upgrade correctly causing it to fall back to shell
Amazing 10/10 experiences like this are why I just can't be fucked. I want the OS to get out of my way and let me do my shit, not suck up a bunch of my time figuring shit out.
I'll probably shift over to Mac if Windows becomes unbearable.

>>106896369 (OP)
>clip studio paint
Krita, FireAlpaca, Paintstorm Studio
>porn games
Proton.

>>106905657
Krita is shit and basically the GIMP equivalent of art programs. Firealpaca is too basic. CSP just werks for 99% of people who actually want to draw in any meaningful capacity, and the fact that there's no native Linux distribution of it is frankly retarded. But then again, maybe the devs just don't give a shit about Linux just like how Adobe couldn't care less about it.