Are you gaming on linux?

linux is a joke. fuck off

>>715073039
that was a bit harsh of me. i apologize.

yes

>>715072791 (OP)
Every time I gamed with a friend on Linux, his rig crashed at least once a night. He still insisted it was superior than "wangblows".

No. I'm on W10 LTSC and plan on staying here for the next 7 years.

It just werks on Linux Mint debian edition

>>715072791 (OP)
Playing Disgaea 2 PC, Like a Dragon Infinite, and emulating Skies of Arcadia on Dolphin.

>>715073161
If your PC crashes every night the PC is faulty.

>>715072791 (OP)
yeah

>>715072791 (OP)
Yeah, I use Linux Mint. It's fine. My hardware is outdated shit but it's good enough for older games.
>>715073039
Calm down, spaz. No one forced you to open this thread.

>>715072791 (OP)
>using a windows emulator

>>715077691
Half of the games I play run natively on Linux THOUGH

>>715073161
I pirate Windows games on Arch, on a shit acer aspire 5, with a busted IGPU driver and I have never been happier with performance and stability
If I can do it, so can you

>>715072791 (OP)
yes

>>715072791 (OP)
No, I only use Linux for work. Anyone who unironically uses Linux for desktop computing is most likely mentally ill.

>>715072791 (OP)
I literally just swapped yesterday. I finally did it bros. First game I played to celebrate was TF2

>>715072791 (OP)
I'm a year deep on gaming with Linux full time with an nvidia card. Since initial setup, I've had little to no issues.

Currently playing
>wh40k rt
>cyberpunk 2077
>nioh 2
>beyond citadel

The only actual issue I've had so far is modding certain games, but most of the time its just as easy, you just drop the mod in the right folder in the prefix wine path. I'm pretty convinced at this point that people saying it doesn't work or have constant issues are just actual retards, which is fine, Linux isn't for everyone and thats become pretty obvious at this point.

>>715072791 (OP)
yes i am
i have switched to linux on every single device
even my router runs linux (OpenWRT)
gayming has been nothing but kino
if you need a jeet OS like >>715073193
because you are a skilless bozo to run your games and software you just gotta end it at that point
>>715077931
grats and whalecum

>>715078113
what distro for your nvidia card? I've heard Pop OS is good for nvidia.
I'm planning on swapping to that until I get a new card that's on team red.

>>715073193
>long term seething cope

I'm planning to, but it's taking a lot of research to figure out what the optimal setup would be for me. Apparently running wayland on a GTX 1070 is a bad idea, but some DEs are already ditching X11. But I guess I just have to try and see how it goes.
Already running Arch on my laptop, but I think for my desktop I'm going to dual boot with Win10 until I'm confident I no longer need it.

>>715078280
Arch, popos is just good out of the box, it gives you the right driver, but any distro can run an nvidia card with no issue, just varying setup times.

>>715077840
nice
>>715077931
congratulations
i just got back into ow myself, thinking about tekken next

>>715072791 (OP)
Yep, been playing through the Mass Effect trilogy yet again

Yup

>>715072791 (OP)
I am.
I installed Ubuntu last week and I am genuinely surprised, I thought the whole gaming on Linux thing would turn out to be a meme but so far there has only been one game it can't run properly.
I still have Windows installed on a separate drive for cases like that, but now Ubuntu is going to be my main OS

I sure am, the only Windows I have left is Windows PE. Gaming has been the easy part, figuring out how to configure rest of the OS so it works how I need it to has been the difficult part.

i love linux but you shouldn't daily drive it if you have nvidia card, my experience has been terrible

t. daily driving with 3060 for 2 years

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes. I've been using a computer for 18 years now and I've basically gone like this
>4 years in a row on Windows
>try linux for a year
>it's shit, back to windows
Rinse and repeat, until now. I've been using Pop_Os for a year and a half and I might as well stay.

Keep in mind: I do NOT love it. File browser sucks ass, the file picker (the one that opens when you upload/download something) is different than the normal file browser for whatever fucking reason, it crashes a lot, updates break shit all the time, I miss many QoL stuff from windows...

But it does feel faster. Stable Diffusion is faster. Games are faster. It's just the user experience of actually using the OS sucks ass compared to Windows, but oh well. Better than (((Windows 11))) for sure.

>>715079093
My experience with a 3060 Ti has been fine. The issues I am aware of are kinda nothing burgers. I'd rather not have them, but they aren't really making much of a difference either.

>>715079280
PopOS when I used it a while ago on a second computer came with Gnome. Not a very fun DE to use, specially as a former Windows user. I hate it.

>>715079280
>I've been using Pop_Os for a year and a half and I might as well stay.
You've probably heard that Pop is developing their own desktop environment: Cosmic. When it's stable it's gonna replace whatever you're using rn. I've tried the alpha, not good for gaming rn but better than gnome imo

>>715079465
Sounds like you got.... gnomed.

Finally got my S rank on Relapse in Ready or Not. It was fuckin' CLEEEAAAAN too

>>715079543
Honestly wouldn't surprise me if the people developing it were actual, literal gnomes because it doesn't seem to be made for humans.

>>715079543
Hey, just because it looks like shit, runs like shit, and doesn't work, doesn't mean it's shit!!!!

>>715079630
its honestly the perfect DE but very infamous

>>715077908
I have trouble with piracy on linux. Sometimes lutris will tell me to fuck off, & wine is annoying sometimes. Otherwise it all just werks except my network driver that has autism spells

>>715072791 (OP)
I havent used windows since they dropped support for XP

>>715072791 (OP)
Playing what? Some shit game like tux racer? Fuck off

>>715072791 (OP)

>>715079862
See second part of >>715077612

>>715079483
I'm already on cosmic.
Gnome solved the file picker issue ages ago

playing through death stranding directors cut before 2 comes out for pc

>>715079795
Meanwhile, Windows 10 LTSC just runs 20+ year old Japanese games natively.
Ever since they introduced WSL, there's been no reason to mess around with Linux installation in my eyes.

>>715072791 (OP)
>troonix
Lol!

Yeah. Currently playing Factorio. None of the games I like had issues with running on a linux machine. If it doesn't work on my machine, it's going to the trash bin. Linux, like Rome, is eternal.

>>715073319
Why do you have so many shields on your gay ass scout ship?
>not anaconda
GAY

Nah, its shit. Been there, done that.

is Artix good for gaming?

>>715072791 (OP)
I will in 2032.

>>715080580
it's all the same assuming you're using latest stable kernel
steam proton takes care of everything

>>715080580
should be fine
i run gentoo openrc and steam doesn't care

>>715080232
>Windows 10 LTSC just runs 20+ year old Japanese games natively
ENTER

>>715080671
I don't use steam I just pirate

>>715072791 (OP)
yeah

>>715080753
then learn to use lutris

>>715080721
ぴこ my beloved...

Can I run Helldivers 2 on Linux?

>>715081265
can you search protondb?

>>715072791 (OP)
Moved from Mint to Arch, I fucking love Aerothemeplasma fuck.
I was trying out E.Y.E, playing some Doom and TF2 too.

>>715081297
No I am about to take off on a flight to Maine.

>>715080293
See >>715080108

>>715080134
maybe gaming on cosmic didnt work for me because i have nvidia card

>>715079280
>using "a" (singular (one (1))) computer for 18 years
Based

>>715081561
check later then

>>715081602
I too have an nvidia card and dont see why the desktop environment would give a shit about what card you have

>>715081731
Well I upgrade it once in a while. Now I'm on an RTX 3060 12GB and a Ryzen 5 5600. Hasn't always been like that.

Please tell me you dont buy prebuilts every 3 years

>>715081404
Why would you do this to Arch and KDE?

>>715072791 (OP)
Sure thing

>>715081952
Because Aero it's pretty damn comfy to me.

>>715072791 (OP)
i'm thinking of switching from win11 to arch (i used ubuntu and mint a bit before). But i'm worried about compatibility (not games, mostly random programs), how well does linux run those (for example i use a program called taiga that tracks and organizes anime you're watching)

>>715081404

>>715081265
Linux doesn't magically void the need for a GPU, CPU and RAM, bro

>>715082409
frutiger necro traumacore to spook all the zoomers

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes. I also use a Win11 VM with GPU passthrough for games that don't work well in Linux or when I want to stream games (Sunsine server in the VM + Moonlight client).

>>715072791 (OP)
this has been a linux only household for 13+ years
been playing void stranger recently

>>715081893
>Please tell me you dont buy prebuilts every 3 years
Nope. Never bought a pre-built unless you count Steam Deck. I've only ever built one PC, over a decade ago, and since then I've only replaced the PSU and GPU. Should have built a whole new PC but I was lazy. I only replaced the GPU for better Vulkan etc. support.

>>715072791 (OP)
Not trans, so no.

I’m planning to trade my GPU with someone online. We’ll be mailing our graphics cards to each other, which means I won’t have a GPU while waiting for theirs to arrive. My CPU doesn’t have integrated graphics, but I’ve used LLVMpipe before. Is there a way to force LLVMpipe to activate before I ship my GPU? I’d like to ensure I can still use my system (for basic tasks) while the GPU is gone. Any tips??

>>715072791 (OP)
yes

>>715077691
Beats using Windows. Just like using console emulators is superior to owning consoles.

>>715078280
Bazzite and Nobara have nVidia-specific installers. They're pretty good distros.

>>715078967
Just imagine how good your experience would be if you weren't using a distro which completely neglects desktop users and only focuses on servers.

>>715073039
>he says, while his CPU's IME runs minux and he is holding this conversation over apache web servers

>>715083139
See >>715081562

>>715072791 (OP)
Am trying. I've installed Arch on a removable SSD and I'm testing the water. For the moment, only Isaac has been difficult to run (I still have to tinker stuff), but Pizza Tower and Hitman WoA work flawlessly.

Since 2015

>>715078967
please, for your own sake switch to another distro
Ubuntu is so fucking crap, it has been a go-to for years due to simplicity but it has been left in the dust and no one recommends it anymore
My advice
>Linux Mint
>Bazzite
>CachyOS

>>715079862
tux racer rules

>>715083115
Ah I see. In that case I did maybe do a new PC at some point: bought a new motherboard and RAM and CPU but kept the old GPU (which I then changed)

It's just a "ship of Theseus" situation really

I sure do.

>>715084573
This, except I would just drop the entire debian branch of Linux and switch to Arch based distro. If you don't want to install arch yourself (don't blame you if you don't) then the best version of "arch out of the box" is EndeavourOS. Or maybe Steam OS, but I've never tried it.

Problem with debian based distros is that they are stuck on very old package for a very long time. I found that just annoying in many instances, having to wait for them to finally release something that is available everywhere else already.

And Ubuntu specifically has a lot of gay shit on top. If you really wanna stick with Debian family, just use the pure Debian. Ubuntu is cancer.

>>715084573
>Ubuntu is so fucking crap, it has been a go-to for years due to simplicity but it has been left in the dust and no one recommends it anymore
i recommend it, faggot
the reliability is the whole fucking point

>>715085041
It's not reliable though, it's the next Windows 11 situation, where every core application is bloated and slow.

>>715085041
Reliability gets thrown out of the window as soon as you try upgrading to the newer version. Ubuntu doesn't test it's updater between major versions because nobody who uses it professionally actually updates it at all. It's a server distro, not a desktop one.

>>715085041
>the reliability is the whole fucking point
yeah no, if you want reliable distro you go with pure Debian or LMDE or in worst case just Mint
not Fagbuntu

>>715084573
This, but:
Bazzite > Nobara > Mint > CachyOS

>>715085176
It's not even a server distro, it's a WSL distro. It's used by developers that produce stuff for Linux (so basically anything that isn't games) but their corpo bullshit laptops can only run Windows + Outlook + Ms Teams combo.

>>715077840
Ganu Blus Lineh :D

>>715085005
EndeavourOS and CachyOS are the only good out-of-the-box Arch distors
for pure Debian you have well Debian and LMDE

>>715085107
>>715085176
>>715085268
nah, fuck you losers. stop poisoning the well.

>>715085107
wtf are you talking about?

>>715085513
nah that well was already poisoned by Canonical
stop sniffing glue

>>715085107
>>715085176
>>715085268
ubuntu is the best distro because it comes with nice looking backgrounds, unlike fagdora and fagmint

>>715085513
Whatever you say, enjoy your 20 megabytes java script based terminal emulator in a snap package that takes 20 seconds to launch.

>>715079093
how so?
have nshittia 2080 and had no issues on Bazzite

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes.

>>715078356
>but some DEs are already ditching X11
I don't think so
Mint at the very least will continue to support it for 5 years and by then Nvidia opensource drivers would've caught on now that NVIDIA is actually working on them

>>715085626
>>ubuntu is the best distro because it comes with nice looking backgrounds, unlike fagdora and fagmint
kek

>>715085630
i use xterm and can open 5000 of them in a second.
you see, you can pick and choose the desktop environment, because it's not the OS. i know windows has terribly confused you over the years, but it's not your fault you are retarded

>>715085409
>It's not even a server distro
It primarily is. The way devs deploy servers is:
>pull a specific Linux installer/image
>do a clean install into a VM/Docker
>install your software
>deploy your server
People are usually using Debian, but Ubuntu is often the second most popular choice. WSL is often not even used and devs still prefer using virtual machines if they're forced to run Windows on company provided devices.

>>715085513
>stop poisoning the well
I've used Linux for a decade and I'm a software engineer. Ubuntu is literally the shittiest option as a desktop OS among the popular distros mentioned here >>715085392 >>715084573

>>715072791 (OP)
all the problems linux gives me is a trillion times preferable to having to put up with microsoft's horseshit constantly. yeah some software needs tweaking, but linux doesn't automatically install candy crush and give me pop-up ads for game pass. every time i'm forced to use windows i want to kill myself. besides the only games you can't run on linux are rootkit chinese dogshit titles like valorant that you shouldn't play anyway. if you don't use linux fuck you, that's all i'm really trying to say.

>>715086161
based

>>715085742
I recently upgraded from AMD RX590 to Nvidia 4070. Nvidia seems to work just fine but I found one weird quirk that makes it not as perfect as AMD:

When you go idle and the monitor blanks and you return, the refresh rate will be somewhat broken. Everything will look fine at first, but if you run something fullscreen, the screen will go fully black. Running
xrandr --output DP-0 --refresh 144
fixes the issue, so just applying the resolution again seems to do the trick but why is that needed I'm not sure. I made a ticket on the nvidia forum, maybe they'll fix it.

>>715085921
lol xterm

>>715085927
Sure, debian and ubuntu is both used, but saying WSL is not used often in favor of virtual machine is crazy. I've used Linux inside Hyper-V virtual machine in that kind of environment, but that's because I wanted my entire autistic i3 setup. 99% of developers are Wintoddlers anyway, so all they want is to run VS code and compile / run the code in Linux. WSL is perfect for that.
It also plays much better with corporate VPN than Hyper-V. Not sure about WMware but I doubt it's any different.

Technically yes, but I run games in a Windows VM with GPU passthrough.

>>715086307
I mean, idk. I personally don't know a single dev who uses WSL. All the devs I know that are locked into Windows are using VMs for Linux work.
Maybe it's just the dev circles I'm in.

>>715086516
People still do that...?
I thought that was a thing people did back when Wine was still crap and Steam for Linux couldn't install Windows games.

>>715086678
It's still less hassle with better compatibility.

>>715079093
I've been using Linux on Nvidia cards since ~2005 and had no major issues. Now I have a 3090 and it works perfectly.
I am using X11 though.

>>715086660
Fair enough. I really do think that running a full VM instead of WSL if you have to use Windows is rather unusual. I guess your buddies are Linux guys, so they want control and setup their entire VM. But there is a ton of people that think of Linux as just that thing for the server or embedded, so WSL is the perfect solution, where they can keep their Windows environment and tools and just compile and run their code in WSL. Microsoft invests a ton of money and time into WSL because it keeps people in their echosystem that would otherwise perhaps switch to working fully on Linux.

I've worked at a company where everything was done remotely on big compile machines over ssh and that was honestly more preferable than working on Windows locally.

>>715086307
Is that only with high refresh rate like 144hz?

>>715087005
I think what breaks is the gsync specifically, because when I open my monitor's OSD that shows the current refresh rate, once I open a full screen game the refresh rate drops to 1. Then it goes back to 144hz. I've played with TF2 and it would work fine but when I set max fps to bellow 60 it would go black.

Setting the refresh to any value would fix the issue. For my monitor to work in gsync/free sync it has to run in 144Hz mode, but then it surely works correctly, because in a game that has fluctuating FPS, for example in KCD2 I get 90-100 fps and my monitor's OSD shows the same Hz number as the in-game fps counter.

I am taking the bazzite pill

>>715077931
>>715072791 (OP)
Switching in Autumn. Fuck windows 11. I have Linux sys admin experience so it will be easy for me. Games that won't play on Linux or with Proton I won't play or buy. Easy. Fuck Microsoft.

>>715085742
OpenSUSE failed to use Nvidia drivers, even when properly installed. Both Pop_OS, Mint, PikaOS, Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE have green flickering pixels on the screen (no problem with the monitor itself). If i try to increase the hz to, lets say, 144hz, my screen will say out of range! when it worked on windows.

Distros change which drivers they use, sometimes just forcing the llvmpipe instead of Nvidia

>>715080753
Based.

I use void linux, I heard the maintainers are all trannies but I don't really care. I have no issues playing steam games or running emulators. I usually update my packages every morning and it always just works the trannies do a good job

It's amazing how hard Linux haters lost. They still try to derail these threads but they barely get any replies. It used to be that every Linux gaming thread was Linux users getting shouted down by an absolute torrent of shitposting. Now it's just people discussing gaming on Linux, and almost completely ignoring the occasional outburst of impotent seethe.

>>715087384
>7.3GB
It's a 4GB OS that ships with 3.3GB of gay porn.
But it's honestly a really fucking good OS. Might even be the best Linux distro.

Yeah. Playing some ww2 strategy games and world of guns.

>>715087804
Because Microsoft finally went too far. Forced AI spying on you. All the telemetry. Forced SSO Microsoft accounts etc. As a home desktop Windows is garbage.

>>715087605
Really most all games just play. What breaks if ever is these gay game launchers, not the game itself. This is also why often the pirated game is much easier to run than the official release. I don't recall a single modern game that refused to run. Granted I didn't play many of them, but from top of my head:

Doom eternal
KCD 1 and 2
Cyberpunk 2077
Baldurs Gate 3
Expedition 33
Silent Hill 2 remake

I use Fedora. It is, to me, the best trade of between bleeding edge and stability.

>>715088062
Why doesn't Linux have any porn packages? There are desktop background packages so currently there is a precedent for distributing media in this way, and there must be at least some vintage porn that's in the public domain by now.

I installed Linux Mint on a spare laptop but there's screen tearing when I scroll in programs. Like firefox or whatever when I scroll the screen down it screen tears. What do?

>>715087804
Pewdiepie also made a video praising Linux so it might get a new wave of zoomers comming in. Plus Steam Deck/OS... it's gonna be interesting.

I just wish the big open source projects didn't sabotage themselfs enymore (look at what RedHat, Canonical, etc. are doing)

>>715072791 (OP)
Kind of? I repurposed a mini pc to stream using moonlight in my living room, from my gaming pc in my hot, non air conditioned office. Works pretty well (4K, 60fps).

>>715088547
I also tried moonshine recently, HDR video signal also works. Powerful stuff. I wish my LG Oled could run moonshine directly. The hardware is plenty beffy enough and there is a hombrew moonshine build but I can't root my TV ...

>>715088419
Believe it or not, distros are usually trying to be SFW.

>>715088494
Its not going to get the zoomers in, but microsoft becoming more jeeted will probably attract a bunch of them if they start making fun of each other for windows 11

It's really easy to see how bankrupt and inept linux is after using for just 10 minutes. Like all these tiny little features you never think of are just suddenly gone.
>well who cares half the buttons your mouse don't NEED to work
Yeah okay, and I don't NEED your shitty OS.

>>715088547
>"wow, my PC is getting really hot"
>goes to a cooler room but leaves the PC
based

>>715088706
>Its not going to get the zoomers in but it's gonna get some in
okay ?

I installed linux on an older laptop and the battery lasts way longer than it did with windows 10. Went from like 2 hours to 5 hours.

>>715088665
Ahhhh, I’m using some $200 intel jasper lake mini pc for it. As long it supports hvec or h264 in hardware it’s fine. Though funny you should mention hdr, that was just enough overhead to tank throughput, poor thing couldn’t keep up.

>>715088982
obama wasn't dialing in through every five minutes

>>715077840
What do you play?

>>715089254
I thought of buying an Intel N100 based mini chink pc for this purpose. Right now I'm using my corporate laptop (lmao) 32gb of ram for Ms Teams and it still struggling on boot.

iv been emulatan (sic) totk again. idk why/how but it runs even better than i remember.

>>715086776
Better compatibility, sure, maybe, though only barely. Less hassle? Absolutely not. Proton is literally just
>Download game
>Click play
>Just werks

Installed Kubuntu on a Lenovo Laptop (Tested Gnome and it was unusable). Battery is now 6 hours from ~2 and everything is so smoooth. All the games I'm interested in playing on a laptop work flawlessly and run better than they did on Windows.

>>715090005
Well, but I don't use Steam and I pirate everything. Cracks sometimes do dodgy shit that trips up wine/proton. And then there are games that just don't work right. Mods add another layer of headache, especially when they come with their own binary code, dlls, etc. I'm sure MOST games work well enough or maybe even better but there's always going to be the occasional game that doesn't work right so I just default to a VM where games work just as native and I don't have to think about it.

>>715090562
>Cracks sometimes do dodgy shit
Sounds like a decent reason to use a VM desu. I don't want Wine devs to implement the API calls used by FitGuy's crypto miner.

>>715077691
Its not an emulator doe

"Wine Is Not an Emulator"

>>715085107
>it's the next Windows 11 situation, where every core application is bloated and slow.
Nah, it is near perfect if you uninstall snap and replace it with flatpaks

>>715090562
Is Linux going to force me to be a paypig for games?
>>715088230
Good to know. 10 years ago almost no games worked on Linux.

>>715089376
Sounds about right. My mini pic came with w11; it was able to handle a 4K/60fps stream at ~45fps(and that’s after capping the data rate to like 20mbps).
With fedora and compiling moonlight from source, 120mbps is completely smooth with zero jitter due to dropped frames. (Server is w10, running sunshine; and using a gigabit Ethernet connection to the client)

The only thing keeping me on windows for my main gaming pc is the frustration of having to write bash scripts to handle multiple monitor and audio sink setups. Linux has come a long, long ways.

>>715090562
I see. I personally don't pirate much but haven't heard of cracks having issues with wine/proton. Makes sense why you'd use a vm in that case, but doesn't the vm have performance overhead? If I were you I'd at least try it in wine/proton first and then use a vm if it doesn't work.

>>715090776
>Is Linux going to force me to be a paypig for games?
I can't say for sure. Depends on what you play exactly and I'm sure things got better since ~2020 when I set the VM up. Even if your cracked games don't work you probably have an iGPU on your CPU that you can use on Linux and do a GPU passthrough like I do. If you're new to this just try wine/proton at first and see how well it works for you.

>>715090402
That's cool Anon! I revived my old laptop with Mint mate, I only use for watching stuff but that poor thing would shit the bed by just trying to launch W10.

>>715090562
Proton works without steam and everything you said is basically not true. What breaks most often on Linux is the gay game launchers. Cracked games are much more likely to run.

Name the game and the mods, I'll see if it works.

>>715090776
>Is Linux going to force me to be a paypig for games?
No. I pirate 99% of my games. Even the games I buy on GOG I just download on pirate websites because I'm too lazy to log in.

The only thing I've been told is that Steam repacks don't work, apparently from fitgirl. Something related to how they're unpacked or unarchived.

>>715077840
>>715089363
I would gladly take all of your Gondola/Spurdo Linux pics

>>715091106
>doesn't the vm have performance overhead
Not as much as you might expect. It's within a few % of native.
>>715091251
I know proton works without Steam, but cracked games especially sometimes have issues. Even ignoring that I doubt compatibility is anywhere close to perfect, even though most popular games probably work fine. I've had this setup for so long I can't really give you examples, sorry. It's just what I ended up with after not getting a few games to run.

>>715078356
You'll always be able to just run a WM, and I think it's mostly just GNOME that's ditching it, due to autism.
>>715079280
There are a lot of file browsers.
>>715079630
GNOME may be the cause of most issues with Linux. My worst experience was also with dconf.
It's unfortunate that modern Windows philosophy is now identical to GNOME philosophy, going full on "you don't need that" when it comes to taskbar orientation.
>>715080232
I'm too retarded to use Linux virtualization on Windows to run the programs I like. I just like the normal terminal workflow that just werks.
>>715085005
>Install arch yourself
archinstall werks I guess, just need to install an AUR helper on top of that.
>>715086516
I still do that for CAD software, but nothing else. Used to do it for everything, and then mostly for VR.

>>715087618
I used Bazzite and Arch and had none of those issues

>>715091478
Okay chatgpt, name the game

>>715091586
Dude, when i try to use opensuse it defaults to a 4:3 ratio. I can't change it no matter what, lol

>>715091887
>opensuse
dont wanna be that guy, but thats your issue
use a non tranny distro
if you dont wanna mess around with Arch just use CachyOS or EndevaourOS

>>715090776
>Is Linux going to force me to be a paypig for games?
lmao no, i pirate a fuck ton, i have an 3TB HDD full of pirated games and all the games I've tested work flawlessly
older games work even better under linux than on jeetdows

>>715081404
based frutiger enjoyer

>>715091887
>opensuse
My guy, nobody uses this shit. It's a corpo distro used by some European corporations on some business machines.
Stick with things that are popular: Bazzite, Mint, Manjaro, Arch/EndeavourOS.

>>715085392
redpill me on gaming distros
why would I not just use Arch instead?

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes, it is what you do when your GPU is AMD.

This or Lutris? I've heard Heroic has cloud saves and apparently Lutris doesn't

>all those poodiepie leftover tetriaries

>>715084020
this looks way too russian, even more than this >>715081979
and all of those are pirated
blyat

>>715092302
both are useful
Lutris and Bottles for pirating stuff and EA launcher
Heroic is for everything else

>>715083193
>>715084573
I appreciate the suggestions but I need you to understand something: I am borderline retarded.
This is the first time I am using something other than Windows and I NEED a distro that has copious amounts of resources available for when something goes wrong, a software manager that already curated everything in it so I know I'm not installing malware, automatic updates and last but not least, allows me to use it without needing the Terminal, ideally at all.
So far Ubuntu does everything I need and hasn't crashed or otherwise broken so it seems fine.

>>715092302
Heroic has cloud saves support for games from Epic Store, it doesn't provide free cloud storage for save. If you interested in backing up your saves check Ludusavi

>>715091548
>I'm too retarded to use Linux virtualization on Windows to run the programs I like. I just like the normal terminal workflow that just werks.
That's why WSL is a good solution. It pretty much just works, and there's no need to set up VMs yourself.
I also use it for the terminal workflow and the linux programs I need, like docker, dev tools, and scripting.

>>715092560
>I am borderline retarded.
in that case use Mint or Bazzite
Bazzite is especially retard proof since its immutable (meaning you cant fuck up the system) plus it has rollbacks
So my honest advice is go with Bazzite, it comes with everything already configured and set up, you get all your drivers, easy updates, Steam, Lutris, Heroic, dildo in ass, tenga on dick, etc etc etc

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes and it's somehow given me less issues than Windows. It's fucking insane how much I was just putting up with.

>>715092406
>All of those are pirated
As if it's a bad thing
>Russian

>>715092560
I’ll get reamed for this, but copilot is actually fairly helpful for troubleshooting random bullshit. It’s like a pocket jeet you can bully relentlessly.

It can’t think of course, and often goes on wild fucking tangents— but with the tiniest bit of common sense and relentless bullying; you can probably have it walk you through fixing whatever random “Linux moment” you run into.

>>715093098
I read in one of these threads that Bazzite was being abandoned already, was that a shitpost?

>>715093102
been there brother
its so fucking ass and im sad i didnt switch earler

>>715093214
>As if it's a bad thing
who said anything about it being bad?
i love piracy
but the choice of games is very russian to me
i know you're a euro regardless

>>715093216
the fuck? no, its very actively developed and has become one of the most popular distros as every tech jootuber is trying it now
JayzTwoCents just did a video on it

>>715093352
I'll be honest, you're close lmao

I love Linux gaming on my 7900XTX. Most of the games I play have even parity with or even outperform Windows.

>>715092252
Better out of the box experience, ie less tinkering and manual configuration. Universal Blue distros (Bazzite and Aurora) are unironically the best general use desktop experience Linux provides.
If you're a minimalist or tinkerer then it's better to just use Arch I guess. But I've honestly long outgrown the phase of fucking around and tinkering with my computers as a hobby. Now I just want an OS which just works and doesn't require any maintenance. I've found that Bazzite provides exactly that.

>>715092302
Personally I just use Bottles. I find it a lot easier to use than any other launcher I've tried.

>>715092560
>distro that has copious amounts of resources available for when something goes wrong
https://docs.bazzite.gg/
(or just join the Discord and ask people to help you)
>software manager that already curated everything in it so I know I'm not installing malware
All distros have access to flathub
>automatic updates
Most distros have a toggle for this.
>allows me to use it without needing the Terminal, ideally at all.
Bazzite (and unironically Manjaro). Ubuntu at the end of the day always forces you to use the Terminal because, again, the company behind it doesn't focus on desktop use at all.

>>715093098
This. My very low IQ friend started using Bazzite as his first distro and literally doesn't have any issues with it.

>>715093216
>>715093428
Fedora (the distro Bazzite is based on) was thinking of removing 32bit support within the next year or two. But they've changed their mind because everyone told them that would be retarded.
Removing 32bit libraries would make WINE/Proton and Steam unusable, which would defeat the point of Bazzite. Linux doesn't have something like WOW64 yet. But, this scare will probably have developers looking for a solution to the 32bit problem. 32bit software will be abandoned in ~13 years across all operating systems simply due to the time overflow issue.

>>715093549
ah, kurwa, makes sense
based game choice

>>715072791 (OP)
i'm not autistic. i also have disposable income

>>715093852
Become autistic

>>715093852
Dispose of your income

>>715093852
Send me money and become poor

>>715093852
He said, on 4chans video games board, in 2025.

>>715073150
not op but i forgive you buddy. we all make mistakes some time.

Fuck rust btw

all the options in cachy os with schedulers and kernel confuse me. i just run the default shit and everything seems fine

>>715089363
a friend wanted me to play ffxiv lately so a lot of that
want to play the lies of p dlc among other soulslikes i got in the summer sale recently
was also playing ZZZ but got kinda burnt out on it; got the cute tiger though

>>715093852
tfw rtx pro 6000 blackwell sitting in a box waiting on nvidia driver 580 for linux

>>715094835
you probably won't notice much between schedulers
i think they do clang builds on their kernel with ThinLTO so that at least gives you a boost in latency from my comparisons on Gentoo with GCC versus Clang FullLTO

>sudo apt install freedom
Yup. It's gaming time.

>>715094835
it's not hard. for kernels there's deckify which makes it like a steam deck, hardened which has tighter security options by default, lts is just long term service so it's behind in updates but is more stable. then there's specific kernels made for servers and whatnot.
you dont really need to touch it. default is already an optimized version of arch kernel anyway.

>>715080232
I'm sorry, that might be true but microshit uninstalling my drivers, corrupting my drivers, eating up my cpu & being a general nuisance isnt working as intended. I mean it probably is how they intended it but beyond that windows has a slower file system & 90% of games do just work in wine

>>715072791 (OP)
Yeah, for the most part. The only game that doesn't really work all that well is Phasmophobia (voice recognition is borked)

>>715094835
>using CachyOS as a beginner
You shouldn't do this.

How do I deal with any web related interface being slow to a crawl but everything else normal? Steam and any web browser is like being back on a pentium 2

>>715096115
Sounds like a network card/adapter issue.

>>715088230
>What breaks if ever is these gay game launchers,
Or games with anticheat.
Bonus points to the games that have anticheat solutions with linux compatibility that is deliberately turned off or blocked out of spite because the publishers are fags.

>>715096115
Try using a cable or make sure that you are using 5 GHz Wifi
Also might be just a drivers issue if you have some shitty manufacturer

>>715077691
>Linux was created before Windows
>Linux is a exact clone of Unix
>Windows literally stole from Linux and changed up a few commands, like LS (list files in directory) became DIR (list files in directory)
>CD (change directory) was stolen and changed to CD (change directory or display current directory, literally makes no sense, in Linux they have PWD for print current directory, and cd with no input takes you home, why would cd with no input print the working directory in Windows? They stole the abbreviation and then misused it too).
Yet Linux is just a "windows emulator?"
Lol.

>>715072791 (OP)
I have an Nvidia GPU, so sadly no.

>>715096115
Look into enabling GPU acceleration on chrome.

>>715072791 (OP)

Yes, Dawn of War right now.

>>715096115
You probably don't have GPU acceleration enabled.

>>715096716
It's not 2010 anymore

>>715096716
older Nvidia cards most just work, just don't try to use Wayland with them, it is still bad

>>715072791 (OP)
No, but I'll probably make the switch once I format my PC again and get rid of all the bloat I have installed over the years. The only games I would miss playing would be the Battlefield games due to the incompatibility issues caused by the rootkit anticheat EA added a year ago.

>>715096716
>Using chinese hardware
Lol.

>>715095802
None of those happen on my machine, everything just works. Windows 10 LTSC (supported until 2032) btw :^)

>windows 10 dead in less than 3 months

weird timeline but I have to make a decision soon

>>715096974
>>715097196
It's an RTX 3070. Bazzite and Ubuntu act retarded (games don't render at all and the OS moves at a slideshow pace) unless I throw in my RX 580 8GB. I already tried using third party drivers.

>>715078967
Don't listen to fags who bitch about you using Ubuntu
Linux disto barely even matters these days outside of maybe desktop environment (Gnome, KDE) it comes with

>>715088460
Mint is a noob trap.
Do what pewdiepie did and install arch on your spare laptop.
You can swap out DEs from the login screen without having to reinstall the whole distro.

>>715096732
>>715096974
>GPU acceleration
Why was this not enabled by default? Most people use Nvidia cards for pc gaming. Was like a two second fix

Is there something you need to enable within Steam itself for the overlay to work with Linux Native games? I have no issues when playing with Proton, but I play something Native and suddenly the overlay no longer works so I can't take screenshots or message someone. There's a checkbox for Overlay within the game settings, but that is always default checked.

>>715098012
>Mint is a noob trap.
why?

>>715098137
Try running steam from terminal, that way steam and everything it will launch will print logs in the terminal. You might see it complaining about some missing library or something.

>>715098137
Tbh I almost never run linux games native. That shit just never works properly, as sad as it sounds.

>>715098271
NTA but I agree, Mint is just not that well maintained. It's also based on Ubuntu, so it's built on bad foundation to begin with.

I'll give you my own real experience. In 2019 I've bought a new gpu, AMD rx590. Even though AMD is well supported on Linux, the driver being open source and present in mainline kernel, the driver for this gpu was merged in 4.20. Ubuntu and consequently Mint was stuck on 4.19 for next few months. Nowadays I would be able to install a new kernel, but back then I was just stuck with a black screen on a brand new gpu... Arch Linux worked out of the box, since it always ships latest and greatest.

>>715097768
Doesn't sound like you installed them properly
For Ubuntu have you tried just running sudo ubuntu-drivers install ?
Do commands like nvidia-smi work?

>>715097768
Did you try using X11 instead of Wayland? From everything I'm seeing online, RTX 3070 should work fine on proprietary drivers. It performs identical or up to 10% worse than Windows according to benchmarks.

>>715098615
This. A lot of native Linux game builds are either outdated or just use a very old version of WINE and pretend to be native.

>>715098271
It's an LTS distro, meaning software updates (libraries, drivers and software itself) is basically 1-3 years behind.
This might sound irrelevant, but it often means "I can't play this game because my dependencies are outdated and the latest Proton doesn't work", or "My app is 2-4 years out of date so it still has bugs which were long fixed and lacks features everyone else has".
This usually pushes people into using PPAs and fucking up their system. It's just inconvenient unless everything you do is done in a web browser.

>>715096716
>>715097196
>>715097768
amd plays nicer because it's open but nvidia works fine, if you're not a foss absolutist just use the prop driver.

There is nothing better than Linux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVvu9M2Y-I

Linux noob here, just switched. All my internal hard drives are listed as "removable" hard drives now despite not being removable and I have to re add them to steam everytime I turn my computer on because of it. Every time I turn on my computer I have to go into steam settings and tell it where my other hard drives are to see the games installed on them. Wtf is it's problem.

>>715099121
>it often means "I can't play this game because my dependencies are outdated and the latest Proton doesn't work"
Often? Not really. Having been on Mint for years, I've never had a problem with the latest numbered version of Proton. There was one time when I couldn't use Proton Experimental on Mint, but that was shortly before a new Mint version was released if I remember correctly.

>>715099817
It might be that your drives aren't listed in your fstab. Then they aren't mounted at boot. Depending on whether you start steam before or after mounting them yourself, steam won't see them.
Look into how to add a drive using its UUID in fstab. Then tell steam the location you set as mount point.

>>715099817
>Wtf is it's problem.
Your understanding of how internal drives work:
>All my internal hard drives are listed as "removable" hard drives now despite not being removable
False. All drives are removable. Just because they're not connected via USB doesn't make them non-removable.
>have to re add them to steam everytime I turn my computer on because of it
Unfortunately, very few distros auto-mount your internal drives on startup. Ask some AI to tell you how to edit your "fstab" file to add your drives automatically on boot.

>>715099817
What you want is to auto mount your hard drives on boot. That is done by putting an entry in /etc/fstab. Depending on your distro you might have some graphical program that might do it for you.

For example one of my entries for a NTFS formated disk looks like this:

/dev/disk/by-label/ntfs-nvme /mnt/ntfs-nvme auto defaults 0 0

/dev/disk/by-label/ntfs-nvme is a symlink to the specific disk partition device
/dev/disk/by-label/ntfs-nvme -> ../../nvme1n1p3
there are also links bu uuid and other values.
Second option is the mount point, you can chose whatever you want, then the filesystem option (can be auto for auto detect), the mount options (can be just defaults for the defaults) and 0 0 is for the priority and requiring filesystem check on mount, 0 0 is a good default choice.

>>715100514
add 'nofail' to your options!

>>715098874
>>715099121
>Did you try using X11 instead of Wayland?
>Do commands like nvidia-smi work?
Ubuntu nor Bazzite aren't even detecting the card and I reseated and checked the pins in case it wasn't getting power.

>>715099191
I already have a 7900 XTX set to the side solely for a Linux build. Just waiting on the rest of the parts to come in.

>>715100818
oh yeah, add that, otherwise the system will halt if it fails to mount this filesystem.

>>715100514
Btw, as a bit of comparison, if you're thinking why do we have to do this when Windows seems to do it automatically ?

Windows only recognizes fat and ntfs filesystem and they get a single letter assigned to them based on the order of being detected.

Linux supports dozens and dozens of filesystem with different options, you can tweak many parameters to tune for performance versus reliability (on fly compression, journaling, access / modify time logging or not, etc.)
You can also mount them in any arbitrary location in the filesystem, you can lay multiple filesystem over each other (overlayfs), generally speaking, you have 10x more options and it's hard to decide what should be the default.

>>715101276
>if you're thinking why do we have to do this when Windows seems to do it automatically ?
Bazzite Linux mounts drives automatically without ever having to fuck around with fstab.

>>715101516
When I say Linux I really mean Linux kernel. Linux supports everything as I described and you control that with /etc/fstab. How you manage and generate that file is up to you, some distros will automate it, others won't.

>>715072791 (OP)
I will never go back to windows. Winblows users that still use winblows after the abomination that was win10 are subhuman to me. I'm playing Disco Elysium, Hades 1, and Thief Gold through Heroic. Just killed the old man for the first time.

How often do you guys update your packages? I'm on arch and that the machine has run smooth as oil for the past 6 months. Some while ago I updated my packages and some nvidia package fucked some shit up and I spent one entire day fixing shit. After that in short succession I updated and a new version of wine broke some shit and I had to downgrade it. Since then I have been paranoid and don't want to upgrade any more.

Yes
Just finished Death Stranding and currently playing more Total War Warhammer 3 because I'm a Total War addict

>>715104376
every couple of weeks when I remember to do it but I'm on mint so I don't think it matters as much

>>715096115
Launch steam through terminal

>>715077772
>half
lmao.
>>715104832
so you're a giga-autist with loads of time to waste?
>>715104376
heres the normal Linux experience.

For all my many complains about wangblows 11, i'd still take it any day over a Linux distro.

>>715072791 (OP)
Getting a new PC soon and I think I'll move to Mint, but I would like to move all my files from my old PC onto it and have a separate drive for the windows apps I need (Hammer SDK)
Any tips?

>>715105837
If I were a giga autist I'd be playing Factorio or Paradox games
Idk why but I just can't get into them sadly, even though I desperately want to

>>715105857
If you have a HDD make sure to defrag it before you make the move

>>715104376
I'm on Gentoo which is also rolling and I update daily.
>Some while ago I updated my packages and some nvidia package fucked some shit up and I spent one entire day fixing shit.
The new 6.15 kernel updated a lot of shit and that in turn also caused a lot of nvidia issues for many, myself included. I had to rebuild using a dist-kernel to fix it because I was getting kernel build warnings/errors on building the nvidia driver. I'm still on the dist-kernel but the system is normal now.
99% of the time my daily updates are fine but the 6.15 release was a specific headache.

>>715105837
>'WARNING: THIS WILL NUKE YOUR WHOLE SYSTEM'
>Yes I accept :)
linus is a retard and you as well for posting this shit
just stop

After Windows 11 had an audio bug so severe it would've probably caused hearing damage if my headphones were on, I switched to Debian.

>>715072791 (OP)
hellur fellow Linux gaymerz
>>715081404
and hello fellow Aero theme enjoyer

>>715106472
man i tried to install that theme but i had some weird issues with it, like sometimes pinned software dissapearing and leaving a blank space between icons, i use the taskbar on top because my monitor has an issue on the bottom right corner, know why it might be?

I played a little bit of the Stellar Blade demo on Xubuntu, but my laptop sucks and I'm not playing that game at 22 average FPS. Already platinumed on PS5, so it's not like I'm missing out. I should test out another game because the last time I gamed on Linux was 9 years ago when I installed Arch on my freshly dead Grandma's PC I inherited. I was actually running a VM with Windows 98 and playing StarCraft because I couldn't get WINE to work even with some StarCraft-specific preset that should have made it work for anyone.

>>715106674
no idea unfortunately
are you on Wayland or X11? I've seen that it has issues with Wayland

>>715106813
For modern games you want a rolling release distro like fedora or arch. Xubunutu should be pretty shitty for modern games.

>>715107062
I thought about installing Arch instead and maybe I should. It hasn't been long since I ditched Windows on this machine, so it's not like there's a finely-tuned setup to lose.

>>715106257
>doing something soo absurdly simple as installing Steam on a computer is soo dangerous on Linux you can brick your entire rig by accident trying.
ftfy autisticus maximus.

Fuck linux it's trash and something to play with not to be used seriously.

>>715105837
>>half
>lmao.
Yes, roughly half. Cope and seethe or whatever.

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes, but it's Linux for dumb dumbs. I do pirate and mod games so I going into the Desktop pretty often.

>>715107662
This meme is funny but macOS is miles better then Linux if you are a working adult.

>>715107662
>>715107675
One day you will learn to use Linux :^) but for now just stay in Window, it's easier for you.

>>715107439
in case you have issues on pure Arch, especially since you're on a laptop, since I had some Nvidia driver issues on my laptop install either Bazzite or CachyOS, if you have a newer system install Bazzite if its older install CachyOS since they come with all the drivers and necessary software for gaming

>>715104376
I install updates whenever they appear in Linux Mint's update manager. I don't have such problems, and have never needed to downgrade a package, because it's a stable distro.
>inb4 people who never used Mint telling me it will break in 2 weeks as if I'm going to trust anonymous 4chan posts over my own personal experience of using Mint for years

>>715107662
iirc he only uninstalled the DE. So the rig wasn't bricked, you can just reinstall or install another DE.

>>715107849
Ah, good idea, this laptop is 6 years old with a GTX 1650.

>>715107989
I've never witnessed someone who liked windows. It's always either neutrality or resignation. Even in bait posts like this it still can't be done.

>tendies and windowsfags are literal children
heh

>>715108173
Bazzite should be good and you should probably choose something like this or choose the manufacturer brand if its on the list

>>715107764
t. photoshop homosexual

>>715107989
Switch 2 is actually amazing
because i Switched 2 Steam Deck because of it

>>715108203
It kinda looks like when you are a kid and think your parents are being annoying, but maybe they were right, eating trash food and paying for shit services isn't the greatest idea kek.

>>715073161
was this 10-15 years ago?

Any fish chads here?

>>715106095
I was honestly thinking about getting a big External drive and moving everything from the different drives of the old PC onto that then moving the files over to the new PCs drives.

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes.

>>715090729
WINdows Emulator

>>715109342
WINE/Proton is a translation layer, not an emulator, which is why it is fast.
It converts DX to Vulcan.

>>715072791 (OP)
Yeah.

yes

>>715109813
Is it a legal requirement that as soon as you install linux you need to set an anime girl as your wallpaper? 90% of all linux screenshots I see people have some jailbait anime girl as their wallpaper.

>>715109995
No, it's just the anime weeb faggots love sharing their desktop so much it's unreal. These faggots spend their entire day ricing their distros. Real Linux users just want something functional and don't really care that much.

>>715110741
>real linux users
anyone who has used linux for more than one year, understands how to configure linux, and works with linux is a real linux user.
the anime wallpaper ricer is very much a real linux user

>>715110741
Most of the rice fags don't even run Linux they just do it in a VM to take screencaps.

>>715110741
men with superior tastes in operating systems also tend to have superior tastes in mediums

>>715110990
>men

>>715110925
>anyone who has used linux for more than one year, understands how to configure linux
No real linux user would say shit like this. We all don't know shit and literally learn basic shit still regularly.

>>715109995
>>715110741
I see this stuff in /fwt/ too, I think it's just a weeb thing

Yeah. Nobara + proton-ge + Bottles. So far have been able to play all pirated games. Steam for the ones I've bought. Only once ran into a roadblock trying to mod mass effect legendary edition but I get the feel the mod team (this was for some foundational mod) are anti-pirate so it was probably that. They also bizarrely were anti linux.

>>715109995
that's not my wallpaper. i added that manually in gimp

>>715110741
I've been accused of "ricing" just because I posted a screenshot of Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition with one of the built-in color themes, one extension (transparent panel) from the built-in extensions menu, and a desktop background from /wg/. Some people see anything that isn't Windows 11 and think it took endless hours of tinkering to make it look that way.

>>715109513
Wine translates DirectX to OpenGL, ackchyually.
You need DXVK for Vulkan.

Trying to play Touhou 6 at the moment. Launching it through Proton on steam but no matter which proton version I try, I get a DirectSound error and the game crashes on launch. To my understanding the game is old enough that it has hardcoded windows lib dependencies (ie DirectSound) that aren't included in Proton by default. Any ideas? I recall trying to fix this some time ago and finding that DirectSound isn't an option to install in winetricks/protontricks

>>715113063
Winetricks does have a verb to install DirectSound. It's called "dsound". If your Winetricks doesn't have it then I don't know, skill issue I guess.

>>715072791 (OP)
No, I switched to Haiku and reactOS

>>715113297
Okay it's coming back to me from when I tried to tackle this in the past. I have dsound, dinput8, dmusic all installed already and this still pops up. I'll just keep tinkering with it until I get it to run

Just posting to say Wayland fucking sucks and almost broke my distro
Fuck you for trying to force this garbage on my gaming desktop

>>715114169
>pic
lol. Is it supposed to be Japanese characters?
Anyway, I haven't played any Touhou games, but I've heard of them so they aren't that obscure, and therefore I would bet that someone has gotten them to work. I just don't know the answer, so all I can say is good luck.

>>715114967
I've been using KDE Plasma on and off for about a year and have never had a single issue with Wayland.

>>715115390
Okay got it running. Apparently, the game crashes if you don't use a japanese locale when launching it. Funny shit

>>715115447
Nice

>>715114169
holy shit i havent seen mojibake in decades
leave it to the luddite thread to rediscover problems solved ages ago lmao

Muh gaymes just werk on Arch GNU/Linux

>>715115447
Could you screenshot and show how stage 3 looks on your end? For whatever reason th06 stage 3 was missing the ball trees on linux.

>>715115447
That's pretty much 90% of Japanese games. They always use shift-jis

>Gaming on an OS that can randomly crash while watching video in chrome if GPU acceleration is turned on

Tranny gayming thread
Pajeet gayming thread

>chrome

>they think the 314th and 315th replies will derail the thread after the 1st reply didn't
lmao

>>715072791 (OP)
No, I play games on my windows machine and use linux for programming and listening to music.

>>715116760
I have GPU acceleration on in Vivaldi (also chromium) and I can watch videos for days without ever closing the browser. Even while gaming.

What went wrong with the linux shilling campaign on youtube? Flawless gaming yet no one uses it. It's so over....

This isn't even counting the people worldwide this is just 130 million steam users

>>715117060
Derail? No, I let you have your fun playing pretend but I will remind you when you need to return to reality.

>>715117461
>return to reality
I'd rather play video games.

>>715086516
gigabased

>>715117448
>the people who want to be free are switching to Linux
>the sheep are staying on Windows
Nothing went wrong. This is how it should be.

>>715117763
Yes! Android is Linux and I just accidentally sold my Imp in Gran Turismo 4 and it autosaved. Have to grind another 4wd now

>>715117931
>suffering from schizophrenia
ngmi

Has anyone had issues with running at 240hz?

Yes I'm using linux mint right now.

It just werks

>>715118480
No, because I use windows

>>715119042
Wow what a helpful post, maybe you should go to the windows thread then faggot.

>>715084020
>17 games

>>715119114
Troonix help support thread is not vidya. Thus, I can't shit on your thread.

>>715072791 (OP)
No because fortnite can't run on it

>>715115924
Only just now starting, just spent a while setting up some scripts to resize my monitor

So should I actually change from mint to arch? I dont play any video games on that laptop. I just use it for random web browsing and whatnot.

What the FUCK is Wayland?

>>715119472
If you want to.

>>715113063
Proton Experimental works flawlessly for me.

>>715107764
This is absolutely true. There's still no MS Office for Linux lmfao.

>>715119552
a half-baked piece of shit

>>715107764
I'm a working adult in IT and I use linux

>>715119472
Probably not. Arch is a huge pain to set up. You really have to care about every detail of your setup to raw dog arch. For web browsing you can install endeavour or cachyos in like 10 minutes and get most of the benefits of arch.

>>715085107
>It's not reliable though, it's the next Windows 11 situation, where the OS is actually usable.

>>715107662
it's not dangerous though
1. you can just reinstall the desktop, not a big deal
2. it explained in great detail exactly what was going to happen and required him to accept
dangerous would imply it is easy to do by accident or without your consent.

>>715106465
Now I have no audio at all, so my hearing is safe.

>>715117331
The only non-braindead Linux user in the whole thread. Running a home server on Linux here, you know, the task the OS is actually designed for.

>>715106465
As in, literally plain Debian?
I am interested in that, how is it for gaming?

>>715119114
You could be playing games now, instead your fixing your FREE AS IN FREEDUMBS OS, idiot.

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes. I don't play online sloppa so all my games work. The only online games I play with friends is stuff like Baldurs Gate 3 and ER Nightreign which work on Linux.
>>715073161
There are retards on all OSes. The problem isn't Linux or Windows the problem is the person.

>>715119975
Arch being a pain to setup is a midwit cope. I jumped from Windows straight to Arch and had no problems getting everything to work. You just need to be literate which unfortunately discounts 40% of all Americans. The wiki has answers to most questions and the community is open to helping you as long as you aren't being retarded.
Arch is extremely reliable which cannot be said for CachyOS because it mixes AUR stuff with official repos and you eventually run into dependency issues. EndeavourOS is based since it's just a glorified Arch install. Arch install exists but has dogshit defaults.
You'll run into much less issues on Arch than outdated shit like Mint which is stuck on X11 and other ancient unusable garbage software. Since you need flatpaks for most things on Mint like Steam, you might as well just go with am immutable distro.

>>715119552
Its not a piece of software, it is just a collection of protocol documentation that desktops, hardware vendors, and software implement pieces of in order to get everything working.
The problem a lot of Windows users run into, is they have hardware from a vendor that just refuses to properly support the bits of the Wayland protocol they're responsible for.

You don't need AI to make nonsensical text boxes.

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes I am. Thanks to Proton it just works.

>>715072791 (OP)
No, but I may. MS has fucked me over via closing email acxounts. Not the only one to donthat. And privacy compromised, selling user info. That is not acfeptable. MS has done some good but treason might require distancing from them as not to endorse their treaaon. Homosexuality etc trannybshit, wrong, rape, endorsed bybthem is enoughnof a nono.

Ibdon't like jews. I don't want to use anything they infest, that parasite callin his degeneracy the backbone on linux, of free software, is a large downer. He shoukd be killed. As shoukd mostbifnnotballbthatbhave attended university.

I like peoole prividing withoutbpayment. That may be leadinf frim the base. The bad can't get to bad, when there is an alternative they are built on that doesn't do as the profiteering parasites.

Patents are degenerate. Paraaites taking credit for what better people provided.

Rarherbincest (invest) in freedom, disregarding laws of plague. Incurring threat like others. Each of us a little ao student filth don't win.
So all have it good.

>>715119346
I hate fartnite but I'm installing it right now in Lutris to see for myself.

>>715073039
no u

>>715072791 (OP)
Yep.

>>715124528
You must be new if you don't know how games with kernel level anti cheat don't work on linux.

>>715105837
The problem with this video wasnt Linus it was poopOS for shipping steam improperly and not having a proper updater that's easy and apparent.


Linux mint doesn't have this problem and he should've installed that.

>>715072791 (OP)
I have at least 1500 hours on my 'eck.

Most recently I played Yakuza 4 and 5, some Fall Guys and I discovered SM64coop DX (there's a squid game mod). It all just werks.

It's comfy.

>>715127678
EasyAntiCheat works.

>>715129958
The linux version of easy anti cheat has no kernel access so the statement is still true.

I've been trying to run Mega Man 8 within Legacy Collection 2 and the videos don't work. Sometimes they do if you look at it right but then the game crashes after the cutscene's finished and it also forces the game in windowed mode. Tried both normal and several GE-Proton versions. I've been trying to install different codecs especially stuff that VNs used to need but none of this is working and it ends with the game refusing to run.
If anybody knows how to get this going, it'd be great.

>emulate?
This is mostly my autistic curiosity in getting games to run on linux. This knowledge will also lead to better compatibility for proton down the line and will help other games.

>>715130610
Do you have the game stored on an NTFS-formatted drive, by chance (e.g. as a shared games drive readable by both Windows and Linux)? Linux Steam is becoming increasingly fussy and uncooperative with NTFS.

>>715131161
No, it's ext4

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes, I'm playing Dota 2 right now

>>715130610
Have you used protondb?
https://www.protondb.com/app/495050

Many people talk about the problem you are speaking about on there and give tips how to solve it.

>>715132632
First thing I ever do, unfortunately it's useless for my means. I want to get it working on modern proton, that way more people benefit and linux becomes the one click solution to playing games.

>>715132886
If it works on one version of proton but not the newest wouldn't the first step be to port whatever new proton lacks from that old version?

>>715130610
Don't all the Legacy collections have that Enigma shit that those faggots at Capcom added to a bunch of games? Could that be causing problems?

>>715132994
Unfortunately I don't have a steam deck so I have no idea how it's working on his end. I'm using arch and used proton 9 which is the default and it didn't work for me but at least it didn't crash. This was the safest way to play that game but MM8 has nice cutscenes so I wouldn't recommend it.

>>715133178
This specific release has had no updates since 2018 so that's not an issue.

>>715133778
>>715133158
whoops

>>715129790
and how is anyone supposed to know which one isn't dogshit? because for every distro there is, there is a bunch of fanboys lying about how good it is, and a bunch of haters also lying about how bad it is.

Linux is for people who like to waste their time, because that's what you have to do, to an extreme extent, to get 'gud' at using a janky OS for autists.

>>715134440
OK retard.

>>715072791 (OP)
Linux is almost easier to use than Windows at this point. Pretty much everything works with Wine/Proton, though there's always that one game that you just can't get running no matter what.

>>715072791 (OP)
i will stay on windows for now i am not intelligent enough to fix every issue that comes up or it is an issue that will only be fixed by switching hardware from njudea gpu

>>715137530
Linux is the more retard friendly option if you're not scared of reading and copypasting.
Windows requires mashing up endless conflicting GUI menus and virtualized Linux environments to get basic functionality working, because it doesn't want you to deviate from the lowest common denominator experience.
Linux wants to just werk for whatever application it is being used for.

The only people who have issues will Windows are using shitty consumer editions for goyim that came with their prebuilt.

>>715138692
I miss Windows anime girls...

Yeah, glad I did. I'd been toying around with Linux for around 10 years, even tried arch (graphics would break at least once a month lmao). It was only when proton started getting good I was actually able to switch to Linux full time. Really great because it then led me to feel more confident about other projects like setting up my home server. Still keep a windows VM for a couple of really stubborn programs that just refuse to run on Linux though.

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes.

>>715077691
Yet the Jews packed windows so full of bloatware that emulating it on Linux is still faster

>>715137530
You don't have to do anything.
Download Bazzite > put on USB stick using Rufus > boot computer with USB stick > install > done

>>715104376
If you don't want updates to break your system you should use an atomic or immutable distro, like Bazzite or Aurora.

>>715109995
No. My wallpaper is just a black screen.

>>715137530
Linux is retard-proof now if you use Bazzite, for example. I know because a couple of my 50 IQ friends have switched to it and they have no issues.

>>715072791 (OP)
Install CachyOS

>>715085392
CachyOS Masterrace everything else is trash.

>>715110741
>HURR why do posters in an anime website have wallpapers of anime girls?
I fucking hate tourist faggots so goddamn much.

>>715140324
Even the devs of CachyOS said that you should expect it to be buggy and you should know how to fix issues.
Anything that requires constant babysitting is not suitable for most people.

>>715140581
Not true at all. Its just arch with optimized packages and works way more stable than trash like bazzite and one man shows like nobara.

>>715140681
>Arch
>way more stable than Bazzite

>>715141479
t. brainlet

>>715141479
>the average bazzite experience
LOL

>>715072791 (OP)
yes. windows is obsolete soon.

>>715140324
>all this anal stretching to get 5% more performance than Win11 running without device-specific AMDnigger drivers
Linooxlets, for real now?

>>715142180
You mean 13%, min fps are the important thing. Retarded jeet.

>>715142274
>jeet
That's fresh coming from a guy playing on a screen with a lower PPI than an iPhone from 2012.

>>715142180
A "Linuxlet" would be someone -without- Linux
You fucking retard.

>>715142352
sure thing mumbairat

>>715072791 (OP)
>play Lies of P back in may on Endeavor or Mint (can't remember which I had then) no problem
>install LoP: Overture yesterday on Arch and the shadows are flickering dark squares on the screen

Wtf happened here. I tried switching X11 and Wayland, I tried chaging proton version, nothing helped. Mesa drivers up to date (amd card).

>>715142426
>discussion about Steam Deck
>posts his budget tier 4k monitor
I get why you're on Linoox now.

>>715142481
>Arch
Why are you using a distro for tinkerers instead of something that just works?

>>715142561
>why use the distro that valve uses instead of my tranny fanprojects
dont know retard.

>>715142426
I'm sorry, that was mean about the monitor. I'm certain it's pretty great.

>>715142606
Valve doesn't use Arch. They use SteamOS.
>inb4 it's based on it
You know what I mean. Using raw Arch means you're opting to tinker around with it and customize it just to get to the same level of usability as SteamOS, Bazzite or even Mint are.

>>715142561
Mostly because I want the latest packages and drivers for Lutris, Wine and stuff without manually hunting them down, and to keep things minimal package wise.
Also, Mint worked bad with dual monitor setup. When I ran another game the other monitor began glitching and performance was just bad.

I used Mint and EndeavorOs before, I can't recall on which I played vanilla LoP on and it worked fine.

>>715143220
>Bazzite
I am considering switching to Bazzite, because at the end of the day I just want to play games, browse internet and watch movies and don't care to thinker. It's just I recently installed Arch and I am feelling too lazy to begin the whole process again lmao

How is KDE?
Some people in these threads have said it's not stable but I don't know nearly enough about it (or anything really) to know if that's just a meme.
I would use it in the form of Kubuntu.

>>715143456
Gay, go use Windows, fucking retard.

>>715143456
KDE is by far the best desktop experience on any OS
>Kubuntu
Don't do it, it's unstable there because Ubuntu doesn't update their shit in time. It's a server distro repackaged as a desktop OS for developers who know their way around Linux.
Just use Bazzite or Aurora.

I see a lot of Bazzite shilling ITT.

>>715143816
Thanks for the input m8
What about Fedora with KDE? What's your opinion on that?

>>715142481
Maybe try out different AMD drivers, some protondb posts suggest switching to vulkan-radeon, rather than using amdvlk due to artifacts and flickering.
>>715142561
Arch is one of the easiest "tinkering" distros to use, which means that you have the most people trying new things and producing new and accurate documentation.
Dialing things in for your usecase tends to be very easy on Arch even if you're slightly off the beaten path and would have had problems on a distro that "just works".

>>715143910
jay2cent recently released a video about it, maybe thats why

>>715142561
>>715143967
Arch as a base is the best Linux distro. Arch itself wants to stay minimal, do-it-yourself kind of installation but you can use EndeavourOS for a preinstalled, preconfigured Arch linux. Unlike Manjaro, it does not have its own packages that often get out of sync with Arch causing problems. This is more like an Arch installer.

>>715143963
It's fine, but regular Fedora doesn't include proprietary drivers or libraries out of the box. So it's something you'd have to manually handle. Compare this to Aurora, Bazzite and Nobara (which are Fedora-based) which include pretty much everything so that things work out of the box as much as possible.

>>715143967
>>715144435
>Arch is one of the easiest "tinkering" distros to use
>Arch itself wants to stay minimal, do-it-yourself kind of installation
Believe it or not, most people don't want to fuck around with their OS and configure shit.

>>715072791 (OP)
I installed mint on a laptop to familiarize myself to it before the cut-off of Windows 10. I'm not upgrading to 11, and the only reason I upgraded to 10 was that a friend of mine got his hands on a hospital copy with all the telemetry and tracking bullshit cut out of it. I really hope SteamOS gets working properly with nvidia and intel hardware because I'm not switching to AMD ever again after dealing with them when I was a poor teenager. If SteamOS gets working properly I'll probably just use that over mint. All I want my desktop for is browsing the web, vidya, and word processing stuff. Don't need windows for much of that anymore, and SteamOS gets most every vidya working right out of the box, and I'm figuring out Wine on that laptop to get my GoG stuff working, too. Windows peaked with 7, and 10 was alright, but I'll be damned if I go to 11, that's like vista and 8 with a botnet and keylogger tracking everything you do.

>>715143456
KDE is the only one with a cute lizard mascot named Konqi!

>that one friend who uses linux that everyone else has to wait for until he just gives up because he cant run the game
please dont be this guy

>>715145093
>He thinks it's still 2015

No, but getting there.
I'm getting severely pissed off about Windows in the last 5 years.

>>715072791 (OP)
On a Deck. Anyone know a way to reduce the stutter when running Hyrule Warriors Definitive on Ryujinx?

>>715145093
It's funny because it's the opposite now. I'm usually the most consistent with game stability while everyone else has some weird driver issues.

>>715145093
I playing Nightreign and Space Marine 2 with my friends without problems tho?

>>715145270
I'm sure bro

>>715079280
Just install LMDE its what everyone uses. Mint is #1 behind steamOS with deck for a reason.

Mint devs are pragmatic, smart and know what they are doing.

>>715086516
Is this doable for Anticheat shit like Fortnite?

>>715119652
>There's still no MS Office for Linux lmfao
Nobody uses MS Office for a decade in a real world, corpos just use Google Docs/Sheets/Forms because it's free and you don't need to install it. For the rest you have LibreOffice.

Retards any of you here do digital art on Linux? How's the software compatibility? Do tablet drivers work or "work"?

>>715145863
More like office365 because of muh Outlook.

>>715145863
This is complete sub-mean IQ Linooxtard take.
>corpos just use Google Docs/Sheets/Forms
Some do, but they use them in addition to Office. Nobody fucking uses the PowerPoint replacement for anything but internal documents.

>because it's free and you don't need to install it
Google Workspace isn't fucking free. Are you from the lower castes of India or something? Even jeets know this. Holy fucking shit.

>For the rest you have LibreOffice.
Only broke-ass universities and home users that need to write a letter to their landlord once a year use this shit.

>>715144978
This is why the other DEs and windows will always lose.
They just don't have Konqi.

>>715144978
>>715146146
Konqi is, completely unironically, one of the reasons I want to use it kek

>>715072791 (OP)
Hell no i'm a white man

>>715145863
>this sweet soul thinks that corporations are making a ton of free google accounts to use docs and sheets for free
Anon, you must be 18 to post here.

>>715145563
>huge blank space with tiny ass text and icons
no

>>715145563
What is the advantage of getting the Debian edition instead of just downloading the regular one?

>>715146329
Can't this be fixed in settings?

>>715145863
>Microsoft's second largest revenue driver after server
>nobody uses MS Office

>>715146448
nope, I tried cinnamon in the past, you're stuck with their ugly ass layout

>>715146227
How can one single lizard be so incredibly powerful and appealing?

>>715072791 (OP)
Yes and I will never go back to shitty Windows. I don't understand why people want to torture themselves so much.

>>715146676
Cute things are cute.

>>715144657
This is why you should read the entire post.

when the fuck is cosmic getting its 1.0 release

>>715145863
>>715146463
Correction, everyone is using Office 365 which is a 100% web based app just like Discord and... pretty much every big program nowadays. It works on Linux in a browser. The fact there's no dedicated client on Linux is just Microsoft refusing to do that, there is nothing inherently wrong with Linux that would make it impossible.

>>715146329
>>715146587
I-I-I legit like Cinammon visually.

I will switch to Linux
For Konqi

>>715146056
>>715146259
>>715146463
I'm a programmer who worked for SaaS corporation, they don't use MS Office period. Most workhosts are Linux-based machines or Macs, only HR and marketing use Winblows there.

>Some do, but they use them in addition to Office. Nobody fucking uses the PowerPoint replacement for anything but internal documents.
Google has it's own free PowerPoint cloud replacement and yes they do use it for public presentations.

>Google Workspace isn't fucking free
Google Docs/Forms/Sheets are.

>Only broke-ass universities and home users that need to write a letter to their landlord once a year use this shit.
Made up anecdotal nonsense.

>>this sweet soul thinks that corporations are making a ton of free google accounts to use docs and sheets for free
And you must be retarded because Google Docs are available for anyone with the google email account.

>>Microsoft's second largest revenue driver after server
Mostly because they force this shit on corpos as a technofeudal SaaS.

>>715072791 (OP)
Just deleted Microsoft's spyware yesterday.
More niche stuff is a little awkward to reinstall sometimes, but the common shit like steam, email, and messaging programs I had back running in the first five minutes.

>>715147056
Can you terminally online braindead horny zoomzooms just kill yourselves? Nobody will participate in your gooning sesh to KDE mascot here.

>>715145563
>Just install LMDE its what everyone uses
False. Over 90% of Mint users do not use LMDE.
>Mint is #1 behind steamOS
False. Arch is almost 50% more used than Mint. And LMDE isn't even in the top 10. Pic related.

>>715147060
This. Pretty much every single company I know uses Google Docs. People started switching to it around 5-10 years ago.
A lot of people just aren't informed about this being the case because they're just reading the same old outdated information. Similar to how until SteamOS was released most people thought "Linux is just that thing where you only have the command prompt", despite that not being the case for over a decade.

>>715147060
Your company is the outlier. Everyone is using Linux for their product, be it a server service or an embedded device, but the work hardware (laptops) issues to the devs are 99.999% times A windows + Ms Teams + Office 365 + MS 2FA + Cisco/Paleo/Whatever VPN. They expect you to use MobaXTerm / Putty / WSL to work.

If you can reinstall your laptop and install your own Linux distro then you're golden, but I only had one company that actually allowed that. Everyone else gives you a laptop with the same preconigured and locked windows install that everyone in the company uses, from HR women to low level programmers.

We all hate it but what can you do... Imagine being a Manager at a 1000+ employees company and you don't know any shit about computers to begin with... of course you'll chose the typical corpo laptop combo for everyone and let them figure it out if they need something more.

>>715072791 (OP)
I use Arch and KDE. Yes I'm a chad, thx for asking. No, I will never go back to back to proprietary spyware that portrays itself as an operating system.

>>715087605
This was my plan, but a friend got laid off from Microsoft because the quarterlies are coming up.
Decided to switch sooner to show some support.
Microsoft is offering him like 4 grand to sign something, giving them the right to sue if he ever talks shit about the company for the rest of his life.

>>715147060
>I'm a programmer
Code monkey doesn't use Office. Mind blown. Tell me more, anon.

>Google has it's own free PowerPoint cloud replacement and yes they do use it for public presentations.
Nobody uses this shit, because it does not export correctly to PowerPoint. You're retarded.

>Google Docs/Forms/Sheets are.
They're not fucking free, you absolute pederast. Even a startup would get a Workspace license, which is basically just those three, plus email, plus a few more features in meet and calendar, because the "free version" does not meet any of the fucking infosec requirements. Holy fuck, you're literally the dumbest motherfucker in this already retarded-ass thread.

>>715145921
>Retards any of you here do digital art on Linux? How's the software compatibility? Do tablet drivers work or "work"?
Depends on your tablet. Wacom is plug and play for example, because all distros have libwacom driver preinstalled as a dependency for other stuff like Wayland compositors, unlike Winblows where you need to hunt down that particularly obscure .msi for your Wacom Bamboo and dodge chinese spyware.

>>715147060
>anyone with the google email account.
Please tell me what is the name of your company so I can short it. Your IT governance has to be absolute ass if you're putting company information on your free Google account.

I will buy a steamdeck
For konqi

>>715147279
Company I work in uses Google Accounts made from non-Google emails for Google Docs and Sheets. We still have Excel because of some boomers but we're phasing it out.

https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
>unix haters handbook was written in 1994
>90% of its criticisms still apply to linux today
lol lmao

>>715147060
>nobody uses MS Office
>be proven wrong just by checking MS's latest quarterly filing
>b-b-b-but only technofeudal corpos use MS Office
>my company does its capital budgetting on the CFO's free Gmail account
Implessive.

>I'm a programmer
This is why programmers should be segregated and treated as the absolute wagecucks that they are. Confidently retarded and proud of it.

>>715146938
ask me how I know you dont do shit on your computer except browse the internet and play games

>>715147397
You reminded me of something. I bought an USB oscilloscope and it's an old enough model that its manual describes installing the Windows XP driver from a CD... so I thought, okay, I'm not even gonna bother with it on my main Linux PC, let me just use an old laptop with Windows for it. I tried installing this driver for like an hour and couldn't make it work. It probably would work on XP but it was fucked on Windows 10.

Then I tried on Linux and found OpenHantek, a fully open source reimplementation...and it just works.

The one time I doubted my own judgement and decided to start with Window... I just learned I should never do it again.

>28 years old
>Konqi is literally peak Zoomer

>>715072791 (OP)
i am

>>715147264
>False. Arch is almost 50% more used than Mint. And LMDE isn't even in the top 10. Pic related.
To be fair, Linux Mint 22.1 is the only one shown despite there probably being users on different versions like 22.0 or 21.3. Steam doesn't consolidate distributions into singular entries if they have version numbers. Which is why non-versioned distros, like Arch, would appear more popular.

For example, Ubuntu has more than 4.21% market share since the list doesn't include non-LTS versions or Ubuntu 22 which people still use. ("Ubuntu Core" is just people who install Steam via Snaps, which in 99.9% of cases are Ubuntu users).
So, even Ubuntu is more popular than Mint despite being shit and losing popularity rapidly over the past few years.

>>715147653
Not that guy but... how?
Are you so distressed by the start menu that you literally cannot find whatever program you need to use?

>>715147638
the playa hating is incredible
>>715147556
I LOVE KONQI I WILL SACRIFICE MY LIFE FOR KONQI

>>715147556
Donate to the KDE project for Konqi

>>715147865
Why can't they make good UI? Why do I have to tolerate and put up with shit?

>>715147663
stop lying, nothing works properly on linux. Only a few amd cards but they crash the os after a few game sessions.
lmao @ you retarded tinkerers.

>>715148051
You know you can just talk to people if you are feeling lonely.

>>715147562
>Company I work in uses Google Accounts made from non-Google emails for Google Docs and Sheets.
Your company is 99% on Google Workspace, which is not fucking free, you dipshit. It costs approximately as much as M365, which is $35 per user per month.
Then, who knows, they've hired you, so maybe you're actually yolo-ing it with free accounts.

>>715148098
only talking to people using ios/windows.

yeah

>>715148139
So why did you respond to me?

>>715147663
>>715147397
Shit now I remember how awful it is to use Wacom tablets (or tablets in general) on Windowns.
> move your hand a little
> cable dislodged
> "tung-dung" USB sound
> okay guess I will just reconnect the cable then?
> it works BUT pressure sensitivity is lost forever in the pale
> You now have 2 options: Open the Services menu, locate the wacom driver service and restart it, and if that doesn't work, you need to save your work and reboot the entire machine
IT'S SO ASS I FUCKING HATE WINDOWS

>>715148051
This guy is right. Linux is dogshit for anything except server and some types of dev (esp. data science). Playing vidya on Linux is a hacker LARP.

>>715147865
NTA but I think the entire taskbar/start menu is obsolete and people that desperately clinging to this design are doing themself a disservice.

If you know you want to launch program called XXX, let's say "Steam", why would you click on the start menu and then scroll with your mouse on a alphabetically sorted list looking for "Steam" to click ? I press Flag+d for a quick launch window. This list is sorted by most often used programs, so what I use most often is already on top of the list. It is also a fuzzy searcher, meaning if I type for example "ea" it's gonna highlight stEAm.

So in 99% of cases I press alt+d and a single or two letters to select the program I want. Everyone complains about the Windows 10/11 search bar being shit and using bing instead of looking for programs on your computer, so we all know this is more preferable than scrolling with a mouse and looking for an item manually on a list... Just do it the right way and switch to that flow completely.

>>715148187
Please see
>>715148098

>>715148187
yes, they pretend to be some hackers and need weeks to get games working. Lintards are truly worse snowflakes than trannies.

poast or gay

>>715148184
>Windows is bad because I keep disconnecting cables like a tard
Really makes you think.

I will only to talk to Konqi.

I will main Konqi in Tuxkart.

>>715148247
At least trannies get fucked. Maybe. I'm not sure about that one actually.

>>715148335
>>715148247
You know you can talk to me instead of yourself right?

>>715147060
>Google Docs/Forms/Sheets are.
You're retarded. That's all I have.

>>715148362
stop responding to bait

>>715148284
If you're not a drawfag then you have no valid opinion on the matter. You literally don't know how shit it is to draw on windowns.

>>715148503
to be fair, this sounds like a shit driver, not Windows fault on it's own. I bet the linux drivers are not made by Wacom and a bunch of random people are delivering better quality than a big company. Many such cases.

>>715148438
>bait
Keep telling yourself that while you painstakingly "custom install" Arch because your setup is so unique that only manually picking a DE will unlock the true potential of your system... to run 20-year-old games.

>>715148503
You have no valid opinion to begin with, you fucking furry, yet here we are.

>>715148438
>>715148618
So do you have any plans for the weekend? Me, i'm going camping and doing some fishing.

>>715148618

>>715148191
What program is that app launcher?

>>715148693
I'm going to a nice luncheon at a country club and might go shopping to buy a new hat. It's been really hot outside lately.

>>715148605
>to be fair, this sounds like a shit driver, not Windows fault on it's own
Probably. This shit also disconnects itself randomly all the time.
>I bet the linux drivers are not made by Wacom and a bunch of random people are delivering better quality than a big company. Many such cases.
Yeah, wacom is a shit company in general.

>>715148693
Are you camping as in wild camping or campsite camping?

>>715148803
>windows is shit
>wacom is shit
>no way that it's you and your desk layout that is shit

>>715148743
rofi, but it's a more nice looking version of dmenu. The entire idea of having a list of things and doing a fuzzy search to select an item from that list comes from a dmenu program, so if you look for dmenu or dmenu like programs you can find many different versions of it

>>715148779
Sounds pretty fun, what kinda hat you thinking.
>>715148882
Wild most likely, doing motorbike set up so no strong plan on where I'll camp but just figured do some trails to I find a nice spot.

>>715148679

>>715148993
I don't know what kind yet. Maybe a woven straw panama hat or so. I don't want to look like a redditor, but at the same time a baseball cap doesn't work well with biz casual and doesn't protect the neck from sunlight. I'll see what looks least goofy in the shop first and decide later.
That camping plan sounds absolutely awesome. I hike a lot, but haven't been camping in ages now. What kind of fishing do you do?

>>715147653
Exactly. I don't do much and I'm fine with what Cinammon offers. Which is Mint's intended purpose.

>>715149138
I'd recommend a like proper wide brim hat but not like a cowboy hat, don't know what the exact term is but have worked with people that wore those from Australia that looked decently professional.
As for the fishing, I typically do coastal fishing as that's around where I live but out camping usually fish for whatever in freshwater, mainly bait fishing cause too lazy for fly.

>>715149106

>>715149252
I wish there was a distro whose intended purpose is to be a good OS

>>715148987
Oh right I'm familiar with both of those but I'm not sure how to make it saw my most commonly used programs. I'll look into it later

>>715145270
Yeah sometime around 2023-2024 Linux became the most stable gaming environment. Literally better performance as well

>>715149386
That's what I'm thinking of too. Panama hats seem to work pretty well with suits and have this distinct summer look, so it doesn't look too off and enough to get me from my home to the office. We had UV index 11 this week, so it's literally been burning a hole in my scalp.
Sounds nice and comfy, anon. Used to fish as a kid, would gladly do it again. Great way get a change of pace from the city.

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>>715149735
Yeah that hat looks nice, sorry I don't know hat names well.
Genuinely recommend getting into fishing it's a great hobby to have. Check around the area you live, there might be locations that are stocked for fishing.

>>715149852
There absolutely are. I'm like a quick 15-minute run from the coast and have bumped into people finishing. Just a matter of getting some basic kit and going. It's quite full though, so maybe worth just getting a bit further away and making it a dedicate fishing holiday. Do you release or cook the fish?

>>715149531
It's a matter of a config. https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/qtile/blob/main/.config/rofi/config.rasi

>>715149965
>needing to config shit to launch programs
lel

>>715121585
Bruh I use arch. Did you setup trim timer? Btfrs maintenance? Power management? Split lock detection off? There are so many things that you need to do that I don't remember them all. It's not a matter of being literate, it's realising that the first boot of your newly installed arch is only the starting point not the end goal.

This type of settings are always done for you on other distros and windows so most people don't realise they even exist. Yes they are documented, but not spoon fed to you like rest of the instructions.

>>715150040
This is part of EndeavourOS, just linking to their soruce code...

>>715149963
Generally cook if it's worth the size, otherwise release.
If you're that close to the coast would def recommend it, biggest issue is that you really need to pay attention to like tides and weather and whatever but still even when it's a "bad day" being out along the pier with a couple of beers and listening to some tunes is awesome.
For like river fishing it's way easier as you can just pick whatever gear and will be perfectly fine.

>>715150152
I'll do that. Thanks for the tips, anon. Have a great camping trip!

>>715150314
Cheers man, enjoy the shopping!

>>715148191
With kein you just need to press S and instead of spitting you click on Steam. I don't understand why Windows keeps being stuck in the XP/Vista era.

>>715148605
Wacom is great on Linux. Even the native Linux drivers that come with the kernel.

>>715072791 (OP)
no, why the fuck would i play video games on linux when i could play video games on a functional operating system instead?

>>715150991
It doesn't have built in aspect ratio adjustment.
ie. Your tablet it 16:10 but your display is 16:9 resulting is circles becoming ovals.

>>715151302
I see a fellow MacOS enjoyer