Thread 719925895

Why don't gamers use Linux for gaming?

I use arch btw

>>719925895 (OP)
Im straight

I'm not trans.

Linux is made intentionally difficult to understand for the sake of making its users feel like they're part of some intelligent community.

>>719925895 (OP)
the most popular video games in the world (call of duty, battlefield, fortnite, etc) are and forever will be incompatible with linux
so for that reason alone normies will never, NEVER use linux. no matter how braindead easy linux becomes to use and no matter how much microsoft fucks them in the ass
linux is doomed to be a niche only used by enthusiasts for eternity

>>719925895 (OP)
Holy fuckin shit, TS is still around?

Because Linux is shit and everybody knows this even Linux users but that doesn't make windows or OSX good

I fucking hate Microsoft so much, I switched to Debian months ago and will never go back to Shitdows.

>>719926053
>Linux is made intentionally difficult to understand for the sake of making its users feel like they're part of some intelligent community.
Most niggerlicious comment of the day.

windows is good enough. I have yet to find a reason to switch to linux and I don't feel like learning all of the little nuances to linux UI environment.

>>719925895 (OP)
The average person hasn't even heard of Linux and if they have they only know it's some kind of operating system.
People who want to play PC games want to play games. They don't want to install any operating systems. They don't want to learn anything new. They don't want to or care about learning Linux.
It doesn't matter how easy it becomes to install or use.
Nobody wants to switch over to Linux. It could be a simple one button click install and nobody would do it.
Any single hurdle no matter how feeble is enough to keep people out.
Just learning to use a PC keeps people on console. Just having to build a PC keeps Premade companies in business.
A 1 inch barrier is all you need to block out 90% of consumers.
Even on Steam only 2.64% of users are on Linux.

>>719926053
Designed by autistic nerds for autistic nerds. Tweaking the operating system for hours every day is fun for them, rather than the operating system just being a platform you use to accomplish other things.

>>719925895 (OP)
>The average person hasn't even heard of Linux and if they have they only know it's some kind of operating system.
>People who want to play PC games want to play games. They don't want to install any operating systems. They don't want to learn anything new. They don't want to or care about learning Linux.
This is a side effect of PC gaming becoming more popular. Before steam it used to be common to build your own PC and you needed to install the operating system yourself as well. As things get more popular though you need to build things around the customer you consider "your dumbest idiot". Meaning you lose a lot of freedom and customizability. This is how phones are today.
>It doesn't matter how easy it becomes to install or use.
>Nobody wants to switch over to Linux. It could be a simple one button click install and nobody would do it.
>Any single hurdle no matter how feeble is enough to keep people out.
These are the "normalfags" that anons on this site used to rail against.
>Just learning to use a PC keeps people on console.
As it should.
>Just having to build a PC keeps Premade companies in business.
For now
>A 1 inch barrier is all you need to block out 90% of consumers.
Not really a great barrier but tall fences make for good neighbors, gatekeeping is good and all that.
>Even on Steam only 2.64% of users are on Linux.
It goes down when more surveys come from chinks in a given month.

>>719925895 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1AFQpiw2sM

>>719925895 (OP)
lazyness to install an OS

>>719927083
>These are the "normalfags" that anons on this site used to rail against.
I've been here for over 15 years, you Linuxfags are not any better, never liked you obnoxious niggers.
>DOOD! JUST INSTALL DEBIAN! BRO IM TELLING YOU ITS SO EASY! PLS BRO JUST DO IT

>>719927234
But it is easy

>>719927332
Don't give a fuck Linuxnigger, not gonna use it.

>>719925895 (OP)
PCs are for work 1st and games second

>>719925895 (OP)
That tranny Pistol really mindbroke that poor bastard. I guess it was for the best, Wendell's channel is slightly better than TechSyn

>>719927370
Why not?

>>719927545
not autistic or transgender or a fat neckbeard

>>719927234
Not him but you do you anon, most of the old games I play require tweaking .ini files, use DXWND to force windowed mode and forcing games to run on a single core in Task Manager. It's actually easier to play a lot of older games in Linux than it is in Windows these days. It's worth dual booting for that reason alone.

>>719927234
>DOOD! JUST INSTALL DEBIAN! BRO IM TELLING YOU ITS SO EASY! PLS BRO JUST DO IT
It had the intended effect then. If they made it sound like it was hard to do then you would actually try it and Debian would have one more brain dead nigger for a user.
They had to invent Kali Linux to keep retarded autistic highschoolers out of proper Debian by giving them a "hacker distro", for niggers you just need to tell em it's easy and let them try without reading shit.

You keep spamming this thread, troon.

>>719925895 (OP)
It's too autistic and not in the fun kind of way.

>>719925895 (OP)
I'm moving to SteamOS when Win10 support gets cut.

>>719925895 (OP)
Because most prebuilts use windows and not linux. This shit ain't hard. /v/ has severe cognitive bias thinking the entire world builds their own shit, installs their own OS, regularly tweaks out their machines, etc. They don't. They never have and never will.
The majority of desktop users buy a pre-built. They never install or even reinstall an OS - if something goes wrong, they take it to a relative who knows shit, or otherwise takes it in to the geek squad or whatever the fuck. They never upgrade parts. It's a fair bet a great many of them don't even know you can install a different OS if they wanted to, and if they did, they know dick-all about linux and wouldn't look at it.
If you actually got these users on linux, they'd have a horrible time, nothing would fucking work for them, and they'd come out of the experience with nothing but bad things to say about it, putting even more people off from linux altogether. Just leave shit alone. People who want to bother and know how to bother, will bother. The rest won't, never will, and don't give enough of a shit to ask the question.

>>719925895 (OP)
>Why don't gamers use Linux for gaming?
Because of fhe simple fact that Linux is not a gaming-ready OS and all of the layers of software that you need for games to work are in active development and have been for a while now.
Give it up, Windows takes the cake.

THE TOWER MUST GLOW!

>>719927778
No you're not. You will just stay on windows 10. They don't just flip a switch and make your windows install useless and you don't care about security anyways.

I do though.

>>719927778
Might as well do it now and figure out bottles, heroic launcher and lutris. That was my biggest hurdle running games outside of steam.

>>719927815
/thread

>>719925895 (OP)
Because you keep posting the same trannyshit daily.

>I don't like thing
>Thing is trans!
Projection much?

>>719928296
The thing you like is trans though.

>>719927909
>>719927987
I already installed mint on a laptop and am learning it that way before I do it to my desktop, I also have a steamdeck I was figuring out steamOS with.

>>719928296
Windows users send these trannies their personal data every single day, that's frightening. I'm glad I don't.

>>719927815
I've always built my own shit, but there's a good chance I'm getting one of those system76 prebuilts next. Linux + justwerks is becoming a siren's call to me after decades of having to always beat my OSes into submission.

>>719925895 (OP)
Try making this thread without bumping it yourself OP and see how well it fares.

>>719925895 (OP)
Because most of them are normies, and Linux isn't for normies. It's for me, of course.

>>719928723
Probably a good move since windows 11 is at the point that you can't even have an SSD in it without the OS trying to destroy it.
If you're comfortable getting out, yeah, definitely get the fuck out when you're ready. 12 is either going to be cloud shit, or the single worst clusterfuck we've ever seen in several generations.

>>719928228
>06 Sep
>16 Aug
>30 Jul
>31 May
That's not daily...
But yes, it's spam.

>>719926337
>windows is good enough
it really, really isn't and i'm going fucking insane staying on this piece of shit OS

I fucking miss Tek Syndicate bros ;_;

>>719927623
>accuses others of spamming
>literally browses /v/ all day every day scanning for any linux thread he can find to spam the same image over and over and over
I cannot, for the life of me, wrap my head around the mindset of someone so absolutely BUTTRAGED at the thought of people using linux and not windows. Like I am being genuine and sincere here: What is wrong with you that it bothers you so much? The archives make it very obvious how often you spam this image (and you are probably the one behind the others), so we all know how often do you it. Do you have nothing going on in your life at all? No hobbies? No intersts? No friends? No lovers? No personality? Just mindless seething? Lolcow doesnt even begin to describe you.

>>719927587
Then you don't belong here

>>719925895 (OP)
A combination of three things. New OS so people are hesitant, The constant need to look up fixes for the most basic and minor of shit, and lastly Linux users can't just use normal fucking lingo for all their shit. They made up their own terms for words everyone already know.
Linux looks alien to everyone who used any other OS. Because Linux users deliberately made it sound, look, and feel alien.

>>719929243
You sound mad with that giant wall of text
>>719929260
41% yourself

>>719925895 (OP)
Linux is great fun to install and tweak but entirely unnecessary for anything that I ever actually want to accomplish when I sit down in front of the computer.
The best use I have found for it is making older, weaker computers much more useable.

>>719926337
>windows is good enough
That depends on what you want from your computer.
But yeah, obviously don't use Linux if you have no use case for it. Changing your life just because of peer pressure is the path to misery.

>>719929243
It's not anger.
They're getting paid peanuts to spam and convince people not to question Microsoft while continuing to send them their data and let copilot constantly screenshot what they're doing.

>>719925895 (OP)
nvidia haet linux

>>719929489
So by your logic car enthusiasts are all trannies, too?

>>719929745
Some of them are. I'm not googling for disgusting pictures.

>>719929830
>wanting to customize your stuff makes you a tranny
You sound like a faggot doesn't know how to work with your hands.

I genuinely want to figure on Linux at some point or another, but as someone raised on Windows who hasn't made the jump to 11, but knows that it just comes with so much fucking bullshit if/when I get around to a new computer? I still have too much fear of fucking things up or having no idea what I'd be doing if I picked up Linux. Steam Deck just sorta further enforces this feeling.

>>719929654
you really think hes getting paid? Im pretty sure he does it for free lol

>>719930013
Start small. do you have multiple drives? If so, try dual booting mint or catchyos or something on another drive and just playing around with it. That way if you fuck anything up on your linux distro you can still boot into windows (assuming you know how to select your boot partion when booting up your computer... if not just ask). Also, highly reccomend keeping a back up bootable live ISO of whatever distro you end up going with on a USB drive that you NEVER EVER replace (except maybe to update it to a newer version) as basically a liferaft. I cannot tell you how many times having this has saved me because it lets you boot into another linux distro and fix things on your current one without booting into it.

>>719925895 (OP)
Is there any legitimate reason to use Linux if I'm not a tech nerd?
>windows is spyware!
Any commercially available OS is required by law to include a backdoor that the government can use to spy on you, Linux isn't really any safer in that regard

>>719930368
>commercially
Lucky for us, most linux distros are free and are not in bed with the US government.

>>719930368
I bet OP uses android (most likely where sensitive transactions take place) and email too.

>>719929561
eh. It's better like this. Otherwise it's like the punchline is at the start of the joke.
Edited in GIMP btw.

>>719930413
Yeah tell that to russians getting booted off linux maintainers list, lmao. I swear troonix are the most delusional fanbase.

>>719926053
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd_fvye3ZCA
>This is hard

>>719930604
you mean the linux kernel that almost every non desktop computer in the world uses? are you fucking retarded? Do you have any idea how much actually relies on it and why no one wants russia involved when they are literally proven to be actively trying to fuck over everything for everyone?

>>719930708
Your fucking idiot lmao. Is this your average troon?

>>719930752
>Your fucking idiot
SAARR YOU DID NOT REDEEM YOUR ESL CLASSES

>>719930773
Mad xhe starts calling someone jeet

>>719930960
post hand ;)

why isnt anyone just modding windows? is that an impossible task?

>>719930604
>>719930752
why haven't you called 117 yet? they would take even a sub 80 IQ tranny like you now

>>719925895 (OP)
Because Windows 10 IoT LTSC is free.

>>719930960
Sorry that your terrorist state's hackers were banned from compromising the Linux kernel, but there's no point in seething about it.

>>719931034
Tiny11 exists, indian windows mod exists, gayming windows """distro""" exists.

>>719925895 (OP)
The more I learn about distros, the more I realise the only real choice is fedora.
They have the most official support and every program you could want has native .rpms from the devs themselves that you can just easily install with no hassle.
Meanwhile if you choose something arch-based you're forced to fuck around with the AUR which is not ideal since it's community driven.
Why don't more people use and recommend Fedora? It seems like the no-brain choice.

>>719931231
honestly probably the name. every time i tell people i use it they laugh at me because of the name, but it really is the best.

>>719930610
installing linux is the most enjoyable part of the experience. it's only downhill from there.

>>719931231
Because you're testing their distro and pa dckages, literally beta testing their service. It's better than AUR that is full of malware, though and both are still troonix (shit)

test, im trans btw

>>719925895 (OP)
>Why don't gamers use Linux for gaming?
Let's see

- Games run slower.
- Multiplayer games with anticheat don't work at all.
- New games often require some tweaking before they can boot.
- If you own an Nvidia GPU, things like Smooth Motion won't work on certain games and when it does, it can break at times, so it's not reliable.
- When things break, it's more often than not a bug introduced in some patch or driver update and you have to wait for the random guthub guy to fix it whenever he feels like it.
- HDR support is bad and doesn't have the improvements that Win11 has.
- Fonts look blurry, have terrible aliasing or look "off"
- integer scaling is also broken and doesn't work as intended in some cases

I could go on, but you get the point, it's a fun OS to play with for sure, but when you want to do things and want them to actually work, you gotta use Windows.

But I am doe

>>719931440
>Because you're testing their distro and pa dckages, literally beta testing their service
is this supposed to matter? actual nothing burger argument thats been repeated for years

>>719931115
>indian windows mod
horrifying concept

>>719931591
So when I call "you're part of the product" when using fedora, you should not mind, then.

Because there is literally no reason to use linux unless you're a professional programmer.
Nothing in linux "just werks" out of the box. Everything needs tuning or troubleshooting or you're essentially fucked.

>>719931806
*professional web dev
*professional CRUD app dev

>>719931806
>zoomers are so tech illiterate that the idea that something might not work 100% of the time terrifies them into pissing and shitting their diapers on 4chan
im an actual retard lifelong windows user who swapped to fedora instead of upgrading to windows 11 and despite the fact that there are hicups and i do need to tinker with things sometimes, its not that hard to google. Every single problem I have had has a solution and none of them were all that hard to find. Especially when chatgpt exists to be a far better search engine than google ever could be. There is not a single game I have tried that I havent been able to get working AND modded on fedora.

>>719926053
Nah, it's made by a series of people who make a tool to solve a problem they have, then they share those tools.
This is great because there's a solution to every problem, the issue is there's no UX work done because the creator understands their solution already.
There's no real motivation to make your tool easier to use by other people other than the goodness of one's heart.
So what you end up with is a bunch of people who have wasted a lifetime learning the ins and outs of these people's tools with a sunk cost of the time spent, who THEN feel superior to everyone else.

>>719932004
>no UX work done
not everything needs a gui. that was something i had to accept coming from windows but god damn some things are just so much faster and simple using the terminal than using some retarded gui.

Maybe the jews are right about goys. You fuckers get openly raped by microcock and like it. And then you attack anyone who refuses to be gangraped along with you by your judeohomo pimps. Even the best of wincucks must be killed.

>>719931806
>Nothing in linux "just werks" out of the box. Everything needs tuning or troubleshooting
What tuning and troubleshooting did I do for this game? I'll wait.
Feel free to walk it back with "I was just exaggerating". Or if you're feeling really spicy, you can go with "games that actually support Linux don't count". I'll accept your concession regardless.

>>719932304
wait till they find out silksong had a native linux release day 1 lol

>>719930413
Isn't Linux the same OS that relies heavily on SSH, which had a backdoor in it for years and nobody noticed?

>>719932138
>not everything needs a gui
yes, it does. you're retarded if you think that everything shouldn't have a GUI

you can set up an entire fucking windows server environment with an active directory domain, DNS, DHCP, fucking print server, hyper-v, ANYTHING without ever touching CMD or PowerShell. Of course having knowledge of CMD and powershell can greatly aid with automations and troubleshooting. but 99% of the time it is not necessary.

having to use a terminal for any reason, at all, is instant disqualification. we are not living in the 1980's terminal era anymore. FOSS fags need to stop larping as such.

>>719925895 (OP)
Because I like to play games, not spend 8 hours trying to get them to run.

>>719932428
>relies heavily on SSH
What do you even think this means?
You don't need to run the sshd service to play video games on Linux. Most Linux gamers have probably never even typed ssh.

>>719931231
You're more likely to encounter .deb for any debian-based distro (Ubuntu, Mint etc.) in a wilds than rpms. At least from what I've seen developer posting in github releases for different programs.

>>719931231
>every program you could want has native .rpms from the devs
except for the many programs that are distributed as .debs instead

>>719933049
>>719933205
So debian is the real no-brain choice for distros then...
Same question then. Why doesn't everybody just use debian?

>>719933404
Debian itself is not nobrain, ubuntu was made to be a nobrain debian. And mint is ubuntu with corporate shit removed.

>>719933404
You changed your own mind that quickly and you're still wondering why everyone doesn't agree? Some people like Debian and some people like Fedora and some people like Arch. It is okay for multiple distros to exist and I'm tired of Windows refugees seething about it and calling for "one Linux" just to avoid making a simple and non-permanent choice about something.

>>719925950
this
btw

>>719930960
stay mad until you get droned HIVan

THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME I'VE SEEN THIS THREAD THIS MONTH. DO SOMETHING JANNIES OR ELSE YOUR WAGE WILL BE GONE.

>>719932138
2D information is objectively more useful
Text is 1D and cannot efficiently expose information in comparison to a GUI because the read frame (i.e. end user) is restricted to unidirectional single-dimensional data
You're about to protest that a CLI can be programmed to give you arbitrary information organized arbitrarily and even in grids or more complex patterns, but this is a GUI
Linux will never ever catch on until autists understand and accept this