I switched over to Linux about a year ago and personally do not care if you do. But I do agree that some seemingly simple stuff on Linux can be fucking annoying. And that would be fine if you could post on forums without at the very least one douche nozzle implying that you are an idiot.
I understand that the threads about the dumb shit microsoft is doing (ads, ai, etc.) are primarily just for venting frustrations; however, I just want to help. People complain about a problem, I know a good solution. Obviously I’m going to tell people about it but in the end it doesn’t really matter to me if you switch or not.
I’ve come to a point where I don’t even pirate AAA, just buy indie or anything made by Fromsoft and any team that still presents any semblance of passion for their work.
Some AAA games are worth buying. Some indie games are pure garbage. It’s a mixed bag. I rarely pirate and most of the time its because shitty DRM or to try expensive game before buying.
I don’t know why but Linux users just can’t fathom that at some point, a person’s time is more valuable than some “efficient” functionality.
Its much much much easier to disable telemetry and ads on windows than to switch to Linux. Infact there are simple one time scripts or even Rufus can create an installation drive without the stuff that Linux users try to dunk on windows with.
I agree with you that Linux is not a drop-in replacement for Windows, unless literally all you do is browse the Internet. However, I kinda disagree with a lot of your reasons.
Yes windows blows ass, but everything still works on a functional level.
The reason I finally switched my gaming PC fully to Linux (PopOS specifically) was because my GPU drivers consistently crashed in Windows. They don’t crash in PopOS. Plenty of stuff doesn’t work or is hard to get working in Windows, but is plug-and-play in a lot of Linux distros.
You want to move over to Linux? Better backup ALL of your info onto a USB that supports Linux and Windows hd formats
Sure, but you’d want to back up all your important files even if you were upgrading Windows versions though. I remember when Windows 11 first released, tons of people ended up losing data or soft-bricking their machines in the upgrade process. OS swaps/upgrades are huge changes, and making a backup is the first step in any good OS installation guide.
you can’t use a built in troubleshooter
When’s the last time the Windows built in troubleshooter has fixed anything beyond the most trivial issues? Lol in my experience it was always next to useless.
Do I even need to get into gaming on non SteamOS distro’s?
Again, I game on PopOS, which is Ubuntu-based, and it’s been solid as a rock for over a year. I initially had some audio issues, but I was able to fix them with the UI, I never had to touch the terminal. Performance is the same if not better than on Windows, and for almost every single game I play, it’s as simple as clicking the play button in Steam. For the games where it’s not that simple, it’s usually either trying different versions of Proton, or checking protondb for command line arguments I need to configure in Steam. Both of these things just require drilling into Steam’s UI though, nothing on the terminal.
I definitely get where you’re coming from about the learning curve involved with the terminal. For the times you do need it, it’s daunting for an average user. Even if there’s tons of great documentation out there, it’s still overwhelming if you’re not experienced. But more and more is becoming possible with UIs - it’s getting more user friendly, and it’s not quite where it needs to be yet, but it’s come a long long way in the last couple decades.
As far as looking for replacements for Windows-only software, I feel that pain too. Just the other day on my Linux work laptop, I wanted to make a quick diagram in Paint, but I didn’t have anything preinstalled that I could use, and there were several graphics program choices in the software store, and I didn’t know which one to choose. I think this is ultimately both a good and a bad thing - more choices is almost always a positive, but again, it can get overwhelming, especially if you just want something now that “just works”.
I’m generally pretty much in agreement with the idea that online services are crap because you don’t really own the things you buy, but honestly I’ve been buying physical media since the 80s and pirating since the 90s, and the oldest games I currently have easy access to are ones I bought on Steam. I’m not a collector or an archivist or anything. Those just aren’t hobbies that interest me, and I move a lot, and don’t always take care of my stuff, and freely lend things to unreliable friends, and frequently wipe my drives to try out new Linux distros, so at this point even if Valve probably won’t be around forever I still expect my Steam games to last longer than anything else I could get. Steam is really the only reason I ever buy games at all anymore.
Yeah, I know, but I like starting with fresh dotfiles. It gets rid of all the weird settings changes I’ve made and makes the install really feel clean and fresh. I do have important stuff backed up. I’m just overly aggressive about removing unimportant stuff.
I’m actually about to do this this weekend. I use Arch on my laptop and Pop on my gaming desktop. I’m going to switch my gaming desktop over to Arch. The only thing I’m going to keep is my docs folder. Everything else is getting nuked.
When I set up mine, I created a separate /data mount point and drive for anything that I expect to keep between distros. The problem with keeping the home directory is that means all your personalized config files which may or may not apply to a new distro you switch to. I keep configs I want to keep in a git repo (like my i3 configs and scripts that I absolutely wouldn’t want to redo from scratch), data I want to keep in /data, and everything else can pretty much be wiped for a new distro on a whim without too much hassle.
I used to almost exclusively pirate because I couldn’t afford much of anything. Steam has actually enabled me to purchase most of the games I use since I can wait till they’re on special and cheap. There’s also a huge amount of indie games that would never have seen the light of day if they could only release on physical media or through their own website or whatever.
no Steam isn’t perfect, I would like Valve to take less of a cut but in terms of making games more accessible, I think they’ve done a decent job.
No shade on my fellow pirates who still exclusively pirate and don’t want to feed the corporate beast.
A lot of newer games are also big enough that backing them up reliably actually is a meaningful burden. My Steam library is like 900 games. Even though a lot of them are 500MB, a lot of them aren’t.
Mostly steam stuff, each game has its specific forum post with info on who cracked the latest versions of a game and whatnot, links to download methods and there’s also plenty of piracy related projects (like creamapi, goldberg, etc)
I’m not sure if you’re familiar with fitgirl-repacks, but most of her repack pages actually points to the cs.rin website for game updates
Riiiiiight, Linux community is friendlier. I wouldn’t really call them that, though some aspects are. My problem still with the entirety of the Linux community that will always put me off about Linux and rather tolerate Windows more is the elitism. I have used Linux OSes before, I have my fair share of favorites and I see Linux as a go-to whenever I pick up computers too old to bother with Windows 10 and 11 and I just simply want a bare basics machine.
But I cannot in full faith, use Linux as my primary OS. I’ve tried. I can’t do it. There are simply things on Windows that I need and want to use that’ll simply just run and that’s what I want the most is for things to just run. It isn’t because I’m too dumb to use a Linux OS. It’s because I don’t have the patience or time to be weeding through forum posts, deciphering depositories and repositories, figuring out what obscure and vague message the terminal sends me and spending time on Google.
Besides this whole chart doesn’t make a load of sense. Like the whole “you’ll own what you buy”? What does that have to do with D&D and Pathfinder? I don’t get it.
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Linux users always so desperate to get windows users to switch over.
Until the user experience is not “spend hours on forums to find hacky fixes for things that just work on windows” its gonna be a tough sell.
I switched over to Linux about a year ago and personally do not care if you do. But I do agree that some seemingly simple stuff on Linux can be fucking annoying. And that would be fine if you could post on forums without at the very least one douche nozzle implying that you are an idiot.
Yeah, my big issue is the most common suggestion anytime i have an issue is to switch distros instead of an actual solution.
I understand that the threads about the dumb shit microsoft is doing (ads, ai, etc.) are primarily just for venting frustrations; however, I just want to help. People complain about a problem, I know a good solution. Obviously I’m going to tell people about it but in the end it doesn’t really matter to me if you switch or not.
Why I personally can’t go back to Windows.
I was going to say… being a semi-power-user of Windows, I have to find a LOT of very jank solutions to obscure problems.
I’d say majority of windows users are not power users.
I feel like Steam to GOG would be a better example of owning what you buy, with GOG games being DRM free.
Devs: please just buy our game, we can’t afford to self release so we chose one of these DDSes.
Pirate: *pirates game
Pirate: Ya got a Patreon? No? Oops.
I pirate relentlessly, this is tongue-in-cheek, just to try to dissuade snarky responses, I know where I am.
I pirate AAA, I buy indie.
I’ve come to a point where I don’t even pirate AAA, just buy indie or anything made by Fromsoft and any team that still presents any semblance of passion for their work.
That garbage is rarely even worth pirating anymore.
LOL. Yeah it’s really more like:
I read gaming critics shit on AAA, I buy indie.
Hey, at least the indie games are still good and cheap.
Oh my god… What have we come to
Some AAA games are worth buying. Some indie games are pure garbage. It’s a mixed bag. I rarely pirate and most of the time its because shitty DRM or to try expensive game before buying.
How to convert me to Linux from Windows? Spez. He started it all
I own every d&d item I’ve ever purchased. But I never buy their digital crap. OG books & dice for me, man.
If you’re playing homebrew adventures, I’d say Pathfinder 2E Remastered is superior in every way nowadays.
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I don’t know why but Linux users just can’t fathom that at some point, a person’s time is more valuable than some “efficient” functionality.
Its much much much easier to disable telemetry and ads on windows than to switch to Linux. Infact there are simple one time scripts or even Rufus can create an installation drive without the stuff that Linux users try to dunk on windows with.
I agree with you that Linux is not a drop-in replacement for Windows, unless literally all you do is browse the Internet. However, I kinda disagree with a lot of your reasons.
The reason I finally switched my gaming PC fully to Linux (PopOS specifically) was because my GPU drivers consistently crashed in Windows. They don’t crash in PopOS. Plenty of stuff doesn’t work or is hard to get working in Windows, but is plug-and-play in a lot of Linux distros.
Sure, but you’d want to back up all your important files even if you were upgrading Windows versions though. I remember when Windows 11 first released, tons of people ended up losing data or soft-bricking their machines in the upgrade process. OS swaps/upgrades are huge changes, and making a backup is the first step in any good OS installation guide.
When’s the last time the Windows built in troubleshooter has fixed anything beyond the most trivial issues? Lol in my experience it was always next to useless.
Again, I game on PopOS, which is Ubuntu-based, and it’s been solid as a rock for over a year. I initially had some audio issues, but I was able to fix them with the UI, I never had to touch the terminal. Performance is the same if not better than on Windows, and for almost every single game I play, it’s as simple as clicking the play button in Steam. For the games where it’s not that simple, it’s usually either trying different versions of Proton, or checking protondb for command line arguments I need to configure in Steam. Both of these things just require drilling into Steam’s UI though, nothing on the terminal.
I definitely get where you’re coming from about the learning curve involved with the terminal. For the times you do need it, it’s daunting for an average user. Even if there’s tons of great documentation out there, it’s still overwhelming if you’re not experienced. But more and more is becoming possible with UIs - it’s getting more user friendly, and it’s not quite where it needs to be yet, but it’s come a long long way in the last couple decades.
As far as looking for replacements for Windows-only software, I feel that pain too. Just the other day on my Linux work laptop, I wanted to make a quick diagram in Paint, but I didn’t have anything preinstalled that I could use, and there were several graphics program choices in the software store, and I didn’t know which one to choose. I think this is ultimately both a good and a bad thing - more choices is almost always a positive, but again, it can get overwhelming, especially if you just want something now that “just works”.
Pssst… KolourPaint
Lol thank you
I would add Pinta as another drop-in replacement for MS Paint
I’m generally pretty much in agreement with the idea that online services are crap because you don’t really own the things you buy, but honestly I’ve been buying physical media since the 80s and pirating since the 90s, and the oldest games I currently have easy access to are ones I bought on Steam. I’m not a collector or an archivist or anything. Those just aren’t hobbies that interest me, and I move a lot, and don’t always take care of my stuff, and freely lend things to unreliable friends, and frequently wipe my drives to try out new Linux distros, so at this point even if Valve probably won’t be around forever I still expect my Steam games to last longer than anything else I could get. Steam is really the only reason I ever buy games at all anymore.
You can move your home directory to a different drive so that you don’t lose everything when you switch distros.
Yeah, I know, but I like starting with fresh dotfiles. It gets rid of all the weird settings changes I’ve made and makes the install really feel clean and fresh. I do have important stuff backed up. I’m just overly aggressive about removing unimportant stuff.
I’m actually about to do this this weekend. I use Arch on my laptop and Pop on my gaming desktop. I’m going to switch my gaming desktop over to Arch. The only thing I’m going to keep is my docs folder. Everything else is getting nuked.
When I set up mine, I created a separate /data mount point and drive for anything that I expect to keep between distros. The problem with keeping the home directory is that means all your personalized config files which may or may not apply to a new distro you switch to. I keep configs I want to keep in a git repo (like my i3 configs and scripts that I absolutely wouldn’t want to redo from scratch), data I want to keep in /data, and everything else can pretty much be wiped for a new distro on a whim without too much hassle.
That’s a great idea to use GitHub! I’m going to do that too.
I used to almost exclusively pirate because I couldn’t afford much of anything. Steam has actually enabled me to purchase most of the games I use since I can wait till they’re on special and cheap. There’s also a huge amount of indie games that would never have seen the light of day if they could only release on physical media or through their own website or whatever.
no Steam isn’t perfect, I would like Valve to take less of a cut but in terms of making games more accessible, I think they’ve done a decent job.
No shade on my fellow pirates who still exclusively pirate and don’t want to feed the corporate beast.
A lot of newer games are also big enough that backing them up reliably actually is a meaningful burden. My Steam library is like 900 games. Even though a lot of them are 500MB, a lot of them aren’t.
I can’t store that shit.
What’s the last thing?
Big(gest?) piracy forum
Mostly steam stuff, each game has its specific forum post with info on who cracked the latest versions of a game and whatnot, links to download methods and there’s also plenty of piracy related projects (like creamapi, goldberg, etc)
I’m not sure if you’re familiar with fitgirl-repacks, but most of her repack pages actually points to the cs.rin website for game updates
I would also like to know.
Someone answered: https://lemmy.world/comment/8062838
1 doesnt make sense for linux or piracy. neither of which involve “buying”, but simply downloading.
Some Linux distros needs to be purchased. But that piracy forum should obviously be replaced with gog.com if we’re talking about buying stuff
Riiiiiight, Linux community is friendlier. I wouldn’t really call them that, though some aspects are. My problem still with the entirety of the Linux community that will always put me off about Linux and rather tolerate Windows more is the elitism. I have used Linux OSes before, I have my fair share of favorites and I see Linux as a go-to whenever I pick up computers too old to bother with Windows 10 and 11 and I just simply want a bare basics machine.
But I cannot in full faith, use Linux as my primary OS. I’ve tried. I can’t do it. There are simply things on Windows that I need and want to use that’ll simply just run and that’s what I want the most is for things to just run. It isn’t because I’m too dumb to use a Linux OS. It’s because I don’t have the patience or time to be weeding through forum posts, deciphering depositories and repositories, figuring out what obscure and vague message the terminal sends me and spending time on Google.
Besides this whole chart doesn’t make a load of sense. Like the whole “you’ll own what you buy”? What does that have to do with D&D and Pathfinder? I don’t get it.
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It’s almost incredible that everything listed as tick in Linux is wrong.
Piracy is supposed to be a way for everyone to have access to culture, not a way to never pay for what you play, watch & support the creators lmao
Arguably a big part of piracy is about digital distribution services (DDS). Just not the ones the digital rights owner had in mind.