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- linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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id like to think this is because I alone decided to install opensuse (its been an awful experience)
Opensuse is a challenge after living in Debian world for a while.
Pop-os is where I eventually ended up. Ubuntu with built in i3 style tiling and none of the snap garbage.
If you're referring to openSUSE rather than Linux in general, I have had the opposite experience. I had been on Manjaro for the past couple of years and decided to switch to openSUSE Tumbleweed on a whim and everything for the most part has just worked out of the box with minimal troubleshooting (or just a lot less than I remember when I was originally configuring my Manjaro install). What all have you had problems with?
Heres my biggest complaints so far:
it takes like 45 seconds for my OS to wake from sleep
sometimes my login screen is on my left monitor, sometimes on my right, sometimes on both!
It took me 3 hours to get wallpaper engine running
My package manager keeps telling me I am missing dependencies that I have verified exist.
video games dont perform as well on Linux as they do on windows (even baby games like Risk of Rain Returns which should run on pretty much anything perfectly)
half the time I reboot my computer I get some weird nvidia error, other times I dont at all. Generally when I reboot my computer it just stalls for like 45 seconds before actually rebooting.
it was very unclear what I needed to install to get the latest nvidia drivers installed. Got it working after a few hours of trial and error.
theres some more complaints but those are the ones off the top of my head.
oh also applying themes seems very broken. Every time I apply a theme it grabs icons from a completely different theme. For instance I applied a theme called dracula, didnt like it so I switched back to the opensuse default theme, after a while I found a different theme and applied it but suddenly all of my icons were dracula theme again... also its very hit or miss whether all of the theme actually applies.
I just removed Windows from my desktop and went straight Linux after seeing how well things ran on my Deck.
Tell me why "market share" of commerical, proprietary games is important to Linux again?
If you are a Linux user and like commercial games, you probably would prefer them to work on Linux.
“Market share” on Linux aligns the vested interest of game makers and Linux game players. If the company thinks it can make money, it will do more to allow games to run, or at least do less to stop them.
Steam market share is honestly probably a decent metric for adoption rate of Linux as a whole.
Linux can be used to play commercial games > more people daily drive to linux > more companies port their software to linux > even more people switch to linux > Windows/macOS duopoly breaks, losing to open source alternatives
I'm not saying playing call of duty on the deck will make windows fall, but it's a start
daily drive to Linux
Since when have you needed to commute to use Linux? 🤣
The fluctuation in Simplified Chinese use makes me pretty suspect here. It was nearly cut in half in one month and suddenly 20% of Steam's users that used Simplified Chinese just didn't exist.
Honestly that big of a fluctuation in regional selection tells me none of the other data means anything.
A lot of people only play games on their computer, hence running linux doesn't make sense if they can't play games on it
Yup, a big excuse I used to see a lot was
I would like to run Linux, but I want to game more so will stick to Windows
And this has changed a lot with what valve has done which opens Linux to a much larger market of people that can now use it for their usecases.
market share leads to demand, demand leads to supply
this benefits you
