This post is basically to encourage people to check Linux out. What is stopping you from ditching Microsoft?

Edit: I forgot to mention this but if someone is looking for a recommendation for a Linux distribution then I'd personally recommend Manjaro KDE or just any of the popular distributions with KDE Plasma as the Desktop Environment really. Edit 2: For those who might be looking for more stability and don't need to have the most up to date software I'd recommend Kubuntu.

  • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Its a valid argument if you don't want to mess with stuff too much and just play steam games online with your friends. Most people are still really intimidated by computers in general.

    • JackDecker [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      It's not even a matter of having to mess with stuff in some cases, e.g. BattleEye games don't work with wine or proton. If your friends want to play something like Rainbow 6 Siege, you're SOL.

    • RussianEngineer [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      the most you have to do is click a checkbox in steam to enable it, and then maybe copy/paste some launch flags from protondb website. an extra 10 seconds of work. it annoys me to hell and back when people make linux out to be some elite thing used only by shadowy hooded computer masters typing at 300 wps in a terminal. linux is insanely easy to use as long as you are ok with taking a few minutes to read some wiki pages

      • JackDecker [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Not everyone is technically inclined. Just giving someone a link to a giant wiki with thousands of articles and saying "just take a few minutes to read it" isn't very helpful either. If you don't fundamentally understand what a wiki article is telling you to do and for some reason you are not able to follow the instructions they're giving, you're going to have a massive headache... and I seriously wouldn't recommend Arch to any first time linux user. Like I am with you, Linux isn't some crazy complicated thing that only 1337 h4x0rs can use, but let's not also pretend that grandma can just install Arch or Gentoo as long as she reads a few wiki articles.

        Plus as I said, it's not always as easy as clicking a checkbox. Clicking a checkbox isn't going to help you bypass BattleEye anti-cheat. It's not going to help if you have major performance issues in game. I get what you're saying, you can game on linux but let's not pretend anyone who isn't doing it is just can't read a wiki. It's disingenuous.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The fact that there's literally anything you have to use the command line for in Linux immediately makes it unusable for most people. I have a hard enough time using it and I can write C programs and know how computers work. There are a million startup scripts and folders and things you have to know about to be able to fix problems. If Linux is going to be useable to regular people you have to get rid of all the conventions like the file system and config files and virtual terminals and stuff. Basically Android or whatever.