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Sometimes I forget how awesome Linux Gaming is (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can't fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.

Sometimes I forget how awesome Linux Gaming is
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[–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I didn’t come here to complain about linux, but the number of distros that give me a black screen after some hardware change or update is more than I can count on two hands. What this post is denying that both userbases have wildly different skill levels because linux generally requires a higher skill level. Windows is over a much more massive userbase that includes people who can’t set the time display on a microwave. And they don’t use linux.

Furthermore, pre-downloading the driver is completely unnecessary as the default windows driver would allow you to continue using the PC and download the correct driver after installation. No “series of misfortunes.”

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Can you give me an example of which distro/hardware change gave you a black screen? Because unless it was Gentoo or something you built the kernel yourself a black screen is extremely unlikely. Unlike Windows which requires drivers for everything, in Linux the drivers are baked into the kernel, so any hardware change should just work out of the box (there are some caveats to get the best possible driver, but even the included driver should be more than enough for almost anything except heavy use on Nvidia GPUs).

    I agree that on average the Linux user has more technical expertise than the average windows user, but that's mainly because the average user doesn't choose their OS. If you take into consideration only people who actually chose their OS, I think it's very similar.

    And OP talked about his experience doing that, the default windows driver gave him a crappy resolution, and he had lots of issues getting the right driver and making it work. You skipped all of those issues because you knew beforehand which was the correct driver, and pre-downloaded it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I wasn't going to bother responding to this comment because the question is ridiculous. Asking me which distro caused issues is absurd, I don't file away what I had for lunch a month ago much less what distro caused me grief five years ago. I've used Mint, Manjaro, Mandriva, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LTE, Damn Small Linux, Raspbian, CrunchBang, Kali, Puppy, Drauger and probably a half-dozen more I've forgotten about. All had pluses and minuses, most got dumped after an update or upgrade caused an incompatibility, or it didn't work with the hardware I had, that pissed me off when something I spent a great deal of time setting up stopped working or I got that black screen. My most reliable are my Raspbian systems, over 400 days of trouble-free uptime. Why dig up this old thread? Because literally today I had two distros shit the bed. My dual boot quit because I have no idea why, it disappeared from GRUB and won't boot when added back. I have a strictly linux PC that I use for backing up DVDs and archiving old software among other things, and I hooked up a second older DVD to it and got the image posted after doing and update/upgrade. Manjaro. Another couple hours of troubleshooting and probably a reinstall. Awesome.

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