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Linux is becoming more appealing for gamers – here's why (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Tough to swallow pills for the Linux community: Linux is not for normies.

I agree with you completely. I'll advocate for Linux everyday. My Steam Deck converted me. My gaming PC is great with CachyOS. I've just finished setting up my Debian server. I'm really getting into this.

But the truth is that this shit is not for normies. And now there are going to be a torrent of replies saying "but it worked fine for me, so your experience is invalid".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    i have very fond memories of sitting with windows computers and them just.. ignoring the internet connection, the fuck does "unidentified network" mean? Do you fucking see the connection or not you silicon garbage heap?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I've been using mint for maybe 10 years now. I still run into frustrating shit.

    Brother printer, well supported by Linux still likes to fight. Playing with brsane4 configs is a joy. Scanning feels like it is still the same all these years later. Cups is not cute.

    So many little issues you just have to work through. Virtual box USB pass through; you need virtual box and also the addon pack and you have to add your local user to the vboxusers group, THEN it works. May I please have proton drive? No? OK then. I want to play some old emulated games, Lutris looks promisi--oh my god WHY?!

    I'm used to it at this point, but expecting regular users to sudo apt install blah blah ain't happening. Sure ain't happening if they hold broken packages or get stuck where one dependency of a package is unresolvable

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