Linux 2.29% +0.29%

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    7 days ago

    Anecdotally, more of my techy friends are at least entertaining the thought of switching to Linux when they never did before. Great job, Microsoft!

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      5 days ago

      Two I know have all but commited to switching after seeing me be able to join them in basically everything we might want to play together.

      They’re just using their w10 installs until they inevitably need an OS reinstall, at which point they’ve said they’ll have me over to set them up with whatever I’ve figured out works best at that point.

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      5 days ago

      Saw something on programming.dev about some extra telemetry Windows 11 was adding or something like that? I forget. It was definitely something I think is bad, that people on programming.dev also think is bad. Then, despite having done registry edits and everything else I could think of to turn off auto Windows updates to make sure I would not get the bad new feature added in an update, my Windows 11 computer auto updated anyways. Got mad, wanted to switch to Linux, asked [email protected] for help, and finally did it four months later, a few days before the new year started.

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        15 hours ago

        I had a similiar tale. I just started programming course in uni and took the OS class where we interacted with servers a ton through bash. Then I realized I spend so much time mucking around in the myriad of control panels and regedit of windows to get basic things functioning and to diagnose constant BSODs that I might as well go to linux. Turned out linux is the experience windows markets itself as: easy and streamlined. It is just a lot less work than on the windows side once you get used to how linux does things differently. Overall experience has been smoother, workflow has been nicer and all my BT stuff and audio equipment works with less errors and bugs, while not requiring ANY installs. Once I got past the errors that windows would also get if you set up your BIOS and filesystems for linux, it has been smooth sailing on my nvidia gpu even. Only issue is jittery VR that I haven’t bothered to look into as I simrace on my monitor now.

        As a farewell gift, windows 11 bricked my fedora boot thumbdrive. Twice.

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          12 hours ago

          Oh wow, how did it do the latter!? (I’m technical than the average person, but half the time I feel too dumb for programming.dev, but I’ll never smarten up if I don’t stick around and learn, so…)

          Also shifted off Windows 11 to Fedora. Well, at least, a modified version anyways—Nobara—on the suggestion of a user in the thread.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      I’m one. As a Mac user, I haven’t used windows in years, and avoid it like the plague. But, the limited games support meant I had to rely on consoles to get my gaming fix. With Steam’s strong support for Linux, I decided to build a gaming PC for Linux only. It’s been great. I just wish more publishers would support it — the ones adding kernel-level anti-cheat are ruining things, but I’m hoping if enough people switch to Linux, they won’t be able to ignore us.

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    7 days ago

    I’ve got my main OS that loads after boot as openSUSE, but there are still plenty of reasons I need my Windows SSD.

    I LOVE modding my games (if they allow me, the cowards) so that is really the biggest drawback for someone like me on Linux. Skyrim/Oblivion/Fallout 3/New Vegas/Fallout 4 are practically a no go on Linux (besides dragging and dropping the hundreds of mods that make Skyrim actually as stable as it should be… Bethesda…). I do want to help out NexusMods with their Nexus app that supports Linux, but they only support Cyberpunk 2077 and Stardew Valley right now (last I checked anyway) but those older Bethesda games are the reason I fell in love with computers in the first place, and it was because of modding.

    On Windows, I can open up Vortex, find a Collection, click install, and go play another game while hundreds of mods are downloaded and installed in the background. On openSUSE, I can’t do that (yet). Which is fine for most people, but I like to bring attention to those of us who delve a little deeper than “Click play button and play”.

    Other than Bethesda games, I’m playing through Metaphor: ReFantazio right now on Windows. Why? Because again, there is a Windows only mod manger called Reloaded-II that is needed for modding that game. With Bethesda games, at least I can go the slow and arduous path of one by one modding. Not on here. If I wanted to mod Metaphor on Linux, I would need to extract alllll of the game files, find the files that my mod is going to replace, replace them with the mod, and then compile the game back to how it was. Yeah, honestly, I just want to play the damn game as time is limited due to work, so that isn’t really the best option. Cool for those that want to do it that way though!

    Now, the biggest crux I had before these modding issues was WeMod. WeMod has saved me so much damn time and effort on games that expect you to be a person with a lot of free time. I did find a guide on ow to get WeMod working at least, so I do plan on playing MOST games through openSUSE now that I’ve got that working! So, I am really excited for that at least, as games generally in my experience, do play better under Linux!

    Now, “ONLY modding?” you might say. “Why not just play the game how the developers want you to?” Well, really, because I just grew up doing this kind of stuff and always like seeing what you can bring into an old game to freshen it up. New armors, new weapons, new quests, in the case of Metaphor, allowing me to use my 21:9 ultrawide I bought back in 2018 because I bought one like a fucking fool who thought most games would support it in the future. Yeah, some do, but I will not get another 21:9 display for gaming ever again. :P

    I just thought I’d bring these up in here for some reason because I see plenty of people talking highly of Linux gaming, and while it is VERY good, there are still a few things that are absent that PC gamers would find essential, such as mods or even Cheat Engine/WeMod. These are things I wish more people would talk about so that expectations are set appropriately. For example, I had a friend install Linux Mint, even after I told him to go in it with the expectation that all the things he normally does on Windows will not work the same way if at all. He still went through with it, and within a week, he wanted me to put Windows back on it because he likes to mod GTA5 and other things like CloneHero.

    Sorry for the rant, but I always see these types of comments about Linux gaming, but never the about the stuff that I really enjoy about being a PC gamer.

    Thank you for reading if you did, and I hope I made sense!

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      9 hours ago

      I understand reluctance to move because of ease of modding.

      This does not answer it for all your games, but did you see this post about Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim modding on Linux? It might help for those at least.

      I have managed to mod Dragon Age: Origins successfully with the help of winetricks and/or protontricks, I forget which one.

  • djsoren19@yiffit.net
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    7 days ago

    I’m always surprised by how small the Steam Deck playerbase is. It has such strong word of mouth, but the niche it supports seems pretty small.

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      7 days ago

      The screen is small.

      It’s an old person thing, probably, but I don’t enjoy phone sized screens beyond reading and such. I don’t know how people see an Apple Watch well enough to use it comfortably.

      Laptop is fine most days but I really want that desktop screen when I can get it.

      I can’t imagine Stellaris or AC or even Pathfinder on a phone or iPad mini sized screen. Like TV, most people aim bigger not smaller. I can still have portable games at 15” instead of 7”.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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        6 days ago

        I don’t know how people see an Apple Watch well enough to use it comfortably.

        My sister struggles, I don’t (not the Apple Watch, the small screen) . I have a decent set of glasses, she cant be fcuked… I’m 58.

        Steam Deck is on my list for '25

    • highball@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      First iterations of a console always start out small. It’s the second iteration that has the consumer confidence and you get a boom in sales. If the Steam Machine drops this year. I expect it to sell 10 million consoles in the first year.