or as i like to call it GNU/LINUX
Proton works, but anti-cheat/etc. kills multiplayer titles dead.
You can do a windows VM with hardware passthrough, but yeah anti-cheat is still the last hurdle.
That's way more advanced than simply "install Linux" for most folks. Even then, apparently Battle-eye Anti Cheat has been finding VFIO's as a "cheat" and banning folks for it.
You mean you don't just log into the International's mainframe from one of your locally available communist terminals? You own a bourgeois computer?
The majority of reasons people have for not using Linux are nonsense for sure. Obviously the big ones are that "Linux is hard" or that there isn't any software but neither of these are true. I will continue to be an annoying Linux nerd because it really is better for most things. Seriously if you mainly use your computer for internet browsing and word processing there really isn't any reason you need to subject yourself to the annoyances of Windows or Mac. Even if you play a lot of games you shouldn't let that stop you, most popular games work well on Linux or you could always dual boot.
The major problem you might have is if you are tied to proprietary software like Adobe CC or Microsoft Office. However, if you feel you are in this camp I would challenge you to really think about what you actually use these applications for and if you truly need them. For example, if you're like me and you only ever used Word to type essays then there's no reason why you wouldn't be able to use LibreOffice just as effectively. If you need Premier though, that might be a different story.
I get that Linux is seemingly permanently stigmatized as frustrating nerd shit but that's too bad because I think the vast majority of computer users in the world would benefit from using a Linux os as opposed to Windows or Mac. If you're interested in Linux but don't want to commit to a switch just yet I'd definitely say to try out different distributions in a virtual machine so you can figure out what you're looking for.
Definitely feel free to PM me with any Linux noob questions you have or whatever. There are definitely chapos here with significantly more experience using Linux too that I'm sure would be down to help as well. Everyone should explore Linux but leftists especially should consider switching.
Even if you play a lot of games you shouldn’t let that stop you, most popular games work well on Linux or you could always dual boot.
with a ton of faffing about, and unpopular games very rarely work without even more faff, or don't work at all
Doesn’t steam have an option now where it will just auto-select the best proton settings for each game? Not a rhetorical question, I just heard that somewhere but idk if it’s true
Yes, and for non-Steam titles? (Lutris works, but you still have to faff about as Woofwoof says: Hello, Magic: Arena that breaks every update to where the Lutris script has to be updated by the person)
i haven't used it in a while, so this may be wildly out of date, but before i went back to dual booting for gaming, it was very hit and miss, some games it would work near flawlessly, others it would not at all
Obviously the big ones are that “Linux is hard”
It is hard for Microsofties, because they have used a GUI all their life. If they grew up with (MS)-DOS and Unix to where they had to "cd D:/," "dir," "doom.exe" command-learn? They'll probably be somewhat comfortable (but nervous) when they have to go into TTY mode and fix things that are broken.
The major problem you might have is if you are tied to proprietary software like Adobe CC or Microsoft Office.
Let me get back to this...
Even if you play a lot of games you shouldn’t let that stop you, most popular games work well on Linux or you could always dual boot.
...Ok, getting back to your above point, for games: Halo's multiplayer will NOT work, due to Easy Anti-Cheat. You can get the single-player to run, which is great (showing MS the what-for), but some folks aren't just playing the campaign.
Lutris will work for non-Steam titles, but: Updates break the titles, which means those users that are scared of the command line and/or having to configure things themselves will have to fix the Lutris script (or wait days for the person to update/fix the script that wrote it). Magic: the Gathering: Arena updates nearly weekly/monthly. This means the "Linux port"/Lutris script will break every other fucking day in a roulette of "did it update? No? GREAT I CAN PLAY WITH NO ISSUES!"
This is the "proprietary" shit beyond Photoshop for most folks.
I get that Linux is seemingly permanently stigmatized as frustrating nerd shit
It's not ""stigmatized" when the community can't work on getting those "proprietary" things to work. GIMP is not a suitable replacement for Photoshop no matter how hard the GIMP developers try. I'm sorry (not sorry) to be the bearer of bad news there.
Also as much as I love Debian, it's "out of date" driver support and the like makes it horrible for gaming. Yes, I can use Ubuntu, etc. etc. other Distros but: Why? The forking of so many different flavors of the "OS" (while a strength) is what kills it with Joe Sixpack right out of the gate.
I will continue to be an annoying Linux nerd because it really is better for most things.
And Linux will continue to be annoying for those that do not have the time/inclination to dabble with it. If you don't understand this, the "evangelicalism" is not doing you favors.
GIMP is not a suitable replacement for Photoshop no matter how hard the GIMP developers try
I don't agree with this. In fact it's the opposite: the problem with GIMP is that the devs are incredibly insular and opinionated and they just don't care about what their users think. Getting a non-trivial patch into GIMP is so difficult that most of the effort towards a better GIMP usually dies as an unmaintained fork in github. I'd seen the mailing list and I'd almost prefer editing articles about the USSR in Wikipedia to contributing to them.
On the other hand you have blender, which does pay attention to their users, and is in a middle of a virtuous loop in which it keeps getting better, which affords it more funding for more testing and more developers that make it even better, and it's quickly becoming the artistic 3D modelling programme.
Edit: In the 2D space I have a lot of hope for Krita: even though it's not meant to be a general purpose image editor it already has a lot of features that GIMP has been promising for decades and might end up replacing it at this pace.
Blender is an example of doing things right. IIRC, it worked better than... Maya...? to where it overtook. GIMP simply does not beat Photoshop in doing things better (and the workflow is worse, IMO) to where "just use GIMP" is a fools suggestion.
GIMP's only claim to fame was "GIMPshop" which got co-opt'd, because it actually attempted to match the UI of Photoshop.
I'm not talking the development here, I'm talking simply in terms of product replacements a lot of Linux "alternatives" fall short. GIMP was the first one that came to mind because of the "Photoshop stops Windows users from jumping to Linux" meme.
I'm not saying the GIMP is wonderful, I'm saying that if the GIMP developers actually tried, it might as well become more popular than Photoshop.
Well, that's the thing: They have to try and unfortunately, they aren't.
That's not to poo-poo their efforts: They aren't a 500+ employee development house, obviously. But in terms of workflow, features, UI, etc.: GIMP falls far short in comparison to Photoshop.
Krita might do it, if they go the Photoshop route, which they aren't (and for good reason).
In the 2D space I have a lot of hope for Krita: even though it’s not meant to be a general purpose image editor it already has a lot of features that GIMP has been promising for decades and might end up replacing it at this pace.
I use Krita for my... "art"... it suits me perfectly, and the linux build runs very well....
but i cannot for the life of me get my tablet to work right on linux, tried every solution on google, and it still isn't as good as it was straight out of the box on my windows partition
I get that Linux is seemingly permanently stigmatized as frustrating nerd shit
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I will continue to be an annoying Linux nerd
Local Linux User Is Clueless to why Linux isn't Popular.
Helpful tip, quit acting like an annoying linux nerd. Since annoying linux nerds have this pathological need to keep telling people that 'Linux is the future' in some form anytime Linux is brought up. Like I could play a drinking game at this point in any forum thread about Linux.
Functioning audio is for the unpure. Monolithic kernels are heresy sire.
Until competitors become as easily plug and play as Windows, you won’t ever be able to convert the majority of people.
That's never gonna happen, sadly. Because Linux is a community effort. As soon as corporates take over a distribution (nervous glance at Valve), it's over.
It's less MS and companies like Nvidia and AMD that are the worry. When you start to have "company branded" distributions, Linux's spirit will be broken.
i've been using linux for almost 20 years. dual booting for video games always results in me never swapping back over to linux.
i stopped wanting to reboot my PC for that kinda stuff when we moved away from DOS games.
Here's a secret tip for those who have AMD cards and like playing older games (and some newer ones): the AMD drivers for OpenGL on Windows are utter crap compared to the open source Mesa drivers on Linux. You can see a huge performance gain playing OpenGL games on Linux instead of Windows.
yeah, I noticed that and it was really unexpected. Dota is way faster on my ancient (~8 years old) PC on Linux than on Windows.
I first noticed it with OpenMW when I had better performance on a laptop running Linux from 2010 than my desktop that I built in 2013.
I wish I could but I'm into photography and making music, and trying to run Lightroom/Photoshop/Premiere and Ableton in Wine or a VM is hell. I do run Linux on my laptop though because I don't use those programs on it.
And yes, I run pirated versions of the programs I mentioned because fuck giving them money with the ridiculous prices they charge and Adobes bullshit subscription service.
Learn to use the FOSS versions. Are you into photography, or into using Adobe products?
It's not a matter of knowing how to use FOSS or not, it's about them being inferior. Lightroom is what I use 99% of the time and neither Darktable or Rawtherapee are adequate replacements for me because they only have image editing and not organization.
On my desktop I have to use Windows for various reasons: AutoCAD, Visual Studio 2017, games with anti-cheat, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and being able to use my flightsim peripherals properly. In the past I had to use anti-cheat software used by my school called Respondus Lockdown Browser that never worked properly with Wine. On my laptop I have exclusively used Linux for years. On all my servers I exclusively use Linux.