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Still better than windows.
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I wanna use Linux, but gaming is stopping me.
It depends on the game, but Steam proton is pretty good.
This site is incredibly helpful.
This, I did not know about, I see that for honor is definitely compatible, so it's looking like it might work out.
The state of gaming on Linux isn't perfect, but it is very, very good right now. The best it has ever been by far. The Steam Deck uses Linux, and Valve has their people dumping new features upstream into Linux for everyone to use.
Isn’t even the steam deck Linux nowadays?
It is, and there are still some games that are borked, but most are quite good.
This site is great for finding out what games work. https://www.protondb.com/
Yeah it's skinned Arch Linux
Well, with an immutable filesystem and a customized kernel and mesa stack with backports from newer versions... so, really just an Arch-based distro in its own right
One solution is just to stop gaming and start playing around with computers for fun.
Gaming is what got me into playing around with computers for fun.
Same. My mom refused to buy me a console, so I got creative with finding free games, then mods, then roms, then reading the Dolphin dev blog and trying to decypher it, and now I'm a senior software engineer
YES! Someone else fcking gets it!
Por que no los dos
Why is this getting down voted??
Probably because gaming on Linux is in very good state right now. If you're a casual OS user I still wouldn't recommend it but if you know what you do, you'll barely need Windows.
Any kind of productivity is stopping me.
This dude must only know how to click on shit
Adobe Suite?
Affinity Suite?
Proton Drive?
Editing in Davinci? (free version of DaVinci Resolve on Linux cannot playback any H.264 or H.265 video, and the free and paid version cannot playback AAC audio on Linux..)
You know, anything productive?
I've not used any of that software, I guess I've never been productive in my life
"I dont use that, so this guy doesn't know how to work computers".
You guys are insufferable. Enjoy your Linux. Love seeing you guys bitch on every software launch for a Linux release lmao.
Oh, I wasn't even attacking you, just making a goofy comment. I guess you're just a little sensitive?
You’re the one who showed up to bitch and got clobbered with downvotes. Enjoy photo editing on windows, we all know you can’t do that on any other operating system “productively” 😂
I am not bitching about downvotes. I do not care.
Enjoy editing in Gimp and Kdenlive lmao.
Yeah, no. I don't want any Windows software. Everything I use is free/open source.
Are you implying software can't be released for Windows/Mac only, and be FOSS? 💀
Use Kdenlive
I don't use them but according to winehq it somewhat runs well.
Well yeah... I used Designer and Publisher extensively when I still used Windows. I asked and begged them to consider a linux version but they didn't saw the marketplace. Guess we Linux users aren't productive enough. So instead we have to resort to Inkscape and Krita.
Well fuck them for not considering making a filesystem driver for every OS. Especially THE OS most associated with servers and privacy minded users.
Perhaps migrate to a more open cloud provider like Nextcloud?
Kdenlive isn't a replacement for Davinci or Premiere, sorry.
I rely on either Affinity Designer or Adobe Illustrator to run my business. Inkscape and Krita are not capable of professional work.
I pay for Proton, so I am not going to say fuck it because they, like most companies, don't look at Linux Desktop as a real OS. Sorry.
How so?
Linux runs like 90% of the world’s servers. You can’t even get half of Microsoft’s shitty software on AWS. Not to mention that development outside of C# (even that’s a pain in the ass to deploy) is an exercise in BDSM.
But sure buddy, whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night. I’m sure you’re making 10x more money than the rest of us as a (checks notes) photo and video editor 🙄
I said desktop. You literally quoted it.
Linux server and Linux desktop aren't the same thing.
The proton drive issue will be fixed. It's still early beta really. Shame but proton always come good.
Depends on the task. It is much better for ml, ai, scientific computing and high performance computing in general, developers...
But I use libreoffice only for cover letters and cvs.
If excel is needed, Linux is a problem
I use Linux for work. Windows for entertainment.
Ironically I work in Linux and use Windows and the os to do it. I deploy lots of container Linux from a work provided windows laptop.
And I use Linux at home playing windows games through wine/proton.
I started gaming after I switched to Linux, so all of my gaming is Linux-based. It helps that I use emulators for everything, and Linux has excellent emulators. When I built my new computer and discovered I could emulate a Switch at a playable speed, it floored me.
But but but Wine Is Not an Emulator
I wanna use Linux, but last time I tried I had so many issues that it made it almost impossible to be productive. There are so many possible variations of a setup that trying to find answers either resulted in incorrect or just downright combative responses
My favourite things Linsuxs users say;
"You don't even need to use the terminal anymore!"
someone asks for help
"here's a terminal command, idiot. Go back to windows, idiot."
or
"Linus from LTT is so stupid for running a random terminal command from the internet, borking his install. Anyway, here's a terminal command, idiot. If you want the GUI instructions, go back to Windoze!1!"
or
"You can run that on Linux. Just download these 50 dependencies, run this custom script, modify WINE, and then it only crashes every 3 minutes!"
Like nah, I will stick to clicking a .exe and having it up and running in 5 seconds with no crashing, thanks.
Or the one I got a lot: "why did you chose that distro? You need to be using [completely different distro each time]"
Yeah, that is definitely an onboarding issue. Everyone has their preferences, and normally feel quite strongly their favourite distro is the best one.
I think most people would agree that Pop_OS and Linux mint are currently the most newb friendly distros out there.
I tried using mint and had a horrible time. I never tried pop OS, maybe next time I have the heart to try linux again I'll go with that, or whatever the equivalent flavour of the month will be at that time.
Sorry to hear that. I'm on Ubuntu mainly out of inertia and laziness. I've heard good things about pop, so hopefully it works out for you if/when you decide to give it another shot.
Are you a programmer?
I could play Witchfire on day one, an early access game on the Epic Game Store, so probably the only games you cant play now are the online ones, but there are some you can.