i wish i didnt dislike linux or mac so much also im a gamer so windows is a necessity (but u can game on linux? i play valorant exclusively at this point which isnt linux support afaik)
and no there isn't a linux distro i might like and if there is i can find it myself linux people are so damn annoying.
Gaming on Linux works quite well. I haven't found a game that didn't work, but I haven't played them all, so I'm sure at least one exists. Also, there absolutely is a Linux distro you would like, but it's irrelevant if you're happy on windows. We have a choice of OS, which is a beautiful thing. Lastly, Linux people aren't "so damn annoying" in the least bit. Stubborn people are, but Linux folks don't tend to be overly stubborn, I've noticed.
E: also, my meme had nothing to do with Linux at all. It's about being annoyed with ads within windows.
They probably have to recite a standard company line, gritting their teeth as you both know it's bullshit.
I don't envy customer service reps. Most of them probably didn't apply for the job because they love Microsoft or enjoy the prospect of fielding frustrated customers' calls.
Depends on the reason, I suppose. Or the mark. I feel it's more like attribution, where I attribute this meme as a gift to Lemmy, as opposed to a gift to wherever it finds itself next. No matter where this meme goes, it's attributed home will always be clear as Lemmy.
I think that + her playing baldurs gate on my computer will be what drive mine to it. Though her breaking it by updating my graphics card in order to make it run the first time definitely didnβt help.
Just get her something like Mint which allows you to easily switch graphics drivers. Definitely the distro I tend to recommend to nvidia users. Arch or anything arch based works as well, but that requires some experience at least. Though Garuda is pretty damn simple, I'm tempted to call it noob-friendly. It's what I use right now.
Funny enough it was Garuda she broke and it was on Nvidia drivers. Sheβs absolutely been scared away from arch because of my failures to get things running for a day. Iβd probably offer her a flash drive with kubuntu, mint, and pop and see what she likes.
Funny enough she absolutely could be better at all this than I am. Sheβs the one who actually understands computers and has a CS degree. Iβm just some dumb engineer who got pissed at windows too many times and was already super pro FOSS
Man, I love Linux, but it's not a replacement for windows. Like, crucify me if you must, fellow Lemmings, but the world still runs on Windows when it comes to many important everyday things.
For me, it's game servers and the games themselves. I can't run half the stuff I want to run on Linux. It sucks, but this is the reality we live in.
Itβs been downhill since Windows 7. I think this will be my last Windows PC.
I just donβt feel safe with Windows that next time I boot up there wonβt be some fresh horror I didnβt ask for and have to go research how to put back in the bottle.
Itβs like having your computer pre-rooted with malware.
Jumping between Mac and Windows I keep accidentally awakening Cortana when I try to copy and paste. Now that god awful, universally reviled feature if finally getting deprecated but it still brings up the damn window/modal/pice-of-shit just to tell me that itβs gone. If you want to be gone, then go! Donβt make a fuss telling me about it. Just go. No one wanted you in the 1st place. Fuck.
That's exactly what it is. Defender is removing PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), but only those unwanted by Microsoft, while Windows is installing unwanted programs left and right. Windows is legitimately acting like malware. Not even a joke.
I'm curious as to how much something like shutup10 helps with that. I was always tempted, but never tried it. I barely touched windows these past few years anyways.
#KDE is not only extremely newbie-friendly, it's also awesome for Linux veterans (Me, using Linux since the 90s, started with fvwm2 as window manager).
Nowadays, Its actually harder to find a game that flat out won't work. Thanks to Proton, the only games that you can't play on linux are ones that the developer has specifically forbidden from working on linux via whatever AC they use.
Yeah, not all of them though. Doom eternal, at the time, kept having a frustrating crash for me so I lived in windows like I completed it. Didn't even attempt with elden ring. Cyberpunk 2077 didn't work either.
But yes, in general I will game on Linux when it works. It is my preferred kernel.
Doom Eternal just dropped Denuvo. And don't they use Vulkan and OpenGL anyways? They did for Doom at least and that ran extremely well. Cyberpunk 2077 was terrible at launch on any OS and Elden Ring still suffers from bad performance to this day. Let's also not forget that Steams Shader Precaching did help a lot with Elden Ring's issue right after launch as well!
Linux gaming is in a tremendous state if you ask me and it's only going to get better. Linux users are increasing in number and with that comes better support.
Ya don't get me wrong, it's so much better than 15 years ago. Until doom eternal I was already exclusively gaming on Linux. Then I just assume elden ring and cyberpunk wouldn't work well so I didn't even bother trying. And ya, for the hardware I have and the 60fps cap I'm surprised at how bad elden ring sometimes performs in windows...
I can only not play 1 or 2 games on Linux. Everything else literally runs native through steam. Use pop_OS it does all the work for you.
Can't play tarkov, tarkov runs perfect on Linux, but its anticheat does not. The devs of the anti cheat tarkov uses said they are planning Linux support but that was 2 years ago.
Some other odder ones too. Let me know of questions.
Oh this link should be your bible. It will directly tell you what runs, and how well it runs
I can only not play 1 or 2 games on Linux. Everything else literally runs native through steam. Use pop_OS it does all the work for you.
Can't play tarkov, tarkov runs perfect on Linux, but its anticheat does not. The devs of the anti cheat tarkov uses said they are planning Linux support but that was 2 years ago.
Some other odder ones too. Let me know of questions.
Oh this link should be your bible. It will directly tell you what runs, and how well it runs
@Homo_Stupidus@kingludd, there are more and more games also for Linux.
Most good games are certainly Windows only, not because it is the most suitable platform, but only because developers create their product for the majority platform, which at the moment is Windows. Linux is basically much better for running games than Windows, but unfortunately the majority of games available for Linux are Sidescrollers and remixes of games from 20 years ago, with exceptions, eg https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/
The first thing you would do after browsing lemmy would be installing linux because there are many foss enthusiasist and linux users playing around here in lemmy making you switch to linux
Paint Tool SAI. After messing up a few times (I thought the C drive was my actual windows HD not wine's virtual one), I got it installed on wine, but it won't launch. Other people have got it to work, so maybe it's just me being a dumb noob.
Kitra is a different drawing program native to linux. Linux also has native text editors, is there a reason you need these specific windows programs or would an alternative work, like gedit instead of windows notepad?
The text editor I'll try just to see if I'm doing the installation properly, nothing else.
I paid for SAI and I've used it for about 15 years. I really love it. My artwork is all saved in SAI format. Worst case, I'll have to install it on the windows hard drive.
Wayland = the GUI protocol. I'll try to build up the short version: Linux is modular, you don't have to have a GUI at all to run Linux. Most GUI systems themselves are modular, but a core component of the Linux GUI for a very long time has been a thing called X11. X11 is old and busted. Wayland is the new hotness. Some distros are using Wayland now. It offers some cool features that X11 either struggles with or can't do at all, but on the other hand there's lots of software that still doesn't work well with Wayland yet. I've been a Linux user for 10 years and the transition has been in the works the entire time.
Krita = a raster image editor/art app from KDE, the impression I get is that it's really made for digital drawing and painting, with some photo editing capabilities. GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is more for "photoshopping." For vector art I would go with Inkscape.
Like the other person commented, I would suggest trying Krita (open source/native painting or graphics program. That isn't my forte, but my understanding is Krita is a professional grade program that is actually used for professional work.
With that said, there is a useful program to help setup Wine called "Bottles". It's all graphical, and gives tons of options to tweak to try to get programs running. It has dramatically helped me get done other odd professional type software running.
One long shot thing to try: check the file properties of the program installed on wine, and make sure "executable" is enabled. It's a handy security thing to prevent random files from hiding malware, but can be a pain to new users.
An extreme solution is running a program in a Windows virtual machine. If you go that route, I highly recommend doing some research. The simplest to me solution I've found is Virtualbox, and I believe you can even directly pass USB devices through to the virtual machine, but since of the other solutions are supposed to work better.
Been a Linux user for more than a decade, but work doesn't do Linux :( I even brought my laptop in to show them that everything works fine (AD and all), but they didn't go for it.
Like the type software that sends a report if you don't use the mouse or the keyboard for 30 seconds? Remember to setup something like autohotkey for when you want to take a gaming break π
I just started using Linux at work without telling anyone. On month 2 now and no one has noticed yet. They keep asking how I do all the fancy kde effects on my lappy and to do it to their windows machine. I just say "Sorry it's a hacked Mac" with an Acer logo on the back lol.
You can rice kde like windows 10/11 or anything even like macos there are github pages and youtube videos available. Did you riced it like macos are you talking about that?
No, it's nothing like anything, I have 3 bars and just the accent color feature from kde. A clean desktop. But none of them own a Mac or have any technological knowledge, so they just believe it.
Well for one, they don't know about it, and if they don't know about it, to them it's probably some experimental piece of tech. And there's nothing good that'll come out of explaining it to them, it's a bother really.
In this job we got to choose whichever computer we want to put the budget on and could just install whatever OS gets the job done. It's been like this for the past 10 years, but I typically work in tech companies with around 10-100 people.
How is Nix? I've wanted to try, but it seems limited and computers are expensive. Now that you've told me you use it for work for so long, I'm seeing it in another light.
It's great if you're a programmer. Even better if your whole team uses it, so you can trivially standardize the build env of the project. NixOS manages the whole OS with nix, but you don't need it to be a part of the gang.
I've been using NixOS everywhere for years, and written long comments on Lemmy about it, so check my history if you want to read reasons why nix :)
I just got told today to begin Windows 11 build testing at work. No one in the meeting seemed enthusiastic about it even going so far as to make fun of it's many...issues. Once I'm done getting off Google services, my next move is too divorce Windows like Melinda divorced Bill!
I just wish I wasn't so good at fucking up Linux on every machine I've tried it on.
Same here. Bought a laptop a few years ago, and immediately installed manjaro. I wasn't even going to futz around with dual booting. I decided I was done with windows and their bullshit. Haven't looked back.
Oppression breeds rebellion, why relying on a software you have zero control over, that the company that owns it respects you so litle that they pre install adware and spyware, learn to use Linux or BSD, you don't have to use it all the time, but learn the basics, understand how this machine you use so much works, seize that litle piece of freedom back, and even if you choose to use windows again, after knowing more of how things work, you will be more able to force it in working your way.
For sure, and Linux/BSD isn't that scary. For anyone here who doesn't think they are smart enough, I'll give you a hint; even the Linux guru's 'Google' everything. They're looking up very different things but they're still searching like the rest of us. If you stick with popular distros there's always a guide, or a forum post, or a YouTube video that'll show you how to do almost anything. You don't even need to install it, you can run most distros, and all the popular ones, off a USB stick. You don't even need to change anything on your computer to try it. I personally still use Windows for almost everything, but calzone_gigante is right,
even if you choose to use windows again, after knowing more of how things work, you will be more able to force it in working your way.
In theory, yes. But not in practice. This is a work computer, and I can't just turn this stuff off without tripping the xdr. For home computers, I would imagine you are 100% correct, but I've been using Linux for years. I'm assuming shush windows (or similar) still works on Win10/11.
Oh, that's some BS! I shouldn't be surprised that they removed the button and require some special task to bring it back. They just more and more act as though they hate their produc--err... customers.
I use the Enterprise SKU of Windows 11 and you can fortunately still use the Domain Join option with that. Comes without that advertisement crap as well. The only caveat is that you canβt really activate Enterprise legally without a subscription and KMS but there are ways to circumvent that issue ;)
What? Are you sure you don't want to search the internet when you aren't even opening a browser? Are you sure what you're looking for is a local file/installation?
I've got a worse one. I was using Windows in a VM the other day and got an ad for Xbox controllers. Basically "check out our new controller colors, click on this notification to go buy one."
I am honestly surprised they have not yet made Windows free, at least the most basic "home" version. I guess they must still be making a lot of money by just having come preinstalled on any laptop or pre-built PC.
My absolute most hated one is when signing in and using a two factor Authenticator. If you donβt use the Microsoft one. Every time you log in it βrecommendsβ you to use their own. Fuck off.
Before anyone says go Linux. This is a work comp. I use Linux and Mac at home.
I won't tell you to use Linux. I feel that it should be your choice. Like Mac, Linux isn't for everyone. And if you use Microsoft's email service on Linux, you'll have the same anyway. It's not windows that's the problem at its core, it's Microsoft.
I'd expect nothing else from a bunch of vampires. They've all but hoovered up all the money and ruined entire generations attempts at wealth building. There's nothing left but our bodies and precious fluids!
Yeah, being forced to sit through unskippable ads in order to even just play solitaire is real special. And even if you close the program and restart your PC, the ads are still right there waiting for you to watch before you can continue with your game. This is probably going to be my last Windows machine.
The notification center is useless, if I have an app-specific notification then it's highlighted in my taskbar anyway. All of the inline ads are delivered through notifications, so just turn off notification center in registry and the problem is solved. Same for removing edit with clipchamp from context menus. Tbh I'm not super against them bringing attention to their 1st party apps because things like the Photos app happen occasionally and that was an objective improvement for OS-bundled photo software. The problem is that Clipchamp sucks ass
My problem is two-fold. (1) if I wanted a video editing app, I'd search for one, I don't need my OS to randomly "recommend" one, and (2) I don't want any such suggestions on my work computer, ever. Maybe three-fold, (3) clipchamp, I heard, sucks ass ;p
Yeah I'm using Pro maybe that's why I haven't seen those. I did have my start menu filled with garbage but once I removed everything years ago I haven't seen them since
Exactly, it's really simple to just disable it and then never see it again but the way these memes are you'd think Microsoft is beating these people up and stealing their lunch money.
Every time something like this comes up, there are side discussions about all the settings and registry edits that can be used to disable various things. Each individual thing is not super hard to change, but there is an ever growing set of ads and personal-info siphoning 'features' being added all the time.
It's deliberately exploitative crap driven by greed. So I'd discourage anyone from being a Microsoft apologist for this stuff. It is not ok.
OpenShot Video Editor. It's not that great, but I'm doing simple video editing tasks like clipping. At least it's far better than Windows' own video editor
Yeah, dead simple works that's it. It's kinda sad though that Android makes it very easy to create beautiful looking apps like Sync for Lemmy and Seal and Windows apps are π
It's so ironic that a paid product that you'll never own and is so anti consumer is used by most over the alternative that you could own for free and cares about users! Keep complainingπΏ
That is exactly why you buy cheap keys for your windows install and remove everything you don't need. Edge got nuked from orbit by me and most annoying ads disappeared with it. I killed all notifications and I am now much happier.
Without Edge, many things don't work on windows. Also, those cheap license sites have a tendency to sell illegally obtained keys. Once Windows does a key audit, the affected PC can have its key disabled. Although, you strike me as the type of individual that can bypass the key audits. Disabling notifications is one of the first things I do on windows.
Yeah, i disabled basically all telemetry on windows. I also will never upgrade to 11. It sucks donkey balls. Also I haven't noticed any change in edge being gone. Maybe I just got lucky.
Forgot to say, I got my keys from a system builder who had a shit ton of them but had to get them off the shelves because windows 11 was around the corner. So they are all legally obtained.
What method did you use to shut off telemetry? When I did do on my home computer, the calculator app stopped working. Along with a few more apps I don't use (phone, i think, people, the Xbox ones, etc)
I have several windows 10 pro keys from laptops I put Linux on. Maybe some day, I'll use the keys. Unlikely, though.
I used the windows debloater to remove most telemetry and then shut off services that were left in the task manager until something broke completely. It was a bit of a process but it worked. I use my PC for 3d modeling and gaming. Never used half the integrated apps because I have no need or already have better ones or actually a physical calculator. In general with my PCs I just delete anything that I will never use. Like office for example.
I daily Fedora at home (and Windows at work). Got tired Arch breaking every so often, and wanted something that didn't come with anxiety with every update haha
Yeah that is completely fine. I would not dare to go Arch on work computer. :D
OpenSuse works like a charm, but in general pre/post update snaphosts always save the day.
Yeah, I thought those preupdate snapshotters were crazy paranoid freaks... until my first Arch update hahahaha
I've wanted to try OpenSuse for a while now. I have a spare laptop that I was planning on installing Gentoo on, but am dreading the antiquated (by today's standards) installation process. Maybe I'll use it for OpenSuse.
YOu can set those pre/post snapshots automatically and not really pay attention.
I think OpenSuse does that by default if you install your root on btrfs.
They even have an OS version called MicroOS which does a cool thing with snaphosts. Basically if your system does not boot after update it will revert automatically to previous snapshot, or you can pick a snapshot to boot into manually from grub menu. Bit it is quite a different thing than your usual linux distro as it uses read only root FS.
Hmm... it's complicated since it's a very opinionated topic. There will be people who like it and there are people who will kill your entire family because you mentioned it :D
The benefits depend on what are you using it for. The difference is mainly in features it provides.
I am using it mainly for snapshots, subvolumes and raid support.
Raid is stable only for jbod, 0, 1 and 10. 5 and 6 are still having issues.
Raid is self healing if I am correct. So if there are some checksum errors it will repair stuff from working mirror.
You need to do some research before using it. For example since it is cow FS it is not good for databases or VM images. But you can turn off the QCOW feature for specific directory.
The other thing is space usage. Due tyo snapshots and cow feature 'df -h ' will not show exactly correct usage data. You have 'btrfs filesystem df -h ' instead. If you kill up the disk it can be more bothersome to clean it up afterwards.
I would say, try it out and decide yourself. There are definitely videos online that explain it better than I did just now.
Sounds like btrfs is still more on the bleeding edge side of things. Sounds pretty cool for a tester laptop. I installed OpenSuse with it last night, but forgot to format the drive first, so it installed on a small partition. I would just rearrange partitions, but the manpages state that it can cause issues with btrfs, so a reinstall it is haha
Not sure how my request wasn't clear, but I'll elaborate. You stated that the meme, which didn't include any mention of race or ethnicity, was 'racist'.
I was bored at work so chatted with Microsoft support about this.
Summary of funny part
Me: no, it's an advertisement, asking me to try a Microsoft product. The ad came through my message tray. I have all ad services turned off.
Them: that's not an ad, that's recommendation for a better service
Me: are you aware that you just described an advertisement?
Them: yes.
They're so annoying! I can't stand that company!
i wish i didnt dislike linux or mac so much also im a gamer so windows is a necessity (but u can game on linux? i play valorant exclusively at this point which isnt linux support afaik)
and no there isn't a linux distro i might like and if there is i can find it myself linux people are so damn annoying.
Gaming on Linux works quite well. I haven't found a game that didn't work, but I haven't played them all, so I'm sure at least one exists. Also, there absolutely is a Linux distro you would like, but it's irrelevant if you're happy on windows. We have a choice of OS, which is a beautiful thing. Lastly, Linux people aren't "so damn annoying" in the least bit. Stubborn people are, but Linux folks don't tend to be overly stubborn, I've noticed.
E: also, my meme had nothing to do with Linux at all. It's about being annoyed with ads within windows.
Hmm they've been really patient and helpful with me so far
They probably have to recite a standard company line, gritting their teeth as you both know it's bullshit.
I don't envy customer service reps. Most of them probably didn't apply for the job because they love Microsoft or enjoy the prospect of fielding frustrated customers' calls.
Lmao is that a Lemmy watermark? π
Stamp, not a watermark, but yes. There was a post a while back, asking Lemmy OC to have that or something similar. I figured, why not.
Watermarking memes is petty and cringe
Depends on the reason, I suppose. Or the mark. I feel it's more like attribution, where I attribute this meme as a gift to Lemmy, as opposed to a gift to wherever it finds itself next. No matter where this meme goes, it's attributed home will always be clear as Lemmy.
Uh oh. I pirated a meme.
Nuh uh. It's not my meme. It's our meme hahaha
Can't pirate that which is already ours
Honestly, I agree... This feels very corporate. Like, this isn't Tiktok... No, thanks.
I've been on Linux for a while but this shit is starting to make my wife ask about switching over. Which is something I never thought I'd see.
I think that + her playing baldurs gate on my computer will be what drive mine to it. Though her breaking it by updating my graphics card in order to make it run the first time definitely didnβt help.
Just get her something like Mint which allows you to easily switch graphics drivers. Definitely the distro I tend to recommend to nvidia users. Arch or anything arch based works as well, but that requires some experience at least. Though Garuda is pretty damn simple, I'm tempted to call it noob-friendly. It's what I use right now.
Funny enough it was Garuda she broke and it was on Nvidia drivers. Sheβs absolutely been scared away from arch because of my failures to get things running for a day. Iβd probably offer her a flash drive with kubuntu, mint, and pop and see what she likes.
Funny enough she absolutely could be better at all this than I am. Sheβs the one who actually understands computers and has a CS degree. Iβm just some dumb engineer who got pissed at windows too many times and was already super pro FOSS
I never thought good could come out of Microsoft's messed up ways, but here we are! Haha
Man, I love Linux, but it's not a replacement for windows. Like, crucify me if you must, fellow Lemmings, but the world still runs on Windows when it comes to many important everyday things.
For me, it's game servers and the games themselves. I can't run half the stuff I want to run on Linux. It sucks, but this is the reality we live in.
Itβs been downhill since Windows 7. I think this will be my last Windows PC.
I just donβt feel safe with Windows that next time I boot up there wonβt be some fresh horror I didnβt ask for and have to go research how to put back in the bottle.
Itβs like having your computer pre-rooted with malware.
Jumping between Mac and Windows I keep accidentally awakening Cortana when I try to copy and paste. Now that god awful, universally reviled feature if finally getting deprecated but it still brings up the damn window/modal/pice-of-shit just to tell me that itβs gone. If you want to be gone, then go! Donβt make a fuss telling me about it. Just go. No one wanted you in the 1st place. Fuck.
This comment has really a really good vibe to it. Like, if comments were essential oils, and if I was a sucker, Iβd bottle this comment.
That's exactly what it is. Defender is removing PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), but only those unwanted by Microsoft, while Windows is installing unwanted programs left and right. Windows is legitimately acting like malware. Not even a joke.
I mean I liked 7. Last good one imo
I'm curious as to how much something like shutup10 helps with that. I was always tempted, but never tried it. I barely touched windows these past few years anyways.
Remember Vista?
Yes, being comoditized by a corporation. True socialism comrade. Truly we've seized the means of production.
The means of production have seized us!
In Soviet Russia means of production seize you
Install Linux, problem resolved.
Linux Mint is massively less frustrating to use than Windows 10 or 11
Fedora here, been running Baldur's Gate 3 no problem using proton. Even with a 2600.
No reason to go back to windows knowing I can run pretty much anything through steam.
I'm gonna have to go for Linux once my current laptop dies. Now way I'm putting up with Windows 11.
Awesome ππ»
Unless it's unity era Ubuntu
Install kubuntu, KDE rocks and is very easy to understand for windows refugees
@phoenixz
#KDE is not only extremely newbie-friendly, it's also awesome for Linux veterans (Me, using Linux since the 90s, started with fvwm2 as window manager).
@sirico
Oh agreed. 20+year Linux user here, and I don't think (or remember) I've used anything else but KDE.
Install both! That way you can play all the games you want, if you're a nerd like me, but you can move the other everyday stuff to Linux!
More games are coming to Linux, it'll be a while for this process to complete.
Nowadays, Its actually harder to find a game that flat out won't work. Thanks to Proton, the only games that you can't play on linux are ones that the developer has specifically forbidden from working on linux via whatever AC they use.
That's what I did well over 20 years ago. Never looked back.
I don't have personal experience with games on Linux but from what I'm hearing, most games should now work the same on Linux as on windows
Actually its theirπΊπΈ. Not your, not our. Its their own and you arr kinda like renting it
Who is "their"?
Microsoft?
The bunny is Microsoft and he's saying 'our'
I understand now. I did read the EULA. Years ago, it was the EULA that caused me to Nope out of windows.
Your description of Microsoft is, quite possibly, the best description on how they operate that I've ever read.
I mean bunny should be saying "Mine"
Ah, yes. There should be a toddler meme like this! Hahaha
Yeah, I'm confused. Why is there an American flag?
The American flag is the opposite to the Soviet Union s flag.
Friends don't let friends drive windows.
I let friends make their own choice. I sport a lovely Fedora and allow them to make their own decisions..... Hahaha
Do... Do you use the fedora to greet ladies? I hope so. They love that.
Yeah, but I like to play PC games.
You can play pc games on linux
Yeah, not all of them though. Doom eternal, at the time, kept having a frustrating crash for me so I lived in windows like I completed it. Didn't even attempt with elden ring. Cyberpunk 2077 didn't work either.
But yes, in general I will game on Linux when it works. It is my preferred kernel.
Elden Ring works great on Linux though. Even better than on Windows for some People
Elden Ring works great on Linux though. Even better than on Windows for some People
Doom Eternal just dropped Denuvo. And don't they use Vulkan and OpenGL anyways? They did for Doom at least and that ran extremely well. Cyberpunk 2077 was terrible at launch on any OS and Elden Ring still suffers from bad performance to this day. Let's also not forget that Steams Shader Precaching did help a lot with Elden Ring's issue right after launch as well!
Linux gaming is in a tremendous state if you ask me and it's only going to get better. Linux users are increasing in number and with that comes better support.
Ditto to all of this. Exactly right. Love to see it
Ya don't get me wrong, it's so much better than 15 years ago. Until doom eternal I was already exclusively gaming on Linux. Then I just assume elden ring and cyberpunk wouldn't work well so I didn't even bother trying. And ya, for the hardware I have and the 60fps cap I'm surprised at how bad elden ring sometimes performs in windows...
Even Starfield?
Starfield works on linux since day one... If you have an AMD graphic card. I've seen that it's more complicated on Nvidia.
I can only not play 1 or 2 games on Linux. Everything else literally runs native through steam. Use pop_OS it does all the work for you.
Can't play tarkov, tarkov runs perfect on Linux, but its anticheat does not. The devs of the anti cheat tarkov uses said they are planning Linux support but that was 2 years ago.
Some other odder ones too. Let me know of questions.
Oh this link should be your bible. It will directly tell you what runs, and how well it runs
https://www.protondb.com/
I can only not play 1 or 2 games on Linux. Everything else literally runs native through steam. Use pop_OS it does all the work for you.
Can't play tarkov, tarkov runs perfect on Linux, but its anticheat does not. The devs of the anti cheat tarkov uses said they are planning Linux support but that was 2 years ago.
Some other odder ones too. Let me know of questions.
Oh this link should be your bible. It will directly tell you what runs, and how well it runs
https://www.protondb.com/
@Homo_Stupidus @kingludd, there are more and more games also for Linux.
Most good games are certainly Windows only, not because it is the most suitable platform, but only because developers create their product for the majority platform, which at the moment is Windows. Linux is basically much better for running games than Windows, but unfortunately the majority of games available for Linux are Sidescrollers and remixes of games from 20 years ago, with exceptions, eg https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/
The first thing you would do after browsing lemmy would be installing linux because there are many foss enthusiasist and linux users playing around here in lemmy making you switch to linux
.... Yeah... I never would have considered Linux, then after being here a few months I installed Pop!_os and I will never go back to windows...
*cries in my programs won't launch in wine*
Which programs?
Paint Tool SAI. After messing up a few times (I thought the C drive was my actual windows HD not wine's virtual one), I got it installed on wine, but it won't launch. Other people have got it to work, so maybe it's just me being a dumb noob.
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4594
I should probably try again with a program that's less easy to mess up.
Two things:
I'm too noob to know what either of those things are. I looked them up and I'm still scratching my head lol
Yesterday was only my second time logging onto the Linux box, so I have a lot to learn.
I tried on both wine and playonlinux, but had the same issue both times. So I'll try a simple text editor or something and see if that works.
I really don't wanna have to go back to Windows.
Kitra is a different drawing program native to linux. Linux also has native text editors, is there a reason you need these specific windows programs or would an alternative work, like gedit instead of windows notepad?
The text editor I'll try just to see if I'm doing the installation properly, nothing else.
I paid for SAI and I've used it for about 15 years. I really love it. My artwork is all saved in SAI format. Worst case, I'll have to install it on the windows hard drive.
Wayland = the GUI protocol. I'll try to build up the short version: Linux is modular, you don't have to have a GUI at all to run Linux. Most GUI systems themselves are modular, but a core component of the Linux GUI for a very long time has been a thing called X11. X11 is old and busted. Wayland is the new hotness. Some distros are using Wayland now. It offers some cool features that X11 either struggles with or can't do at all, but on the other hand there's lots of software that still doesn't work well with Wayland yet. I've been a Linux user for 10 years and the transition has been in the works the entire time.
Krita = a raster image editor/art app from KDE, the impression I get is that it's really made for digital drawing and painting, with some photo editing capabilities. GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is more for "photoshopping." For vector art I would go with Inkscape.
Krita looks impressive. I might give it a try. Thanks!
Like the other person commented, I would suggest trying Krita (open source/native painting or graphics program. That isn't my forte, but my understanding is Krita is a professional grade program that is actually used for professional work.
Edit: I ironically found this: https://docs.krita.org/fr/user_manual/introduction_from_other_software/introduction_from_sai.html
With that said, there is a useful program to help setup Wine called "Bottles". It's all graphical, and gives tons of options to tweak to try to get programs running. It has dramatically helped me get done other odd professional type software running.
One long shot thing to try: check the file properties of the program installed on wine, and make sure "executable" is enabled. It's a handy security thing to prevent random files from hiding malware, but can be a pain to new users.
An extreme solution is running a program in a Windows virtual machine. If you go that route, I highly recommend doing some research. The simplest to me solution I've found is Virtualbox, and I believe you can even directly pass USB devices through to the virtual machine, but since of the other solutions are supposed to work better.
Yes
This may well be the right answer!
Thatβs in fact why Iβm a linux user now
Been a Linux user for more than a decade, but work doesn't do Linux :( I even brought my laptop in to show them that everything works fine (AD and all), but they didn't go for it.
Their spyware probably doesn't work on Linux.
They use datto I think as their remote monitoring, and it works on Win, Mac, and Linux. Good guess, though!
Like the type software that sends a report if you don't use the mouse or the keyboard for 30 seconds? Remember to setup something like autohotkey for when you want to take a gaming break π
LMAOOO
I just started using Linux at work without telling anyone. On month 2 now and no one has noticed yet. They keep asking how I do all the fancy kde effects on my lappy and to do it to their windows machine. I just say "Sorry it's a hacked Mac" with an Acer logo on the back lol.
Reminds me of this classic:
You can rice kde like windows 10/11 or anything even like macos there are github pages and youtube videos available. Did you riced it like macos are you talking about that?
No, it's nothing like anything, I have 3 bars and just the accent color feature from kde. A clean desktop. But none of them own a Mac or have any technological knowledge, so they just believe it.
So why do you tell them it's a Mac rather than just telling them the truth? Do you think its somehow shameful to use Linux or something?
Well for one, they don't know about it, and if they don't know about it, to them it's probably some experimental piece of tech. And there's nothing good that'll come out of explaining it to them, it's a bother really.
Consider ricing it its really fun and post it here ![email protected]
Yeah I canβt imagine my work letting me use linux and thatβs with a Linux user for an it guy.
Yeah :(
My friend uses RHEL at work daily. It's what they use. Lucky duck.
In this job we got to choose whichever computer we want to put the budget on and could just install whatever OS gets the job done. It's been like this for the past 10 years, but I typically work in tech companies with around 10-100 people.
Went with NixOS as always.
How is Nix? I've wanted to try, but it seems limited and computers are expensive. Now that you've told me you use it for work for so long, I'm seeing it in another light.
It's great if you're a programmer. Even better if your whole team uses it, so you can trivially standardize the build env of the project. NixOS manages the whole OS with nix, but you don't need it to be a part of the gang.
I've been using NixOS everywhere for years, and written long comments on Lemmy about it, so check my history if you want to read reasons why nix :)
Nice! Thanks, I will!!
I just got told today to begin Windows 11 build testing at work. No one in the meeting seemed enthusiastic about it even going so far as to make fun of it's many...issues. Once I'm done getting off Google services, my next move is too divorce Windows like Melinda divorced Bill!
I just wish I wasn't so good at fucking up Linux on every machine I've tried it on.
Same here. Bought a laptop a few years ago, and immediately installed manjaro. I wasn't even going to futz around with dual booting. I decided I was done with windows and their bullshit. Haven't looked back.
I think you'll find it is no longer "My Computer" but now "This PC"
Haha! Good one! I'm going to use that!
Oppression breeds rebellion, why relying on a software you have zero control over, that the company that owns it respects you so litle that they pre install adware and spyware, learn to use Linux or BSD, you don't have to use it all the time, but learn the basics, understand how this machine you use so much works, seize that litle piece of freedom back, and even if you choose to use windows again, after knowing more of how things work, you will be more able to force it in working your way.
For sure, and Linux/BSD isn't that scary. For anyone here who doesn't think they are smart enough, I'll give you a hint; even the Linux guru's 'Google' everything. They're looking up very different things but they're still searching like the rest of us. If you stick with popular distros there's always a guide, or a forum post, or a YouTube video that'll show you how to do almost anything. You don't even need to install it, you can run most distros, and all the popular ones, off a USB stick. You don't even need to change anything on your computer to try it. I personally still use Windows for almost everything, but calzone_gigante is right,
In theory, yes. But not in practice. This is a work computer, and I can't just turn this stuff off without tripping the xdr. For home computers, I would imagine you are 100% correct, but I've been using Linux for years. I'm assuming shush windows (or similar) still works on Win10/11.
Only linux is "ours"
I serve the soviet gnunion
Omg that is so good in the nerdiest way possible
I serve St. IGNUcious, in the church of emacs
When you install windows ypu can set timezone to "world" and it will not be there...
You can also avoid making a microsoft account (or logging in) if you log innusing [email protected] and any password.
Then it will say something went wrong but you can continue, by making an offline account
I thought you were kidding, but then I looked it up on the net and it seems this is really a thing. WTF Microsoft!?
This was a work computer, but this world suggestion is genius! I avoid making an ms account by not connecting to the internet during install.
Shift+F10
OOBE/BYPASSNRO
Oh, that's some BS! I shouldn't be surprised that they removed the button and require some special task to bring it back. They just more and more act as though they hate their produc--err... customers.
I use the Enterprise SKU of Windows 11 and you can fortunately still use the Domain Join option with that. Comes without that advertisement crap as well. The only caveat is that you canβt really activate Enterprise legally without a subscription and KMS but there are ways to circumvent that issue ;)
I swear to god if I have to remove Bing search bar from my desktop one more time...
What? Are you sure you don't want to search the internet when you aren't even opening a browser? Are you sure what you're looking for is a local file/installation?
It was searching for a software I know I have and getting edge binging it for meβ¦
This happened to me when searching for Excel today. I facepalmed. They're doing this shit on purpose.
I've got a worse one. I was using Windows in a VM the other day and got an ad for Xbox controllers. Basically "check out our new controller colors, click on this notification to go buy one."
Oh, Microsoft....
I briefly saw that. The second I moused over to remove it it removed itself, like it was guilty for what it had done.
I am honestly surprised they have not yet made Windows free, at least the most basic "home" version. I guess they must still be making a lot of money by just having come preinstalled on any laptop or pre-built PC.
My absolute most hated one is when signing in and using a two factor Authenticator. If you donβt use the Microsoft one. Every time you log in it βrecommendsβ you to use their own. Fuck off.
Before anyone says go Linux. This is a work comp. I use Linux and Mac at home.
Yes! I hate that!!
I won't tell you to use Linux. I feel that it should be your choice. Like Mac, Linux isn't for everyone. And if you use Microsoft's email service on Linux, you'll have the same anyway. It's not windows that's the problem at its core, it's Microsoft.
I'd expect nothing else from a bunch of vampires. They've all but hoovered up all the money and ruined entire generations attempts at wealth building. There's nothing left but our bodies and precious fluids!
Isn't it suspicious how hard they've been pushing "clipchamp"? Like it's probably full of telemetry or something.
Like everything windows. Or Microsoft in general.
Wait, that's real?
I thought it was just some dumb name that someone came up with for this meme!
Yeah, being forced to sit through unskippable ads in order to even just play solitaire is real special. And even if you close the program and restart your PC, the ads are still right there waiting for you to watch before you can continue with your game. This is probably going to be my last Windows machine.
I had no idea they did that. That's several kinds of messed up!
Yeah, it's very annoying. So annoying that I just stopped playing solitaire rather than sit through the ad. It remains unwatched.
And this is the built-in solitaire? Or one of the apps from their app store?
It was the spider solitaire from the
gamessolitaire and casual games folder in the start menu.Oh, man! A built-in had that much ads? Gross
The notification center is useless, if I have an app-specific notification then it's highlighted in my taskbar anyway. All of the inline ads are delivered through notifications, so just turn off notification center in registry and the problem is solved. Same for removing edit with clipchamp from context menus. Tbh I'm not super against them bringing attention to their 1st party apps because things like the Photos app happen occasionally and that was an objective improvement for OS-bundled photo software. The problem is that Clipchamp sucks ass
My problem is two-fold. (1) if I wanted a video editing app, I'd search for one, I don't need my OS to randomly "recommend" one, and (2) I don't want any such suggestions on my work computer, ever. Maybe three-fold, (3) clipchamp, I heard, sucks ass ;p
Socialism is when a corporation does stuff.
And itβs more socialism the more stuff it does.
And if it does a whole load of stuff, thatβs communism.
Especially if the stuff it does is ads. The bullshitter the job the government does, the more communism it is!
"You are the product"
It used to be "if something was free then you're the product". Now, it's just "you're the product", period.
More like "You are one small part on are bigger product"
Except they are also selling it for $139.
So it isnβt βyouβre the productβ itβs them double dipping.
If you're paying for OSes in 2023 you are beyond saving.
But everyone does anytime they buy a laptop and most of the time, a prebuilt desktop.
You have a point. I haven't bought a prebuilt since I tore down my first one and discovered all unmentioned components were cheap substitutes.
Is this american or windows 11 thing? I have never seen stuff like that on windows 10
Have you tried edge browser? It's so much faster than chrome
How about a load of default start menu items for nonsense like candy crush?
...maybe you'll appreciate that we integrated our cloud storage in explorer.
There's still a fair bit of it in 10 - though it seems easier to deal with, and think it's dialled down in Pro.
Yeah I'm using Pro maybe that's why I haven't seen those. I did have my start menu filled with garbage but once I removed everything years ago I haven't seen them since
Exactly, it's really simple to just disable it and then never see it again but the way these memes are you'd think Microsoft is beating these people up and stealing their lunch money.
Every time something like this comes up, there are side discussions about all the settings and registry edits that can be used to disable various things. Each individual thing is not super hard to change, but there is an ever growing set of ads and personal-info siphoning 'features' being added all the time.
It's deliberately exploitative crap driven by greed. So I'd discourage anyone from being a Microsoft apologist for this stuff. It is not ok.
No shit, who else would add a damn lemmy watermark.
Honestly it's so annoying that instead I decided to get a FOSS video editor instead
Which one? Just curious
OpenShot Video Editor. It's not that great, but I'm doing simple video editing tasks like clipping. At least it's far better than Windows' own video editor
Ah I've heard of that one before, it's UI is a bit older looking but it works!
Yeah, dead simple works that's it. It's kinda sad though that Android makes it very easy to create beautiful looking apps like Sync for Lemmy and Seal and Windows apps are π
It's so ironic that a paid product that you'll never own and is so anti consumer is used by most over the alternative that you could own for free and cares about users! Keep complainingπΏ
That is exactly why you buy cheap keys for your windows install and remove everything you don't need. Edge got nuked from orbit by me and most annoying ads disappeared with it. I killed all notifications and I am now much happier.
Without Edge, many things don't work on windows. Also, those cheap license sites have a tendency to sell illegally obtained keys. Once Windows does a key audit, the affected PC can have its key disabled. Although, you strike me as the type of individual that can bypass the key audits. Disabling notifications is one of the first things I do on windows.
Yeah, i disabled basically all telemetry on windows. I also will never upgrade to 11. It sucks donkey balls. Also I haven't noticed any change in edge being gone. Maybe I just got lucky.
Forgot to say, I got my keys from a system builder who had a shit ton of them but had to get them off the shelves because windows 11 was around the corner. So they are all legally obtained.
What method did you use to shut off telemetry? When I did do on my home computer, the calculator app stopped working. Along with a few more apps I don't use (phone, i think, people, the Xbox ones, etc)
I have several windows 10 pro keys from laptops I put Linux on. Maybe some day, I'll use the keys. Unlikely, though.
I used the windows debloater to remove most telemetry and then shut off services that were left in the task manager until something broke completely. It was a bit of a process but it worked. I use my PC for 3d modeling and gaming. Never used half the integrated apps because I have no need or already have better ones or actually a physical calculator. In general with my PCs I just delete anything that I will never use. Like office for example.
I use arch btw.
I daily Fedora at home (and Windows at work). Got tired Arch breaking every so often, and wanted something that didn't come with anxiety with every update haha
Yeah that is completely fine. I would not dare to go Arch on work computer. :D OpenSuse works like a charm, but in general pre/post update snaphosts always save the day.
Yeah, I thought those preupdate snapshotters were crazy paranoid freaks... until my first Arch update hahahaha
I've wanted to try OpenSuse for a while now. I have a spare laptop that I was planning on installing Gentoo on, but am dreading the antiquated (by today's standards) installation process. Maybe I'll use it for OpenSuse.
YOu can set those pre/post snapshots automatically and not really pay attention. I think OpenSuse does that by default if you install your root on btrfs. They even have an OS version called MicroOS which does a cool thing with snaphosts. Basically if your system does not boot after update it will revert automatically to previous snapshot, or you can pick a snapshot to boot into manually from grub menu. Bit it is quite a different thing than your usual linux distro as it uses read only root FS.
Ooh! Ok cool! I've never used btrfs. How does it compare to ext4?
Hmm... it's complicated since it's a very opinionated topic. There will be people who like it and there are people who will kill your entire family because you mentioned it :D The benefits depend on what are you using it for. The difference is mainly in features it provides. I am using it mainly for snapshots, subvolumes and raid support. Raid is stable only for jbod, 0, 1 and 10. 5 and 6 are still having issues. Raid is self healing if I am correct. So if there are some checksum errors it will repair stuff from working mirror.
You need to do some research before using it. For example since it is cow FS it is not good for databases or VM images. But you can turn off the QCOW feature for specific directory. The other thing is space usage. Due tyo snapshots and cow feature 'df -h ' will not show exactly correct usage data. You have 'btrfs filesystem df -h ' instead. If you kill up the disk it can be more bothersome to clean it up afterwards.
I would say, try it out and decide yourself. There are definitely videos online that explain it better than I did just now.
Sounds like btrfs is still more on the bleeding edge side of things. Sounds pretty cool for a tester laptop. I installed OpenSuse with it last night, but forgot to format the drive first, so it installed on a small partition. I would just rearrange partitions, but the manpages state that it can cause issues with btrfs, so a reinstall it is haha
Would have been so easy to make this point without irrelevant racist imagery.
Explain, please
Not sure where I could have possibly lost you. Formulate a question.
Not sure how my request wasn't clear, but I'll elaborate. You stated that the meme, which didn't include any mention of race or ethnicity, was 'racist'.
Man, if only there was a community specifically for memes about this...
Oh wait! There is!
Which one?
Linuxmemes
But this is a Windows meme...
It's a "Windows Bad" meme, it's perfectly at home in the Linux Meme community.
Ah, that's fair. I didn't think of it that way, but it's a good point!
Idk guys, they're just saying they're releasing a new video editor, really doesn't seem like the most egregious thing MS has done.