Linux too mainstream for some 🤷

Why not Linux for everything else? Art apps?

I use Windows only when a certain game has a quirk in Linux. Everything else is Linux. Video editing, photo editing, gaming, browsing, etc

Also. MacOS is absolute garbage. I've used it for 4 months now, and it pisses me off how inconsistent it is, and poorly designed and written. Two days wasted because of an almost bricked laptop because the monitor was set to 60Hz while installing an update. Just think about that.

I also had the misfortune of booting into windows after changing a motherboard. It was an absolute shit show there too, with broken drivers. Two hours of debugging. Had to use a long ethenet cable to even start fixing it, a flashback to a Linux experience I had in 2007.

Same system in Linux? Not a single second spent. WiFi drivers, microcode. Everything worked fine. Only thing necessary was fixing the grub/mbr partition that Windows decided to write over, on a separate drive. But that's also Microsoft being shit.

People just don't know how much more usable Linux is these days. Especially for power users. You can do so many things, so easily, that either works out of the box, or you can do with simple scripting. The only issue is software availability, but that too is mostly a thing of the past, and not really a fault of the OS.

I kind of really dislike the notion that you only use Linux because you are too poor for Apple.

It's supposed to be funny 🤷 😂, like a very simplified version of how things actually are.

You’re confusing iOS, where you are in a walled garden, with macOS, where you can just do whatever the hell you want (There’s a recovery partition you can boot to where you can disable just about every bit of security that’s not hardware much like booting to grub in Linux)

Go for it 👍.

Bottles is great, and it puts links in for you into Steam, so you can launch the games directly from inside the Steam client.

What's are you talking about with Minecraft? I've always been able to joins any server cause it's the same game.

Minecraft works perfectly fine, pretty sure it runs natively on Linux actually.

If the DRM or anticheat needs low enough level access that it won't run in wine I don't think I really want it running on my computer either way.

I think it's almost at the point where the only games that don't work are games with anti cheat that refuse to play nicely.

most mmo

I play WoW, SWTOR, and New World just fine.

Which MMOs were you thinking about?

minecraft (java, not sure about bedrock) on linux is flawless, private servers work exactly as they do on windows.

Cool Edge Lord points, bruh.

Are you sus?

Yes --> AmogOS

catgirl? UWUNTU

Context?

Just because you cant afford an apple product doesn't mean you won't buy one (on credit)

Mac was fantastic in the '80s

Mac was great in the "90s

Mac was good in the '00s

Linux Mint was fantastic in the '10s

(I don't have a mac, wish I did though).

Worth every penny IMO, MacOS is super nice and so is the hardware.

Putting all my legitimate Apple/MacOS concerns/arguments aside, how can you declare a product as "Worth every penny" when you yourself have not used it for an extensive period of time? Attempted to integrate it into your workflow?

most of us that gave up windows did so because it had tons of issues. Don't act like windows is flawless, MS stopped putting in work.

Lemmy trying to act like Linux is less work than Windows for gaming, the delusion is palpable

It needs work, but it's a lot better than what Windows has to offer regarding legacy games.

What games do you play?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8

It's pronounced gpeg

Love the "A KNOW"

Fedora's still a good distro. I would always recommend it over Ubuntu and Debian for a home user with a bit of technical affinity.

I may have spent too many years in the service industry

You can also tell just by how jpegged the image has become.

I didn't try pfsense but it sounded like opnsense suited me better and I have had no reason to change so far. It has also made managing my self host stuff so much easier but a lot of it is pending being redone with more future proofing.

hey, linux gamer here!

I do. Last Monday between 8-11am. But on a school PC. 64-bit Windows 10 Pro doesn't seem to play well with slow ancient 80GB HDD, ancient entry-level single-core CPU and 1GiB of RAM leaving just 45MiB free when nothing else than task manager was open.

Can't blame Windows here though. It couldn't even run Linux Mint XFCE (crashed after opening Firefox). This week I "upgraded" it to Windows 7 SP1. Yes, it's connected to internet. But don't worry, we also have Windows XP machines connected to internet.

Just a funny note: One of the requirements from these computers is that they run the newest version of Cisco Packet Tracer... which requires 4GB of free RAM. Yeah, sure.

Hm, weird! I never experiences crashes, except if I leave my pc on for days on end

I work in IT and I see them weekly. Most of the time caused by Microsoft updates or people not shutting down their pc for over a week

Why you even on linuxmemes ?

But what is it?

But what is it?

I’m not sure what do you mean by firmware blob but Ive done the following:

1. Added non-free to the sources file.
2. Installed Surface-linux lib.

There is a guide in surface-linux library which requires compiling something with CMAKE. I’m not comfortable at the moment to do it since I don’t have the time to fix it if something went wrong.

I couldn’t find a good touch gui for debian so ill give ubuntu a shot.

Do you "see the matrix"?

You don't need to cite, you need to provide source code. The point of GPL is to allow the user to inspect and modify the software. You can even sell it as long as you provide the modified source code under the same license.

Thanks, that's the best explanation I've gotten so far 👍

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Also zfs on Linux has been a thing for a while now

There might still be some advantages of ZFS over btrfs, but I haven't used either one at all, so I can't really be sure.

Curently, there are none. In fact, BTRFS has outperformed ZFS in every aspect in the past few years, including filesystem growth (when changing drives, put in bigger ones, something you could never do with ZFS).

Outside of that, the BSDs are basically just different distros. Back in the 90s, when there was a lot more diversity in Unix, a lot of people just started out with *BSD because there was no clear choice at the time. People just like to use what they are more comfortable with - but most new users pick Linux over BSD these days, and a lot of people who started out on BSD have assimilated onto Linux.

The main reason is more drivers and software. Sure, it might be fun compiling from source when you're young, but at the end of the day, when you wanna get work done, you really can't tell your customer (or boss) "look, I really can't deal with this right now, I'm building FF from source". Also, one of the main reasons why Gentoo and LFS have a fairly small user base.

Still, diversity is a good, nice thing, especially with the advent of systemd. So I'm glad we still have the BSDs around, even if I disagree with their stance toward the GPL.

There are distros that don't use systemd, Void being the most prominent of them all (mainly because of the number of packages it has in it's repo).

BTRFS is there as well in the past few years or so.

No, it's because BSD has a permissive license, unlike Linux. You have to release source if you change the source, which is not what BSD is about. BSD says "here's the source, do whatever you want with it".

Thanks!

Truenas Core is Freebsd-based, Truenas Scale is debian-based i believe.

Not sure where I’d put net- or open- in this, but I guess it’s meant to cover them all

yes but it seemed to work for me anyways.

Fair enough

I know that after arch is Gentoo, the last one is FreeBSD