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    Just dual boot...

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    I've just spent the last 6 hours troubleshooting steam input on 3rd party flatpaks, also alacarte has a bug that doesn't let you save property changes, also I can't use vim as root anymore for some reason I don't care to look into, also symlinking some of my media was a pain. Band-aid solutions have been found for the first 3 and the last was me being an idiot and not having a GUI solution to symlinks because Nautilus is arse compared to ms file explorer.

    I fucking hate pop-os and flatpaks, cosmic launcher is a pile of junk, and my 4k monitor has created an infinite amount of scaling issues to work through.

    Windows was a slow burn of minor inconvenience, Linux is a series of kicks in the nuts.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    I suppose you could just use arch Linux to get away from pop-os and flatpaks.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    My experience with Win10 for what I use my computer for has been far less janky than any Linux distro I've tried, and I'm past the stage of my life where I could spend hours and hours troubleshooting and enjoying it.

    As for Win11... I may very well made the dreaded switch to Linux when Win10 officially loses updates. I just wish Linux had viable alternatives to a lot of Windows software that wouldn't result in my workflow being significantly altered in a way that will require watching countless god awful tutorial videos and going through forum nonsense.

    Like for sure Windows has its problems but we shouldn't pretend Linux and the community don't do a lot of things that massively turn off new users.

    Want regular ass people to switch from Windows to something new? Check out how/why Mac OS is so popular among those who've switched from Windows, and perhaps there's some things of value there that the Linux community can learn from.

    The Linux community is packed with toxicity and a stubborn insistence that it's nothing but helpful and if a user has a problem, it's always their fault and never the distro's fault.

    Laptop shows your unlocked screen briefly when you open it before unlocking? Never had that issue with Windows, Macs, but on Linux this happens with Ubuntu when installed on several Thinkpad models.

    And nearly every response to this problem on Linux forums is "you must be doing something wrong" or casually telling a new user 'just switch to DingOS 3.14 bro, it's what I use and I've never had an issue" like that's NOT a major pain in the ass for the average user.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Auto HDR... I have one HDR monitor and one SDR monitor and w11 plays nicely, Nvidia app still won't work with more than one monitor for their version of auto HDR

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    It is getting there. KDE has support and I think gnome is not to far behind

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    Dual boot but only if you have spare disk for Windows, or alternatively run it in virtual machine.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    I have a < 100€ think centre for ps & 3dsmax, my main PC is on Linux.

    It feels soo good.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    I play BO3 Zombies on Linux, and I do not pay money for that divinium.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I'm playing Wuthering Waves that is a more fair genshin impact and the dev is actively blocking Linux so far, so I'm not switching.

    Strangely enough mihoyo themselves are letting linux players alone nowadays, both Genshin and ZZZ work without needing a VM, but they were also hostile against them in the beginning with genshin.

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I have a reverb g2 and the only linux projects that support it don't work with the controllers

    Microsoft is going to kill WMR in the next couple years so I'll probably switch then, luckily it seems like people are working on controller support already so hopefully that's stable by november 2026

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