(The “Windows” slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur’s Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)

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    59 months ago

    Linux wasn’t very good for gaming in 2016 when I first tried it. Then I tried again in 2023 and only switch back because I can’t get foundry to be easy on my arch based system, so like 3 hours every other week and for the least intensive thing I run.

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          19 months ago

          Yes definitely look into docker. It’s a very cool piece of software. If you can find a tutorial for what you want to run try that as it can be a bit confusing if you never used docker before

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            Yeah I tried using it for 5 minutes back on windows. Chaotic AUR has spoiled me lol

            Edit: I’m an idiot who needs to git gud. It was a file in the download zip from the website. Took me like 10 minutes to set up from there. Now I just need to import my game

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      19 months ago

      Eh, it worked well for me, but I’m easy to impress. I switched to Linux before Steam on Linux was a thing, and I made a Steam account when it came to Linux back in 2013. It was a bit unstable the first couple years, but by 2016 it was quite stable. I think my first Steam purchase was in 2015 (Rocket League I think? I don’t recall), and almost everything before that was Humble Bundle keys.

      When Proton was released in 2018-ish, I suddenly had a ton more options, and I started to purchase way more games.

      Things are way better now, but I was ecstatic to finally have a gaming platform care about my OS.

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        69 months ago

        No it doesn’t. It’s mostly a passionate minority hyping it up, but there’s pretty much no marketing.

        If any distro has “Apple level of hype and marketing,” it’s Pop!_OS or Ubuntu, because both have a large-ish company behind them actively pushing for user adoption. Your average Windows user is far more likely to have heard of either than Arch.

        I have no problem with Arch or Ubuntu, I used Arch for ~5 years and Ubuntu was my first (used for 2-3 years). I’m on openSUSE Tumbleweed now though because it ticks the boxes that are most important to me.

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        59 months ago

        The biggest company in the world vs dozen of fat nerds keeping a system as a hobby. Who would win?

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          39 months ago

          BOTH, That’s the beauty of it. If the fat nerds come up with some sick new thing, it eventually gets added to the corpo distro. Meanwhile the big company can liaison with hardware vendors for drivers so that the fat nerds can spin it into their niche distro (e.g. new CPU compatibility)