• @Tardil
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    53 months ago

    What are you running? I tried Ubuntu as my daily driver and honestly found it’s user experience pretty shitty. Lots of little buggy issues with the interface and running a few games on steam that support Linux wasn’t great

    • @[email protected]
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      3 months ago

      i’m running ubuntu. its flawless for me. its less work to set it up how i like it than to remove all the crapware on windows.

      if you are running nvidia it might explain the little issues.

      • @Tardil
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        23 months ago

        Yeah I run a 4070. What’s the go with nvidia

        • @[email protected]
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          nvidia doesnt follow the standards with their linux driver, its just the windows driver adapted to run on linux. its not bad for gaming ime, but causes all sorts of little issues on the desktop especially if you are running wayland instead of xorg.

          its changing though, they opened the source code for it and are currently rewriting the driver with the community. long way to go still though.

          • @Tardil
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            33 months ago

            Never knew, thanks for the info. Probably explains what I experienced. Nothing super major but just enough to annoy me over time

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          nvidia drivers are much less than ideal on linux, it causes all sorts of small issues on the desktop. depends on your setup though, some people run it fine.

          • @DNAmaster10
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            13 months ago

            Hmm. I think I’m going mad - I read your comment completely differently last time. Seemed completely unreliable. Probably just me lol.

    • @Lumisal
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      23 months ago

      Recently I’ve found Fedora based distros better than debian (like Ubuntu) based ones, especially on “newer” hardware (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Hezio/saved/#view=TwZfpg)

      For gaming Bazzite literally installs everything you need for you except Proton GE, although Steam’s regular Proton isn’t bad either for most games.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

      It’s really a matter of would you rather:

      1. Deal with MS relentlessly jamming their garbage down your throat

      2. Become a sysadmin

      • @Valmond
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        33 months ago

        The thing is it’s the same base linux as decade(s?) ago, windows is changing how stuff is done all the time.

        So a one time effort or a marathon IMO.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        not that big of a deal if you choose a distro with good defaults ootb. choosing the right distro is the biggest step imo if you don’t want to debug your computer.

      • @trougnouf
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        3 months ago

        I don’t think my grandma was a sysadmin.

      • wanderingmagus
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        13 months ago

        Really depends on your use case. Like @[email protected] said, casual users that use the OS as a browser and email client can use practically any distro. Users that do a bit more, like casual gaming on gold-rated Steam games, generally do fine with something like Pop!_OS or Linux Mint.

        It’s when you start going towards the more hardcore users, like really hardcore gamers that play obscure titles or have unsupported Windows-specific hardware, artists that need very specific unsupported programs for editing or recording, engineers who need to do CAD specifically in a Windows-specific proprietary software, or a tinkerer that’s used to the Windows environment, that “become a sysadmin” starts being a reasonable complaint.

    • @sfxrlz
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      03 months ago

      Fedora and bluefin have been working quite well for me.