I’ve been incredibly skeptical of Linux gaming for a long time now. But more than that I’ve been fed up with windows. I finally bit the bullet and bought some new ssd’s. Burned a bazzite iso and booted from the thumb drive. Honestly? The setup was flawless. The only thing I could see a non-technical person struggling with is burning images and booting from a drive. If a shop starts selling pre-builts with Linux configured for gaming then this might actually be the year of the Linux desktop

Now excuse me I’m gonna go play Arx Fatalis

  • AtemuEnglish
    1•3 days ago

    This is also one of those weird things: Why do people use dd for this?

    It doesn’t do anything special, it just does a plain old read()/write() loop on regular-ass UNIX files. Its actual purpose is to do character set conversions while doing so.

    You can just cp image.iso /dev/sda or even cat image.iso > /dev/sda. (The latter only works in a privileged shell because it’s the shell which open()s the device file.)

    • @[email protected]English
      1•3 days ago

      Idk about cp, but I can set block size and whatnot in dd, which seems to get better write performance. But maybe that’s a non-issue these days.