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Interesting video.

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At the end of this month, I will be at 2.5 months completely on Linux. The only thing stopping me was simply not knowing that Steam and Proton existed for Linux. I can play the games that matter to me on Linux. Good riddance to Windows!

[-] Grass@geddit.social 15 points 1 year ago

And windows has too much downward momentum and can only go further downhill from here. Linux distros keep getting better.

[-] Raphael@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Red Hat: Are you challenging me?

[-] Grass@geddit.social 6 points 1 year ago

The only red hat I know is maga hat and those aren't welcome around these parts...

Cinnamon, xfce, MATE, Gnome 4 .... I mean you've got lots of choice and Linux keeps getting better all of the time. Fucking supporting Windows 10 and 11 is a goddamned nightmare. I thank baphomet for being able to go home to my own lab and work on BSD and Linux systems. Open source is my sanity.

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I don't entirely get this idea that Windows is easier to troubleshoot problems. I get crashes not often but regularly on Windows. It's usually some obscure error code that I can't find any info on (which is why I have this wallpaper as my dual booted Windows desktop wallpaper). Trying to get support for many errors, not even just the obscure ones, usually results in being told to reinstall software or the entire OS. Nevermind having to reinstall Windows regularly anyway because it would inevitably start slowing down over time, no matter how much I regularly ran cleaning software and whatever else.

Whereas my longest Linux install (Arch) was 6 years running. I was able to easily enough troubleshoot problems either on my own or with the help of a truly great *nix community. If it was a bug no one else had reported yet, I reported it and it got fixed. Usually I could just roll back a package version until that time or I could work around it. Meanwhile crashes and hard locks are so few and far between.

I would completely ditch Windows and not dual boot if more people got away from Adobe products and I didn't have to use them to work on projects with others.

I've actually had a much harder time troubleshooting Windows because everything is kind of hidden behind an abstraction layer, i.e. the GUI. The event manager often throws inscrutable error messages and searches based on the error code often come up with patently wrong solutions. To hell with Windows!

[-] astraeus@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The biggest issue with Windows is that their use of legacy systems holds their entire ecosystem back. They rely on 25-30 year old kernel-level services that were written for a completely different time when no one ever had to bother looking into what the problems were. Now if you take a peek into Event Viewer, it’s an absolute mess.

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I had heard an ex Windows dev say the whole kernel was spaghetti code. I'm glad I don't have next to anything to do with Windows anymore. I pity my spouse being an IT tech.

[-] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm in the same boat. It was getting to the point where my whole computer would randomly lock up whenever I tried to share my screen on Zoom or when I opened the Windows settings menu. Opening the Start menu could take a solid 30 seconds sometimes.

Then I got an OS notification that was actually an Xbox Game Pass ad and decided I had enough. I installed Linux, and after a few days of distro-hopping I settled on KDE Neon. I WFH from it every day, using Zoom for meetings and Parsec to connect to a Windows computer in the office for work. No issues, except that Proton isn't quite as performant as native Windows.

[-] iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Do games from other stores such as Epic games work with Proton?

[-] LoopDigger@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago

@iamroot @ablackcatstail heroic games launcher supports epic game store and gog and uses proton

[-] iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

This is an amazing effort to bring games to Linux!

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