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[-] books@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I tried to use Linux back in 2005. After spending five hours trying to get Wi-Fi to work I vowed id never recommend it to anyone.

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 8 points 10 months ago

That was in 2005. Now you can try on a live ISO if everything works before installing, and the driver support expanded massively.

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Here's a bootable flash drive with Mint.

Play around and see if you like it. If you do, use the install program on the desktop.

[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

That's what I actually say. "Just use Linux" works better for the meme.

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't that just cause more problems?

[-] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Bro it's so easy just restart the Xorg server Bro it's obvious you just need to install the WAYLAND version not X11 for this program to work

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[-] itsdavetho@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I used Linux for about a week, every game ran way faster (60 instead of 20 fps on ultra detail) - but all games were very unstable and crashed frequently (despite the clear performance advantage.)

I also had troubles getting the low latency kernel working properly for music production. I just could not figure it out. Something to do with WineASIO, JACK audio and pulseaudio. FL studio worked flawlessly, though some fonts were missing ('easily' fixed using winetricks and installing them)

On windows, all I had to do was install the focusrite drivers.

So for now, until these apps and devices have native support, I unfortunately am stuck with windows :(

A lot of these problems could be attributed to my computer specs, it's a bit older:

8gb ram (plan to upgrade to 16 which is the laptops max), GTX 1050 ti, 2.8-3.4ghz i7

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

60 fps when you were getting 20 on windows…? Wat? Were shaders still compiling on Windows?

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Most probably: wrong driver + background windows updates + background windows telemetry + background windows downloading ads + background windows Superfetch (SysMain) + background trial version of McAfee with windows

Win 7 worked pretty well on my 2010 desktop [Care2Quad 4GB DDR2] until a few years ago, when I just switched to Linux and didn't care to look back.

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[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

It goes the opposite way when I have a problem and asking for help on linux

[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Just built a pc from scratch and installing Manjaro was absolutely easy, the drivers just worked on install, no fiddling required.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

I went back to my Windows partition due to some performance issues with a specific game and it's pretty frustrating to deal with. Icons on my taskbar I can't get rid of, os hassling me about signing up for Microsoft products and overall a bit of a less polished experience than my Linux install out of the box.

[-] NoFun4You@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Friend: *has computer problems

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

This but when people use proprietary apps.

[-] shalva97@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

...your brain will hate you

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Nothing breaks because you can't get anything working enough to load

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