Windows user since 1994 (2 YO)
Linux user since 2008
recently “betrayed” by m$
2020 or 2021 switched to Linux but dual booted with winlol for compatibility
gamer, but not competitive
on 2021 succeeded to run everything on Linux
deleted winlol and use only Linux since
@hanke @DV8 Valve is highly unlikely to put a kernel-level anticheat that bans Linux users but as a piece of advice, don’t run competitive multiplayer games on Linux, I mean do not get accustomed to, that also should apply to me since I play Palworld which is MP only, even on SP, you can have someone join at any time
@Zozano @Lost_My_Mind so I lose much much time researching and since they were pirated games, support was poor so I even searched the dark web (not the dark dark web but I call the dark web the 3rd+ page of google)
@Zozano @Lost_My_Mind
seriously, I have been gaming for more than 30 years and if you want me to swear I’ll swear, for 25 years I have been gaming pirated games, on the V1.0.0 of a random game, the save file is located on My Documents\My Saved Files, then after installing the update 1.1.0 the saved progress is gone, after much research, I find it under my docs\the game name, then after 1.2.0, I find it under App Data\local… and so on and every time the pseudo changes+ the path
@possiblylinux127 @iopq
in reality, gaming on Linux became since a long time way better than on winlol, and Mesa & CodeWeavers are actively working to make it better every day, the problem comes from developers, mainly kernel-level anticheat, according to members on the fediverse or one of the communities I follow on fb, it all comes down to a simple checkbox if you want the game to allow running on Linux or nay, so the blame falls down to stupid devs not the OS
@mesamunefire @themadcodger in tunisia at least, the number one way to play games is:-through piracy (I hate piracy but if you are born in tunisia then it is very very hard to pay for anything virtual like games) -via launchers like Battle.net for HS -via custom .exe like for Project Celeste… in short Steam is not the only way to get games, Steam OS and by consequence the Steamdeck is not even officialy on sale in tunisia anywhere and going to desktop mode requires intellect which is not common
@Lost_My_Mind I can’t explain it, but my blood boils after hearing him speak, maybe it’s the way he speaks , IDK, but every video he makes turns me into an angry man
@TheGrandNagus @Shirasho I remember doing that in high school in 2018 but I forgot all about it because I never again after class did that
@Max_P @Professorozone BTW I especially hate that Titus fella, even though his ideas are good & helpful, but the way he expresses them, the way he talks, makes blood boil in my head from anger
@owenfromcanada I know how easy, user and beginner-friendly it is, since 2008 I had my fair share of distro-hopping among debian & RHEL families, but they all broke when I installed them on my Nvidia-powered Laptops, 3 years ago I had enough so I began my tour with the Arch family, manjaro was an unpleasant host, even though is for gamers & very user-friendly but super unstable &, ahem, governed by clowns, I tried Garuda but it’s gaming focused, I need an all-purpose distro, so EOS was my go-to
@owenfromcanada do you happen to know the name of such tool? I know Garuda, Ubuntu & many distros have them, but since my priority was stability even on stress conditions, my daily driver is Endeavour OS, but it lacks that feature, it has everything otherwise
@owenfromcanada @Akasazh I just want to mention that old amd GPUs require a proprietary driver, from my humble logic, that requires tinkering, like for Nvidia cards that do require proprietary drivers, but even Nvidia embraced Open-Source so there’s nvidia-open now, in short, now, there’s 0 reason to use proprietary trash, except on special circumstances
@RmDebArc_5 @figjam
“… while there are efforts to make it work on desktop I would advise against using them…” many people including me use Proton on desktop and everything just works smoothly & flawlessly, Proton in reality came out on desktop before on handheld console, I mean Proton was able to be used on PC long before the SteamDeck was a thing, problems are mostly user-end outage
@deadcatbounce @Lost_My_Mind 🤣
no seriously, in my case, even it they ran HarmonyOS, it still sucks in tunisia, it is impossible to get a stable & reliable internet connection, this resulted on me searching for a long time for a good AUR helper that can pause downloads automatically & resume them because of the shitty network access in tunisia, many times a year we remain without internet because there are either TT or the ISP problems
@lancalot I understand the list I provided is not necessarily complete, because Void & Solus are also independent, however, for them to be “main”, they should have “derivatives”, I don’t claim that I have a big Linux experience, but I tried & documented myself about the distros on the list, & can confirm that they are “main”, I also tried Nix OS, the use of 1 config file is refreshing, however that ease comes at the cost of some flexibility, installing Steam there is too complicated for me
@lancalot the “main” that are alive today are (like on this graph) https://rreinold.github.io/explore-linux/ :Debian, Slackware, RHEL, Gentoo, Arch & android
These are only the alive ones, however, I couldn’t find any info about Nix OS so it remains on the maybe category cause I tried it and could not find any hint to the past
@lancalot OpenSUSE is based on SUSE (created in 1994)
Fedora was developed as a continuation of RHEL
Maybe “main” is not well appropriate, I wanted to say “distros that have no precedence & not based on anything”, for example, 0.12 was a “main” distro, MCC Interim Linux was a “derivative” distro
@lancalot none of the “main” distros default to BTRFS, just “derivatives” default to BTRFS, Garuda is based on Arch, so it’s normal that it’s one of the rising new distros, Garuda rose because gaming on Linux received a huge boost from sources like Valve so I doubt that it (Garuda) will deviate from its path with time, plus, they provide multiple flavors for multiple purposes, gaming requires stability & sometimes a rollback mechanism, that’s where BTRFS shine, not so much stability BTW
@lazynooblet @the16bitgamer me too for a google email (@esprit.tn), I used it on YT mainly, I used it on other things but YT is the main user, & I subscribed with it for some youtubers, after some time, the uni deleted the mailbox so they also deleted the YT account, meaning those youtubers lost a subscriber, meaning they receive less money, and that falls to the uni, the uni is to blame not me 🤣