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

  • radau@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’ve been loving Bazzite as well, I didn’t have to install ANYTHING to have it working, no Nvidia drivers that try to force that stupid Game Ready crap, just installed the OS and steam and my games and it worked, it’s better than windows with ninite ever was as far as getting a usable OS was.

    The Steam Deck was a big convincing point for me, after seeing how well it worked I just had to go for it. Last time I tried switching to Linux fully for gaming was ~2012 and it was a LOT rougher, Garry’s mod worked but had issues with filename casing and things like that

  • themachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    You’ll likely run into some problems eventually but yes, for the most part things work very well now. My only significant problems are typically cause by anti-cheat software.

    • DreamButt@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      oh for sure. I dont really play a lot of high budge games anyway. I’ve already talked my partner into it and literally her only reaction was oh so I can stop getting those windows 11 notifications? thank god

    • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Read closely and you’ll notice they used a thumb drive.

      People usually refer to the act of copying the data directly onto the device as something other than “copying” to differentiate from copying the ISO as a file to a filesystem on the drive.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I’m honestly okay with the term “burn” being used here. It’s not correct, but it’s the same general operation. I usually say I’m “dd-ing an image onto the USB,” but that’s because I’m a Linux nerd and use dd for this.

        • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          7 months 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.)

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            7 months 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.

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    7 months ago

    We know…People here sometimes complain when us Linux guys are saying the same, but if you discovered that Linux is actually pretty damn excellent, wouldn’t you tell people about it?

    And you did. :)

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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      7 months ago

      People here sometimes complain when us Linux guys are saying the same, but if you discovered that Linux is actually pretty damn excellent, wouldn’t you tell people about it?

      Exactly.

      They tell me:

      “But MajorHavok, you’re insanely willing to diagnose and debug command line bullshit. How can I trust you?”

      To which I reply:

      “Uh…good point. But…uh… Both things can be true?”