I haven’t so much as touched windows in 2 and a half years!
- Evelyn ( @StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•1 year ago
God… Linux is so sexy.
I wish gaming worked well on it :(
It actually does now! and has for years! anything that runs in the steam deck will run on your normal linux computer, meaning that most games work at this point, with many more to follow
- CoachDom ( @CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•1 year ago
Do you have any good news for a person working in graphic design industry? Any sensible alternatives to Adobe CC/Affinity suite?
Oh yeah totally. GIMP + KRITA can do nearly anything you need from Photoshop, and kdenlive/davinci resolve can replace any video software you need
- Evelyn ( @StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 year ago
I actually don’t use steam much anymore, most games I play have their own shitty launcher that isn’t supported on Linux, like Honkai Star Rail.
- nah ( @nah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•1 year ago
i always consider swapping to Linux then i remember Destiny doesn’t run on Linux and i have an addiction
- odium ( @odium@programming.dev ) 7•1 year ago
That’s why I dual boot. My windows is only for games with anti-cheats which don’t run on Linux. My Linux is for everything else.
- Mambert ( @Mambert@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
Linux is just an operating system, shove it on an old laptop and give it a try.
- detectivesniffles ( @detectivesniffles@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
i recently got an extra ssd so i slapped it on my desktop with debian+cinnamon. if not for game incompatibility and needing to compile dx9 shader binaries i also wouldn’t touch windows. image
- milkytoast ( @milkytoast@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
what distro is that? I wanna fuck around with Linux a bit more
EndeavourOS. It’s functionally no different than arch with the only change being it has a quicker install process.
- milkytoast ( @milkytoast@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
would you recommend to a complete novice or not? I’ve heard arch can be tough
Yes. I have found that while other distros may be slightly more “stable” Arch can’t be beat in terms of compatibility and package variety. And to the arch wiki has pretty much every piece of information you could ever need
- milkytoast ( @milkytoast@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
lol I’m getting conflicting answers. I’ve got a 100gb partition set aside for Linux, I’ll just install and see if I like it
- MazonnaCara89 ( @MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
EndeavourOS is not the best for a new user, it’s an easier arch for sure but still a more advanced user operative system.
Things, update pretty frequently, break like it happened months ago with grub, or with the intel driver for laptops, and you need to fix them urself.
But as anything on this world there are downsides and advantages, get one you feel comfortable using and stick with it.
Remember you don’t need to install it to try it or to see if linux is working fine with your hardware, you can just start it from usb.
- milkytoast ( @milkytoast@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
yeah for now I’m trying to not pressure myself I to using the “best” or most powerful distro, I’m just using whatever works for me so I can use it for basic stuff like the web, Spotify, discord etc, and I can always move to a more powerful distro later. and yeah, I always test on USB before I install
- Interstellar_1 ( @Interstellar_1@pawb.social ) 1•1 year ago
No, you can get this same look with distros like kde neon or fedora kde spin which will be a lot less work then running arch.
- Azzy ( @AzzyDev@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Do people actually daily-drive Neon? I thought it was just used for testing purposes!
- Interstellar_1 ( @Interstellar_1@pawb.social ) 1•1 year ago
I’m not sure, I’ve heard conflicting opinions.
- detectivesniffles ( @detectivesniffles@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
endeavoros. a lot of people use the neofetch command when showcasing their setup. it’s in the console
- krimsonbun ( @KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
That’s EndeavourOS, an arched based distro that makes installing and using arch really easy. I’m currently using it on my main machine, don’t think I’ve had more than a couple problems with it.