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Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521


Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience "hasn't been great" is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

More so than Linux, yeah. No system is perfect, but some are less fiddly than others.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Stuff should work correctly out of the box. That’s what average user expects. Linux is getting better at that every single day, is Windows? Linux is where the innovation is for the user, not Windows or any other proprietary, profit-seeking OS. Is it perfect? Probably won't ever be. Will it get better? That's up to us and our actions. Will windows or any other proprietary OS get better because of our actions?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Linux is getting better... but it's still nowhere near the default Windows position. A major factor in this is because development focuses on Windows for most studios, and frankly Linux is so fractured that it's difficult to make a game work on everything Linux.

But, that's Linux's main strength. It has a wider flexibility than other operating systems ny design. It will likely never be as "out-of-the-box" as Windows, no matter how much they sabotage themselves.

The average Windows user would have to change wildly for them to care about 99% of the changes that most power users would. You can see that in most other platforms, like YouTube, reddit, Netflix and other streaming services. They enshittify day by day and the average user shrugs and says "that's the way it is" and continues on.

[–] glog78@digitalcourage.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

@Zorque @dreadbeef

My whole comment -> check out https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/check-out-linux-porter-ethan-lee-show-off-how-linux-games-are-built-and-packaged/ and the video in it.

PS: This guy really knows what he is talking. All of his linux ports are top notch and if needed he provides extremly fast updates. GLIBC updates breaking stuff ( which has happen once in alot of years) -> he got you