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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux. (lemmy.ml)

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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

How to know someone hasn't gamed on Linux in years.

Not like that at all now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Actually I'm completely new to Linux and only started using it as my main pc a few days ago. The games I've tried so far is: cs2 which plays natively without proton but with significant performance impacts which makes it virtually unplayable. And I've tried space engineers which is supposed to work but without audio (it wouldn't launch for me) and beamng which is gold in protondb but I couldn't get it to launch at all. Come to think of it I must be doing something wrong because so far I haven't been able to get any game to launch when using proton.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

I've been on Linux for 3 years now, and while almost every game works everytime, there are still a few that I either can't get to run, or when I do they are unstable and require tinkering to get right. Catherine is a big one, that has gotten a lot better with more recent versions of proton, but still has glitches especially when transitioning from gameplay to cutscene.