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It just works (self.linux_gaming)
submitted 1 week ago by tdawg to c/linux_gaming
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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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] tdawg 4 points 1 week ago

Ya basically. Anytime I'm applying x to y hardware I'll use "burn" or "flash" interchangeably. Something to indicate it's overriding what's there rather than just a fs cp.