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Gamer here, use Linux cause proton is good and I'm fed up with windows lol
This is probably an old meme. I use Linux as a dedicated gaming OS, macOS for everything else except when Linux is already booted or nothing is and I want to do something quickly.
Why not Linux for everything else? Art apps?
In my case, Inventor and AutoCAD. I hate AutoDesk with the fury of a thousand suns, but FreeCAD just isn't stable enough.
Oh, and currently needing .NET automatic source generation (long story), which is very difficult to develop on anything other than Windows.
Because I just prefer macOS more. And Safari is good.
I use Windows only when a certain game has a quirk in Linux. Everything else is Linux. Video editing, photo editing, gaming, browsing, etc
I kind of really dislike the notion that you only use Linux because you are too poor for Apple.
I don't use Apple because I don't like to be stuck in a walled garden where a company decides what's best for me.
I know it's just a meme, but I think too many people actually think Linux is somehow inferior to Apple (MacOS) while I think it's the other way around.
Also. MacOS is absolute garbage. I've used it for 4 months now, and it pisses me off how inconsistent it is, and poorly designed and written. Two days wasted because of an almost bricked laptop because the monitor was set to 60Hz while installing an update. Just think about that.
I also had the misfortune of booting into windows after changing a motherboard. It was an absolute shit show there too, with broken drivers. Two hours of debugging. Had to use a long ethenet cable to even start fixing it, a flashback to a Linux experience I had in 2007.
Same system in Linux? Not a single second spent. WiFi drivers, microcode. Everything worked fine. Only thing necessary was fixing the grub/mbr partition that Windows decided to write over, on a separate drive. But that's also Microsoft being shit.
People just don't know how much more usable Linux is these days. Especially for power users. You can do so many things, so easily, that either works out of the box, or you can do with simple scripting. The only issue is software availability, but that too is mostly a thing of the past, and not really a fault of the OS.
Yes, I agree. Just holy cactus, MacOS is just so bad these days. The inconsistency us driving me nuts. Why do the windows you open with the "help" menus inside of apps have small buttons? Why do some apps (e.g. Music) have a Search entry on the left side, and why do so have it on the left? Why do we still have tons of icons for system apps (Photo Booth, I'm looking at you) who have been programmed in a time where there have been dinosaurs around and seem to have never changed? ... And so on. Like honestly, MacOS is so much better that Windows (which admittedly isn't hard), but when I open up my good ol' Fedora I dont have the feeling that I see a new shiny operating system, and when I click on a wrong button I am in the 1990-s again. Or 2050-s. Or God knows where. Linux has its unique set of challenges, but I fully agree that the notion that "MacOS is better than the rest" just isn't true anymore. Maybe it was, when Linux distributions were worse and there was more money put into bugfixing OS releases. But not anymore.
Youβre confusing iOS, where you are in a walled garden, with macOS, where you can just do whatever the hell you want (Thereβs a recovery partition you can boot to where you can disable just about every bit of security thatβs not hardware much like booting to grub in Linux)
You're right, although I wouldn't be surprised that at some point MacOS will have a mandatory app store to protect you.
It's supposed to be funny π€· π, like a very simplified version of how things actually are.
While it's not a feature out of the box, there is software to add this functionality to macOS. But... same on Linux. You need to install that software if you want the feature. (Gnome/i3/other choice with this functionality.) So π€·ββοΈ
The most popular software to do that is proprietary and you have to buy it. For Apple you are only a demi-sentient wallet and they are constantly trying to dry you up. I hate that with a passion.
Okay. Is that software owned by Apple, you mean? Or only available through their store?
What about the next, or second next popular software to do that? All proprietary and cost money?
Just curious.
Proton is so fucking good these days
I'm close to switching to Linux with proton
Go for it π.
Bottles is great, and it puts links in for you into Steam, so you can launch the games directly from inside the Steam client.
Not good enough for DRM games, most mmo games or playing on private servers in minecraft or something.
What's are you talking about with Minecraft? I've always been able to joins any server cause it's the same game.
Yeah plenty of actual examples for games that don't work / work well on Linux. Minecraft is not on that list
I've never had an issue with minecraft directly related to linux, even modded
Private servers not official Microsoft ones you login on the game. A server that isnβt connected by Microsoft organization in the Minecraft community. Thatβs the private server im talking about.
I play Minecraft without any problem on:
No idea what problems you seem to have but Minecraft works 100% perfect on Linux.
Think they mean Bedrock, not Java
Bedrock is the windows-forced version and has Realms, which is probably what they mean by private server
Really good example of the difference between old and new school PC gaming right there
Oh yes, I had actually forgotten that this things exists. You could be right. But quick search says there is a way to use Bedrock on linux and connect to all kind of servers / realms as well. even together with java users. but tbh, i have not looked deeper into it.
Yeah nah I host my own Minecraft server and you're just wrong. I've used multiple server softwares as well that have nothing to do with Microsoft. Are you talking about bedrock edition maybe?
I have been able to join community hosted minecraft servers no problem
Minecraft works perfectly fine, pretty sure it runs natively on Linux actually.
Java version is the easiest to run on Linux. I have seen that people have gotten Bedrock to work but it looks a lot harder to get running and has more limitations.
Java is famously cross-platform. It even means you can run a Minecraft server on Arm64 without issue. I currently have a heavily modded Minecraft server hosted on an Ampere Alta VPS without a single hitch
If the DRM or anticheat needs low enough level access that it won't run in wine I don't think I really want it running on my computer either way.
I think it's almost at the point where the only games that don't work are games with anti cheat that refuse to play nicely.
I play WoW, SWTOR, and New World just fine.
Which MMOs were you thinking about?
minecraft (java, not sure about bedrock) on linux is flawless, private servers work exactly as they do on windows.
Cool Edge Lord points, bruh.