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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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Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] OnfireNFS 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

I just got a steam deck and I'm surprised how well it runs games. It's not quite as refined as a switch but it can run games were designed to run windowed in Windows with a mouse and keyboard. It can translate the game to run on Linux, the inputs to a gamepad and convert the game from being windowed to fullscreen. It's impressive and if the games were actually designed for the deck I feel like it could feel as seemless as the switch.

It is really making me consider Linux for my desktop once Windows 10 reaches EoL. The only game I've found that doesn't work is Destiny 2. Even the desktop mode on the deck is surprisingly nice

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I remember a few years ago people got destiny 2 to work on Linux and Bungie banned those players. Fuck Bungie

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

And then they made a Linux native version but it worked only on Stadia.

Fuck Bungie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Steam Deck and it's desktop mode is why I decided to try jumping head first into a single boot of Bazzite on my main computer, 4 months in and I haven't looked back, even PDF's are better in linux, no Adobe iron grip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Adobe-free PDFs are pretty neat, though Firefox has a great PDF viewer/editor nowadays, which works well on Windows too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

When I was on Windows, I used SumatraPDF. It's literally tiny and I never really missed any features.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

EDIT: sorry for comment spam! Jerboa having issues posting, hope it doesn't show up and I tried to delete duplicates. XD

The best time to play with Linux as a daily driver system is now.

Play around with some virtual machines using VirtualBox for instance, do some installs, try distros, try desktop environments see what you fancy. Cool thing about playing with VMs is if you tank a system you can just delete and start over. :)

An old laptop to try a real "bare-metal" install to play with is even better.

This way, when MS says "Win10 is gonna be left to rot as security swiss cheese and your only option is Ai-enabled telemetry-infested account-mandatory nonsense."

You can just comfortably jump to something you've already gotten familiar with!

The 'Deck can be used as a "real computer" too! It's worth playing around in Desktop mode to just get used to how using Linux and KDE feels.

Wishing you all the best. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You're going to love Bazzite.