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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    Ship laptops with LM and people will stray on Linux. Some might switch due to windows OS locked apps like ms365 but for most watching YouTube and maybe managing photos is all they do.

    I run dual boot and honestly, if only all things which run on windows would run on Linux without tribal shamanism rituals, is never ever had to switch. But my favorite DAW is not running Linux. My occasionally useful editing software is not there (but kdenlive is cool tho). My very specific apps for games are not running native or at all.

    When I'm not using these, I just flip a switch and run DAS with Bazzite. And I love it. But you just can't substitute everything windows offers. It is a gaming and working software OS after all.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

    Windows hasn't been a 'gaming and working software' OS for a while. Kernel-level DRM, paywalled productivity suites, the requirement to log into a ms account for more and more things, telemetry and ads in everything from the start menu to taskbar? The few windows-unique softwares and functionalities are not worth it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

    Some might switch due to windows OS locked apps

    Fusion360 is literally the only reason I still have a windows install. I've had people try to recommend Linux alternatives before, and none of them can match my level of stupidity. If I can't draw a circle in your CAD program without looking up a tutorial, then I really can't design a webcam adapter for my telescope

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

    A whole lot of people who just do web or email or whatever could live with a Chromebook actually. They don't really need the latest CPU/GPU and gobs of ram and disk space for simple stuff

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    But it's not ready because insert niche use case that only applies to me and no, I will not seek out open source alternatives to insert closed source software

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yes, that's exactly me. I need to use creative cloud for the company where I work. If I deviate it fucks everyone and the entire workflow. But I don't really think CC is niche. The moment they support linux, I'm switching

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

    Like he said its not lacking on anything is just that you cant use your needed program. And its fine to stay on windows.

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

    I've been living with Fedora Silverblue for the past month or two and loving it, except for the fact there is no true good alternative to ShareX (FOSS but on Windows only) for taking screenshots, video clips, audio clips, and having easily configurable hot key galore. Is Wine + Share X a good/viable alternative? Cause Flameshot is very rudimentary compared to it.

    I use ShareX for sentence mining when I consume Japanese media for easy Anki flashcard creation.

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    [–] Nugscree 18 points 1 day ago (59 children)

    The main problem still is that for some configuration you still need to use the CLI, the average user does not want to touch that no matter how powerful it is, they want a fully functional GUI that lets you so exactly the same thing but by clicking on buttons. Pair that with drivers that either do not exist or will not work for (some) of your hardware, odd crashed like the Bluetooth stack crapping out and not working anymore until you restart the system, or the system that hangs from hibernation with a black screen. So unless those hurdles are tackled the Linux adoption rate will stay low because the average user wants a system that works, and not one they have to debug.

    I've been on and off different distros of Linux since Ubuntu 6 using Pop_OS! as my daily driver for work a few years now, and the same problems I had then are still here today which is a shame honestly.

    [–] Jhex 8 points 1 day ago

    The main problem still is that for some configuration you still need to use the CLI, the average user does not want to touch that no matter how powerful it is,

    At this point this is just misinformation... you can easily live and configure everything an "average user" would via GUI in Ubuntu (and most of it's derivatives) or anything running KDE Plasma as a desktop

    The reason must of us still CHOOSE to use CLI is because it's powerful but unless you are crazy as I am and running Hyprland as a daily driver, you really do not need CLI...

    PS: I fucking love Hyprland! hehehehe

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    [–] JigglySackles 7 points 1 day ago

    It is in mixed states of ready. Each distro has something it's ready for and something it isn't. It'd be nice if all the ready parts were in a single distro, but that's an XKCD 927 issue. I am hopeful that Valve puts thought and effort into making SteamOS a solid desktop on top of a solid gaming platform.

    [–] Elkot 23 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Before I bought a Steam Deck I had never used Linux but now I really like it, honestly I'm tempted to install SteamOS on my PC as it's only ever used for gaming anyway

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

    This was me, to an extent. At least with regards to gaming.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Last year with Ubuntu.

    Installed it on an old laptop. Booted once then never again.

    Installed windows. Worked like a charm.

    This is Ubuntu, the OS that makes all the decisions for you like windows.

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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    The problem is that Linux is only ready in certain cases. For me, it isn't there yet, because I can't use it for my gaming machine. Every time this is brought up, Linux enthusiast shrug it off as "no big deal", you can game on Linux, just the games that use kernel level anti-cheat won't work. Well yeah, that's a bit the issue, I still like to play some of those games you see?

    Meanwhile, I have Linux Mint running on a laptop that I bring on vacation. I don't game on that one. Then Linux works just as well as any other OS, no issue.

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

    That's not "Linux isn't ready", it's "I still play games from companies that like to fuck with me."

    It's fine, and we get it. But Linux isn't ever going to fix that.

    Edit: We are seeing a lot more care from companies now that the SteamDeck is popular, so I hope your favorites get some relief.

    I've accepted that I'll need a weird rig to play my favorite games that come from developers with shitty practices.

    Ironically, mine tend to be Linux rigs emulating Windows to get things just right. But we do what we have to do play our favorite games.

    Anyway, I'm not judging you, or your gaming choice.

    I'm judging the game developers for choosing shitty tools that make our lives harder.

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    [–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

    The average 'advanced' window user: CLI is scary!

    Also the average 'advanced' windows user: if you open regedit and add this DWORD entry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Microsoft/application/windows/something, then you can stop Microsoft from screwing you, but it'll revert after each update so you gotta keep fixing it

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