…and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I’m mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!

  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    4 months ago

    My biggest hangup (so far) is modding games.

    Nexus is built for Windows. CDPR’s RedMod is too.

    It’s probably not that big a deal. I’m just shit at all this stuff. I’m not a coder. I don’t even know what the fuck sudo means. But I have a very loose grasp on using it. With a moderate amount of help from the internet. Usually.

    • JunglisticFunkateer@lemmy.world
      19·
      4 months ago

      Nexus is building a new version of its app, and the new one has Linux support (native app).

      It’s not yet a full replacement, and at the moment only supports a few select games, but eventually it’ll expand to the full catalogue.

    • Statick@programming.dev
      8·
      4 months ago

      Closest comparison I can give of it is… It’s like clicking “Yes” when the User Account Control (UAC) popup appears on Windows when you’re installing stuff. That’s you, as an admin, confirming you want to perform whatever action is being performed.

      sudo ... is perform an action/command as an admin.

      As for the mods. A lot of the time it’s a matter of taking the files you downloaded, and dropping them in the game directory (or a directory within the game directory).

      Once you do it manually once, you’ll see it’s pretty straight forward and you don’t really need the mod managers.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        2·
        4 months ago

        “I heard them say we’ve reached Morrowind. I’m sure they’ll let us go.”

        Morrowind will always be wonderful to return to. I miss all the imaginative player house mods. OpenMW has been so AWESOME.

        Also:

        YoU wOuLdN’t StEaL a LiMeWaRe pLatTeR

  • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 months ago

    I have mint on two laptops and I want to install it on my desktop but right now I have too much work to do and can not get a couple of days to install it and set it up the way I want. I have a lot of files I need to move first.

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Moving all of my files was my holdup too. I had to set up some backup storage before I could consider Linux on any of my machines. Then, there was a lot of back and forth while I was paranoid about forgetting something. That step took a while.

  • v01dworks@piefed.socialEnglish
    20·
    4 months ago

    I mostly use Linux but I dual-boot windows just for VR and every time I have to use windows it feels sluggish in comparison

    • rapchee@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 months ago

      i do the same thing but i think it’s kind of on us - when you only boot windows once in a while it tries to do a bunch of things (updates, scanning everything for more data on your advertisement profile, virus scan, etc) at the same time
      it was similar when i was running linux less frequently, i was annoyed like
      ugh again bunch of updates, kernel update as well ugh now i have to reboot too

      • v01dworks@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, it’s a little of both, but at least if I don’t use Linux for a while I don’t feel the same problem happening usually

        In my experience, if I don’t touch my gaming PC for a month or two and then go boot up Linux it means I just have a long update, but I can also opt to ignore it and deal with it later. On Windows, I don’t really have that choice as much, and updating is extra annoying because it reboots itself multiple times so I have to babysit it otherwise it boots back into Linux after a few seconds on the bootloader

      • v01dworks@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        ALVR is so frustratingly close to working for me with the Quest 2 on Linux

        Some games actually work flawlessly with it for me now, but recently I wanted to get back into Into The Radius 2 since they updated it a lot, and because it only supports a specific VR framework that I can’t seem to get my system to use, the game itself doesn’t connect to my headset, so I had to boot back into windows for that

  • Quadhammer@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    Hey so I just got my first raspberry pi what’s the laziest possible way to put an n00bs on my Sim card

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
    49·
    4 months ago

    You guys are living in a bubble.

    I keep trying and trying. The UX isn’t great.

    Pinch to zoom is non-existent. Scrolling on a trackpad , the systememulates a mouse and isn’t smooth when you scroll. Scrolling in browsers vs in file systems is totally a different experience.

    Forget about scrolling in the browser using the touch screen. It emulates a left mouse click hold. No, that is not what is expected when I’m browsing a web page and put my finger on the screen. I expect it to respond like how my phone browser responds. Never once have I ever needed to left mouse hold when I swipe a browser screen.

    The list goes on. From a convoluted navigation in the menu and a need to install apps using terminal.

    I keep trying and trying. But if you can’t convince a tech forward person like myself, how will you convince a normie?

    I haven’t tried all the distros. But I shouldn’t have too. These UX systems should be standard across all distros.

    • Wolf@lemmy.today
      3·
      4 months ago

      These UX systems should be standard across all distros.

      Anyone who expects Linux to be like MacOS where you basically only have 1 way to do anything- is going to be frustrated. The thing that you find annoying about Linux is the thing Linux users love about it.

      The great thing about Linux is that almost nothing is guaranteed to be “standard across all distros”. Different people have different use cases, needs, and preferences. If you take the time to figure out how to make Linux look and behave the way you want it to, it’s has all the advantages of MacOS, but it’s even better because you can fine tune everything to be exactly how you like it and not be stuck with whatever they give you.

      I guarantee there is a way to get the exact functionality you are looking for in any Linux distro, in fact there are probably a half a dozen different ways or more to accomplish it, but it’s more than likely a couple of toggles in the settings menu.

      a need to install apps using terminal.

      I installed Pop!_OS on my PC over a year ago and I haven’t needed to open up a terminal window to do anything the entire time. I did install a newer version of the app store, but even that I did by using the old app store. I do open my terminal sometimes because I love learning different ways of doing things and understanding how my OS works, but it is by no means mandatory.

      It’s not the nightmare you describe but it might take a little adjusting to, just like with anything else. There are also many different distro’s from very beginner friendly to building a custom OS from scratch. As long a you have the time and patience to do a little research, you could find a distro that would be perfect for your needs- or at the very least one that could be with minimal tweaking.

      One mistake I see some people make is not starting out with a beginner friendly distro. They think they are too advanced for that so they go for something designed for people with more experience. There is nothing at all wrong with going with a ‘beginner’ distro. You can do anything you want to do on any distro if you know what you are doing.

      It’s not for everyone, some people don’t care about customization or learning anything new or free and open source software, and that’s fine. For everyone else there’s *nix.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      There is some laptop hardware that isnt well supported, it is annoying but it is what it is people are writing drivers for a lot of stuff but it doesnt compare to having manufacturers actually support their hardware.

      As for convoluted menu and installing apps via terminal thats user error. Linux is for those that are willing to learn and if people cant use an app store and get frustrated when they see a different menu they’re beyond reach.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      4 months ago

      The list goes on

      To be fair, most of your issues seem to be with touch screen interaction. Something most Linux users could not really care less about.

      The other things, like menu navigation or needing to install a terminal app, aren’t issues I have ever experienced.