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Given I’m actively avoiding modern multiplayer games for more reasons than just the fact that they pretty much all have rootkit DRM (I know kernel-level anticheats have a different target than traditional DRM, but they’re functionally DRM so they count as DRM to me), and one of the few games I have left which were unplayably broken on Proton work now (Civ3, still has audio issues that to my knowledge can’t be corrected for non-destructively, but the black-map issue is now fixed, at least on my end using proton-cachyos), I have no plans on running Windows again any time soon, not even in a VM.
Copilot BS made me agree with you. I’m gonna stop dual booting and just game on Linux
Bottles.
There’s a flatpak called Bottles that does a pretty decent job of setting up a containerized Windows /WINE environment, if you have some program or game you can’t get to work quite right by chucking it into Lutris or Steam.
But I can’t be bothered to play windows games
I mostly use it for dev tools that only barely technically support linux, or just don’t at all.
That and uh… lets call them homebrew game decompression executables.
… yeah… yep.
I hate PCGamer’s website. Everytime I get partway through an article, a pop-up shows asking me to sign up to their newsletter. Now the pop-up alone would turn me off of their website, but what happens is the pop-up scrolls the article all the way back to the top of the page. So I completely lose my reading position.
PCGamer isn’t the only site to do this, but I think it’s one of the more popular ones that do.
The other thing that sites do now that earns an instant DNS block on my pihole, is capturing the back action that prevents leaving the site to show a pop-up that says “wait, before you go, check out these other articles” or something along those lines. HELL… NO!
This is why people like quotes, not just links. I friggin hate the ads
The other thing that sites do now that earns an instant DNS block on my pihole, is capturing the back action that prevents leaving the site to show a pop-up that says “wait, before you go, check out these other articles” or something along those lines. HELL… NO!
I would like to find the dev who came up with this and shit on his lawn after eating two weeks of burritos.
Yeah, DHTML popups aren’t much different from the old popups that used to plague the internet. The only real difference is that I haven’t seen them used maliciously like the old popups were to be super annoying, but even “good faith” uses were all “hey, stop what you’re doing and do this for me” without any shame that went along with a real person doing that in a store.
I look forward to the day someone gets an AI to block this shit (on the assumption that it’s more complicated than blocking the old style popups without interfering with legitimate DHTML and needs context awareness).
My theory is that all this is the fault of the cookie law. Before that, the design philosophy was that you could not break the flow of a visitor by pop-ups etc., because they would go somewhere else before even looking at your content.
When all the big websites suddenly implemented increasingly annoying cooking consent dialogs, the flow was already broken everywhere. And so now the floodgates had opened for all kinds “subscribe to our newsletter”, “get a welcome 10% rebate” etc., because users no longer has the expectation of an unbroken flow.
And, my god was that law stupid. What we needed was carefully balanced non-negotiable limits on what websites were allowed to do in terms of tracking users; what we got was every website implementing a site-dependent UI for functionality already present in every web browser (“turn off cookies”). The rules got different when GDPR arrived later, both for the better and for the worse. But the flow-breaking pop-ups we will probably never get rid of now that the public has learned to live with them.
End of rant.
how does steam operate on Linux? anything I need to do to port over stuff?
Ditched Windows 11 for Bazzite on my RoG Ally. It is much smoother, more stable and zero problems running games on Steam.
If people don’t need any specific software and can adapt to the Linux alternatives, like LibreOffice… people will see some distros are now easier than Windows to use… and… you don’t have bad surprises on updates
Libreoffice is frankly really cumbersome to use. I’ve found that OnlyOffice is significantly more user-friendly, and that’s been my go-to recommendation for office replacements
Couldn’t get Europa Universalis III to work on Steam, though.
I could not figure out how to play Europa Universalis III.
o7
(tears streaming down my face, Born in the USA on soundtrack)
I’m brave enough to say it
MS may have finally pushed me to home linux. I’m used working with RHEL servers at work.
This person’s writing style is, frankly, well, pretty obnoxious.
At least it’s not AI
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I read your comment and started reading the article. I started feeling a little self-conscious over my liberal use of Oxford commas, as his sentence structure wasn’t that much different from mine. But then I got to my tenth fucking “, well,” and “, frankly,” and realized what you were upset about. This is, well, quite frankly, highly respectable journalism.
Hurr durr something something drivers, something something recompile the kernel, something something only if your time is worthless.
Made the switch to Ubuntu in 2019. The only time I use windows is at work, sadly, but in my main computer, that malware hasn’t been installed for years
I started using linux a few months ago after a longer break. It’s so smooth and i hardly ever use windows. There are some niche things that don’t support linux, and some need a bunch of workarounds. I don’t even think linux needs to improve more, but i do hope comparability is going up
I started to enjoy my Ubuntu install after I gave up on the idea of using my computer for tinkering or work.
I just use it for the browser and steam nowadays. Also I did my thesis fully in Ubuntu with libreoffice but that’s the last professional stuff I did with it, aside from some programming.
Nowadays it just works xd
I am on Linux and never looking back to Windows (except if I have to use Microsoft Teams for interviews).
I have to use Teams for work and it works fine in a (Chrome-based) browser. I have a Chromium install that I only use for work stuff.
I had several issues using teams on browsers before so I felt compelled to use Windows for the app. But I admit that I never tried using it on Chromium so I will try next time.
If you can handle the browser version, works fine on Linux with Firefox.
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I tried. I really tried. I think i sent through 3 different distros. But my gpu doesn’t like any of them also playnite isn’t on linux yet
It happens. Particularly shitty proprietary hardware has held me back from upgrading in the past, as well. It is what it is.
I hope we see more mainstream support for Linux by hardware vendors in the next few years.
It’s really mostly a labeling problem. Even vendors who have great processes to publish drivers can’t seem to be bothered to slap a Linux Mint sticker on the box.
Which GPU
Nvidia obviously
Nvidia
Try CachyOS or Bazzite and do not stray from defaults. If it suggests you use the legacy Nvidia driver, you say “yes sir” and do as it says.
A huge fraction of linux trouble comes from picking a distro with bad defaults, or messing with good defaults.
playnite
It seems they are planning to move: https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/59#issuecomment-3542246599
I’m planning to move to Linux in 2026 after P11 is done, and since Playnite is my personal blocker for the move, I will try to make some Linux version in 2026. Definitely not fully featured version on parity with Windows version of P11, and probably desktop mode only, but something daily drivable with Linux specific features (Wine/Proton integration for example).
If that goes well, I’ll start looking into P11 Avalonia porting proper say I mentioned in previous update.
It’s more interesting to ask which 3 distros was tried 😁
