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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If I didn't have to wait for games I'm anticipating before release to work on Linux, I would have happily learned how to use Linux years ago. I pretty much only use my PC as an entertainment system; games, movies/tv, internet use. I like to mod my games and modding on Windows has become so easy that it's actually feasible to help my PC inept friends get a working load order without committing a weekend. Unless the larger nexus modding community as a majority switch to Linux, I don't see myself switching for a long time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Most games work day one these days with proton. How is modding more difficult on Linux? I feel like it's easier, but maybe I'm just used to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

True especially when you consider indie titles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I couldn't play starfield on day one when I had proton installed. I know a lot of people hated that game, but I was looking forward to that game more than anything else at that point in my life and proton fucked my first weekend trying to play.

As far as I know wabbajack doesn't work on Linux and that's the only way I'll be able to play with hundreds or thousands of mods because I don't have the time to meticulously creating a working load order anymore, I wasn't very good at it when I did have the time either, I would always make it stable, then add a bunch more until it wasn't. With curated mod lists, I actually play instead of being addicted to modding. If I'm wrong about wabbajack and linux, I'll retract that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I regularly buy new games on release on Linux without even checking, play with friends on windows and have yet to be burned

Helldivers was a bit janky to begin with but with some custom launch options it ran fine

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

its actually not that bad once you scrape away all the crud.

problem is, its annoying to do and they keep re-enabling it and coming up with new crud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Linuxmemes should instigate a new rule.

Replies should not be serious, boring and/or don't to know seem to know what a stupid memepost is for.

Windows users should be rebutting this with equally stupid memes about xorg.conf or cups or maybe another panel where death is unable to kill windows because it lost the archlinux-keyring to unlock the scythe.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'll be that guy. Up to ME it was pretty good and it just worked. Then it took up the every other version being good thing that we're used to up to 10. It's only really now that they're trying to kill 10 and push us onto 11 that it's really become a problem.

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

I have to say that I am getting pretty good at Linux. I use it on my gaming desktop, my 8 year old Lenovo, on a specialized workstation at work, and I have two servers running it. It's approaching general utility.

That said, I am being defeated by Broadcom wireless drivers on a HP Enterprise laptop. They aren't just working, and the wireless soft switch isn't just turning on. Until we can get to the point where the average user can just try a bunch of .deb (or whatever) files until they hit the jackpot, it isn't going to be as easily adopted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's defo Broadcom's fault. Unfortunately when Linux is a second class citizen, hardware vendors will make crappy Windows and maybe Mac drivers, but a lot of Linux support seems like it needs to be reverse engineered or something, if the company itself refuses to play ball. :(

This was the case with NVIDIA for a long while. Still kinda is. Hopefully that's improving though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It is absolutely Broadcom's fault, but it's also still the state of things.

Thanks to Ubuntu, Mint is quite well endowed with functional software. If it can receive the same level of support as Windows or MacOS, it will probably outpace them both.

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