Imma shiz myself when Linux reaches 10%.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
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uh, does that ... like mean to shit and jizz? if so, share your ways to achieve ultimate release~
I think it means he'll shit out all the jizz in his ass
Well what else is one supposed to do with it?
Portion it out into tiny jars and sell it like e-girl bathwater, duh.
XD Maybe ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Anyone tried FreeBSD? Linux is starting to lose that hipster allure.
the real l33t h4x0rz use TempleOS
It's what my router runs.
I have used Freebsd for sometime on my desktop back in 2021. For the most part I had a good experience except that I couldn't figure out how to connect earphones/mic on the ports on my PC case. I had to plug it directly to my motherboard for Freebsd to detect them. I used an Nvidia card at that time and it also worked very nicely although it had much older drivers than Linux.
I ended up switching back to linux because of 2 reasons -
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I have a few BTRFS drives that I use regularly and couldn't afford to buy some new ones for Freebsd at that time.
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I couldn't play games using steam proton. I don't know the situation these days, but I'll surely check it out If it has improved since then.
You should give Freebsd a try, you might like it.
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the year of the Linux desktop is now
And all it cost was having a store sell DRM software.
To be fair, as far as DRM is concerned Steam is pretty mild and game developers gotta eat.
They also sell non-DRM software. And most importantly they invest the money they make from selling those games into developing Linux so it's better for everyone, I'll take a corporation that uses my money to make things better for myself than one that sells "only" DRM free" games (when it's convenient, because GoG also sells DRMd games in case you didn't knew)
Year of the Steam Deck. Linux still not ready for mainstream desktop usage :(
My computer illiterate mother in law that has been using Linux for years strongly disagrees.
Sorry, Linux is ready for basic usage such as web browsing and creating a document.
It's ready for a lot more than that, can you tell me something that Linux can't do without mentioning a third party company that refuses to support Linux?
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It's still coming, I have tried to switch using my desktop but still have. Needed to swap back to windows for stability.
That's a very ironic sentence :)
For stability? A missing feature or software you need I get, but stability? Which distro/DE are you using? Please don't say you're running Gentoo and some crazy TWM setup or something like that lol
Stability to me was one of the biggest reasons to use Linux - it does exactly what I expect it to do, never breaks, updates never break shit.
LOL never beaks. Most Linux distros are chock full of bugs that the end user has to work around
I've not had a single breakage in the past ~4 years I've been on Fedora Workstation, despite me often moving to the beta channel. Pretty nice for an up-to-date distro.
Granted, I've also been on some less stable distros/DEs (in my case, it used to be Manjaro's KDE version). Perhaps yours is similar, since you claim to have extreme stability problems?
I cannot say the same for Windows, where things randomly stop working, I still occasionally get bluescreens, it shits the bed when I change hardware, etc. the last time I booted into Windows my audio stopped working entirely, and no matter how many times I reinstalled audio drivers or did a system restore, nothing would fix it. I ended up having to buy an external DAC.
There's a lot of reasons to stay on windows, never heard of stability being one haha. It's bsod city over there lol
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Guys I have a foolproof plan to reach 10%
spoiler
- Stop using GNOME as default DE
- Throw cash money at Wayland devs and hire an assassin to harass slap Nvidia's CEO
What's the problem with GNOME?
Gnome = bad is a common Linux community circlejerk.
People will tell you Linux is about personal choice, but the second you say cool, I'm using flatpaks/Gnome/Wayland/System-D/any other thing that people get upset about, those same people will lose their fucking minds over you having a choice different to theirs.
It's not so much a circlejerk as much as a knowledge that KDE plasma is the most approachable DE with the most polished first experience for the majority of new users
The reason it gets interpreted as Gnome bad is that both Plasma and Gnome both mainly target users who want something that just works out of the box and doesn't have a steep learning curve, however KDE have managed to keep up better with what new users want in recent years while Gnome has fallen into a semi-trap of doing what their current/older users want. That doesn't mean it's a bad distro, frankly it's great for their current users, however it does little for newer users who may not find it as intuitive as other DEs, therefore making it a worse default DE for "off-the-shelf" distros targeting new Linux users.
At the end of the day though, it is about personal choice, and nobody's saying i3 isn't better for powerusers or that LXDE doesn't run faster, but if you have the knowledge that you want to install one of those or the many other DEs available, then you can just find the iso/distro/package with that DE and install it rather than just clicking the all-in-one-guaranteed-to-work-lts download button on the distro's homepage
It's not so much a circlejerk as much as a knowledge that KDE plasma is the most approachable DE with the most polished first experience for the majority of new users
You say that like it's a fact rather than just your personal opinion.
The reason it gets interpreted as Gnome bad
No no no. I'm not misunderstanding people liking or preferring Plasma as hating Gnome. I love Plasma, and so should most people, it's a very good DE. I pretty much only use Gnome and Plasma these days, and can happily praise or criticise either of them.
People do have a hateful circlejerk about Gnome. Look at any large discussion about Gnome and it gets full of haters who still can't accept that Gnome 3 went in a very different direction to the traditional WinUX. People that say it's shit. People that accuse the devs of being evil. Go onto a submission about a new Gnome release and you'll find some smoothbrain making the classic wHaT fEaTuReS DiD tHeY rEmOVe tHiS TiMe joke which holds zero basis in reality.
And I'm not talking about fair criticisms either. I could rattle some off the top of my head. I'm talking about hatred.
Shitting on Gnome very much is the hip, trendy thing to do in the Reddit/Lemmy/reactionary YouTuber space.
According to many in the Linux community, Linux is all about choice, so long as your choice is the same as theirs.
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That and the Gnome devs carry a lot of anti-consumer opinions and practices in particular since Gnome 3. Must be something to do with the Microsoft influence from around that time.
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Why? I've been happily gaming on gnome for over two years now
Because he wants it to be Windows and hasn't found Dash to Panel and Wintile yet.
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I love Libadwaita. It's so good I started to use it to develop general cross platform apps
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Stop using GNOME as default DE
No need to go as far. Just jail everyone working on Adwaita.
They always acted like the are the only ones in town, but while checking the spelling just now, the first result says "Adwaita (from अद्वैत, meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit)" The serious UX designers were a joke to them from the start.
I love libadwaita/GTK4. All my apps are consistent, look and work in the same way, they all look gorgeous, and there's extreme attention to detail and adherence to good, well-studied UI paradigms.
Libadwaita has went a long way in making my system feel like one cohesive ecosystem, rather than a smattering of inconsistent, wildly different apps.
Libadwaita and GTK4 is amazing and the developers deserve a lot of praise.
But hey, if you don't like it, just don't use it. It's that easy.
But hey, if you don’t like it, just don’t use it. It’s that easy.
Not when you are forced into it because it's made a dependency of something you use.
Then use an alternative, if you really hate anything even remotely connected to it on your system and are seeking the ideological purity of having zero related dependencies.
You're not entitled to have the software that's provided to you for free be exactly how you like it.
But if your view is popular enough, there will surely be alternatives or altered forks.
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if you don’t like it, just don’t use it. It’s that easy.
The entire point of FOSS
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Also 45 percent of that 2 is on steam deck.
I tried a few games on Linux and I spent more time looking for why one game wasn't saving my game and why another game wouldn't actually launch with no error messages then actually playing a game.
The only games thus far that I couldn't get to work were pirated. Id say 80%+ pirated work, and so far all legit games. Even weird launchers like FF14 (stock, not the 3rd party) and Guild Wars 2. And then of course Steam does most the work.
Everyone's mileage varies, obvs, plus there's different distros and games.
BS. All of my games are legit and all them required tweaking to work.
I've just recently gotten into this and installed steam through ubuntu's store. Could be why it thought subnautica was on Linux and let me download it. I uninstalled and installed through apt-get this time, hopefully that fixes that issue.
Having issue with the Steam snap isn't surprising, as even Valve recommends against using it. A few years ago flatpak Steam had similar issues that got fixed over time.
For now I hope you'll have more luck with the .deb!
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Thats the game, once I got the game working, I'll just leave it and never open it again.
How long ago was this? I am basically not having any issues at all!
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