Used to (e: tried to), but I’m a gamer and linux is under appreciated so you have to dual boot and it wasn’t worth while on my main machine as I have so many devices.
So these days I exclusively use Windows on my gaming rig, and my other devices typically use forks of debian; work is a whole other thing though.
further edit: the laptop I moved over to Aus with was solely Ubuntu.
If only other people got onboard. Everyone else built a handheld, but they shipped with windows and just proved for the umpteenth that Windows is NOT a portable OS. Its almost like we should have learned that from Windows Mobile, or Windows Phone, Or Windows XP tablet mode, or Windows 8.
I hear you, but getting non technical people on board is a huge barrier.
Let’s be honest, using *nix can be like the MS-DOS days at times unless you’ve been through the learning curve. And non technical people want things to just work out of the box.
Yeah we’re on exactly the same page. And drivers, ffs, drivers; so so many hours lost fixing that stuff, sometimes only partially in a “urgh, I’ve kinda got this working after 3 hours of hacking” kinda way.
*nix will never be mainstream for regular users or get adoption outside of containers until we solve that barrier to entry.
No one’s grandparents are gonna invest hours in a terminal / bash
Yeah it really did but I’m a hardcore gamer and a dev.
If you can’t give me 100% of things I want to play, seamlessly, on ultra at 5120x1440p then you’ve lost me.
That res is going up later this year too.
I’m a huge supporter of *nix, open source, but I don’t know if there will ever be 100% support for my needs unless I build them myself, which I don’t have time to do.
Used to (e: tried to), but I’m a gamer and linux is under appreciated so you have to dual boot and it wasn’t worth while on my main machine as I have so many devices.
So these days I exclusively use Windows on my gaming rig, and my other devices typically use forks of debian; work is a whole other thing though.
further edit: the laptop I moved over to Aus with was solely Ubuntu.
The Steam Deck really moved *nix gaming along.
If only other people got onboard. Everyone else built a handheld, but they shipped with windows and just proved for the umpteenth that Windows is NOT a portable OS. Its almost like we should have learned that from Windows Mobile, or Windows Phone, Or Windows XP tablet mode, or Windows 8.
I hear you, but getting non technical people on board is a huge barrier.
Let’s be honest, using *nix can be like the MS-DOS days at times unless you’ve been through the learning curve. And non technical people want things to just work out of the box.
I want things to work out of the box too! Last think I want to come home and do is use CLI to make my PC work to play a game.
Yeah we’re on exactly the same page. And drivers, ffs, drivers; so so many hours lost fixing that stuff, sometimes only partially in a “urgh, I’ve kinda got this working after 3 hours of hacking” kinda way.
*nix will never be mainstream for regular users or get adoption outside of containers until we solve that barrier to entry.
No one’s grandparents are gonna invest hours in a terminal / bash
Edit: So how do we fix it?
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Also the UX is terrible here :/
Yeah it really did but I’m a hardcore gamer and a dev.
If you can’t give me 100% of things I want to play, seamlessly, on ultra at 5120x1440p then you’ve lost me.
That res is going up later this year too.
I’m a huge supporter of *nix, open source, but I don’t know if there will ever be 100% support for my needs unless I build them myself, which I don’t have time to do.