• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    dont do it. dont do the windows. do the linux. be nicer to yourself. youll thank yourself later.

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      1 day ago

      Just use Winhance. It not only removes all AI bullshit, it also makes your computer faster. Linux boxes are great if you wanna live exclusively in Steam. Some of us pirate games that aren’t on Steam.

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          1 hour ago

          steam is an app. not OS. and you all still dont even know how that works regardless of where youre installing it.

          pirating fail.

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          7 hours ago

          Unfortunately true. I’m agnostic to the OS. I’m 100% the use case and the feasibility and longevity.

          Use whatever OS fits your needs. Not what Lemmy thinks you need. Because at the end of the day you’re the one stuck trying to vibe code a driver or a function that you need/want.

          Case in point. I spent 1 full week trying to get the Ethernet to stop asking for a static IP even tho it’s been set to DHCP. It turned out the motherboard is too new and there is limited driver support. After compiling my own drivers, the entire system would panic without any logs. Even full verbose and custom watchers. Nothing.

          Meetings with clients would frequently panic or my entire codebase would vanish after a crash.

          I reinstalled windows and just worked. No fiddling. No compiling. No researching. Just worked.

          All my other homelabs are on Linux. Just the main workhorse is Windows.

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            1 hour ago

            Given the advice you gave up there shows youre unwilling to understand how steam works (regardless of OS) I’m very willing to bet there was user error involved in any other issues you have and refer to as it ‘OS’ errors.

            i wouldnt even trust you with windows.

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            5 hours ago

            Yeah the Linux community are a bunch of unrealistic tech obsessed weirdos who don’t live in the real world where you actually have to have a computer that 100% works 100% of the time. The vast majority of the human population do not enjoy, or have the capacity to, fiddle around trying to get basic functionality working.

            And if you mention the fact that because of the lack of kernel support you can’t get things like battlefield 5 working they say, who cares about battlefield it’s shit anyway, like that’s some sort of arguement, and it’s your fault for wanting to be able to play a popular video game.

            I’m all in favour of the operating system but the community had just toxic.

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              26 minutes ago

              No one from linux here is spanking you for not using linux. you are being spanked for not knowing how an app like steam works. i would kick your ass just the same for posting on a windows forum for not knowing that you can add non steam games to steam. hell I’ve installed non games on steam. just exe. you dont need a specific OS to do that.

              And not denying you to play specifically battlefield but theres probably double the pvp games over what isnt playable on linux that is playable on linux. Or just dual boot for the (only 3 gamesyouabsolutelyneedwindowsfor)… you dont want that? fine. you do you.

              i personally wouldnt throw an os out over one game when i have 5 others that are easily playable on there to just try it out. so i dont know why you have such shade just over someone who does use linux.

              We really are quite literally spoiled on choice in this day and age with games given there’s console wars aside from all this pc bickering we’re here doing.

              but to each their own. go back to your pretending to be starving for choices. poor you. there there i guess.

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        11 hours ago

        I get that you’re trying to be helpful but all of winhance can be patched in the next release and who wants to worry about cat and mouse just to use slop instead of an actually consumer friendly os like Linux

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          9 hours ago

          Im a dev and have multiple homelabs using Linux. I’m not shy or not willing to use Linux. But the truth of the matter is if we don’t have support for newer hardware or some niche hardware. I could compile drivers myself, but that is a high entry barrier for 99.9% of people.

          You want your system to just work and Windows does that(majority of the time). Hardware companies large and small support Windows. So you will likely have a fix faster or a driver on zero day instead of waiting for someone to help you build it.

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        1 day ago

        so what you are saying is you didnt do any very basic newb research to discover yet that you can add non steam games to steam too.

        and you havent heard of herioc …in which you can also add random games to

        or lutris.

        the advice you have for me isnt sound. or researched.

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        1 day ago

        Just use Winhance

        “Just drink arsenic with berries. The berries make it taste better. Don’t worry about the rest”