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.
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.
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.
excuse you!? you joined a thread where a user got caught out not knowing what they are doing with steam and gave poor advice and blamed linux. they could have asked nicely. but instead you all barrelled in here with your ‘linux sucks’ to start.
dont act like you didnt play a toxic part in this play.
Sure, I’m wrong about piracy on Linux. I didn’t know it was so established. That doesn’t mean I’m some kind of noob online.
Im the lead developer at my work. Im quite capable and comfortable in Linux.
Unfortunately, Linux doesn’t get very good hardware support. So you either have to compile the drivers yourself or hope someone else has done that work. Nobody got time for that.
Some severe cope you have here.
I only tend to play 1 or 2 games at most in any time frame. -Maybe 3-6 a year. When one of those doesn’t play on Linux, that’s a huge impact on my view of Linux. -But that’s minor compared to the games that couldn’t be completed halfway through due to frame timing issues. Also, pacing games that experienced input lag. It’s worse to be stuck with a game broken midway on a shitty limited OS than to just have it not play to begin with.
Maybe if you played games enough to experience problems instead of constantly having to fix your Linux; you’d see these things.
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.
You can’t have any pro windows stance here at all on lemmy bud. The fediverse is likely 99.7% Linux enthusiasts.
Edit: just saw the last statement. You can get games from GOG as well on Linux or Windows
steam is an app. not OS. and you all still dont even know how that works regardless of where youre installing it.
pirating fail.
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.
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.
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.
The fact that you couldn’t be moderately civil there proves my point that the entire community is toxic is all hell.
excuse you!? you joined a thread where a user got caught out not knowing what they are doing with steam and gave poor advice and blamed linux. they could have asked nicely. but instead you all barrelled in here with your ‘linux sucks’ to start.
dont act like you didnt play a toxic part in this play.
Steam is an app. It is not an OS.
Sure, I’m wrong about piracy on Linux. I didn’t know it was so established. That doesn’t mean I’m some kind of noob online.
Im the lead developer at my work. Im quite capable and comfortable in Linux.
Unfortunately, Linux doesn’t get very good hardware support. So you either have to compile the drivers yourself or hope someone else has done that work. Nobody got time for that.
it does but then it does catch up. its alwys getting updated. dont spread misinformation.
Some severe cope you have here. I only tend to play 1 or 2 games at most in any time frame. -Maybe 3-6 a year. When one of those doesn’t play on Linux, that’s a huge impact on my view of Linux. -But that’s minor compared to the games that couldn’t be completed halfway through due to frame timing issues. Also, pacing games that experienced input lag. It’s worse to be stuck with a game broken midway on a shitty limited OS than to just have it not play to begin with.
Maybe if you played games enough to experience problems instead of constantly having to fix your Linux; you’d see these things.
i didnt say i didnt play enough games to know. that is your assumption.
i just finished testing 20 in the last few months. they worked fine on linux.
and i built a simulation rig.
unlike others here : I know Steam is an app. not an OS
So i know what i’m doing.
Obviously not, and no one with a job and life is completing that many modern games that quickly.
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.
Some of us use computers to run a business instead of play games.
i do too. i built a simulation machine for my work. it just happens to play games just fine.
i am not moved to believe you know what you are doing to be this egotistical about not doing a basic search on how steam works.
it is an app. It is not an OS