@26:07 he says as a business he’s considering Linux on his computers because of Windows privacy violations. It’s great to hear someone with such a wide audience talking about using Linux.
@26:07 he says as a business he’s considering Linux on his computers because of Windows privacy violations. It’s great to hear someone with such a wide audience talking about using Linux.
Not just gaming companies, but pretty much all companies. Fuck all works on Linux, unless you’re into dev/IT.
Its funny how familiarity works. I think doing simple stuff in windows in infuriating now that im used yo Linux.
I’m not talking about simple stuff. That’s the problem with Linux - it’s only usable for simple stuff.
Really? I would say it has less simple stuff and more complicated stuff, although it obviously has a lot of both.
I guess you mean that a lot of proprietary ‘professional’ software doesn’t work out of the box? I guess that’s true, but I wouldn’t call all of the alternatives ‘simple’ lol
I’m not a dev or into IT and I’m on Arch Linux playing games and working without any problems. My sister has more trouble getting some games to run on Windows than I do on Linux.
Only time I reinstalled Windows on a laptop was when I was trying to get an ODB2 over USB connector to work, and the program (FORSCAN) couldn’t automatically read the device in Wine. You had to run a series of commands to find the device and then create a symlink in that Wine prefix. I was not going to tinker around like that while sitting in a hot car upon the hope I get it right and don’t fuck up the instrument cluster.
But besides those weird edge cases, it’s been pretty easy for me too, and I still reinstalled Linux after that little project!
Now that I think about it, I wonder if a Windows VM would have worked…
A VM would normally work if USB passthrough is properly configured. That said, on operations just like that, I normally just boot to my small Windows partition that I keep around for just such an occasion.
Cool story, bro.
Huh? How am I able to daily drive it on multiple machines for audio production, gaming, and workstation use.
I must have accidentally installed Windows…
99% of things people do on a computer just require a web browser, and those definitely work on Linux.
People who only do these things do them on their phones. When you actually need a PC to do shit, you either have to use Windows or MacOS.
And what shit is that?
Lol, sheeeh, the ratio!! I’m a (sadly) Windows-focused sysadmin in higher education and I agree with this, Linux is amazing for servers but normal business users can’t do shit with it : (
This was definitely true ten years ago! I’m sure you’ll catch up to the modern linux experience soon though.
2025 will definitely be the year of the Linux desktop :)
The year of the linux desktop was when AMD open sourced their drivers around 5 years ago and Valve partnered with codeweavers to drop Proton. Its only been uphill from there.