Windows user since 1994 (2 YO)
Linux user since 2008
recently “betrayed” by m$
2020 or 2021 switched to Linux but dual booted with winlol for compatibility
gamer, but not competitive
on 2021 succeeded to run everything on Linux
deleted winlol and use only Linux since
I have no significant other nor special someone besides my parents
@clif Linux Mint is a popular migration destination because of how close its UI is to Winlol, but KDE is a close UI too to winlol’s, as for the software, if possible, one can use Wine or a VM until they get used to native Linux tools, with a little research, one can easily find a good alternative to almost anything
@clif @BCsven are you implying that Linux is not compatible with most things on winlol? I’ve yet to find anything that I need and is winlol only, everything either has a version on Linux or has a Linux-able alternative
There are many winlol-only things but none I need
For gaming, Linux
For office use, Linux
For media, definitely Linux…
@lung @AnUnusualRelic eh, had 4, 2, 1 and 0, on EndeavourOS when you yay right after you yay, or you yay after an hour
@GolfNovemberUniform @cm0002 sure do
Ah, it’s good to see Linux gaming evolving
@specterspectre plus, it doesn’t have any of the phones I own
@specterspectre eh, I’m not a developer, plus, tuto like this takes time that I hardly find
@specterspectre @michael_palmer or maybe a Huawei P5 pro
@specterspectre @michael_palmer also Samsung Galaxy A70, however, it is critical that I don’t leave it unusable since it’s essential for my work
@specterspectre @michael_palmer can you find an official custom ROM of LineageOS for Nokia X or Alcatel Pixi 4 (4")?
@cm0002 there’s another way: using a VM
@cm0002 eh, does that mean I can’t anymore tweak my Lumia? Fuck (yes I still have a Lumia, even many years after their death, it is still my best phone, android can’t compete, an android, and I mean all of them, lags like hell on 2Gb RAM, the Lumia runs super smoothly with 1 Gb RAM)
@sockman @prettydarknwild winlol? 🤔 it’s a penguin 🤨
@AndrewZabar in 2024, you just yay -S nvidia-inst && nvidia-inst & everything works so they are no longer a problem
@AndrewZabar using EndeavourOS, for example, searching how to install the Nvidia drivers, you can find old results such as installing nvidia-dkms… yay -S nvidia-dkms, that could have been useful 3 years ago but now it breaks the display, you should instead yay -S nvidia-inst && nvidia-inst & everything will work perfectly
@AndrewZabar @woelkchen really ? I discard them immediately as they seem super old
@Zozano @Lost_My_Mind so I lose much much time researching and since they were pirated games, support was poor so I even searched the dark web (not the dark dark web but I call the dark web the 3rd+ page of google)
@Zozano @Lost_My_Mind
seriously, I have been gaming for more than 30 years and if you want me to swear I’ll swear, for 25 years I have been gaming pirated games, on the V1.0.0 of a random game, the save file is located on My Documents\My Saved Files, then after installing the update 1.1.0 the saved progress is gone, after much research, I find it under my docs\the game name, then after 1.2.0, I find it under App Data\local… and so on and every time the pseudo changes+ the path
@possiblylinux127 @iopq
in reality, gaming on Linux became since a long time way better than on winlol, and Mesa & CodeWeavers are actively working to make it better every day, the problem comes from developers, mainly kernel-level anticheat, according to members on the fediverse or one of the communities I follow on fb, it all comes down to a simple checkbox if you want the game to allow running on Linux or nay, so the blame falls down to stupid devs not the OS
@ragebutt @TheLeadenSea don’t forget steriotypes, history and old habits almost always work for non-tech savvy, for example, many people avoid Samsung devices because they explode in spite that even happened last time years ago, I know they still explode but it is a rare even and its causes are known