: Workaround sent to the big OOBE in the sky with latest Insider builds
  • Carvex@lemmy.world
    39·
    12 days ago

    I use Lemmy and Steam games, someone please recommend a Linux OS and a browser to end this stupid shit for me.

    • methodicalaspect@midwest.socialEnglish
      10·
      12 days ago

      Linux Mint. If my 85-year-old dad can get used to it after over 30 years of Windows, you’ll be fine.

      /edit Also Firefox comes with pretty much every Linux distribution, but if you need something Chromium-based, I’m partial to Vivaldi.

      • starblursd@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Nobara and pikaOS also both good options. I use CachyOs on my main PC and nobara on my htpc and have had a very pleasant time with the distros and their communities. Just gotta leave windows at the door and be open to learning a new way of doing things. Best of luck OP

        and browser I love zen browser and have Vivaldi as my chromium browser of choice when some niche task needs it

        • Damage@feddit.it
          2·
          11 days ago

          I went from Nobara to Bazzite, Nobara worked but felt super janky, Bazzite is on another planet in terms of polish.

          • starblursd@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            Bazzite is awesome I just don’t like immutable distros personally. I like to tinker more than they allow. Nobara works great for my htpc but I think if I had to switch from CachyOs on my gaming PC I’d go pikaOS

            • Damage@feddit.it
              1·
              9 days ago

              I like to tinker more than they allow.

              I keep reading this, but it’s never clear what people mean. I still haven’t found anything I’m not allowed to tinker with, it’s just done differently.

      • Damage@feddit.it
        1·
        11 days ago

        Lol, CAD on Linux at 90% of what is available on Windows? That’s straight out dishonest.

        Source: CAD user on Linux

      • Aurora Chrysalis@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        CachyOS has recently stopped playing H264 videos on some websites after a system update.(on Librewolf and other browsers too). Installing ffmpeg4.4 will fix this.

    • poke@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      12 days ago

      I’ve had a good experience with Bazzite. It worked out of the box for steam, and the “bazaar” app store built into it had everything I needed. Heroic is in there and good for handling PC games from other stores. Use Proton+ to get the latest Proton GE if you run into any windows game compatibility issues and it may solve them.

    • Harvey656@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      If you have a Nvidia card, I’ve found mint and neon to be really poor performing. Kubuntu and Q4 have been amathiugh, I wouldn’t use Q4os unless you have low end hardware though.

      That being said mint is just the best os in the sphere for performance and usability, if it runs well for you that would be awesome.

      Libre wolf is an amazing Firefox branch, runs well, super private, good overall, though in my opinion it fails to perform well on beefy websites with alot of visual goodies (like sketch sketchfab and other 3d model websites.) Best to have both Firefox and Libre Wolf.

      On a side note some fun apps to use on Linux I found: qdirstat (winderstat replacement.) Portmaster (take control of what can access your pc via the internet, also has built in dns, a wonderful user interface, its just amazing.) Vencord (yeah I know discord sucks, but its almost impossible to get away from. Seriously I’ve tried to get my friends to use matrix, no Bueno.)

      Also, Plasma is the greatest thing ever. My god is it good.

    • PhAzE@lemmy.ca
      1·
      11 days ago

      How is it for gaming? Im hesitant to switch just for that one use case, but its a big one.

      • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
        4·
        11 days ago

        Great. Proton changed everything. My friend uses arch, i use fedora, another friend uses bazzite. I can play everything i want, no issues. Great framerates

        • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.org
          1·
          11 days ago

          The great framerates was something i doesn’t expect to this extent when switching. I thought that games would probably work similar but i went from 40-50 fps on medium high settings in elden ring to smooth 60 on highest settings just by switching from windows to bazzite

    • P1k1e@lemmy.world
      51·
      11 days ago

      Had Win 11 on my laptop (came with it) swapped to Mint 2 days ago. First Linux device. I cannot express how much faster it loads shit now.

    • Ardens@lemmy.ml
      6·
      12 days ago

      Well, Adobe is not “household” software. :-)

      But there are a lot of other software, that people have a hard time letting go of. Like Affinity, Scrivener, certain games, a lot of small programs/apps, like FastStone apps (Image viewer and more), AllMyNotes, ActionOutline, Duplicate cleaner 5, EZ CD Audio Converter and more…

      • Emily@slrpnk.net
        2·
        11 days ago

        I always recommend Loreforge as a replacement for Scrivener. I had no problem swapping once I spent a little time in Loreforge. It’s even available on Windows so they can try it ahead of time.

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
          1·
          11 days ago

          Loreforge

          It’s a good alternative, but it’s subscription based, and that’s a no go. Thanks for telling me about it though.

          • Emily@slrpnk.net
            2·
            7 days ago

            Huh? I’ve never paid anything for it.

            Edit: Ohhh, I see. They’ve added a subscription for some extra stuff. The full features of the program are entirely available in the free version. I’ve never pushed up against a paywall as far as I can tell.

      • Damage@feddit.it
        32·
        11 days ago

        Well, Adobe is not “household” software. :-)

        it is when everyone pirates it

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
          2·
          11 days ago

          Which everyone doesn’t do. By your definition, every software is household. Come on, please relate to this with common sense.

          • Damage@feddit.it
            1·
            11 days ago

            It may be me being a millenial, but I’m used to Photoshop being widely pirated. It used to be Adobe’s strategy to let people do that because that meant more people who knew how to use it and therefore more business sales.

            • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              10 days ago

              No offense but with the number of random processes running on any given machine, I am in no way gonna trust a mission critical app to work right from a pirate site and not load something extra like a keylogger. Hell it barely works right in a fully legal install…

              Also, I used to strongly advocate switching off Creative Cloud to Affinity to own the software but I have this horrible feeling that they may be going either subscription or AI slop or both on the 30th and you can no longer buy version 2.

              (And I say that as a long-time Adobe stockholder from back before they went pure evil with Creative Cloud.)

              • Damage@feddit.it
                2·
                10 days ago

                No need to convince me, I quit using Adobe before they even introduced Creative Cloud.

                I’m just explaining what I see.

            • Ardens@lemmy.ml
              11·
              10 days ago

              I used a pirated version of PS too - many years ago. I worked with multimedia, so there was a reason. Most regular people don’t even know how to use PS… They are better of with just a simple tool to do what they need, like cropping adjusting size, levels, colors and and the most basic things.

              • Damage@feddit.it
                1·
                10 days ago

                Yeah, again, my opinion may be influenced by my age, once upon a time computer users were, on average, skilled enough to do simple stuff in PS.

                • Ardens@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  10 days ago

                  That was when most users were drawn to computers out of a desire to learn, play and use it. Now, a lot of users are forced to use computers. That doesn’t make them great at it.

        • besbin@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          11 days ago

          Yeah, there’s a lot of niche software for specific needs that’s doesn’t have alternative or have subpar alternatives on Linux. Even as a full-time Linux users and supporter, I still have to acknowledge that the amount of investments gone into enterprise stuff over the year have basically made switching from Windows for a lot of professions almost impossible. Unless we start having more funding and development from state actors, the market share of OS won’t change significantly anytime soon.

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
          1·
          11 days ago

          My guess is, that you haven’t heard of a lot of apps or games, that a lot of people enjoy using… But it’s really of little consequence to the debate here, what you have heard of. :-)

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      11 days ago

      i used to think this too; but seeing tech literacy rate drop since the widespread adoption of smartphones makes me wonder if people will go with whatever works well enough and for the least about of effort.

      and linux still takes effort.

    • fin@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      11 days ago

      Nah most people will just create an account. They literally have no idea what they are doing.

  • mub@lemmy.ml
    7·
    11 days ago

    There needs to be some sort of EU directive that once a hardware device sells enough units they MUST provide the equivalent software features and functions available on windows for Linux, and not just a plain driver with no config options.

    Imagine being able to buy hardware knowing you can configure it in Linux without relying on some unsupported thing made by the community.

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    Great strategy to force users have a bad experience while your platform is in decline to a free and user friendly alternative. Very smart of MS, as per usual.