yeah, but unlike windoze, apple makes their prison really expensive and pretty, so you know it’s better.
yeah but at least the UI is absolute dogshit. you know, the UI that is supposed to be one of their strengths.
not that windows is any better of course.
One of my favorite parts of my switch to Linux is feeling like I own the computer. None of that yes or remind-me-later to let you data farm bullshit. No mandatory updates. All the same functionalities. I have never felt lacking for functionality from Ubuntu compared to Windows.
I’m seriously considering switching to Linux. I have been stuck with a failed Windows 10 update for the last week, the damn machine tries to update Windows but fails at 35% and begins a 5 minute-long cycle of restarting the PC over and over again to “roll back” the changes. I have not asked Windows to update, sometimes I can shut down and start my PC without the damn auto-update thing to override whatever I do, other times I restart the PC and the update process begins without my confirmation.
How hard is to get into Linux? I use my PC mostly for g*ming and to study, will my games suffer any issues?
I was saying somewhere else that I was building a PC and the installation was literally inserting a USB stick and it was easier than setting up a game on Steam. You run a chance of your games suffering. I’ve been able to play Cult of the Lamb and Raft just fine. Allegedly Elden Ring is fine. Something like LoL or battle net will require some tricky software management, but I’ve gotten StarCraft II to work and never bothered with LoL because it frustrates me to play and I hate it. I got an N64 emulator to work with the games that I definitely lawfully ripped from my cartridges for the sake of back ups.
Installing Linux over Windows might be difficult and you should ask someone who isn’t me because I have never.
Allegedly Elden Ring is fine
can confirm, my pirated copy runs sweet as a nut on mint, the only tweaking i needed to do was change the language from Russian
Big budget multiplayer games with anti-cheat engines are likely to give you a hassle. Otherwise you’re probably fine.
The best thing to do is to make a live USB of some distro (probably Ubuntu, maybe Mint or Pop!) and try running from the USB for an afternoon. If you like it and everything seems to work, you can go ahead and install the OS. It’s very easy if you want to do a clean install (erase everything). Keeping your files from Windows is also possible, but about as complex as installing a mod loader on a game, and you’ll want to look up some guides for that.
Linux is as easy as making a USB stick and changing an option or two on your BIOS, took me about a half an hour including the installation time (compared to two hours to do a Windows restore).
Once you’re in, installing the most common programs is easy since ubuntu comes with a very mature package manager. just open the terminal (it’s very similar to MS DOS or Powershell if you’ve ever used those) and type something like “sudo apt-get install firefox” and it will automatically download and install Firefox. Some Linux OSs like Pop_OS come with a gui version of this that is similar to installing an app on a phone app store.
Games can be a little bit trickier, but the program Lutris handles the most common workarounds and tricks needed to get everything to work. Generally just use that program’s “add game” feature to run the game’s installer and it will handle the rest, or if you have games on Steam/Epic/GoG you can sync your account to Lutris and have everything on one app. The most I’ve had to do to get a game working is go into the launcher settings and add an argument (like “-forcedx11”) or tell Lutris to use a different version of WINE from the default.
As others are saying, games with an anti-cheat don’t like being run on Linux and often require a workaround if they work at all. The reason for this is Linux’s default security features not giving anti-cheat programs access to the level that they want, so even when they support Linux officially (as Easy Anti Cheat does iirc) developers don’t like to enable it. Lutris is capable of running scripts that can automate this for you, though it might break on an update, just search their website.
this sounds more like a criticism of microsoft more than anything. M1 goes *non-jet-engine sounds*
enjoy your 100W TDP lapburns
I’ve been super interested in the PBP for awhile, but I am not sure about it. Someone made a post recently that negatively reflected on Pine pivoting toward a more exclusive partnership with Manjaro and the negative relationship they have with the Pine user community. They also made statements that the PBP had major issues and it was not a good endorsement. Interesting timing for me to come across it because I was seriously considering the purchase, even with the warnings about dead pixels and “only for those interested in linux on ARM, don’t fuck with it if you’re basic and use 86” or whatever. If you are interested in sharing any of your experience with it I’d be happy to hear it.
This is more applicable to chrome books than anything else.
Hell, put any old uefi usb into a Mac, hold down the magic button and you’re running something else. Gotta turn off a bunch of crap in the bios (for now…) on pcs but basically same.
Chrome books need you to completely wipe the system, reboot twice selecting developer mode, set a root password, use it to enable legacy booting (using the command line), in some cases install a custom firmware off the internet and in my case, *physically remove a screw from the motherboard * just to boot from usb.
That’s not to install anything, just to boot something other than chromeos.
There’s a bunch to hate apple users for, but the computers themselves aren’t it.
Edit: and the kicker is that google/Samsung/et al aren’t even luring you into the most locked down, shitty hardware on the planet with a treat like the device being considered a luxury or supposedly good ui or magic arm soc, they’re waving the cheapest laptop on the market at you using an advertising model to prop it up. They’re saying “yeah it’s not great but you’re poor and you can just ignore the ads, right?”
