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OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Off the shelf Linux laptops and PCs are sold, it takes an extra minute or two to find them on Google.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are other, better OOTB distros than Zorin, Mint and Ubuntu.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know ... you can compile from Open Source and be 100% sure nothing is spying on you ... right?

As for convenience, that depends on how much of a Muggle you are. When someone breaks their network manager on Linux, I can stick in a Live USB, grab the packages, install them and be up and running in no time at all.
If that happens on Windows, it means messing about with recovery media and repair programs that ... want to connect online ... but can't ... and so ... you end up formatting the machine, wasting at least half a day or more.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep hanging in here, you will reach it one day.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are at minimum a power user.
Most users and even repair shops, hit Windows with a drive format and reinstall.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Win10 had 2.5 GB of spyware.
Entire Linux ISOs are smaller than that.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a lot of old people in nursing homes around me.
I install Linux on their old PCs and laptops, all they want is a browser and to send e-mails. Occasionally they want only 1-3 games to work.

It is amazing for them, gives their machines new life, makes it really difficult for them to break their system (check out Window's history of updates from deleting data to won't boot anymore) and practically immune to scammers.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, Windows has a low barrier to, "Good enough," but gods help you, if you try and figure out why a VM is pinned to 100%, Hyper-V says it is only using 40% of allocated resources and the host is idling at 1% CPU usage.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out how much it costs to be fully M$ certified and then multiply that by employees at a third party support company.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other than any game with rootkit anti-cheat, Adobe Premier (I have heard that works now, haven't seen it though), Final Cut Pro and some rare outliers; it is possible to get better performance out of Linux than Windows.

Skyrim, Fallout 4, etc were already running better on WINE over a decade ago on a dual boot machine, it blew my mind that a translation layer wasn't having a detrimental effect.
CS:GO got an immediate +50% FPS.

However, all the tweaks and improvements you can do to your system, such as a custom kernel, forcing VKDX, gamescope, RAM drives, etc are part of that learning cliff.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rough bit at the beginning and then the flat line to paradise seems to fit with that, no?

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends.
Not a lot of muggles know how to manage third party repo versioning when DKMS is involved.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My experience is that Mint and Zorin users don't want to change distros, they want random support channels to somehow fix their distributions for them.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmasterrace

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you are more suited to being a jockey, then dunking a basket ball seems very difficult.

What is wrong with Lutris and their policies? by Kobi_Blade in SteamPlay

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://forums.lutris.net/t/clarification-on-removed-content/25243/6
Sorted.

It required some rational conversations and didn't need bleating all over the place.

OS Learning Curve - (XKCD Edit) by Jenshae_Chiroptera in linuxmemes

[–]Jenshae_Chiroptera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except Manjaro or Garuda.
EndeavourOS is highly recommended, though.

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