Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    17·
    4 days ago

    I simultaneously take offence by the suggestion that Linux is good now and am happy the lamers at PC Gamer are promoting it. Ultimately I won’t be inspecting this particular horse’s teeth. *Quiet grumble noises*

  • Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip
    21·
    2 days ago

    Linux has been good for a very long time. I’ve used it without issue for almost 20 years and im not half as computer savvy as many of you are.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    12·
    4 days ago

    Linux is good, the core OS has been great for a long long time (decades). It’s just the desktop environment situation that has sucked, and, of course, gaming before proton.

    If you want to play games Bazzite actually does work pretty well. I went back to Fedora though and I literally spent hours trying to fix issues with just the Steam flatpak (it was overwriting my controller mappings every open). If you’re a gamer just stick with Bazzite.

    I think I’m destined to for NixOS though, as my least favourite thing about linux is doing sudo fooctl enable bloopblorp and having no clear log/information about what exact state the system is in.

      • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 day ago

        Then why is it a flatpak?

        And it was a terrible idea, but on atomic distros it’s that or adding it to the os tree.

        • ranzispa@mander.xyz
          1·
          1 day ago

          Fedora is not an atomic distribution. I use fedora and I have Steam, it works.

          Then why is it a flatpak?

          I don’t know, I imagine there is some use case. The fact that a flatpak for a software exists does not mean that flatpak is the best installation option.

    • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
      9·
      4 days ago

      You should install Steam on your distro’s native package manager, it’s always better than flatpak since it doesn’t have to deal with file permissions.

    • witness_me@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 days ago

      I had issues with the steam flatpak, but installing it directly works. Same thing happened with slack and my browser.

  • ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml
    10·
    4 days ago

    I’ve been using Linux since high school (I dropped out in December 2006)

    I recently got an old PC from a friend, it’s a 2018 PC and the hard drive is NVME. It’s at least 4 times faster than my “adata” brand SSD from my 2018 PC. I barely tinkered with Windows and gaming capabilities and pretty much installed Ubuntu within 24 hours of trying this PC. It can’t run Windows 11 and there’s no point in using Windows 10.