https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NIGPpz_vY&t=422s
I'm quite interested in this, more distros coming out with extremely user friendly options for getting games setup would be great, always appreciate proper gameplay being shown too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NIGPpz_vY&t=422s
I'm quite interested in this, more distros coming out with extremely user friendly options for getting games setup would be great, always appreciate proper gameplay being shown too.
Note: Got a bit more autistic and spergy than I meant to but I think it hammers the point home when it comes to open source software
That's really interesting, this is why if I do build a Linux system I am probably going to copy-paste somebody else's benchmark. The open source community really does not talk about hardware compatibility enough when it comes to software. I should consider myself lucky my current setup all runs fine on windows I guess but Blender, Krita and Godot have some major autists doing the code it seems and they've made sure it's all fine.
I'll tell you where I have run into compatibility issues myself with software generally just to assure everyone, no it's not purely them, for some reason the community just doesn't want to admit this problem exists in a lot of cases:
. Signal messenger, that was an extremely weird one, I even confirmed it with someone I knew RL who wanted to give it a try, there are specific phones or specific versions that the messenger app simply does not work on, messages seem to take several days to even send properly and it's clear this is a long term bug the devs refuse to fix or investigate
. Krita/Blender tablet compatibility, I've mentioned this before in previous rants about open source software, I had an old Bamboo One I was trying to get working on it ages ago and the pen pressure just wouldn't work and sometimes it would bug out completely, when I bought a brand new XP-Pen it worked fantastic
. Problems even getting a distro to install on my PC, most likely some combination of my motherboard/graphics card, doubtful it's my CPU because it's a Ryzen 2600 which is a pretty modern and common CPU
I did more digging on this and it looks like I'm not just being paranoid. Already know what was going on with the signal messenger app and Blender/Krita, but it was interesting finding out that hardware compatibility lists for distro do exist, however they are buried and you have to look for them. Distro devs need to be a lot more open about this and warn newbies especially so they don't have the typical experience I did of "Oh, wait a minute, this is unbearably shit, why am I constantly running into error messages when I'm just trying to install everything normally?".
Even though being a tech guy myself I can totally understand blaming the end user for fucking something up which does often happen it's a bit of a piss take when you as the end user finally work out that it's a hardware problem and the devs simply haven't done support for that particular piece of hardware. When people are reporting blatant problems that devs won't address it just makes them look at best completely apathetic or at worse shady as fuck.
Despite what I do, I don't have the time having only one PC at the moment to constantly trawl through all this shit just to get Linux even running on my PC which is why I've ended up on Windows yet again. Which has led me to the conclusion a second PC is probably needed since I don't want to deal with the pain in the arse nature at times of dual booting among other things and that often defeats the purpose of going pure Linux which is to rid yourself of Microsoft and Bill Gates.
IMHO Linux seems more open with hardware issues than Windows is and, mind you Windows has issues. Anyone saying otherwise is lying, especially because they don't seem to do any QA anymore. It's why I switched in the first place: it kept having issues, once deleted a whole drive for me and so on.
Dual booting I fucking hate. I kinda wish I accommodated for 2 GPUs or one CPU with onboard graphics then I could just pass through and have some level of compatibility.
Personally I would get a laptop you enjoy and install Linux on there. I started dual booting and still have a barely ever used Windows drive.
I've picked out a custom build from a Linux video I saw which all looked high end and promising, if I make money that's going to be something I'll need to purchase anyway because I'm one of the few people that can justify it properly for my work rather than spending a shit ton of money on a high end rig to only play Call of Duty and PUBG. Think I'm definitely going to have a goal in mind of a two PC setup rather than dual-boot because that would be useful, plus it gives me that added niceness of potentially having a projector downstairs and a big screen.
Windows definitely does have it's problems, the installation process alone has gotten ridiculous and should never have been allowed to get to that point because the retards working there have a hard on for preventing anybody doing offline accounts now. Windows update is also cancer I'll freely admit to it, the problem with Windows though at least for me it works and is very stable. I can't be writing code and doing 3D modelling while constantly having to deal with never ending troubleshooting issues which is something Linux autists don't seem to understand possibly because they view Linux as their hobby lol.