Last I tried it was maybe 3 years ago. I had an old laptop I tried Mint on. Still had to go through the whole bullshit of not having the right wifi drivers, so I had to go on another computer and track down the linux version and the whole "oh if you have the 171.bgi.90x then you need to get firmware v1.21.98, but if you have the 171.bgh.90c you need to make sure you only get firmware v1.21.93 and never update it", put it on a thumb drive (oh and make sure it's formatted in a way that you can move the linux drives onto it from windows but still read it from linix) and then finally getting wifi working and then trying to get the keyboard backlight to work, and then trying to get the non-standard function keys to work, and then having to create a script that changes the boot order of services so that bluetooth is turned on at the right time so my mouse would work, and on and on. It is technically doable most of the time, and I get that some people love that shit and really get a kick out of it. I'm not one of them. I don't want being able to turn my laptop on to be some epic quest I have to vanquish. It's not rewarding to me, it's just a headache.
If I have to create a profile on Stackexchange and spend a week tracking down 11year old posts that sound similar to my problem to be able to get my laptop to get online and watch videos on Locals, I'm not interested. So far, at least in my experience, Linux aint there yet.
I simply typed in "usb wifi linux" on Amazon and bought the first result for like $20 and it worked immediately with no installation as soon as I plugged it in. Don't see why you'd have to pretend something basic like wifi is still as difficult as it might have been a decade ago.
It’s improved a lot since hardware standards have gotten to be a lot better. Wi-Fi kept me away my first go around with Linux nearly a decade ago, but with hardware all from the last five years, it’s a non factor.
I’m not lying to sell Linux as much, as I would like to. I totally expected my Linux gaming experiment to be a disaster. With rare exceptions I mentioned in another post, it’s just fucking worked.
Mine is a decade old PC that I repurposed into a medis system after an upgrade that didn't have any built in wifi, I just plugged the D-Link wifi thing into a USB port and it worked. Can't stand guys who made Linux Hater part of their personality and fixated on "my sound card drivers don't work" from 15-20 years ago.
Mine is only a couple years old, but it’s far from high end outside of the huge SSD I just put in it.
If it weren’t for all the kernel anti cheat requirements of normie games, I’d feel comfortable enough handing my PC to a normie gamer and saying here you go, it’s a Steam console, use it. The Steam stuff has been that trouble-free. It’s barely more complicated than using a PS4.
For me, so far the benefits have far outweighed the tiny bit of fiddleyness. Everything in one place, no half dozen launchers all using RAM and stalking me. I haven’t installed anything this week, I turn it on and play it like a console. I’ve got some mods to try soon, but doesn’t look that bad with how each game has its own little virtual C drive. Then I will give MVP Baseball 05 a go. That game is totally unusable on Windows 10/11 and doesn’t seem to have Lutris support.
Last I tried it was maybe 3 years ago. I had an old laptop I tried Mint on. Still had to go through the whole bullshit of not having the right wifi drivers, so I had to go on another computer and track down the linux version and the whole "oh if you have the 171.bgi.90x then you need to get firmware v1.21.98, but if you have the 171.bgh.90c you need to make sure you only get firmware v1.21.93 and never update it", put it on a thumb drive (oh and make sure it's formatted in a way that you can move the linux drives onto it from windows but still read it from linix) and then finally getting wifi working and then trying to get the keyboard backlight to work, and then trying to get the non-standard function keys to work, and then having to create a script that changes the boot order of services so that bluetooth is turned on at the right time so my mouse would work, and on and on. It is technically doable most of the time, and I get that some people love that shit and really get a kick out of it. I'm not one of them. I don't want being able to turn my laptop on to be some epic quest I have to vanquish. It's not rewarding to me, it's just a headache.
If I have to create a profile on Stackexchange and spend a week tracking down 11year old posts that sound similar to my problem to be able to get my laptop to get online and watch videos on Locals, I'm not interested. So far, at least in my experience, Linux aint there yet.
I simply typed in "usb wifi linux" on Amazon and bought the first result for like $20 and it worked immediately with no installation as soon as I plugged it in. Don't see why you'd have to pretend something basic like wifi is still as difficult as it might have been a decade ago.
It’s improved a lot since hardware standards have gotten to be a lot better. Wi-Fi kept me away my first go around with Linux nearly a decade ago, but with hardware all from the last five years, it’s a non factor.
I’m not lying to sell Linux as much, as I would like to. I totally expected my Linux gaming experiment to be a disaster. With rare exceptions I mentioned in another post, it’s just fucking worked.
Mine is a decade old PC that I repurposed into a medis system after an upgrade that didn't have any built in wifi, I just plugged the D-Link wifi thing into a USB port and it worked. Can't stand guys who made Linux Hater part of their personality and fixated on "my sound card drivers don't work" from 15-20 years ago.
Mine is only a couple years old, but it’s far from high end outside of the huge SSD I just put in it.
If it weren’t for all the kernel anti cheat requirements of normie games, I’d feel comfortable enough handing my PC to a normie gamer and saying here you go, it’s a Steam console, use it. The Steam stuff has been that trouble-free. It’s barely more complicated than using a PS4.
For me, so far the benefits have far outweighed the tiny bit of fiddleyness. Everything in one place, no half dozen launchers all using RAM and stalking me. I haven’t installed anything this week, I turn it on and play it like a console. I’ve got some mods to try soon, but doesn’t look that bad with how each game has its own little virtual C drive. Then I will give MVP Baseball 05 a go. That game is totally unusable on Windows 10/11 and doesn’t seem to have Lutris support.