I had win11 on this computer for three days, THREE FUCKING DAYS, planning to put linux on when the weekend came around and I had a little more time.
Nope, third day, I finally got fed up trying to install vlc and I put fedora 35(37? can't remember) on in the parking lot of my job on lunch break...
autism quest
...is that the sequel to depression quest?
...ill see myself out...
I started on consoles. they were just more approachable back in the day. keyboard and mouse has always been a bit clunky, and in those days, it was harder to find games i wanted to play with gamepad/joystick support
These days, I'm wondering how many generations of consoles we actually have left...
except maybe nintendo... those fuckers know how to survive in the long haul. They make mistakes now and again, but they make good games consistently, and they push the envelope on interface.
wrong question. Nobody's running the country. the two "leaders" are a dementia-riddled career politician and a brandead diversity hire. The rest of the admin are too focused on court intrigue to do anything useful.
The real question is who's trying to run the country, because let's be honest, the admin's been in freefall for a long fucking time.
even the puppetmasters gotta be scratching their heads tryna figure out how it spiraled so far out of their control at this point...
you make him sound autistic, lol
toss a linux distro on an old pc if you have one and play around with it. maybe put a few older favorites from steam onto it and see how it works (the older the better, more time for compatibility to be worked out, and fewer resource needed on an older computer).
worst case scenario, you can usually install linux onto a new computer with a few tweaks to bios/uefi settings. I've personally never run into a computer that you can't get to run linjux without changing some settings, but it's possible there are some out there.
damn, shit's bad when even zerohedge is talking about vidya...
Mint's pretty good from the little I've messed with it.
regarding gaming, WINE has existed for a longtime for playing windows software, though it has its limitations. When valve came out with Proton, it made things a lot easier, though.
...And Gog does a pretty good job of supporting linux as well, though most of the older titles on Gog work fine under WINE if for no other reason than they're twenty/thirty years old at this point...
oh no, ps3, 4, and 5 controllers are all plug and play in linux at this point. (as I understand it, the drivers are part of the kernel).
(warning: text wall incoming, sorry)
as for usability, linux is fairly easy, though I would definitely expect to get a little more comfortable with the command line. Even in windows, sometimes that's the easiest way to troubleshoot certain problems, but in linux you'll run into tools that work best from there.
installation is easy enough these days, grab an empty thumbdrive, grab a live image, install it using a tool, then change a few boot settings, pop the thumbdrive in and go. most versions of linux will install in a user friendly way.
I'd start out with one of the mainline distributions and get a feel for it, ubuntu or fedora being the big ones off the top of my head. there's a lot of flavors, and it can get overwelming trying to pick one when you're just starting out. once your comfortable with the basics, you can pick something more suited to your tastes, but yeah.
Sidenote: unlike in windows, if you don't like the interface/layout, you can change it. as an example, most versions of linux use something called Gnome, but I'm using KDE, which has a more windows-esque feel to it. there are others that are a bit more lightweight resource-wise, but i got comfortable with kde, and it works fine on a modern pc (and it's not nearly the resource-hog that windows is).
Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk, and welcome to the cult of the penguinš§. lol
good point, maybe.
All I was saying is porting to raspberry pi wouldn't be the same as porting to pc linux, you'd probably need some sort of workaround, at which point you might as well just use wine/proton, lol
honestly, I just found the meme and it made me chuckle, so I shared it, lol.
no doubt, lol.
yeah, I didn't bother getting a ps5... for that cost I could get a decent gaming rig and be able to use it for whatever I want. I just use the controller for playing games (btw, linux has come a long-ass way in supporting gaming, all I had to do to use a ps5 gamepad was plug it in, lol)
ps5 gamepads are a little bigger, which I like, because even though I have relatively small hands, the playstation controllers always gave me these weird handcramps...
true-ish
raspberry pi uses an arm processor, as opposed to x64, which to my understanding have different instruction sets, features, etc, so it wouldn't necessarily work on a pc without a little (more likely a lot) of tweaking...
agree on the microshaft part 100% though.
Could be. Honestly, I figured valve made more money off of steam than off of making in-house games anyway, so they just said "fukkit" after portal 2 and focused more on that and hardware.
yeah, but they probably want to retire the ps4 servers and move them to the PS5 side so people will actually buy a ps5, lol.
I will say I like the ps5 controller, though. Best PC gamepad I've ever had...
Good point.
maybe troll the maker of some woke trash instead?
There's an official version of Linux for it, plus a dozen flavors of other stuff as well.
You make a good point though...
Inafmous was okay. Never really got into sly cooper, though. Nothing against it, just wasn't that interesting to me.
We all have our favorites, though. =)
Was half life 3 actually teased, or is it just a meme? I'm legitimately curious at this point.
...If I knew anything about game coding or bloodborne for that matter, I'd be smelling an opportunity here...
well, that and the people who actually crack the games are kinda the opposite; they enjoy diving into the technical stuff, and defeating DRM is as enjoyable challenge for them as playing the game (think dark souls, but on steroids), so the more challenging the DRM, the more fun they have taking it apart, piece by piece.
I remember hearing about a study once that found that when company released a drmed version of a game and a drm-free version, the cracked version of the drm version got torrented more.
with a nod to GOG for keeping old games playable (and most stuff runs just fine under linux as well, at the very least, I haven't run into any problems personally... heck, I even got a star trek: armada mod to run without any issues.