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G*mers running 50 windows debloater scripts to get an extra 4 frames in a game
G*mers when they have to go to KDE discover and click install steam
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We both know getting Linux running properly isn't this easy. You better hope to God your distro comes prepackaged with the proper drivers
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On fedora I copied like 3 commands into my terminal to enable nvidia drivers. If you can debloat windows you can run linux
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Mine didn't come with ethernet or wifi
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Linux is a monolithic kernel so it has all drivers within it. Its likely you were using an older kernel on newer hardware.
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Yeah that's probably it. The computer was like 2 years old at that point though I think, so it was pretty weird to me that the newest stable release of fedora at the time didn't have drivers for it.
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What were you using? Stuff thats like debian/mint/ubuntu uses a heck outdatdd kernel for security
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I think it was fedora because after windows wiped my linux install from its own separate partition (don't even ask, I don't know, frick microsoft lmao), it shows up in the bios as a boot option
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I feel like whenever this happens it's someone who hears 'install debian' and takes it as actual advice instead of as a meme.
Virtually any mainstream linux distro is easy as shit to download and install save for red hat and debian, both of which are server distros
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Why dont you like debian?
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It just seems shitty and old for desktop use and it's easier to just run redhat or rocky linux on servers instead.
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it depends on distro whether they include proprietary drivers or not. and of course if you can't get internet working you can't add a repo and download drivers either. debian famously didn't include proprietary drivers until recently.
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Proprietary drivers are mostly at this point just Nvidia. They won't be internet kernels and even then Nvidia is going to open source drivers too
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Linux is for g*mer chads with Nvidia cards
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Erm this needs a different package first!!
ERM DEPENDENCIES!!!
Oh you wanted audio to work? Teehee
Just Werks
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What? Dependencies auto install with a package manager system thats the benefit of them over windows style program installation. Idk about audio my laptop speakers stopped working on linux but they are butt so I always used headphones, meanwhile on windows my laptop could constantly overheat and give me visual glitches.
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Opinion discarded
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I run crosstalk on an old laptop. Shits great
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if you're using a desktop in year of our lord 2024 but can't figure out linux you're both r-slurred and uncool.
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I can make Linux work if I buy super specific hardware, unlike windows where I can rip out any oem motherboard with an x86 cpu and it just Werks
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Some games just don't work on linux though, most things with anticheat
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Windows is messing with the way they do kernel things soon. Should change the landscape bigly.
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I think thats just riot being , other companies disable linux because and the kernel changes won't effect them
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Depends on the anti cheat: everything but vanguard works on linux some games like Roblox and Fortnite still don't support because reasons. Its interesting how its mostly shitty games which don't work on linux
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Oh know, how will I play my chinx slop thag installs spyware level anticheat on the kernel. It's terrible I can't play LoL, Valorant, or Fortnite. End of the world.
Blame these companies for such shit software, not the OS. Rockstar deserves shit too with what they did last few weeks.
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