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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago (3 children)

bullshit like this is getting worse and worse and is why i moved away from windows.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Same. They've always done this shit, but installing windows - and then uninstalling or disabling all the cooked-in bloat and spyware - has become so ridiculously tiresome that I just said fuck it and went Linux full-time.

Every update or service pack, it starts all over. There's no such thing as a clean windows install.

Nobara was up and running in like ten minutes with no fuckery at all, and it's no nice not having to fight my OS on everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

the constant cat and mouse game to disable the crap is something i dont miss after switching.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

You game and if yes, ATI or Nvidia?

Edit: yes I'm old and meant AMD.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I'd be really impressed if anyone still gamed on ATI.

I'm not that guy but yes and Nvidia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yep! I'm on Nvidia, the new drivers are really solid. I've read AMD cards run fine as well, but don't use one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I can testify for AMD. It just works on the 7900xtx.

Early last year it had issues buy they pushed a driver update and its perfect now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What are you running? I tried Ubuntu as my daily driver and honestly found it's user experience pretty shitty. Lots of little buggy issues with the interface and running a few games on steam that support Linux wasn't great

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

i'm running ubuntu. its flawless for me. its less work to set it up how i like it than to remove all the crapware on windows.

if you are running nvidia it might explain the little issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I run a 4070. What's the go with nvidia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

nvidia doesnt follow the standards with their linux driver, its just the windows driver adapted to run on linux. its not bad for gaming ime, but causes all sorts of little issues on the desktop especially if you are running wayland instead of xorg.

its changing though, they opened the source code for it and are currently rewriting the driver with the community. long way to go still though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Never knew, thanks for the info. Probably explains what I experienced. Nothing super major but just enough to annoy me over time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

nvidia drivers are much less than ideal on linux, it causes all sorts of small issues on the desktop. depends on your setup though, some people run it fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hmm. I think I'm going mad - I read your comment completely differently last time. Seemed completely unreliable. Probably just me lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i often edit my commeents for clarity, might have been it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ah, gotcha, maybe that's what I'm seeing then :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Recently I've found Fedora based distros better than debian (like Ubuntu) based ones, especially on "newer" hardware (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Hezio/saved/#view=TwZfpg)

For gaming Bazzite literally installs everything you need for you except Proton GE, although Steam's regular Proton isn't bad either for most games.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Fedora and bluefin have been working quite well for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Its been their practice since the early 90s. Bundling and defaulting all their shitty apps, then making sure everything else has compatibility issues by design.

The worst thing to happen to Microsoft was the IETF. It shattered their walled garden and forced them to integrate with a host of other internationally developed and encoded systems through a uniform protocol. They've spent the last 30 years trying to claw their position of OS dominance back.