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The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: "Gamers use Windows because of its' user experience not our de facto monopoly."

Next Image: Duff CEO with Windows-Logo in front of a "Out of Business" sign. Subtitle: "30 minutes after SteamOS is released"

Edit: Yo, I'm not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew's UX sucks ass.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's actually gotten a lot better over the last few years; Valve has been putting in a lot of work into making gaming "just work" through Steam. It's still a bit jank, but honestly all OSes are a bit jank.

If anyone in this thread is interested, I'd recommend giving Linux Mint a go. There's nothing really to lose.

Anyway, I'm done shilling Linux so I'll let you get back to your Simpsoning. :P

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

There’s nothing really to lose.

Just hours of your time as some random miniscule feature you were reliant upon without realizing it until it was missing, then have to look up a dozen different fixes using some stone aged console commands, none of which actually fix your issue...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That is pretty much my experience when I have to use a windows machine at work. Sorry, the powershell command is how long? Just got this from ChatGPT, no idea if it works and I am not booting windows to test it.

Bash: grep -iRl "test"

Powershell: Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Select-String -Pattern "test" -CaseSensitive:$false | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Path -Unique

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

Which is why people use the GUI for pretty much everything. Linux demands you use archaic commands to do anything useful.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

This is my current experience with pop os. Took a while searching and digging through age old threads to figure out how to fix Rivals so it actually launches, then more searching to fix an issue I was having with the screen blacking out, and it's going to be more searching to figure out why audio keeps tearing while I'm full screened. It's a pain trying to make things compatible, so much so I'm extremely tempted to switch back to Windows 10 despite it hitting EOL this year. I really don't like having to waste my personal time making something work when there's an incredibly easy alternative where everything works always (aside from hardware issues)

Edit: especially peeved about trying to fix ffxiv. I want my shaders back >:(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I had tried mint years ago, and gave up when I couldn't even get my extra mouse buttons to work. I'm not going back to 1995 with a shitty 2-button

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 minutes ago (1 children)

Did u try installing the driver for ur mouse lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Hurr durrr... Yes I did.