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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA (ostechnix.com)
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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I have been on Linux for over 15 years and even I don't want to go back to the old days of manually installing Wine and having to create different prefixes to get different games to launch without sound. or some missing textures.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Hear, hear!

    There is nothing wrong, and in fact there is something good, with FOSS being polished and user friendly out of the box.

    Historically that has not been a priority, because FOSS has been by the computer nerds, for the computer nerds. But if that priority shifts to being a bit more “by the computer nerds, for the normies” then that is a good thing as long as the developers don’t prevent the power users from accessing any part of the system they want. Fortunately that completely against the point of the FOSS world.

    I first learned Unix in the 90s, I use my Linux desktop more than my phone, I’m an engineer on embedded systems digging through C and C++ code all day, I have terminals open all day, and… I have Linux Mint Cinnamon installed on all my machines and love it. Change My Mind, lol.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I, on the contrary, prefer it when everyone uses mainstream Wine with winetricks and prefixes so if something doesn't work, you can at least fix it using someone's advice posted on winehq. With Proton it seems that everyone expects stuff to either just work or doesn't bother. The Proton advice is usually as valuable as Windows problems advice.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    What are you on about? ProtonDB is full of such advice

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Like I said, similar quality to googling for Windows problems. Reports on WineHQ are sorted by Wine version, OS version, usually involve specific actions taken.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That’s exactly how protondb works. And you also get hardware and distro information.

    You can search and filter reports by all of the aforementioned criteria for any game that’s listed.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    OK, it just has utterly degenerate webpage design. I thought those were voluntary additions by users telling what they use, not common format. Inconvenient.

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