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What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux? (distrowatch.com)
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Heyho, recently asked for the silliest reasons, but as someone who has suggested linux to many people, I often encounter people having valid reasons for staying with Windows or switching back.

The most boring but valid one is "I have to use Windows for work. It is a requirement (of some software I have to use)". But there are also other answers that fit. My sister for example tried Linux, but while installing software constantly encountered issues that I helped her solve and eventually switched back because she felt like she had less control than over windows. While I am aware that this is fundamentally wrong, it is valid that some amateur users do not want to invest enough time to get over the initial hurdles of relearning how to install software.

What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

OQB @VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml

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[–] 13 points 10 months ago (7 children)

It's getting better; Proton has really advanced this.

What's hurt this movement, is the lack of support of AntiCheat games, whether that being due to kernel level anticheat or games not supporting server side anticheat.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Not only that, theres also an increasing number of anticheat's that supports linux, however they have it intentionally disabled so when you run the game it either blocks you or in worse case bans your account as a whole

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Quite frankly, the potential of server-side anti-cheats is nearly entirely untapped. In Minecraft (Java Edition), some anti-cheats have made cheating much less overpowered, going as far as to patch 99% of movement cheats, and many combat cheats are ML-based, at this point.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I'm waiting for when the current official SteamOS is available to be installed on any PC to give it a whirl again. I know there is Bazzite, but I'd like to see exactly what a Deck user experiences, but on my desktop. They said it's coming, but with the recent announcement I'm wondering if they just meant this new Steam Machine and not like the old SteamOS which was kinda dookie but can be installed on any machine.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    I’d like to see exactly what a Deck user experiences, but on my desktop.

    Don't they see Steam's Big Picture mode? I think you could just run that and Gamescope on whatever distro you like. No need to wait for SteamOS 3.

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  • [+] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    no, Big Picture mode and Game Mode are two different things. Bazzite does have Game Mode for PCs tho as well.

    GameMode is Feral Interactive's project, and not what we are talking about.

    However, a bit of searching turns up relevant info from Bazzite:

    • Steam Gaming Mode is another name for gamepadUI.
    • It is built from Big Picture Mode and Gamescope, just as I suggested.
    • The interface is apparently available without loading Steam's full desktop interface by launching Steam with the -gamepadui command line option.

    Looks to me like what you're talking about and what I suggested are practically the same thing, perhaps excluding Deck-specific features that wouldn't be available in kolanaki's scenario anyway. If there's something more to it, then sharing what that is would be helpful.

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