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LTT does another Linux Challenge (youtu.be)
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[–] 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

Hard disagree. Gaming is the task that needs the most complicated setup with lots of pitfalls – kernel version, Wine settings, GPU drivers, X11 vs. Wayland, even your DE can affect how many issues you'll have.
IMO if you want to play any games at all, use a distro set up specifically for gaming, to let someone else do all that work for you.
For all other tasks you'll do with your PC, a "gaming" distro will be just as good as any other.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    No, it seriously doesn't! Here are the actual steps, unabridged and in full, that I go through to game on Linux:

    1. Install Kubuntu
    2. sudo apt install steam
    3. There is no step 3; it just fucking works.

    You are posting FUD and misinformation. Knock it off.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You knock it off, there are so many small issues a distro like bazzite fixes that kubuntu won't have patches for out of the box. Discord screen sharing, for one.

    Then in steam you have to direct steam to use proton for almost every game with a Linux build because almost none of them actually work correctly.

    Also, if you're directing the average joe to use the terminal, it's too hard. Seriously. It needs a polished, self explanatory GUI. If the app store version of steam isn't good enough, then its not a good distro to recommend. Even then an app store might be too hard, many people are used to downloading apps from their website, and that problem hasn't been solved by many distros, either.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    for the average joe using the terminal is too hard

    The average Joe can certainly find it difficult to justify spending the time learning the terminal.. but actually learning how to use the terminal is easy (and I'm tired of everyone pretending it's not). If we tech literate people can put aside our low expectations then maybe we'll find it's easier to teach that expected.

    Then we can consider something like downloading apps by visiting websites (perhaps after dodging malware links from adverts in modern search engines) a solved problem: don't do that.

    This is something which ought to be taught in school as part of using a computer but users being tech literate probably goes against tech corporates that have their claws in education.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago

    Also, if you’re directing the average joe to use the terminal, it’s too hard. Seriously.

    Okay, I admit, that's one flaw (out of many) with Kubuntu: there are two different entries for Steam in DIscover (the graphical software installer interface) because of Canonical's obsession with Snaps, so that's why I wrote an unambiguous console command instead.

    To be clear, I don't actually like Snaps or some of Canonical's other business practices. I don't want to be recommending Kubuntu. But I can't deny that it's the easiest distro I've ever used.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    WorksOnMyMachine

    I installed Steam on several distros with no extra steps, and had issues with several games not launching correctly on Gnome.
    On KDE Plasma, no issues.
    It doesn't just fucking work for everyone equally, that's why letting someone else choose and setup what works best is a good idea.

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