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[–] 197 points 2 years ago (40 children)

Technically false
Gamer here, use Linux cause proton is good and I'm fed up with windows lol

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    This is probably an old meme. I use Linux as a dedicated gaming OS, macOS for everything else except when Linux is already booted or nothing is and I want to do something quickly.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why not Linux for everything else? Art apps?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    In my case, Inventor and AutoCAD. I hate AutoDesk with the fury of a thousand suns, but FreeCAD just isn't stable enough.

    Oh, and currently needing .NET automatic source generation (long story), which is very difficult to develop on anything other than Windows.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    I kind of really dislike the notion that you only use Linux because you are too poor for Apple.

    I don't use Apple because I don't like to be stuck in a walled garden where a company decides what's best for me.

    I know it's just a meme, but I think too many people actually think Linux is somehow inferior to Apple (MacOS) while I think it's the other way around.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Also. MacOS is absolute garbage. I've used it for 4 months now, and it pisses me off how inconsistent it is, and poorly designed and written. Two days wasted because of an almost bricked laptop because the monitor was set to 60Hz while installing an update. Just think about that.

    I also had the misfortune of booting into windows after changing a motherboard. It was an absolute shit show there too, with broken drivers. Two hours of debugging. Had to use a long ethenet cable to even start fixing it, a flashback to a Linux experience I had in 2007.

    Same system in Linux? Not a single second spent. WiFi drivers, microcode. Everything worked fine. Only thing necessary was fixing the grub/mbr partition that Windows decided to write over, on a separate drive. But that's also Microsoft being shit.

    People just don't know how much more usable Linux is these days. Especially for power users. You can do so many things, so easily, that either works out of the box, or you can do with simple scripting. The only issue is software availability, but that too is mostly a thing of the past, and not really a fault of the OS.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Yes, I agree. Just holy cactus, MacOS is just so bad these days. The inconsistency us driving me nuts. Why do the windows you open with the "help" menus inside of apps have small buttons? Why do some apps (e.g. Music) have a Search entry on the left side, and why do so have it on the left? Why do we still have tons of icons for system apps (Photo Booth, I'm looking at you) who have been programmed in a time where there have been dinosaurs around and seem to have never changed? ... And so on. Like honestly, MacOS is so much better that Windows (which admittedly isn't hard), but when I open up my good ol' Fedora I dont have the feeling that I see a new shiny operating system, and when I click on a wrong button I am in the 1990-s again. Or 2050-s. Or God knows where. Linux has its unique set of challenges, but I fully agree that the notion that "MacOS is better than the rest" just isn't true anymore. Maybe it was, when Linux distributions were worse and there was more money put into bugfixing OS releases. But not anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    When MacOS users can snap windows to the edge of their screens and quit apps by hitting the red button we can have a chat about what the better desktop experience is

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

    snap windows to the edge of their screens

    While it's not a feature out of the box, there is software to add this functionality to macOS. But... same on Linux. You need to install that software if you want the feature. (Gnome/i3/other choice with this functionality.) So πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The most popular software to do that is proprietary and you have to buy it. For Apple you are only a demi-sentient wallet and they are constantly trying to dry you up. I hate that with a passion.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Okay. Is that software owned by Apple, you mean? Or only available through their store?

    What about the next, or second next popular software to do that? All proprietary and cost money?

    Just curious.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You’re confusing iOS, where you are in a walled garden, with macOS, where you can just do whatever the hell you want (There’s a recovery partition you can boot to where you can disable just about every bit of security that’s not hardware much like booting to grub in Linux)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm close to switching to Linux with proton

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  • [+] -29 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    Not good enough for DRM games, most mmo games or playing on private servers in minecraft or something.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    What's are you talking about with Minecraft? I've always been able to joins any server cause it's the same game.

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  • [+] -23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Private servers not official Microsoft ones you login on the game. A server that isn’t connected by Microsoft organization in the Minecraft community. That’s the private server im talking about.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I play Minecraft without any problem on:

    1. Local LAN Game
    2. Local Private Server (Forge mostly).
    3. Online Private Server. either my own or from others.
    4. Official Internet Server

    No idea what problems you seem to have but Minecraft works 100% perfect on Linux.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Think they mean Bedrock, not Java

    Bedrock is the windows-forced version and has Realms, which is probably what they mean by private server

    Really good example of the difference between old and new school PC gaming right there

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Oh yes, I had actually forgotten that this things exists. You could be right. But quick search says there is a way to use Bedrock on linux and connect to all kind of servers / realms as well. even together with java users. but tbh, i have not looked deeper into it.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Minecraft works perfectly fine, pretty sure it runs natively on Linux actually.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)