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I am and always was a casual gamer, I like playing puzzles, strategy and builder games, sometimes I play with friends some 7 days to die or AoE2. I am on Linux Mint for more than a year now and was surprised how easy gaming was. From time to time I had problems with weird DirectX error messages, but all in all everything just worked.

My setup:

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Super
  • 32 GB DDR4 RAM

So last week my girlfriend worked on my computer (we are not living together), she wrote some bills for customers and did some table stuff in calc. When I asked her at the end of the day how it was to work on Linux, she shrugged and said "Oh I didn't notice" lol (using Cinnamon as DE btw).

Today she bought Until Dawn the remake on Steam while she is here and because she really wanted to play she downloaded it to my PC. She just started to play and everything was great. I wondered again if I should say something like "you see how great you can game in Linux", but then it came to my mind - she doesn't care and she didn't even question it! The Linux Desktop got so mature, that non-tech people just don't notice!

I think the biggest "problem" with Linux adoption is that it does not come preinstalled on computers, and this kind of proves my point I guess.

Yeah that's all, I just wanted to share this with you guys.

P.S.: There were some bugs btw. but it turned out they have nothing to do with the OS.

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[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world -4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It's pretty obvious that they're generally anti-work, and have all day to spend online extolling the virtues of GPL/ Linux. Commies don't tend to know the reality that it only works at gunpoint. And they're not intelligent enough to simply make enough money doing just 1-2 hours of work a day. The stereo type of 'mom's basement dweller' is real. Also explains why we don't run into LiGNUts in public.

[–] pntha@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

what a complete cluster fuck of wildly inaccurate generalisations. this reads like ai-slop from a microsoft-hired bot farm using free tier AI

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world -3 points 7 hours ago

Most Loonix evangelism comes from n00bs that just started and haven't really learned how horrible Linux is yet. The others are GNU/GPL cultists. -Which are you?

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

So you are just a troll. Took a minute to figure that out.

I shouldn't feed you, but its been so long.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 26 minutes ago

This user is a known troll around here. Every time someone mentions Linux, they spawn and start raging about it. It's quite funny, tbh. Their arguments against it are so dumb that I don't think anyone falls for them, so it's alr, no need to argue with them.