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[–] Roopappy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

I've been running Bazzite OS on my living room big screen gaming PC since May. It's a really slick fedora-based distro that installs out of the box with Steam, proton, and graphics drivers ready-to-launch for gaming. It was really easy to use, and my games worked perfectly.

My high school age son got a new AMD proc/mb for his birthday, and I was surprised when he said he wanted to try dual booting Bazzite and Windows when we set it up. 2 weeks later, and he decided to kill the Windows boot and just use Bazzite full time. He has no linux experience and just figures it out.

Windows 11 is shit and Linux alternatives are prettier, easier to use, don't shove AI down your throat, and don't steal your data for profit. The time has come.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago

It's not so much about users switching, it's more about the ones that will stick with it. And that we can't know for a few years yet.

[–] JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Lemmy Linux copium is one of the strongest in the world.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

How else are we going to achieve nuclear fission?

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 minutes ago (1 children)

Don't you mean fusion? Fission is separate and we've already achieved it a long time ago.

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 minutes ago

We've achieved fusion too. We just can't extract more energy than we put into it yet.

[–] zer0bitz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

I've been using Arch for a little over a year, and it's been fun. I've learned so much more about computers and Linux itself. I highly recommend trying out Linux and you can do it here: https://distrosea.com/ - It's a website where you can try out different Linux distros in your web browser.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 20 points 7 hours ago

Glad to be part of a trend, for a change!

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 39 points 10 hours ago (41 children)

If all you do is game, outside of a few key games (Destiny 2, uhh,couple others) the experience on Linux is better for many folks.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

For flat games this is true, there is still work to be done for the VR side of things, even that has advanced by leaps and bounds in just the last 2 or 3 years

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

The success of Steam Deck has helped a lot. Prior to that Linux ports tended to be very perfunctory and they weren't tested or supported very well. I guess that now there are actual Linux gamers (via Steam Deck), that support has improved. That said, I think outside of Steam Deck and SteamOS, your experience of gaming is going to be extremely dependent on your GPU, driver support and a number of other factors. Things are far more likely to work well on Windows than they would for Linux.

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