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@grue@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

Trying to go for a “Linux gaming distro” is the wrong thing to do in the first place, IMO. Even if they’re gamers, they’re switching the computers they use for everything. What they needed was a general-purpose distro and then to install Steam or whatever on top of that. The notion of a “gaming distro” should be considered harmful for everything other than maybe running it on one of those Steam Deck knock-offs.

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@mech@feddit.org on feddit.org Open parent

Hard disagree. Gaming is the task that needs the most complicated setup with lots of pitfalls – kernel version, 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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@grue@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

No, it seriously doesn’t! Here are the actual steps, unabridged and in full, that I go through to game on Linux: Install Ubuntu sudo apt install steam There is no step 3; it just fucking works.

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@poke@sh.itjust.works on sh.itjust.works Open parent

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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tabular in !linux

@tabular@lemmy.world · Mar 08

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 aught to be taught in school as part of using a computer but I imagine being tech literate goes against the wants of tech corporates that have their claws in education.

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