If that’s the games he plays then he deserves Windows.
Comment on Linux has had a great year, but there are two reasons I can't tear myself away from Windows
kbal@fedia.io 1 month ago
That was a lot of reading to learn that the two things were:
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He had some kind of problem with the laptop Wi-Fi driver on his new install of Ubuntu, and — pressed for time, away from home — decided that the best way to fix it was to reinstall Windows.
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He's unwilling to give up games whose devs have chosen to make them impossible to play on Linux. It's not clear which one he's hooked on, but Apex Legends, to Fortnite and Valorant are mentioned.
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 1 month ago
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 month ago
He had some kind of problem with the laptop Wi-Fi driver on his new install of Ubuntu, and — pressed for time, away from home — decided that the best way to fix it was to reinstall Windows.
Funny enough, I’ve only had that problem with Windows. Both for my Steel Legend motherboard, and a Framework laptop I setup as a gift with Windows.
yuri@pawb.social 1 month ago
oh my fucking god he wrote basically this same exact article when the first thing happened.
i shouldn’t know more about tech than tech journalists, this is obscene.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Journalism is dead, in general
nocturne@piefed.social 1 month ago
Thanks. I saw the bit about the WiFi card and trackpad, but missed the games he plays.
Before I got my Steam deck I did all of my gaming on a MacBook, ps5, or switch. If it was not available on one of those platforms I never looked at it.
Even now when buying a game I lean towards those playable on Mac.
bonenode@piefed.social 1 month ago
The first one. Away from home he decides to try one Linux distribution, something he apparently has no experience in and with not much extra time to spare? Wow, what a great the reason.
The second one, yeah. If you are used to playing these games I get it. I never even got into those, so have no need to start them now.
Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 1 month ago
I mean, yes, he should’ve picked a less busy period to test Linux out. But trackpad and wifi issues could come up at any time, which would be troublesome. I’ve gone weeks wihout issues, only to turn my laptop on one day and boom, touchpad doesn’t work. And some days I don’t have my mouse with me to use. And the other issue is Linux is so varied and different that a solution for one person might not work for you. That and lack of proper documentation. I have tried doing crazy shit to fix issues, only to then learn all I had to do was toggle a switch in the settings, but my distro didn’t make it obvious that’s what i should do.
(This LITERALLY is what happened with my touchpad, for some reason it disabled itself in settings after an update a while ago.)
People don’t want to spend weekends fixing their tech, and that’s understandable.
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 month ago
For the past month or so, I’ve been getting “RDSEED32 is broken” and it seems to be an issue with AMD’s drivers? Either way, there doesn’t appear to be a solution for me outside of getting a new CPU, but it also still boots and works so I’m not too bothered by it either.
But when updates roll around? Yeah, usually a good idea to make a backup before updating. Same is true with Windows, of course, but I already expect Windows to need a reinstall every year or so.
spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org 1 month ago
www.amd.com/en/resources/…/amd-sb-7055.html
it sounds like the kernel is just working around a known CPU microcode bug. it would probably be using the 64-bit RDSEED operation anyway, so disabling the 32-bit option probably doesn’t actually change anything.
also, the kernel’s random number generator is very robust (especially since Jason Donenfeld, the author of Wireguard, took over its maintenance) and will work perfectly fine even in the complete absence of RDSEED CPU instructions.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I mean, you could pretty quickly and easily try a different distro