Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞 Wed 10 Jan 2024

briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I tried to a few years ago with Ubuntu but it was missing a lot of apps and games I liked or needed to use for various reasons. These days I unfortunately still use windows as a main, but I have Ubuntu in a dual partition with windows on my laptop

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    tried years ago with Ubuntu. There was a lot to like, but ultimately gaming just wasnt a thing.

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. I’m hopeful that with all the work proton and steam are doing to get things compatible with Linux we might see that change soon

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• indisin@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Steam Deck really moved *nix gaming along.

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If only other people got onboard. Everyone else built a handheld, but they shipped with windows and just proved for the umpteenth that Windows is NOT a portable OS. Its almost like we should have learned that from Windows Mobile, or Windows Phone, Or Windows XP tablet mode, or Windows 8.

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      • indisin@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are two laptops on my desk at home. One dual boots between MacOS and Windows (90% Windows) and the other is running Fedora 39. If I had to point at one of them as my “main” computer, it’d be the dual-booting one. I use both fairly heavily, though.

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have Mint on dual boot and a VM image, but mostly Win10.

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• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep! Current daily driver is Ubuntu but I have tinkered with fedora in the past. I am not a gamer but am a programmer and find I have everything I need for work/life easily available. I am comfortable on the command line which helps but if it’s set up then anyone can use it I reckon. All my coding stack is open source. And libre Office is a pretty good replacement for MS office (without the shitful 365 cloud garbage)

  I have also used Mac regularly and I can’t think of much I can do on one and not the other.

  Happy to answer any more specific question - feel free to PM me. Not that I know how that works on lemmy.

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