doomcanoe

@doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be skeptical of Lucifer’s insight on this. By his own admission, he has never actually used Bazzite, and is basing his opinion on a single argument he had with one of the many dev’s in another post. To quote Lucifer directly :

  I don’t have an accurate sense of how much you’d have to learn about bazzite, so I’ll have trust you on this

  Obviously switching to Linux will cause you to encounter new terms you won’t be familiar with, or terms you are familiar with used in new and novel ways, devs and users will be opinionated and have arguments over these terms (and everything else an opinion can be had on frankly). And Lucifer’s concerns on this front are not without merit, but he is overstating the severity in this case and painting a wildly inaccurate picture. And you don’t actually need to gain a deep understanding of all these terms anyway. (Right away or at all depending on your goals)

  But through all of that, what really matters at the end of the day is how useable is it, and how solid is the community surrounding it. And on that front I can say Bazzite has been hands down the easiest distro I have ever used for plug and play Linux gaming, and the community has been endlessly helpful and beginner friendly. I’d recommend it fully, and if you hop into their Discord, or read over their homepage and guides, it quickly becomes apparent how hard they work to make it beginner friendly.

  There are some good alternatives, Mint for example is a very easy distro to make the switch from Windows. As is Pop_OS!. And with how easy steam has made running games, it’s harder to find a bad choice in general nowadays.

  To shift topics, I’d say the most important thing to a “smooth switch from Windows” is less the distro you choose, and more the Desktop Environment. (Which, for the point of this recommendation, is the catch all term for what your OS “looks like”, where the “Start Menu” is, where your “tool bar to switch apps” is, etc) For a new Windows convert, I’d say find one that uses “KDE”, as it is very similar to Windows. Bazzite offers this when you are downloading the installation image. But it’s quite popular, so many others will anyway.

  Sorry for the extended rant, hope this initial mess didn’t make you less likely to try Linux! I was a Windows convert just a couple years ago and can say it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! Feel free to ask any questions, or hop over to the Bazzite Discord to get some helpful insights!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and if you click enough links on Wikipedia you always wind up at logic, math, or philosophy. At some point, you are going to have to read new words to learn new things. And it will get increasingly technical as you go deeper.

  But bazzite devs don’t just leave you up shit’s creek with a turd for a paddle. They still make installing and gaming on Linux far more accessible than the majority of other distros. With a significantly smaller learning curve. And provide solid guides for new users that use beginner friendly language.

  And therein lies the crux of my problem with your argument. Scaring folks away to seek out another distro where they will almost certainly have to learn more to get started is hurting your stated cause. You claim to be fighting the good fight against “unreasonable barriers of entry”, but you are causing more than you are solving. Over a very ignorable term.

  When it was just you arguing over the value of the term with the dev, okay, whatever. But when you throw a new user asking for help out to sea because you had an argument that has no bearing on the significant reduction to the barrier of entry to Linux gaming that Bazzite provides, you are shooting your own goal in the head.

  You didn’t care that they used a single term that might cause confusion, you didn’t care that a person who was looking for help on getting started with Linux gaming was asking about installing one of the most beginner friendly distros, you wanted to win an argument and hold a grudge.

  Maybe you don’t even see it yourself, the road to hell is paved with good intentions after all, but the obvious outcome of your actions directly go against the goals you claim to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My issue isn’t with the definition, but with the implicit assumption that it’s well known or easy to understand, as well as the way it is used.

  Bruh, they literally link to their definition, right there where it’s first mentioned on the home page… You literally copied the link when you copied their first paragraph in your previous comment.

  You may not like the way it’s being used, but you can’t get any further away from “assuming it’s easy to understand” than a link to your meaning.

  And on that note, you said you couldn’t find a definition of Atomic on Fedora’s site… So I clicked just one link from your posted link their and found this.

  Atomic - The whole system is updated in one go, and an update will not apply if anything goes wrong, meaning you will always have a working computer.

  I read your posted argument from earlier, and I want to believe you when you argue your goal is to make Linux more accessible. But the reality of your arguments seem to tell a different story. You seem more interested in dying on a pointless hills while dissuading interested converts from trying what is one of the most stable and user friendly distros I’ve ever tried.

  Linux is going to have a LOT of terms a new user will have to learn. The idea of a cloud native image may cause a misconception, but no more so than any of the other myriad terms a new user will have to learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A delicate balance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just like, your idea man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They really could have used “Mr. House” and “Yes Man” equivalents. Like, Im 100% sure a Dragonborn can take over shit, or Talos’s name isn’t Tiber Septim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates Apple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but a lot of that praise is because Jobs did what Woz couldn’t… On the other hand, Woz did what no one else could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hurry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All you have to do to get my money is let me be a pirate, a jedi, a ninja, or a samurai. My inner child can’t help themselves.

  So how can Ubisoft be so terrible that I have literally not wanted to play their Pirate game, their StarWars game, and now their Ninja/Samurai game!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Awww… Give yourself a little credit! If you were born the successor of an slave employing Emerald Mine fortune, you could fail your way up too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So uh… Where are your mega millions then champ???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Borderlands 2, in the mission “Kill Yourself”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currently happening⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk man, the people with no friends and the people with a lot of friends and even the people with a middle amount of friends seem to follow a standard distribution of personalities.

  Some awkward people and some charismatic people just suck. Some awkward people and some charismatic people are awesome. But most of all, people are just kinda shades of in-between.