Yeah, but I really don’t want my computer to look like my phone.
You might not, but it’s certainly easier to use devices when they behave in similar ways. Like I usually install linux on my relatives PCs simply because if they run into an issue I can troubleshoot it much faster.
You do realise that even though it’s not one of the official Mint variants, it’s still possible to install Gnome on Mint with minimal fuss?
Defaults matter because most people just don’t change them. Also that’s a terrible idea, you’ll run into loads of issues and a lack of support for troubleshooting.
Thing is, everyone has a phone now, and they spend an inordinate amount of time on it. Though I’m not excited about recommending Fedora either, the fact that it doesn’t enable non-free software by default causes a bunch of issues.
Windows interface is also stuck in 2005, and the evidence suggests most people prefer that.
Does it? Most people are spending all their time on their cell phone these days, and that’s much closer to Gnome’s UI. But yeah, anyone accustomed to windows will be better on Mint and cinnamon, however everyone else will be better off on Gnome.
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It’s arch KDE under the hood, as long as a terminal is accessible and you have root privileges you could probably run an airplane on it if you’d like. The relevant point is the default setting, the thing that nobody changes and why google’s paying apple 18 billion per year.
Doesn’t it boot straight into steam big picture? That alone should be a deterrent to most people wanting to run it as a desktop OS.
The cost is actually negative given that they get to pre-install whatever software they want into it.
Microsoft is actually the least problematic of the console racket (Sony, Nintendo and MS), games release simultaneously to pc and they offer cross compatibility. Maybe the EU will address it eventually, but i guess mobile takes precedent given that everyone has a cell phone.
There’s always plenty of good reasons to postpone something and only one to do it now.
Getting mods working for games
Yeah mods can be quite troublesome.
If you use a hard drive other than your os install drive then you need to go to the steam website to get the installer and not use the one in the built in app store.
Sounds like a steam problem.
Non gaming related I’ve had numerous issues trying to manage permissions for my hard drives
Eh, i remember mounting being a bit troublesome a few years back, but current GNOME should take of that for you with very little input on your end. This brings us to PopOS 22 which is starting to get really old at this point, I’d consider moving away to something that’s not left abandoned while they finish up Cosmic.
Setting up dual boot takes like an hour. But yeah, there’s no rush to it, linux will still be there tomorrow. I don’t recommend buying a new pc and changing OS at the same time though. You don’t want to test your new hardware on a system you’re not familiar with.
I was thinking of doing that once I get my new pc.
Why wait? Hard drives don’t have compatibility issues, and you can always just use clonezilla to copy and paste the system to a new NVME SSD later on if you like.
As for the VM it’d probably be better the other way around, gaming on VMs is not that great an experience and gpu passthrough is complicated to setup.
Games having access to everything i do on my pc is sheer lunacy. Let the devs sanitize their fucking inputs and not give client information the player shouldn’t have access to. Anti cheat has always been an arms race, nothing, and that does include your kernel anti cheat, will ever completely stop cheaters.
Dual boot is always a thing, it doesn’t have to be one or the other.
So there you have it, you either stop playing all multiplayer games (not even just competitive ones!) entirely
There’s plenty of multiplayer games that run just fine on linux. Including FPS games with perfectly functional anti cheat, it’s just a select few which are unfortunately very popular that actively block linux. This is the part where you put your money where your mouth is and support the games that support the system you want to game on.
Ubuntu is based on Debian so regular Mint is actually 2 levels down from upstream. But Mint has started offering a Debian base recently called LMDE if you want to check it out.
As for whether Arch is bad for beginners. Kinda. It’s a DIY distro, assuming you can follow tutorials and guides it’s pretty straight forward, especially with the archinstall script. But if you’re uncomfortable with a terminal install, you can try out EndeavourOS which features a full gui install and a few tweaks to make it easier on beginners.
Well Arch is great at what it does: getting you the latest packages of everything without needing to upgrade every 6 months or whatever; that does come at the cost of a bit less stability. There’s EndeavourOS if you’re uncomfortable installing from the console.
It was obviously a cash grab from the company before fucking off, you can’t reasonably expect a lifetime vpn for 30 bucks. Either it eventually gets repriced, or they start mining all your information like every other “free” vpns.