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  • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy?
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    2 months ago

    I had used 95, 98, and 2000 at that point. All of which I mostly enjoyed. Me I used in my grandmothers computer and yeah…it was rubbish.

    However I’d say it was less of a “Big leap” and more of a “Quick give us something that’s almost as good as 9x!”


  • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy?
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    2 months ago

    Because Windows XP was a hot pile of garbage.

    One day, my network driver broke. None of the discs worked. None of those incoherent “wizards” Windows loves to use worked. Reinstalling Windows broke more things. I couldn’t get online for about 2 months.

    One day I was at the bookstore and saw a Fedora Core book with an OS disc. I thought it was cool so I convinced mom to get it. Went home, blundered my way through the install and everything just worked.

    I cannot for the life of me understand how XP is routinely loved by everyone. It looked like a muddy fisher-price toybox.



  • It was abandoned for awhile but a few months back someone has taken up working on it and made a bunch of headway. Looks significantly better than the screenshots on that website.

    That said, I think the UI of choice for Linux machines is going to be Steam Big Picture Mode. I’ve been using it as my SmartTV for awhile now and I really can’t think of anything else I’d want. The excellent controller support just makes it untouchable.



  • Bazzite is the option for Windows converts that want a gaming focused Linux desktop. A lot of people are going to nitpick it to death, because they want “Literally Windows but without Microsoft”. Which isn’t happening while Linux has the market share it has. You either accept a few annoyances (while advocating for those annoyances to be fixed), or go back to Windows and accept Microsoft’s authoritarian control of your computer.

    Bazzite is a solid desktop that’s going to be really hard for a regular user to break, comes with Steam, Lutris, and Heroic built in, proprietary nvidia drivers installed, and is based on Fedora (Modern, stable, well supported).

    The only downside is KDE can be really easy to break if you’re a new user unfamiliar with how customizing it works, but if you leave it default you’re fine.











    • Davinci? Yup
    • Adobe? Not even remotely.
    • Unreal…yes? I’m pretty sure th development tools still run on Linux at least.
    • Crossplatform work? As long as it’s in the same format from the same application, you should be fine. Just format the drive in something Windows can understand.
    • Steam? Works flawlessly as do most games now. You will need to change one option in settings, because Steam will by default only show games that are verified by valve to work (most games do though). Your biggest hurdle will be the developers that specifically block Linux.
    • Non-Steam games? You’ll need to do some work, but you can get them running just as well as steam games
    • Xbox App/Xbox GamePass? Nope.