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Lemme tell you… I’d love to use your knowledge, and have gotten some great tips on other posts and forums. But if the answer to one more of my questions starts with “you just need to …” and then has an extremely vague answer, I’ma pull the rest of my hair out.
That said, I’m building a PC right now that will be Linux based because fuck Windows and fuck Microsoft. Sincerely, a burnt out IT dude tired of hearing what fresh hell patch Tuesday brought.
VR gaming :(
In all fairness, I usually get the opposite. I grew up building DOS systems, but haven’t messed with command lines in years. Decided to build an unRAID server and dip my toes into jumping to Linux. If I ever get stuck, can’t find anything, and need to reach out, I usually get either “look it up” or “if you don’t know, you don’t need to be messing with X.”
I’ll save your username…
Or just join my community !Linuxquestions@lemmy.zip
i want to install anbox (run android on linux), and it has modules that are required to be installed in the kernel (chamem? ) using dkms: first hurdle was that my ubuntu had a kernel version beyond 5.6, so it doesn’t allow any modification, then learned that i could boot with 5.19 at startup, but still, i got another error that compiler used (gcc) is of different version than the one used with the kernel. all i wanted is to install anbox 😭😭
One of the best qualities of Arch and other Arch based distros, the ability to use the archwiki.
It can be helpful when using other distros too but on Arch it’s exactly the docs your supposed to use.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Anbox
From that wiki it says: Note: As of February 2023, Anbox is no longer actively developed. The developer recommended Waydroid as an alternative.
well according to my simple serf beliefs, i thought that arch would allow more kernel tinkering, maybe thats why it was popular among certain groups, and jokes aside: if i am obliged to learn cui instead of gui, i might as well learn it the solid way (i am still novice at linux, and arch seems kinda intimidating) guess i ll start using arch, idk if it uses different comands other than sudo and so forth…although its still linux, but the documentation is really helpful, also again: i really appreciate ur help. i ll check waydroid instead.
I used waydroid on Fedora and everything works fine
i ll give it a look, thx
kernel version beyond 5.6, so it doesn’t allow any modification
Wut?
Android is running on Linux.
How is the compatibility with gaming on Linux? There wouldn’t be anything keeping me from switching if I could play most games.
Most of the games work. The only problem linux has right now is anticheat in some games. But you cann look at https://www.protondb.com/ to check which games work.
It depends on the type of game you play. Most problems occur with online games, the vast majority of single player games, even AAA, works on Linux, notably with Steam.
As I said in another thread, I do not check compatibility anymore beforehand. I install and select the newest glorious eggroll proton in steam and it works. Granted, I play only indie games, so if you play competitive with anticheat I would stay on windows to be safe and avoid the hassle or suspended account.
In regards to performance I don’t know if I am missing out.
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Chatgpt is a privacy and freedom nightmare and I refuse to use it. Its so invasive it needs a phone number
It only needs email tho?
ChatGPT is nice until it gives wrong or outdated information. Some regular forums I was in had problems resolved in less than 10 minutes.
I’ve tried several times. I’m pretty test savvy. Last time I tried I said I’m sticking with it for 3 months minimum to get a grip on it.
I lasted about 4 months before I went back to windows.
It just makes life hard. Windows might be tracking every moment of my usage but it just works as Jensen would say.
The amount of hours I spent reading posts and forums trying to figure out how to get things working the way I wanted.
Linux really needs to unify a bit. Stop being so fragmented. It’s all stupid having different versions of Linux that require different versions of software to work.
Until a single common standard is adopted it will never gain traction.
Plus they need to get away from the terminal. It’s not the 80s anymore.
The terminal is so much simpler than anything else
I really don’t know your exact path through Linux but there are always options. As with all software, there are some kinks you have to get used to.
If you don’t like the terminal, use a distro that can run without it (Linux mint?).
If you want unified apps, use a desktop environment (lxqt, KDE, gnome), all the basic apps come from the same place.
In windows if you want more software, you have to install it, the graphics drivers are fragmented, the browsers are fragmented… I use windows for some work stuff and I find myself using the terminal more since switching to Linux because some commands allow for more customization and I don’t like searching GUIs for options.
As always, there is no problem if you don’t like Linux, stick to what’s comfortable for you. I just try to recommend Linux to chip away at windows marketshare so it doesn’t end up being a monopoly in the OS side.
Honestly why did you even try it? The fact there are different versions and that there is no universal standard, and the power the command line gives the user is literally the foundation of Linux.
If those are your reasons for not liking it you did this to yourself mate. I don’t go watch football if I don’t like football. I don’t drink coffee if I don’t like coffee.
I flipped around a few different distros to try them out.
As it currently stands IMO Linux won’t be taking market share from Windows.
I actually think the best use case for Linux is for the very old. People that want their computer to work and never change. They only need a browser and a word processor and email. I considered setting up Mint for my mum’s PC just so its a consistent and solid experience forever.
She likes playing the Windows card games though with the score board so it ruled it out.
