Data cap sucks but yeah, I have been playing around with arch as well. Sometimes I just do the "fuck it, it works" thing but that is why I multi-boot.
I hate it but I still have a windows partition. It exists to be my "games I like to play don't work right in *nix". Windows is basically a game console at this point.
I would not mind more chat in the linux or linuxgaming sub about stuff like this. Could save bandwidth too.
Either way, some of us have done this shit before, ask and it is amazing the amount of people that respond.
Either way, some of us have done this shit before, ask and it is amazing the amount of people that respond.
I agree. Online documentation tends to be either non-helpful or overly elitist. I don't think Linux will ever get to a point of widespread adoption specifically because of that. Shit, with the kinds of stuff happening with SystemD, screwball distro decisions (Red hat cutting off CentOS, Ubuntu being a nigger, etc.), BSD is starting to look kind of appealing too. Waiting to see if people follow that trend and get Steam working reliably on it.
I agree to a degree.
Linux is already the most used OS in the world and has been for a while. Most people just don't know they are using it.
Maybe some of the "new *nix" users are elitist but there are more than enough of us "old users" around to correct for that BS and I hope they chill the fuck out.
I write a lot of docs. I wont specify where but it has been used for a lot of projects over the last decade. I don't want credit. I want people to get shit working the way they want it to.
Hell, some of the people here probably read something I wrote. That would be super cool and I hope it's true.
I think I should clarify: DESKTOP linux will never become widespread. I think in the next 10 years, a form of Android or some other closed source version of Linux will become a viable alternative to windows and MacOS. But the average computer user has issues understanding the concept of HMDI versus Display Port, much less trying to explain to them how to install a new OS from a thumb stick. I work around kids, and my location issues Chromebooks to them. They HAVE To issue chromebooks because the kids of this current generation are quite literally too stupid to use a basic laptops with a normal OS. Just the other night, I went into a room, and the person in charge told the kids to put their computers on charge. I shit you not: I saw 4 kids pull a USBC out of their bag, and plug it in, without pluging the other end into an outlet. If the concept of a charger is too difficult, I give up hope that they'll understand slightly harder concepts, like installing a stick of ram, or configuring an OS.