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It's been a full two years since I wrote about how Linux is now a viable OS for PC gaming and in that time a lot has changed. The open-source desktop OS isn't just for gaming. It's also great for a bunch of other computing tasks one usually does on Windows or even macOS. After using Windows for more than two decades, I find myself no longer able to put up with it.

> It's been a full two years since I wrote about how Linux is now a viable OS for PC gaming and in that time a lot has changed. The open-source desktop OS isn't just for gaming. It's also great for a bunch of other computing tasks one usually does on Windows or even macOS. After using Windows for more than two decades, I find myself no longer able to put up with it.

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Just bumped up to a 5800x and 6700xt on linux. Couple of weird things to fix because mint doesn't have native support for the card yet but took 10 minutes after I figured out what to do. Resizable bar makes my pc boot up in about 3 seconds and I don't know why.

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Resizable bar makes my pc boot up in about 3 seconds and I don't know why.

My Commodore 64 boots into Basic in about 2-3 seconds. So does my Apple IIe. Then, both my Tandy 1000 TL and 1000 SL can boot into DOS from ROM in about 2-3 seconds. This used to be normal.

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After using Windows for more than two decades, I find myself no longer able to put up with it.

This is what happens when you replace your people with pajeets. They have 0 understanding of any good design.

The writer likely does not realize this.

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God, I hate that I can play games or run programs without fiddling with my system for hours. I hate that my wireless card just works. I hate how windows doesn't need to update every fucking package every fucking day. I hate that I can use my windows computer for months without any sort of maintenance. I hate how my desktop isn't loaded with retarded features and decades long bugs. I hate that windows won't just randomly stop booting to the desktop because I updated a package.

Are you telling me Linux can do ALL those things?

Fucking wow, sign me up.

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I've given Linux a try but so many Linux programs still need installation with command code and distros that claim to be easier for users don't help with that.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

sudo apt-get install myasshole

type in your password...and you're done, son.

How is this so complicated? Because letters are typed instead of an icon being clicked? Letters are scary?

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It's not only that, but a lot of the programs that require command line installation don't even have clear instructions on how to do so. And some of them require you to do something with the BIN, idk how to do anything with the BIN man that's when I give up.

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don't even have clear instructions on how to do so.

This. Some software gets released with incomplete, absolutely minimal, or just plain wrong documentation.

However, I've written full documentation with screenshots, fucking arrows, clarifications... the whole 9 yards. Yet I'd still get calls for stupid shit clearly explained in the documentation. Simply because they just don't want to read it and want to have their hand held and walked through step-by-step by someone on the phone.

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Yeah, y'all should give it a try. Fuck Bill Gates and that curry nigger running Microcock!

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Yeah, Grandma will totally figure out how to install nVidia drivers through a terminal window.

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Granma doesn't need nVidia drivers.

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I doubt Grandma could would do it even when Grandma used to run the IT department back in her day.

I know a freshly-retired Grandma who used to know tech, then she lost interest in it at some point in the late 90's/2000's, and then just moved on up into bossing IT people around for her remaining 20 years. Everyone thinks she's some technical genius still, but the woman just isn't interested in it anymore, and hasn't been for quite some time. Her friends/family still give her computers to fix from time to time, she hasn't told them that she's been giving them to me to fix them for a LONG LONG ASS time now. Because I'm related to this woman...

Over the years, I've tried to get her to install Linux, she admits she don't know the first thing about it. I fully believe she could sit there and figure it out (hours or days later), she just won't do it. I doubt you could force her to do it, given the attitude she has about Linux.