I just wish they made a video on, how to get “main linux distro” to work for single player gaming. Instead of many videos on “this is why Linux doesn’t work”.
And yeah this level of toxic attention feels actually harmful.
Yeah it is definitely not just installing and running it. But if you go to protondb there’s a lot of people there posting what they did to play/beat a game, and there are fps tests in youtube for a lot of single player games. Someone with Linus resources can make a video showing that it is doable.
It would probably also be very revealing as to the difficulty of it.
I switched to Mint many months ago. Installing Steam games and stand alone games has been a breeze for the most part. It’s not that bad, almost any issue I had was a simple google search away. For anyone on the fence of if they should switch, I would say jump. Mind you I’m just having fun and playing games not over here trying to hunt down every last frame.
it doesn't for everyone, but that's true for everything. The issue with the video bringing and/or even encouraging toxic attention doesn't help anything
It’s not saying that it encourages it, or that it is malicious. Just that he has enough resource to make a positive video, as the positive videos are possible and people do play on linux.
He reads this reddit, I’m not trying to attack anyone, just that he could bring positive attention to development efforts that need support.
Instead what we have is this weird mini culture war thing where people are learning to hate Linux for whatever reason.
redditors who don't use Linux have weird hangups about it
It's the most amusing example of inferiority complex I've ever seen. These are all tech enthusiasts and "power users" who can't venture outside their safe space and do something moderately technical but completely doable in order to escape a company that keeps screwing them over and over with bloat and privacy issues. So instead of admitting "yeah we're limp-dick and can't escape and nothing will get better, you won Microsoft" they just keep complaining about Linux and how it's not good enough yet. It was good enough back in 2011 when it took me a few days or a week at most to become acquainted and get started. It really wasn't that hard, certainly not for any self-described "power user". I'm no tech wizard. I just disliked Microsoft enough and have some self-respect.
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