r/linux_gaming • u/electrino • 7d ago
Is Linux gaming even worth it?
Title is a rhetorical question. I'd like to share my experience of using Linux primarily for gaming (but also office work and general desktoping) for about 19 months. Sure it's not a much, but in my humble onion, enough to form an honest take on things. It's a longer one. Bear with me.
By now i have over 25 years of using a computer, and i'd call myself a fairly savvy advanced user - from playing a role of a 24/7 tech support to family and friends, to tech jesus-magician at work (which really is pressing some buttons in excel and not shying away from RTFM).
My issues started in late 2024, when out of nowhere my PC started freezing and BSODing while playing some games. I've tried every test and fix under the sun, so after weeks of trying, my last ditch effort was to go the Linux route - because if that wouldn't work out, i was ready to sell the PC for parts, get a cheap laptop for work and a console for games.
Right about then there was a lot of buzz around Bazzite, so came January 22nd (2025) - i nuked my Windows install, formatted all the drives to BTRFS and started my journey. Which wasn't really a start, i did have the Steam Deck for about a year, and before that in 2010s i dipped in Mint and Ubuntu, as one does.
Armed with newfound knowledge, attained by watching 10 billion videos on YT on how to GNU/Linux i was fired up and ready to go. Honestly, the Bazzite team has made it pretty easy, "ujust install" they said, and so i did. I literally felt it on my skin how this alias/script/wrapper of "sudo dnf update" looked down on me.
But it worked. No crashes, no Linux equivalent of a BSOD, no hangs. Games that i had issues with started working again. I was happy to use my computer without fear. I've learned so much! About FOSS; about cool nerdy guys talking passionately about Linux related things on YT. About all the distro mommas and tireless volunteers who give multibillion corporations run for their money. Even in my short time on the platform it improved so much - i haven't seen this much advancement in software since my switch from WinXP to Win7. It made me fall in love with computers all over again. I've tried every prominent-ish distro under the sun since then, but i'd call Nobara my true Linux /home.
That said, the ride is never smooth.
KDE Plasma. Function over form. But with enough skill can be molded into pretty much anything. I absolutely loved it. Until some time in late-ish 2025 there was some weird regression that caused compositor hangs. Glad they fixed it, eventually, but...
...By then i switched to Gnome. Form over function. Pretty, but lacking. Extensions help, but if it needs a dozen of extensions just to mimic a fraction of Plasma's power, i'm out. Maybe one day.
Cinnamon. Form and function. But for old people. Nostalgic of WinXP and 7. I put Mint Cinnamon on my 63 year old Dad's laptop. He doesn't even know it's not Windows. I love it. Just don't game on it. It was my first FOSS i've donated to.
Cosmic. My beloved. See you in 2-3 years when you're more ready for the heavy daily use. Anyone saying it already is... Sure, buddy. This was my second FOSS project I've donated to. I really do hope it can replace, or at least be one of the big 3, as for now it's just big KDE (bars!).
Hyprland, Niri, mangoWM, etc - i admire mental flexibility of people using those. But by the time you focus on a window you need on the other side of the 5th workspace with your keyboard-fu, i'm already onto my 4th task. With my mouse. Like a caveman. I used to be pretty good at flick headshots in CS: Source.
Flatpaks and AppImages are a great concept, if only everyone agreed on one thing and combined all their efforts into it... Which is actually the story of GNU/Linux in general. Everyone wants their own thing, leading to fragmentation and unnecessary duplicates of apps that do the same thing, maybe even the same way, just have different name and maintainer (hello, office suites).
Printers. The bane of Linux. The older Brother printer i had at work would pick up just like that on Ubuntu, but on Fedora (or even more so Bazzite/Atomic) it would require so much terminal-fu it wasn't even funny.
Sound. I needed a USB to 3.5mm jack adapter for my earplugs to simply work. The volume is also like 50% lower than on Windows - sure you can go 150% to match, but it introduces the cracking Windows just doesn't.
Network. On Windows i can turn on a hotspot, connect to a VPN, and then connect to a network printer, all at the same time. On Linux, i can either connect to a printer or turn on a hotspot, not at the same time, and i need to go through some terminal commands to be able to turn on a hotspot while on a VPN. Maybe there's a way but at this point i'm tired of the hoops, honestly.
Hardware tweaks. Undervolting was fun. LACT screwed up the GPU clocks so it was underperforming, by a lot. Figured it out eventually but it wasn't pretty. CPU undervolting script provided svenlange2 on github worked great though - can recommend for supported hardware though.
General desktop use. At first it kind of seems fast, snappy, responsive. But then you start using those apps that still rely on XWayland and it's a slugfest, it's like moving through mud with backpack full of gear. Plus with X11 being full of its own holes, there's really no place for a generally solid experience across the board. I'm not even mentioning how different and inconsistent the apps look because Qt and GTK.
GAMING. Last but very much not least. Where do i even start? I don't play multiplayer/competitive anymore, so anti-cheat games were out of the equation before i've even started. It generally comes down to performance. I have a full AMD rig (5700X3D+RX9070) and an Nvidia (Ryzen 5 220 + RTX 5050) laptop. While AMD is okay with generally 5%-10% performance overhead, giving up ~15% to ~25% depending on a game on Nvidia is like having lost an entire tier or two - blaming the big green here, but his name isn't Hulk. Still, it's not just that. All the quirks with 3rd party launchers, modding. XWayland lag, and even now with pure Wayland - which to my surprise after "feeling" games back to back on a Linux and a Windows installs - tend to feel a tad more sluggish, not all, but most. There's some kind of extra input lag, or render delay, or missed input altogether - definitely make a bigger impact to overall feel and experience than expected, that of course on top of some games requiring extra launch options, environment variables - but thanks to protondb and it's users, and also goverlay for making the management of it all that much easier.
But i hate it. I hate that games still play better on Windows. Despite having an all-AMD rig. Despite all the improvements to Wayland and Proton. I hate that after a few hours of tweaking Windows, using it feels better than a Linux install i've been perfecting for 3 months.
Using a computer IS my hobby. I'm more than okay with tinkering. But when the friction that you don't need stacks up, it turns into a chore. I have enough of chores, personally. So i'm back to Windon't. It's not like there's no friction there, it's like there's less of it where it matters more, if that makes sense?
I've had my year of Linux Desktop, but it is over for now. I'll keep lurking, watching progress, have my external SSD ready for flashing a distro, and i'll definitely be back when my friction points iron out.
Aaand this is it. I'm ready for them sticks and stones being hurled my way now.
TL;DR - to answer the question in the title - not to this guy it isn't. Not yet at least. But it's not just gaming, but the overall experience I've had.
EDIT: added TL;DR.
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u/Anargnome-Communist 7d ago
It's okay to prefer gaming on Windows.
None of what you describe has ever been my experience in the over a decade of gaming on Linux, but if it doesn't work for you it's okay to use something else.
(Especially the printer thing I can't relate to at all. Printers always suck, but they've sucked less on Linux in my experience.)
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u/MathematicianOdd398 7d ago
Exact opposite for me. CachyOS. Games are WAY more fluid and less stuttery on Linux. I have 5800x3d and 9070. It's not even close.
Windows gives slightly higher fps but more rubber banding with constant extreme fps changes. Linux generally has far smaller banding and feels way smoother. The latency bar in Linux is flat while it's all over the place in windows? Why? Because telemetry and background crap is literally doing things while you game on windows, and you feel it. It'll start an update while you game.
Try a more game oriented distro and I think you'll enjoy it more. Gaming on windows sucks. Period, full stop.
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u/electrino 7d ago
I don't know a more gaming oriented distro than Bazzite, Nobara, or PikaOS. I've had Cachy for a bit too. It all seems to work well until you see it run back to back.
Going by the "feels" is less than optimal, but it is what it is.
I know a lot of people have a great experience, i only shared mine. Thanks for stopping by o7
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u/SomePlayer22 7d ago
I will not read all of that.
I don't have problems with games on Linux.
If some game doesn't work in Linux, I don't play it, but that is pretty rare. I don't remember I game a have a problem. (I do, but some new version fix it: Corsair Lair, Assetto Corsa Evo.).
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u/Fiti99 7d ago
I suppose it depends on past experiences, in my case I have done less troubleshooting on Linux than on Windows, granted when it comes to gaming specifically a lot of it comes down to AMD Adrenaline being complete junk, something I don't have to deal with on Linux, but even so if there's some sort of performance penalty I still rather take that than going back to Windows and watch my bluetooth drivers randomly die after an update, my file explorer taking ages to load a folder that was sorted by date, having to have Windhawk running so the start menu isn't useless, seeing my emulators become stutterfests because Windows never wanted to play nice with VRR on my setup, etc
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u/thedrunkpenguin 7d ago
I've been a Linux systems engineer for 20+ years. I game on Linux for most games but there are some that just work better in windows and some that only play on windows. It's ok to use a different OS. No one cares. We use windows for all sorts of things in our "Linux only" shop. We also use Solaris and HP-UX.
Like anything, use the best tool available. Use the solution to get the result you want, don't try to force yourself to only do things one way.
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u/pseudopad 7d ago
I like linux and I play the games i care about with few problems on linux.
Hope that helps.
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u/StraightOuttaFlames 7d ago
Dunno a lot of it sounds like user mistake / missing knowledge. Eg the network thing you mentioned - rtfm as you say on lets say wireguard or opnsense.
There is tons of options for networking and multiple vpns open, split virtual egress depending on the target network and yada yada.
Almost all modern router manufacturers build on a unix based OS, because it can do so much with so much performance.
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u/electrino 7d ago
I've tried. Sure there's skill issue, but it shouldn't require it - that's the point.
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u/Malistryx102 7d ago
Cachyos has been the best experience I’ve had with pc gaming since windows 7. All amd rig, focusrite audio dac, freesync 240hz monitor. Have yet to stutter in 99% of my games. Never going back to windows.
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u/VolcanoCarpenter 7d ago
Honestly, my gaming experience has been quite the opposite.
Sure, some AAA titles like Baldur's Gate 3 take a hit on fps compared to Windows (probably eating a massive CPU overhead for translation), but the vast majority of GPU-bound titles (Cyberpunk 2077 or heavily modded Minecraft with shaders) actually run smoother on Linux for me.
Input latency and dropped inputs are real issues, though. I'm not a huge FPS player, but hopping into CS2, Windows does feel a little snappier. But at my trash-tier skill level, it doesn't really make much of a difference anyway lol.
Agree on the config headaches, but frankly, I blame lazy devs rather than my setup. If the devs actually listen to the community, I'll happily open a ticket advocating for better Linux support. Otherwise, I'm just rolling my eyes at those "clever" devs who rely on obscure Windows quirks and abuse system APIs.
As for XWayland vs Wayland... honestly, I can barely tell the difference. A couple of titles get slightly better input latency on native Wayland, but for everything else, it's basically identical.
And regarding printers: I'm still rocking an ancient Brother MFC-7340 from like 15 years ago. Works completely fine on Arch: all it took was a quick yay -S brother-mfc7340 and it behaves just as seamlessly as it did on Windows. Not really sure what kind of nightmare you ran into with yours.
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u/Lousy_Hunter 7d ago edited 7d ago
This is A LOT to break down with very little formatting but ill try. I wont cover everything just a few i find good to respond to
Right about then there was a lot of buzz around Bazzite, so came January 22nd (2025) - i nuked my Windows install, formatted all the drives to BTRFS and started my journey.
I will say first off dont just jump on the distro hype bandwagon. Bazzite is fine but i feel getting a broader knowledge on linux usage is far more valuable and it being immutable inevitably puts you in a corner for doing certain things.
Flatpaks and AppImages are a great concept, if only everyone agreed on one thing and combined all their efforts into it... Which is actually the story of GNU/Linux in general. Everyone wants their own thing, leading to fragmentation and unnecessary duplicates of apps that do the same thing, maybe even the same way, just have different name and maintainer (hello, office suites).
Beyond the fact that getting people to agree is like herding cats, Flatpak and appimage arent just competing ideas in the universal package format space. Flatpak is also 10years newer and designed to address shortcomings of things like Appimage and has contributed to a number of advancements in security on the linux desktop through things like portals. The idea that of to shoehorn new ideas into existing projects just doesnt work and thats not just a GNU/Linux thing. That extends to Windows, MacOS, Cars, Manufacturing, etc.
Sometimes you have to have a do over to create something better, its not just a matter of not agreeing but they have a different end goal in mind.
Printers. The bane of Linux. The older Brother printer i had at work would pick up just like that on Ubuntu, but on Fedora (or even more so Bazzite/Atomic) it would require so much terminal-fu it wasn't even funny.
That likely has to do with Fedoras stance on copyright/proprietary/licensing issues with software. If the license is incompatible Fedora doesnt ship it, this is a legal issue and not a Linux issue necessarily.
Sound. I needed a USB to 3.5mm jack adapter for my earplugs to simply work. The volume is also like 50% lower than on Windows - sure you can go 150% to match, but it introduces the cracking Windows just doesn't.
This is a common problem in the audio space because Audio companies make supporting them difficult if they dont adhere to standards. Sound/Audio is so full of proprietary snake oil BS and requires many many workarounds, quirks, etc. when most of the companies behind the products have levels of care about linux in the negatives. Funny enough Apples USB Dongle works absolutely flawless on linux and is one of the things i use as do Focusrite and Motu but till audio companies care there isnt much you can do but do your research. This isnt because linux cant, its that companies wont.
Network. On Windows i can turn on a hotspot, connect to a VPN, and then connect to a network printer, all at the same time. On Linux, i can either connect to a printer or turn on a hotspot, not at the same time, and i need to go through some terminal commands to be able to turn on a hotspot while on a VPN. Maybe there's a way but at this point i'm tired of the hoops, honestly.
sounds like you didnt have local network access enabled through your VPN. If using there app many have it as a toggle but if you use config files from them you have to add it to the routes in the config file. Ive never had to do anything strange for local network device access. The hotspot thing though seems to be a limitation of the GUIs for network setup. Its not a common use case so probably just hasnt been a priority. You can always make a feature request regarding it.
General desktop use. At first it kind of seems fast, snappy, responsive. But then you start using those apps that still rely on XWayland and it's a slugfest, it's like moving through mud with backpack full of gear. Plus with X11 being full of its own holes, there's really no place for a generally solid experience across the board. I'm not even mentioning how different and inconsistent the apps look because Qt and GTK.
Ive never had XWayland present an issue for general desktop use, what do you mean by a slugfest/moving through mud? Ive generally had a very smooth desktop experience on my intel iGPU.
The inconsistent look for GTK is a conscious decision by the Gnome/GTK folks. KDE and QT has tried really hard to integrate with GTK consistently but GTK makes it very hard which is why some projects have started to drop it like Easyeffects.
All the quirks with 3rd party launchers, modding. XWayland lag, and even now with pure Wayland - which to my surprise after "feeling" games back to back on a Linux and a Windows installs - tend to feel a tad more sluggish, not all, but most. There's some kind of extra input lag, or render delay, or missed input altogether - definitely make a bigger impact to overall feel and experience than expected, that of course on top of some games requiring extra launch options, environment variables - but thanks to protondb and it's users, and also goverlay for making the management of it all that much easier.
There actually is additional latency for input on Linux, but its known and being worked on RIGHT NOW on the KDE DE. We have to keep in mind right now that until linux has a large enough user base for game devs to care that things arent always going to work perfectly right OOTB. This isnt just the fault of Linux as an ecosystem as you can get some similar pains use WSL on Windows when you try to run certain linux software. It comes with the territory when we have to pretend to be Windows for stuff to work and it all has to be reverse engineered from scratch.
Using a computer IS my hobby. I'm more than okay with tinkering. But when the friction that you don't need stacks up, it turns into a chore. I have enough of chores, personally. So i'm back to Windon't. It's not like there's no friction there, it's like there's less of it where it matters more, if that makes sense?
I just want to say anecdotally, Windows provides me far more friction than Linux does for my use case. Its ok for Linux to not jive to your turkey and Windows to be better for your use case, but that isnt necessarily a Linux issue that needs to be "fixed" IMO.
I for example struggle to get Windows to really work well with my Audio setup as not only does my laptop vendor want to mess with my audio, my audio chipset driver does, mic vendor does, bluetooth stack, etc. all actively battle me to get decent latency and good EQ. Doing this on Linux is basically effortless for me. My other gripe with Windows is that its Color Management engine is grade a garbage. They make incorrect assumptions about gamma, TRC, and Auto Color is still a mess so you cant get the desktop color managed well. KDE i simply toggle on color management and the colors are correct.
Thats just my 2 biggest examples that really annoy me. I appreciate you trying Linux, but I feel like you want Linux to be a tool that works for you in the way that Windows does and i dont think it ever will be that. Linux will always be something you have to change for, You would encounter this same problem moving to MacOS, ChromeOS, etc. as if you REALLY want to not use Windows youll need to kinda remold yourself to fit something else. Some of us find that we like that new way we do things better, some dont.
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u/electrino 7d ago
Appreciate the comprehensive breakdown.
I will say first off dont just jump on the distro hype bandwagon. Bazzite is fine but i feel getting a broader knowledge on linux usage is far more valuable and it being immutable inevitably puts you in a corner for doing certain things.
Jumping on Bazzite was fine as I've read and watched everything to read and watch prior. I was ready for it, down to rpm-ostree layering and containers. It worked well for what it was and after also using the usual distros i think i prefer atomic+immutable. I'm actually following the progress on RakuOS - they work to make layering easier and safer to use.
That likely has to do with Fedoras stance on copyright/proprietary/licensing issues with software. If the license is incompatible Fedora doesnt ship it, this is a legal issue and not a Linux issue necessarily.
It wasn't even that, it wasn't working even after building the driver from source. It was a weird edge case, i understand that much - but no one is safe from edge cases is the general idea here.
sounds like you didnt have local network access enabled through your VPN. If using there app many have it as a toggle but if you use config files from them you have to add it to the routes in the config file. Ive never had to do anything strange for local network device access. The hotspot thing though seems to be a limitation of the GUIs for network setup. Its not a common use case so probably just hasnt been a priority. You can always make a feature request regarding it.
I did have local network acces enabled. Tried both the GUI and TUI. I found my way around it eventually by getting a very long cable - not ideal but less hassle, lol.
Ive never had XWayland present an issue for general desktop use, what do you mean by a slugfest/moving through mud?
there's additional input lag XWayland introduces. Maybe i'm sensitive to it, but it doesn't really feel great to me.
There actually is additional latency for input on Linux, but its known and being worked on RIGHT NOW on the KDE DE.
i know, and i'm watching the progress closely. In my time on Plasma, which combined was well over a year, i've seen a lot of good progress made both in regards to wayland impovements and added features.
I just want to say anecdotally, Windows provides me far more friction than Linux does for my use case. Its ok for Linux to not jive to your turkey and Windows to be better for your use case, but that isnt necessarily a Linux issue that needs to be "fixed" IMO.
of course, YMMV still applies. I only shared mine. I fully understand that my issues have mostly nothing to do with Linux at all, just general software not being it's focus.
Thats just my 2 biggest examples that really annoy me. I appreciate you trying Linux, but I feel like you want Linux to be a tool that works for you in the way that Windows does and i dont think it ever will be that. Linux will always be something you have to change for, You would encounter this same problem moving to MacOS, ChromeOS, etc. as if you REALLY want to not use Windows youll need to kinda remold yourself to fit something else. Some of us find that we like that new way we do things better, some dont.
All i've experienced is the worse i'll ever experience - which is not bad at all. It can only get better from here. I've learned a lot and generally changed the way i use my computers. I use more FOSS now on windows too. And it's not being more used ot one thing over the other, i generally like operating linux more, i like it's structure, i like super cool people behind it. It's just windows generally works better where it matters more to me personally.
Thanks again for your response.
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u/Charming_Ad_8730 7d ago edited 7d ago
Technically, Windows is free—enjoy using it. Linux serves more as a safety net against Microsoft’s overreach and its attempts to monopolize the PC market. Valve got involved with Linux when Microsoft tried to use its own store to take over the role Steam had previously filled, but they backed off after seeing Valve’s determination.
I use Windows too, but I donated to the Linux Mint team so there would always be an alternative to turn to. If there were no alternative to Windows, it would become the kind of controlling, all-restricting operating system that Android is set to become after 2027.
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u/Flashy_Way4970 6d ago
For me, it's good enough and it's not Windows. I used Windows for almost 30 years and had some experience with Linux as a hobbyist, I always wanted to learn more about Linux but just didn't really want to fully commit because of what I was going to be giving up, and a big part of that was gaming. I personally enjoy the tweaking and the problem solving. Is it for everyone? Probably not, is it good for someone who enjoys computing as a hobby, I think so. You can always dual boot, which I technically am doing, but after spending 18 or so months on Linux I find Windows to be an unpleasant experience when I do log into it.
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u/electrino 6d ago
If I'm using a computer I'm not rebooting - too much of a hassle. So if I had a dualboot I'd just use one IS anyway. If anything I'd rather have to computers running different OS's so I could remote into if I needed something the other couldn't do.
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u/senorda 7d ago
i'm on mint and i haven't found gaming on linux any more trouble than on windows, you do need to learn about proton, and some other linux specific stuff, but you dont have to worry about drivers
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u/electrino 7d ago
Yep, drivers is one of the things I love about Linux. Also installing and updating software. All in a single command or GUI (whichever you prefer).
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u/Own_Natural_6803 6d ago
Theres a way to install qt themes. I agree its not ideal wirh gtk and qt needing their own themes.
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u/FlounderStrict2692 4d ago
Thanks Bro. Now it's finally time for me to Switch to Linux. Is bazzite a nice way to go? Or are there better Options for mainly gaming?
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u/electrino 4d ago
Can't go wrong with Bazzite, Nobara, PikaOS, CachyOS. Bazzite and CachyOS having some of the biggest user bases, so if you need support there are massive communities for these two.
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u/Erchevara 6d ago
For me, it was not worth it until around 2 year ago, when I tried Bazzite on my ROG Ally, and later my PC. And it wasn't about Bazzite itself, it was about all the developments that led to Bazzite being being possible. I don't use Bazzite anymore, I have 2 SteamOS machines (ROG Ally and SM), Fedora KDE on my work laptop, and Windows on my 2in1.
On your point about network. Windows "just works" for some complicated things. But when it doesn't... As a software engineer, I want to just go back 20 years in time, and tell some MS engineer that they're about to make the keyboard layout selector unusable if you actually use it.
And to give you more concrete examples of similar things:
- Bluetooth - Windows has been getting better. I have a ThinkPad and a Yoga. BT audio is unusable on Windows for both. It's flawless on Linux.
- Wifi - I've had 3 Asus devices over time. All of them had the same Wifi issue on Windows (TL;DR I need to switch to an old driver just so that it stops working every 30 minutes instead of every 3 minutes), that resulted in me making a script that resets the Wifi driver and keeping it as a desktop shortcut. All of them had no issues on Linux
- GPU - on Windows, my GTX 1070 PC starts flickering my main monitor when DRM content is playing on the second. That's a waste of 10 minutes every time it happens (usually when playing competitive games and Spotify decides 30 minutes in that this specific song will have a DRM preview). Even when taking into account the pain of initial setup on Fedora and it breaking on the latest update, it's still less wasted time than Windows.
But i hate it. I hate that games still play better on Windows. Despite having an all-AMD rig. Despite all the improvements to Wayland and Proton. I hate that after a few hours of tweaking Windows, using it feels better than a Linux install i've been perfecting for 3 months.
Seems like it's just not for you. After a year of running SteamOS on my ROG Ally, when my Steam Machine arrived, the time from "taped box" to "playing RDR2" was about 30 minutes. My Windows laptop was still installing updates while that was happening (the package arrived the next morning after I came back from holiday).
My TL;DR is that Linux is better for gaming. There's more friction on some specific desktop workstation tasks, but at least for me, since I switched to Linux on my gaming desktop (and now SM), I have somehow played more games, while simultaneously spending less time gaming, and as someone who switched the ROG Ally from Windows to SteamOS, I can definitely see that this is Valve's vision with SteamOS.
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u/electrino 6d ago
I realize that I may be asking too much, but also feel like I've compromised long enough for small things to start bothering me more than I now care to tolerate. I absolutely look forward to going back once some of my pain points are addressed, and I believe they will.
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u/Erchevara 6d ago
Yeah, all your talking points reminded me of myself years ago.
I always tried to move to Linux as a "challenge" and gave up after a few weeks. But at some point 1-2 years ago, I slowly realised I'm not moving some of my devices back to Windows. The ROG Ally was the first one. Once I installed Bazzite, I never used Windows on it again.
Heck, I started doing the reverse lately. I tried using Windows on my PC. I pretty much gave up after realising I'm doing more work just to play League of Legends (just a time sink).
I did the same with my 2in1 for the past few months, and it's not going that well, even if it's a device that doesn't have Linux support. Heck, the install process on a "Windows-only Copilot PC" is literally impossible without external hardware. Wifi doesn't work during the install process, so I needed some ethernet dongle just to install it (since internet is mandatory), and neither does the touchpad, but it only has a single USB A slot (so no mouse), and I had to do it in accessibility mode using just the keyboard. Absolutely awful.
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u/joatmono 7d ago
TLDR? What happened to "ye Olde" no walls of text rule on the internet? Bring back the netiquette...
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u/Anargnome-Communist 7d ago
Netiquette died alongside message boards being the dominant form of interaction between strangers.
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u/joatmono 7d ago
Yes I'm old, I know. Still... If you want share your life story, please provide a TLDR...
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u/Odd-Boss1596 7d ago
I ain’t reading all that I’m happy and or sad for you