Well also kernel level anti cheat that doesn’t work in vms.
Nothing is user friendly on linux. Random problems crop up that make no sense. I feel so insanely lost whenever I try to do anything new.
After trying to troubleshoot linux, I feel like I need a hug and a bucket of ice cream.
It doesn’t support my peripherals (this has been the biggest obstacle to me ever thinking about daily-driving linux). To be fair, the company that made the peripheral is having trouble supporting windows as well.
That’s to be expected when a Windows power user-switches to Linux admin duties. Same problems when a Linux user switches to Windows., and then some…
With Linux, any problem can ALWAYS be tracked down and fixed. There are plenty of debugging and programming tools freely available, and most of the source is open for inspection and modification. I’ve searched through the kernel sources to find an error message and what triggers it, working backwards to figure out how/why the program was trigger it.
With Windows, you search forums and find random things people have tried that worked for them, and if none of it works for you, you’re utterly out of luck. What decent debug tools exist are usually expensive commercial options, and the OS is a black box you just can’t see inside of to figure out what’s going wrong.
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I’ve been using the same Gentoo Linux installation since 2012. Yes, the same install with rolling updates. I’ve (very carefully) copied it to new machines. Even though the install is from 2012, the make.conf is from 2004 (I really wish I had kept using that 2004 image, but I briefly went Hackintosh for a few years and lost it).
I’ve had this pile of notes I made each time I copied the image over to a new machine and finally got it into a guide … if you can call it that:
I wanted to finally get this out before I start experimenting with zfsbootmenu. I use btrfs now and snapshooting greatly simplified the rsync process, but I really want to see if I can get a fully encrypted ZFS root (that will be another blog post, I hope).
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Good. Keep this cancer contained on Windows. Even Apple got away with this bullshit by making extra hard to use kernel extensions.
Hopefully after the crowdstrike incident Microsoft follows the same path and finishes the rootkit as a service industry that was built around this.
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Not really complaint about linux but related, Windows or Mac people trying to switch over expecting not having to learn anything.
It’s honestly mind-boggling to me that people expect not having to learn anything or adapt when switching to an entirely new ecosystem
When I switched over from Windows, I fully expected problems and issues. I did not want to use the terminal in the beginning and wanted a GUI for everything. It took a while until I got used to the terminal and now I prefer it for most system upkeep and maintenance.
I feel like certain people have no perseverance at all and its honestly kind of sad
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TBH I think a fair bit of this is them being sold a fake ideal by “influencers” and linux diehards. If you go by clickbait yt videos or forum posts you can easily get the impression that linux is all great, all singing and dancing, works better than windows for everything except a few games that you don’t play.
If you are going in having done a little research, lurked forums etc. you are going to know that there are going to be bumps in the road and that maybe you are going to need to do some troubleshooting and be fine with that. Hell walking in blind you are probably at least not going to be shocked to find things aren’t absolutely perfect.
Whereas if you are linux-curious, hop on youtube and watch a few videos from some of the popular people in the space and get told that Nvidia works great without any issues, every release is better than the last one, the app stores don’t crash or freeze, you don’t need the terminal for anything, you can just let the installer run with its defaults etc., you are going to have a bad time, in a way that is deeply unpleasant for someone non technical and very different from the bad times you were having on windows/mac that prompted the move.
I quite like linux and don’t run windows for anything anymore, I am comfortable troubleshooting and (mostly) use well supported hardware, but my experience is miles away from the experience that is being advertised more and more often in most of the non technical spaces that people are likely to first encounter this stuff in.
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This 
World peace can be achieved.
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Our rules, regulation and laws should be open sourced and patched accordingly.
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In most of the developed world they are; it’s just very hard to get your pull request accepted.
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Its sad then that Jia Tan is one of our maintainer.
RE-read what i said
I did not have to load a terminal window. I installed steam and heroic game launcher from fedora software repository and stuff mostly just worked.
No terminal window required.
Modern linux running games doesn’t need it, most of the time.
At least - Fedora 40 doesn’t. I guess that’s what happens when you run the distro that is the bleeding edge for most of the linux development.
I can’t think of a game i’m willing to run kernel mode anti-cheat for.
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I have a number of fun games that I play that require kernel level mode anti cheat.
Sure, but even on windows, if i’m aware of something that wants to install kernel drivers for anti-cheat, sorry but no.
See: Crowdstrike, Sony:
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I wonder what these people will say when they have to adopt Windows 11, it is so different, so many things are in different places, menus look different and work differently.
Can’t wait when corporations make this move and people are just not able to keep up.
Took the words right out of my mouth! I would rather not game if it comes to that.
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I still can’t believe they broke the simple “click clock to see current calendar” feature. I think they’re making it worse on purpose at this point.
Unfortunately though I don’t think it’s a big enough change in the crap direction to get that many people to change anything.
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The Sound Mixer is so atrociously bad in Windows 11, it’s not even funny
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