I’m trying a new approach. Since I won’t touch anything beyond W10, and W10 is getting officially phased out, I just informed people that I won’t provide tech support for W11 and beyond.
ha I already am (Android)
!i actually daily-drive fedora on my laptop!<
I really, really hate this picture. Everything is wrong with it. The pleading eyes to what can only be assumed is the adult behind the camera makes it extra bad.
It’s from a french tv documentary : https://youtu.be/Bk0iLlNTmVc?si=xptTU3Ay1cpeN2O4&t=3651
Oh, well, if they’re French
I wish I could. I’ve been trying with mint but it won’t boot into it except the first time. Then I had to keep formatting the usbs and one USB said it had 4 mb instead of the 32 gigs
Try to format the USB, it will solve the issue.
I’ve been doing that over and over. But as soon as I download the iso file it goes to 4 mb being free space. On the manager it shows there is more space
you sure that usb has 32gigs? might be scam one that says it has more space than it does (would also explain the boot problem maybe?) but you said it launched fine once so i’m not sure/a mint iso won’t fit on 4mbs? but reformatting should definitely “reset” the usb… . have you tried it with a different one?
Boys, I tried. But I couldn’t get HDR working properly in KDE, the kernel kept randomly locking up to the point where even REISUB didn’t do anything, and 95% of my GPU settings were missing from the Nvidia X Server app and I couldn’t get most of them restored.
Linux users look at me like I’m insane when I ask where the RTX Video Enhancement and 3D settings are. Half the reason why I bought an RTX GPU was for the video enhancement features like SDR to HDR conversion and AI upscaling, yet these features simply don’t exist in Linux. And when it comes to the 3D settings, “just change the graphics settings in-game”, I’ve seen people say, failing to realize that the vast majority of games are missing several graphics settings that are in the 3D settings screen. I go into that menu and make tweaks before I play anything. It’s a make-or-break feature for me.
I’m sorry but Linux still hasn’t caught up enough with Windows yet in the gaming and HDR realm for me to commit to an OS change. But if you have an AMD GPU and don’t have an HDR display, I’m sure it’s a wonderful gaming experience for you. I’ll check back again in another 5 years.
You’re absolutely right that Linux is still missing a lot of the features that are available on Windows. But the freedom you get with it is so worth it for me, even if my 4090 is bored most of the time.
I just wish Linux partisans would acknowledge that Linux has serious shortcomings rather than constantly shouting about how there is literally no reason to ever use Windows.
I greatly prefer Linux for tasks like software development, but when I sit down to pay a game, I don’t want to have to debug it first.
It has no shortcomings if you have infinite time to write your own patches first. That’s something you can’t legally do on windows.
Theoretically almost all shortcomings can be overcome apart from the time you spend.
Realistically there are a few shortcomings but for me they are barely noticeable and the customisability and package managers more than make up for any troubles I personally run into. And it’s foss.
I only recommend Linux to people who are in similar situations to me. Unfortunately most people I know use some windows only games or share the device with others and are scared of messing up the installation.
I mostly jokingly recommend it whenever someone complains about Microsoft messing something up for them, encountering a problem and not finding out why it’s happening.
To be fair, if you do not care about the newest iteration of whatever Nvidia is up to (Frame Generation, RTX HDR, etc.) and don’t play games with kernel-level anti-cheat systems, there are really no issues with gaming on Linux these days - at least in my experience.
Same here. Occasionally I need to play around with wine/proton but it works.
I think most Linux users (including me) are just cheap and don’t even have hdr. One of my two monitors has a dent in frame and has one DVI port and power. I think a lot of the maintainers are similar and therefore don’t prioritise problems they don’t have yet.
I think it’s a real shame how bad the Nvidia experience can be but at this point I’ve found that if the drivers from the arch repos don’t work nicely the flatpak ones usually will. Wayland is of course still a problem for now but hopefully not for long.
Wayland is of course still a problem for now but hopefully not for long.
To be honest, graphic in linux has been a rough spot for the last 30 years. Back then you had to fiddle with arcane syntax to get your X11 config working, then it was getting opengl working, then, then, then. So my expectations is that once Wayland is working there will be something else. Maybe HDMI58 AI enhanced turbo edition will come out and people will be saying “but once this is working it will be the year of linux desktop” ;)
