Everyone keeps posting about Linux and living in 2037 but I don't get it. Why is Linux so great? How do you live with the incompatibility of your games??? Just casually rocking windows 10 living in 2017

You're starting a shitstorm from all the people that use their PC for webdev and tetris only 😋

How do I live with the incompatibility? I don't. My laptop (use this for work) has Ubuntu and my desktop has win 10 😄

If games ran fine under Linux I'd probablly switch for good but sadly they don't.

I could care less for games. I use Linux as my main, but switch to windows when I'm fixing the formatting for my manuscript on MS word.

Using a computer for gaming is not the biggest thing that most of us use computers for. I believe that as professional software developers we need to be well versed in all major operating systems. Even then people have their preferences and that is completely fine.

Gaming ... The only reason I keep windows. I do enjoy windows, and I also had some bad moments with Linux doing bullshit. But the day Linux become the first pc gaming platform, I'm switching all the way.. That might never happen, and it make me sad 😩.

@Totchinuko oh and by the way, nice wallpaper 😊

I refuse to use a closed source spying system solely for gaming. Next to that I don't really game haha

*push*

@nik123 you sir hold an incredibly valid point. Altho in my case unless Linux isn't YouTube compatible I'm still fucked.

@linuxxx also your username would become useless.

@virus200 Nah that one would still be usable :P

@virus200 "youtube compatible" what do you mean by that?

@JoshBent I'm saying my distraction addiction is YouTube meaning unless Linux doesn't allow/blocks YouTube it won't solve my procrastination lol.

@virus200 Why would you blame Linux for that? xD redirect YouTube to your localhost through the hosts file maybe?

@IllSlapU Thanks for the recognition haha! I didn't want to be "that guy" posting that link on every Linux Gaming thread.

@IllSlapU while you can game on Linux on many good titles, a lot of titles are still not compatible. Moreover, AAA titles are almost always absent and that for most is a deal-breaker.

Why is Linux so great? Well at least it is not spying every thing you do on your computer and instead respects your privacy and because everything is web based nowadays there aren't a lot of incompatibilities (unless for games)

Linux subsystems for Windows 10 with Ubuntu.
😚👌

@nerd-san I just learned something, thanks 🤔

Where can I find your wallpaper?

because you don't need games to live!

Why do people think of it as a XOR condition?
Linux is more suited for developers and programmers (overall).
Windows is more suited for Windows related development and games.
You can use them both.

a) No game is worth it
b) I have LOADS of games that work great on Linux and it's more than enough for me

@naktop3031

With my mentality (not a good place to discuss it, but you can get a good idea from my profile XD) I do require games to live!

@benoliver999

"A" is incorrect. Look into Citadel: Forged in Fire.

This game gives my life meaning.

On a more serious note.. It does inspire my writing, as it's mostly the same as as what I write about.

* Servers at work - Linux
* Laptop at work - Windows... Don't mind bec mostly putty
* Servers at home - Linux
* Desktop at home - Windows bec battlenet

Reasons I personally prefer using Linux over Windows wherever possible (i. e. anything except for gaming):

- Most software is a lot easier to install/setup, because nearly everything is in the repositories (think of it like installing from e. g. the play store rather than searching the internet yourself for an executable that might well be filled with bloatware)

- it has way better ownership mechanisms

- fixing problems is a lot easier because you have logs for everything and control over every part of the system

- The system is very modular - you can choose your filemanager, desktop manager, but loader - basically everything while having good defaults (except if you're installing something like Arch or worse)

- many dev related things work a lot easier with Linux, because there are better conventions and a developer has a way easier time of interacting with the system

@theCalcaholic

- Linux (usually) doesn't spy on you and respects your privacy and choices.

- Linux is more comprehensible. Although I l've been using windows way longer, I understand Linux a lot better. For Windows you have a hard time finding documentation, error messages are unclear, there are no real logging conventions, the different systems (e. g. permission handling, configuration storage) are a lot more cumbersome than on Linux.

That's what annoys me the most when I'm working with windows today - just because I know it's possible to do it differently.

@Cyanite But you think about creating games don't you?

@theCalcaholic I know it... I prefer linux for coding and programming...but when I say you don't need games for life... She said it isn't true..so I asked her if she programs games and it is her job... ;)

@naktop3031 Yeah, that's why I deleted my comment - apparently not fast enough. ;)

I realized that it's not related to yours in any way. :D

@theCalcaholic don't care we are only humans... but I don't like when you or I or everybody do mistake and professional come to him and start laughting ... it is same when somebody come to the gym first time a take light weigh a other starts laughting... I really hate tht king of people what think thay know everything... :/

Easy, most of it already works, either directly or with a little bit of work in WINE.

Only real difference I am seeing is everything is faster, nothing crashes, battery lasts longer and instead of 30gb free on my ssd I have 90.

@naktop3031

I am the lead dev of a cross-platform game, yes.

But I'm also a fantasy writer.

Buy PS4 of you wish to play games like a pro and comfortably.

Buy PS4 of you wish to play games like a pro and comfortably.

@Cyanite really? that sounds amazing!
I have some questions... Can I?

@naktop3031

I believe Telegram would be much better suited for a full conversation: @TheCyaniteProject

Im a console peasant... My computer is just for work and creating stuff...

@naktop3031 I'm not sure I understand what you mean. 😮

Are you saying that someone laughed about you/someone else over the course of the thread?

Applaud your boldness LOL. Now about your display, I prefer no icons, no Cortana, no email shortcut and no store shortcut. I feel like you also don't use your windows apart from gaming 😋

@theCalcaholic I only notice that no one is perfect, even though some people think so

I have no problem at all with compatibility. There are three situations. In all three, I can play the game in question without trouble.

1) Runs natively on Linux. This is a big list, and getting bigger.

2) Runs in wine. This is kind of a crossover, and had less use all the time, though a game I play several hours a week (Lord of the Rings Online) falls into this category.

3) Has no Linux/wine support at all. For these, I just fire up my paperspace cloud VM and connect with parsec, and it works perfectly.

Because of these categories, I don't have to use Windows for anything. Though I do use a KVM/qemu VM to run WebEx for work, as I don't like how WebEx takes over your computer when you use it, so in a remmina VNC window is more than fine for me.

But to answer the question, "why is Linux so great?" is an exercise in Devrant's character limit. So I'll just name a couple things.

Performance, stability, control. My computer is mine. If I want to change something (ie: add a keyword to my launcher that runs a script I wrote to launch a digitalocean VM and add it to DNS), doing so is easy. The selection of window managers and desktop environments is staggering. Finding something that fit my needs and habits was easy, and customizing it to suit my workflow has been a blast.

Native support for things that Windows can do in only a half-assed manner. xterm, tmux, bash, SSH, netcat, rsync, port handling, reverse tunnels, local proxies, single command access to whatever web API I want. Windows just doesn't compare. You can do most of maybe all of these things with Windows, but certainly not out of the box.

Who need cortana anyway

@harrizsb MycroftAI all the way! :P

I do game at work sometimes, yes, on a linux machine. Not all games are compatible, true. Not all games != no games.

Next to that I simply, as stated above, refuse to work with closed source operating systems for security and privacy reasons.

But oh well, I simply love Linux which should be a good enough reason to use it :)

@1nfinite googled future wallpaper and found it 😁

@Jop- how ?? Tell me.. What am i missing?

@Jop- ok thanks for info.

@Jop- that means pcs are better than ps4.