I feel like I’ve been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

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I don’t run Linux (though I’m admittedly more interested in it than I used to be) but the reddit API stuff definitely made me learn more about foss, and value it more.

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If you’re already feeling some interests your gonna jump ship sooner or later. I made the switch last year and its been nothing short of amazing.

Steam, gog and epic games all work. Some run better then on windows, others require a tinker step.

You can run and install most exes, even pirated games using Lutrius.

Blazing fast. I have sm called hyprland sway and win11 feels like the stone age compared.

Best of all: COMPUTERS ARE FUN AGAIN You learn so much but its intuitive enough you don’t even notice.

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its intuitive enough you don’t even notice

a bit much

COMPUTERS ARE FUN AGAIN

agreed

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Interesting to know that steam, gog, and epic (specifically) all work well for you, I’ve heard mixed results with Epic, some say it doesn’t work. Maybe I’ve gotten wrong info.

I have an older laptop, and as soon as I can upgrade to something better, I’m going to use it as a Linux practice.

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I am using heroic launcher to play blazing sails on epic right now. I am on Arch, which I believe is a positive since the steam deck is arch based (i heard).

The escapist 2 i have not gotten to work properly though. It runs but with like 1fps. Apparently this is because epics implementation and it runs smooth with steam. Definitely test things on a game by game basis.

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I do value FOSS sodtware and like linux for it being foss(there are many other reasons too though). I do think understanding importance of Free software is much important than admiring one of the(most important) free software projects. I can see yku usibg linux soon or later in the future, along with other free programs

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I think maybe I’m misunderstanding—are you saying that valuing free software is more important than valuing FOSS? FOSS is inherently free, no? Free Open Source Software. I would understand if I was talking about open source in general, but FOSS does include being free. Maybe that’s not what you meant.

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Sorry I mean valuing foss/free ideology rather than just one of such software called linux.

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