198 points

Technically false
Gamer here, use Linux cause proton is good and I’m fed up with windows lol

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71 points

This is probably an old meme. I use Linux as a dedicated gaming OS, macOS for everything else except when Linux is already booted or nothing is and I want to do something quickly.

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31 points

It’s so old you can see the age on the image itself, lots of artifacting

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15 points

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7 points

Why not Linux for everything else? Art apps?

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5 points

In my case, Inventor and AutoCAD. I hate AutoDesk with the fury of a thousand suns, but FreeCAD just isn’t stable enough.

Oh, and currently needing .NET automatic source generation (long story), which is very difficult to develop on anything other than Windows.

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3 points

Because I just prefer macOS more. And Safari is good.

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5 points

I use Windows only when a certain game has a quirk in Linux. Everything else is Linux. Video editing, photo editing, gaming, browsing, etc

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I kind of really dislike the notion that you only use Linux because you are too poor for Apple.

I don’t use Apple because I don’t like to be stuck in a walled garden where a company decides what’s best for me.

I know it’s just a meme, but I think too many people actually think Linux is somehow inferior to Apple (MacOS) while I think it’s the other way around.

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Also. MacOS is absolute garbage. I’ve used it for 4 months now, and it pisses me off how inconsistent it is, and poorly designed and written. Two days wasted because of an almost bricked laptop because the monitor was set to 60Hz while installing an update. Just think about that.

I also had the misfortune of booting into windows after changing a motherboard. It was an absolute shit show there too, with broken drivers. Two hours of debugging. Had to use a long ethenet cable to even start fixing it, a flashback to a Linux experience I had in 2007.

Same system in Linux? Not a single second spent. WiFi drivers, microcode. Everything worked fine. Only thing necessary was fixing the grub/mbr partition that Windows decided to write over, on a separate drive. But that’s also Microsoft being shit.

People just don’t know how much more usable Linux is these days. Especially for power users. You can do so many things, so easily, that either works out of the box, or you can do with simple scripting. The only issue is software availability, but that too is mostly a thing of the past, and not really a fault of the OS.

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Yes, I agree. Just holy cactus, MacOS is just so bad these days. The inconsistency us driving me nuts. Why do the windows you open with the “help” menus inside of apps have small buttons? Why do some apps (e.g. Music) have a Search entry on the left side, and why do so have it on the left? Why do we still have tons of icons for system apps (Photo Booth, I’m looking at you) who have been programmed in a time where there have been dinosaurs around and seem to have never changed? … And so on. Like honestly, MacOS is so much better that Windows (which admittedly isn’t hard), but when I open up my good ol’ Fedora I dont have the feeling that I see a new shiny operating system, and when I click on a wrong button I am in the 1990-s again. Or 2050-s. Or God knows where. Linux has its unique set of challenges, but I fully agree that the notion that “MacOS is better than the rest” just isn’t true anymore. Maybe it was, when Linux distributions were worse and there was more money put into bugfixing OS releases. But not anymore.

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You’re confusing iOS, where you are in a walled garden, with macOS, where you can just do whatever the hell you want (There’s a recovery partition you can boot to where you can disable just about every bit of security that’s not hardware much like booting to grub in Linux)

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You’re right, although I wouldn’t be surprised that at some point MacOS will have a mandatory app store to protect you.

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snap windows to the edge of their screens

While it’s not a feature out of the box, there is software to add this functionality to macOS. But… same on Linux. You need to install that software if you want the feature. (Gnome/i3/other choice with this functionality.) So 🤷‍♂️

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I kind of really dislike the notion that you only use Linux because you are too poor for Apple.

It’s supposed to be funny 🤷 😂, like a very simplified version of how things actually are.

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12 points

Proton is so fucking good these days

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6 points

I’m close to switching to Linux with proton

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7 points

Go for it 👍.

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2 points

Bottles is great, and it puts links in for you into Steam, so you can launch the games directly from inside the Steam client.

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-29 points

Not good enough for DRM games, most mmo games or playing on private servers in minecraft or something.

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35 points

What’s are you talking about with Minecraft? I’ve always been able to joins any server cause it’s the same game.

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23 points

Yeah plenty of actual examples for games that don’t work / work well on Linux. Minecraft is not on that list

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Private servers not official Microsoft ones you login on the game. A server that isn’t connected by Microsoft organization in the Minecraft community. That’s the private server im talking about.

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24 points

Minecraft works perfectly fine, pretty sure it runs natively on Linux actually.

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10 points

Its java based right?

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7 points

If the DRM or anticheat needs low enough level access that it won’t run in wine I don’t think I really want it running on my computer either way.

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6 points

I think it’s almost at the point where the only games that don’t work are games with anti cheat that refuse to play nicely.

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4 points

most mmo

I play WoW, SWTOR, and New World just fine.

Which MMOs were you thinking about?

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1 point

minecraft (java, not sure about bedrock) on linux is flawless, private servers work exactly as they do on windows.

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-2 points

Cool Edge Lord points, bruh.

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127 points

Do you fear God?

Yes -> TempleOS

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In puberty? Hannah Montana Linux.

Kim Jong Un is god? Red Star OS. There’s a Linux distro for everyone.

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7 points

Are you sus?

Yes --> AmogOS

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5 points

I thought you were kidding. Can’t believe it is a real thing.

God, I love the internet.

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2 points

catgirl? UWUNTU

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10 points

Do you make a furry comic from the 90’s?

Yes -> Amiga

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1 point

Context?

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74 points

Are you rich?

Are you bad with money?

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23 points

Just because you’re bad with money does not mean you can afford an Apple product.

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40 points

Just because you cant afford an apple product doesn’t mean you won’t buy one (on credit)

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9 points

… Damn, good point…

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Worth every penny IMO, MacOS is super nice and so is the hardware.

(I don’t have a mac, wish I did though).

Cue the apple hater replies, this will be fun.

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17 points

Mac was fantastic in the '80s

Mac was great in the "90s

Mac was good in the '00s

Linux Mint was fantastic in the '10s

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1 point

Ok but it’s the 20s and I want to run apps that are only on new chip MacOS computers and i don’t have one what do I do, saaave me linukz

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(I don’t have a mac, wish I did though).

Worth every penny IMO, MacOS is super nice and so is the hardware.

Putting all my legitimate Apple/MacOS concerns/arguments aside, how can you declare a product as “Worth every penny” when you yourself have not used it for an extensive period of time? Attempted to integrate it into your workflow?

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47 points

Linux gamer here

Works no probs

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Wrong. I’ve ran into a ton of issues recently with proton. Don’t act like it’s flawless. It needs a lot of work.

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16 points

most of us that gave up windows did so because it had tons of issues. Don’t act like windows is flawless, MS stopped putting in work.

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8 points

Lemmy trying to act like Linux is less work than Windows for gaming, the delusion is palpable

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2 points

It needs work, but it’s a lot better than what Windows has to offer regarding legacy games.

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1 point

What games do you play?

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39 points

This flowchart is wrong.

If I follow this reasoning, I should be running windows. I am not running windows, Ergo, either it is incorrect or I am incorrect. And I refuse to believe I’m incorrect.

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26 points

That’s because this image is dated af.

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3 points

It’s pronounced gpeg

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4 points

No, I’m sure it’s pronounced as jpej.

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2 points

Love the “A KNOW”

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