I would say 2022 is the year moderate PC users could justifiably become Linux users. After recently switching and working with steam and vulkan, I can play basically everything fine. Doom, Cyberpunk, heck I can even play Age of Empires 3 and I couldn’t tell any performance difference. With windows 11 literally shoving adspace into your start menu, I recommend everyone switching. If new to Linux I recommend Arch based systems for gaming, Garuda and Endeavor OS are fantastic and very much designed with gamers coming to Linux in mind.
Honestly, I monitor major internetworking infrastructure so I am pretty nolife on PC, so I have no frame of reference if you think I’m being generous or insulting.
Oh, no there’s tons of valid reasons to be on computers and consider yourself a moderate user, but from my experience most young people now that spend some time on computers game some, and Linux just didnt facilitate that in a friendly way until recently. So that one thing had kept the last vestige of household windows use.
most young people now that spend some time on computers game
That is true. I hadn’t considered that. Smartphones and tablets are the new way young people access the Internet most of the time. I can’t believe I’m already getting out of touch lmao, I’m still young you know.
You want old? I remember when I was able to get WoW running on Ubuntu in like 2007 or 2008ish. I felt like a god. Never have I wielded such power. No orgasm left me so satisfied.
That’s impressive. I can relate to the feeling of satisfaction after succeeding with a tinkering effort. Wishing you experience it again a thousand more times.
Oh God no, do not install arch. I just mean arch based distros like Garuda and Endeavor. The reason I say that is valve actually moved their package management to pacman from apt or whatever it was before. So steam works better natively as long as the base is Arch. Luckily Endeavor and Garuda have install wizards similar to window installations.
That’s fair enough, but anytime you get that itch, you should look around. See if emulation has become more viable for Ableton, I did a quick lookup on YouTube and found a guy who got his running low latency through wine. Or if you can mess with any open source alternatives that might be a replacement.
I would say 2022 is the year moderate PC users could justifiably become Linux users. After recently switching and working with steam and vulkan, I can play basically everything fine. Doom, Cyberpunk, heck I can even play Age of Empires 3 and I couldn’t tell any performance difference. With windows 11 literally shoving adspace into your start menu, I recommend everyone switching. If new to Linux I recommend Arch based systems for gaming, Garuda and Endeavor OS are fantastic and very much designed with gamers coming to Linux in mind.
I don’t think “moderate PC users” are gamers
Honestly, I monitor major internetworking infrastructure so I am pretty nolife on PC, so I have no frame of reference if you think I’m being generous or insulting.
It’s just that I consider myself a moderate PC user and don’t game at all. For my use-case Linux has been suitable for years.
Oh, no there’s tons of valid reasons to be on computers and consider yourself a moderate user, but from my experience most young people now that spend some time on computers game some, and Linux just didnt facilitate that in a friendly way until recently. So that one thing had kept the last vestige of household windows use.
That is true. I hadn’t considered that. Smartphones and tablets are the new way young people access the Internet most of the time. I can’t believe I’m already getting out of touch lmao, I’m still young you know.
You want old? I remember when I was able to get WoW running on Ubuntu in like 2007 or 2008ish. I felt like a god. Never have I wielded such power. No orgasm left me so satisfied.
That’s impressive. I can relate to the feeling of satisfaction after succeeding with a tinkering effort. Wishing you experience it again a thousand more times.
I hope we both do comrade.
This is great to hear, games are the only reason I still keep Windows on my desktop, would love to switch to Linux on all my systems.
Look up qutebox or awesome wm, window managers are the new desktop. The future is now.
I wouldn’t recommend Arch for people new to Linux, Fedora (Nobara) or Zorin should be better.
Manjaro is a good beginner-frienly arch distro.
Oh God no, do not install arch. I just mean arch based distros like Garuda and Endeavor. The reason I say that is valve actually moved their package management to pacman from apt or whatever it was before. So steam works better natively as long as the base is Arch. Luckily Endeavor and Garuda have install wizards similar to window installations.
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That’s fair enough, but anytime you get that itch, you should look around. See if emulation has become more viable for Ableton, I did a quick lookup on YouTube and found a guy who got his running low latency through wine. Or if you can mess with any open source alternatives that might be a replacement.