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Cake day: December 3rd, 2023
  • Durandal@lemmy.todaytoLinux•Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore
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    4 days ago

    “Linux Mint isn’t the answer for Linux newbies switching from windows to Linux” – someone that’s obviously done distro hopping. They then go on to cite “professional work”… something that generally benefits from boring, stable, reliable OS… and “customization”… which is a great place to start breaking things.

    And their alternatives? Kubuntu, fedora, and opensuse. What? *buntu used to be a safe bet … but they can’t keep things even running these days. Fedora… a perfect newbie choice. No hand holding, half your features won’t work as expected for a windows user because it focuses everything on foss only, out of the box. … and opensuse. I wouldn’t ever call opensuse “newbie friendly”… and they use their own packaging so all the common stuff you would want to look up for help won’t be a simple one click fix since most guides and apps recommend apt, rpm, or pac.

  • Durandal@lemmy.todaytoLinux•Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore
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    4 days ago

    It’s not that people generally say “basic” … they say “boring”. It’s designed to just work and be stable with some nice features but it has a slower release speed and the dev, intentionally, keeps things slow so that they can polish up all the features before they go mainstream on it. So it isn’t doing anything revolutionary and it isn’t giving you bleeding edge everything… it’s just nice and stable. It’s become one of top recommended distros for a reason.

    The main hiccups I see with it is that they are lagging behind on Wayland support… which is slowly becoming the defacto standard for desktop display tech. If you aren’t really up on the x11 vs wayland debate… this likely isn’t even an issue for you. Suffice to say they’ve tried to hang back on x11 for a while, which is the older but much more thoroughly tested way of doing the user space display. Secondly would be… because it’s a slow burn on updates, you might not get the latest greatest updates for the kernel with the display drivers. So for gaming that could make things a little more finicky. People do use it for gaming… so don’t think it can’t be also used for that, just might run into hiccups.

    Good thing is you can test it out, and if it doesn’t work out, try something else.

  • Durandal@lemmy.todaytoGames@lemmy.world•PC game recommendation for my partner and IEnglish
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    18 days ago

    It’s really hard to suggest games without knowing what you guys normally would play. You mention puzzle games. There are a ton of two player puzzle games that you play head to head which might be fun, but it isn’t coop exactly. I highly recommend super puzzle fighter ii turbo. It’s available thru emulation and I think maybe on steam via that capcom arcade thing. There are lots of games that fit into that category if it ends up appealing.

    If you have access to any of the games mentioned… maybe just have her try some of them and see what clicks. I know with my wife she wasn’t really a “gamer” at first… and I just let her loose on my steam games and a few that she would have never considered before became favorites like half-life, portal, l4d2. Most of the valve stuff holds up really well and makes for good primers into FPS style gaming. We also got really into coop minecraft and dungeon defenders so hundreds of coop hours have been dumped into those. I’d pick a bunch of genre styles (fps, puzzle, survival, etc) and just show her some gameplay videos if she’s reticent to play them sight unseen… see if anything sparks her interest. Then pick out some of the more well regarded titles from them to dive into. There are definitely classics that are considered classics for a reason.

    As for roboquest… I’ve enjoyed that one. The dev kept putting out content patches so it’s gotten a bunch of content dumped into it. Fun solo and coop. I personally love the pop art comic style. The progression is rogueLITE… so you’re slowly building up new stuff in your hub as you play, which makes for a nicer experience, IMHO. They even have a free demo on steam if you wanna try it out while you wait for a sale.

  • Durandal@lemmy.todaytoLinux@lemmy.world•Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?English
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    18 days ago

    On and off linux user since ages past. Not the most linux guru type. I’m fine with opening the terminal and doing things as needed, but I still have to look up half the command, for example.

    Anyway… windows / m$ finally just pissed me off so much I switched entirely to CachyOS / KDE for my daily driver. I tried a few distros with limited success before settling into that one. I wanted something that would have fairly fresh updates and be easy to setup for gaming. CachyOS really was a pretty seamless experience. Their “just make gaming work” button just made gaming work (I’m still on nvidia for the time being unfortunately).

    There is one hiccup that is a common problem with all linux distros I have used for one reason or another. Wake from sleep is a thorn in linux’s side. The s3 deep sleep issue hasn’t been a problem on cachy as far as I can tell… but there is an feature of nvidia where it tries to save the vram components on sleep and then reinitialize them on wake using a daemon or a service… but sometimes this crashes (as far as I can tell) on sleep… so it goes to sleep… and the system wakes up fine… but it will never actually reactivate the screen… and it waits for video to kick in… so it’s essentially locking the system and I have to force reboot. It isn’t every single time, and the lastest patch of the driver seems to have made it less frequent, but I still don’t leave anything open I’m afraid of losing when I put the system to sleep because of it. If that could be fixed, it would be basically running perfectly.

    I’ve basically gotten all my apps back up and running (with one windows only app that I don’t use regularly so it’s fine). Gaming has been great. I can’t think of much that I play that hasn’t worked by just clicking “play” in steam or heroic… and when they don’t work… it’s almost always just a quick trip to protondb to figure out which proton version I need to use and then it’s fine.

    Actually I have found one other weird bug where discord sometimes keeps running, but won’t allow me to type at all. I can see incoming text, and close the app normally so it isn’t crashed, but I can’t type or paste into it until I restart it. It’s some kind of weird error with electron from what I understand but I haven’t done a deep dive to fix it yet.

    So after fulling switching to linux and helping a couple other people also switch for daily driver, I would say we’re at the point where linux is ready for the “average user”. We’ve been creeping up on that for a while, but there’s been a lot of improvements to QoL in the last couple years that make it a feasible prospect for most people at this point. Some distros like linuxmint I feel like you could install and just use without every needing the terminal or having much of anything missing from “non-techie normal user” standpoint.