…and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I’m mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!

  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 hours ago

    My biggest hangup (so far) is modding games.

    Nexus is built for Windows. CDPR’s RedMod is too.

    It’s probably not that big a deal. I’m just shit at all this stuff. I’m not a coder. I don’t even know what the fuck sudo means. But I have a very loose grasp on using it. With a moderate amount of help from the internet. Usually.

    • JunglisticFunkateer@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 hours ago

      Nexus is building a new version of its app, and the new one has Linux support (native app).

      It’s not yet a full replacement, and at the moment only supports a few select games, but eventually it’ll expand to the full catalogue.

    • Statick@programming.dev
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Closest comparison I can give of it is… It’s like clicking “Yes” when the User Account Control (UAC) popup appears on Windows when you’re installing stuff. That’s you, as an admin, confirming you want to perform whatever action is being performed.

      sudo ... is perform an action/command as an admin.

      As for the mods. A lot of the time it’s a matter of taking the files you downloaded, and dropping them in the game directory (or a directory within the game directory).

      Once you do it manually once, you’ll see it’s pretty straight forward and you don’t really need the mod managers.

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    1 hour ago

    You guys are living in a bubble.

    I keep trying and trying. The UX isn’t great.

    Pinch to zoom is non-existent. Scrolling on a trackpad , the systememulates a mouse and isn’t smooth when you scroll. Scrolling in browsers vs in file systems is totally a different experience.

    Forget about scrolling in the browser using the touch screen. It emulates a left mouse click hold. No, that is not what is expected when I’m browsing a web page and put my finger on the screen. I expect it to respond like how my phone browser responds. Never once have I ever needed to left mouse hold when I swipe a browser screen.

    The list goes on. From a convoluted navigation in the menu and a need to install apps using terminal.

    I keep trying and trying. But if you can’t convince a tech forward person like myself, how will you convince a normie?

    I haven’t tried all the distros. But I shouldn’t have too. These UX systems should be standard across all distros.

    • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Don’t be afeared, be bold. Be brave. Know you are taking a great leap forward that others are too timid to take.

      • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 hours ago

        This is just philosophy with computers ngl. Don’t be afraid to break stuff you will fix them eventually.

    • rapchee@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 hours ago

      it’s probably going to be fine, but afaik it’s slightly more likely to be difficult on a laptop due to custom hardware

      • Blemgo@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        The only issues I had with Laptops so far were the WIFI drivers, as some distros, such as Debian, don’t have them OOTB. I think especially the major players with a focus on recent patches however, such as fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch and many others can install them rather easily during the installation.

  • Quadhammer@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Hey so I just got my first raspberry pi what’s the laziest possible way to put an n00bs on my Sim card

  • v01dworks@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    8 hours ago

    I mostly use Linux but I dual-boot windows just for VR and every time I have to use windows it feels sluggish in comparison

    • rapchee@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 hours ago

      i do the same thing but i think it’s kind of on us - when you only boot windows once in a while it tries to do a bunch of things (updates, scanning everything for more data on your advertisement profile, virus scan, etc) at the same time
      it was similar when i was running linux less frequently, i was annoyed like
      ugh again bunch of updates, kernel update as well ugh now i have to reboot too

      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
        6·
        4 hours ago

        Just that linux does not force them on you. You decide when and if you even install those updates. Windows does it all in the background without telling you. I hate that behavior so much. This damn machine is under my command and yet on Windows it does whatever Microsoft wants instead of what I want.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
    9·
    9 hours ago

    Yeah I have a Value Village PC with Windows 10 that will be offered to the penguins pretty soon,