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Cake day: January 7th, 2025

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  • on windows:

    • My huion drivers require you to manually download them from an internet site and manually make sure it is a site you trust. Then you need to run them every time you want to use the pen functionality.
    • My DAC drivers needed to be installed from a site you think you trust and then sometimes I had to restart dac to run it.
    • My usb mic would randomly stop working and I’d need to reboot the drivers manually. If it hadn’t be a common fucking issue on fucking windows since the start of time it would be a very enjoyable half day of troubleshooting and googling.

    On my linux: Upon first bootup after install I fully expected a nightmare but they all ended up working out of the box.
    No downloads

    None.

    None at all.

    No restarts of hardware.

    No reboots.

    They all just work. All the chifi and chinese tablets. Unlike on “user friendly windows”. I haven’t used the psu power button once cause linux is more stable.




  • in my experience unless the company has blocked off linux, i works better on linux. Games that don’t work on win11 work on linux, eg old games. MHW doesn’t crash or bsod on linux and gets more frames.

    Nvidia drivers is just going to rpm fusion, copy pasting some commands and pressing enter. I reccomend reading up what those commands mean and “scary hax0r only linux” becomes “oh that makes so much sense linux”. My only issues were my steam library drive was on wrong file system so I had to reformat it (imagine if you put wrong file system on windows, you wouldn’t expect it to work either) and having to disable secureboot so you don’t have to restart and sign keys. Simracing wheels work fine but only issue is huge hotases like winwing since the creator of the driver doesn’t understand that “lmao just build it” is not sufficient set of instructions for people who want to play games.



  • Linux has a different use philosophy and workflow, once you udnerstand that you realize it’s not a big deal.

    Windows is basically stockholm syndrome. It’s just so shit but people memory hole all the troubleshooting, searching 20 control panels and then still going to regedit, opening terminal to start regedit or dxdiag. I guess nothing says “hardcore gamer os” more than pressing windows key and typing program name only for windows to launch a bloatware browser you are not allowed to uninstall that then goes into an search engine nobody wants to use and gives you a result that is an ad all the while your screen is recorded and all that is sold to whoever wants to buy it.


  • I use terminal on linux less than I use regedit to fix bugs and performance issues “the os for casual people” shouldn’t have. Ever tried switching mouse scroll wheel direction on a japanese trackball? That is an user-experience of all time, while on kde for example it’s a checkbox.

    KDE software center servers programs from reliable, safe, trusted sources so you don’t need terminal. Only reason a casual user would need terminal is to get nvidia drivers, which is less work than windows ones considering the aforemoentioned software center automatically updates them without extra useless bloatware and forced sign in to an account, unlike on windows.


  • This is what made me realize maybe I should try my luck with the command line. I haven’t had to touch any advanced stuff to do non advanced stuff in a while. Windows has conditioned me badly. For example when my laptop had no mic during a meeting I instantly assumed it was drivers fucking up again ala windows, so I started finding new drivers. After reverting the change I discovered it was just firefox that had disabled the mic. Smoothest “y no audio” bugfix I’ve ever had compared to “ready for the home user” windows discord, zoom, teams, skype constantly shitting the bed randomly.


  • I find all the issues eg random audio drivers for my dac crashing, having to manually start my fucking tablet drivers every time I wanted more functionality than a display, having to install any drivers for bt stuff or audio stuff, games running poorly, games crashing, bsods, unsolicited ads. I found they all just dissapeared when I started daily driving linux.

    You are VASTLY overestimating why people use pcs: They use it for light gaming and browsing the web. Linux has been ready since forever.