I work in science and at university, I was noticing that increasingly often, the kinds of computational work I was doing worked better on Linux. Often, there’d be software that would ostensibly run in Linux and Windows, but the Windows documentation and community would be pretty sparse.
The more I learned, the clearer it became that switching over properly to Linux was the way to go. It just provides better infrastructure. As an example, an area of science I feel passionately about is FAIR data principles, a list of guidelines on how we can make scientific data more Findable, Accessible, Interactible and Reusable. In practice, for me, this means I’ve gotten very good at using containers, which I found much easier on Linux
I always wanted to learn. I had a number of failed attempts with Linux back in 2000, 2006, etc. I always gave it a shot every 5 years ago just to see.
I fully made the switch with pop os a couple years ago and it ended up sticking. I was in a better place to learn linux and pop os is just easy and noob friendly. This last time was also spurned on when the rumour was going around that windows 11 was going to have ads right in the explorer. I don’t know if that ever happened but it was enough to get me to give it another shot haha
Mostly smooth. When I jumped onto pop os I think it was the 21.10 version which was good. Only the ng that I never got working was lutris. When 22.04 was released I updated to that and had some weirdness afterwards that I couldn’t quite iron out. I ended up doing a fresh install with 22.04 and it’s been great since.
Nice, thanks. I've been (slowly) preparing to switch, for me its probably gonna be mint at first but if that doesnt pan out popOs sounds like a good fallback.
The last version of windows I could tolerate was Win 7. I could find a webpage something like "how to unbloat Win 7" after a fresh install and happily use it.
Linux was a hobby I learned slowly but gaming hold me back and best I could do was dual boot.
I hated everything about Win 8. Win 10 was too demanding hardware-wise. So when Steam bridged the gaming gap, Linux as the only OS was a no-brainer.
I'm interested in the philosophy of open source and I use open source when there is a viable option. But at the end of the day, I prioritize convenience and practicality and Steam is convenient.
Steam seems antithetical to all of these. The software in the first place became popular as a form of DRM,
It’s annoying when games require Steam in order to run, but let’s be clear: it’s not DRM.
In most of the cases I’ve seen, it’s nothing more than a library dependency, for features like Steam Input and achievements. Here’s a Steam client emulator to satisfy that dependency without Steam being present at all:
If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, then let’s call it a duck. Those dependencies work a lot like DRM for your typical user. And, sure, you can fix it… but you can also install a NoCD for a game with actual DRM.
Steam binds game installations to a specific account where you purchased them; and you are not supposed to run that game instal without Steam alongside it, or through another account, or no account at all, or in 2+ computers at the same time. And the way dependencies are handled is part of that.
As such, you can argue that it’s DRM done less worse than most, or that the “DRM-ness” is not its primary “goal”, but you can’t really argue that it doesn’t behave a lot like DRM would, for practical purposes, and for your typical user.
Steam binds game installations to a specific account where you purchased them;
I don’t know what you think Steam is doing in this regard, but if you have some evidence that it writes personal account data into game files to prevent their use elsewhere, then please share it. That would be newsworthy.
you can’t really argue that it doesn’t behave a lot like DRM would, for practical purposes, and for your typical user.
The only similarity to DRM is that the game expects it to be present. If that made it DRM, your graphics driver would also be DRM, as would your OS, your input devices, and your internet provider.
Obviously, these things are not the same. That’s why we have different words for them.
Please don’t be disingenuous.
Please don’t confuse people by misusing technical terms.
(Or at the very least, have the grace not to complain when someone corrects their usage. Sharing and refining knowledge is how we all learn from each other, after all.)
Linux systems are usually laid bare for people to tinker with, which for me is specially good if I see something I don't like, be it software, UI or UX.
Plus, most PC's I've seen from at least the past ~20 years can run Linux, so if I get my hands on a working PC, Linux becomes an easy choice.
Using WINE or Proton should work then you can use winetricks or protontricks to install the specific component you need if the game doesn't already install it.
I bought a new laptop, and it was lagging more than my old PC. I was enraged by this fact. My old pc had 4gb RAM, my laptop would freeze playing games like osu. Yeah, 8gb was the limit in 2016, but not like to get random freezes. I installed Ubuntu and then never went back, now using Arch. Performance. No random things going under my nose, making spikes happen. Now, it’s not about performance alone. It’s about control and privacy. I study psychology and I wish my peers realized what it means using Meta services everyday, Microsoft, etc, and how these are connected with our everyday life, decisions and lack of control, thus worth to get the psychology field to debate and put the everyday services under discussion.
Yeah i get 250fps in it on Windows and 90-120 on Linux. When the game launched smoke grenades didn’t even work so i think its safe to say it was untested. Hopefully improvements soon.
After changes Ive made mentioned elsewhere, im getting a stable 200+ now, maybe give them a go also? Although, I do have a weird glitch where things have a green sheen to them when running for some reason, but seems like a CS2 only issue at this stage, might be patched out later.
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