You don’t need logs because in Windows 95 they made a tool that always 100% diagnoses and fixes the issue and it runs every time dispite never actually returning a fix or error code.But wait there’s more here’s a hex code to some memory allocation rather than creating a reference library in human so you can search forums where the only advice is reformat or don’t worry guys I fixed it.
But you are not allowed to look at the actual run time logs as we’re a polished environment.
bought my first Gateway PC when Windows 95 came out. Lockups every day drove me to Slackware install from a dozen floppy set I d/l’d. Mac OS 8.*/9 was no better. OS-10 brought apple back from the dead. wanted to buy stock, was/am poor
It could be mostly steamdeck users, but for me arch is the only distro that works well. You know what you install which makes troubleshooting easy, and it’s documented very well.
I think part of this that I’m not seeing talked about, and perhaps confused for “more tech savvy users”, is just the user hostility of Windows.
9 times out of 10 when a Linux app or game crashes I get a verbose error and more often than not one that I can simply copy and paste.
9 times out of 10 when Windows, or much of windows software, crashes it gives some random number or code and in a window I can’t even copy and paste out of.
My skill level doesn’t change. Linux just isn’t user hostile in nature making it easy to search for fixes and report issues. Where as on windows I can’t summon the care or effort to manually transcribe the error so I can then do something with it.
If the interactive session is still up, just screenshot it and OCR the image. Takes a few seconds, but it’s still easy. Win+S, select the area, paste into OneNote, right-click copy text.
Pleasantly surprised that Arch tops the chart. Then again, and I might be wrong about this, but to me a clear bias in the ProtonDB data is that those who submit reports to ProtonDB are usually users who are likely used to submitting bug reports and stuff, so obviously not your average “freshly migrated from Windows” gamer.
Arch is very powerful and flexible, but definitely not newbie friendly. I only made the jump after 7 years of using Ubuntu and Debian, and I still had a learning curve.
That’s surprising to me. I get the vast majority of bug reports from Windows users. But I use auto generated crash reports that the user clicks OK to send and it’s a music app, not a game, which might be different.
Yeah how I’m guessing their reports work is it’s like a forum or form you can fill out with the bug report. Not something that happens automatically like that.
My opinion on Manjaro seems unpopular, but I still like it. I daily-drive Manjaro happily.
It’s Arch that just works out of the box.
But most importantly, I already have it set up, and I am lazy. If it’s not broken (too much), don’t fix it.
My sister spent hours trying to play dvds on her new windows laptop ; I found her getting pissed off , turning to percussive maintenance, and starting to fill out a warranty claim on the dvd player . . .
It took about 15 minutes to download , flash (figure out how to change the sodding boot order) and run Manjaro installer/live usb stick to demonstrate how real computers can just do things like play dvds.
Manjaro is great for cases like that, since it works, is easy, and will have pretty well up to date kernel.
I mean don't get me wrong, installing arch from scratch is a good fun and educational process and very nostalgic for the 1990s . . . but i'm not doing all that on my sister's laptop just to demonstrate how shit windows is.
and i'm very grateful for valve doing it all for steamdeck.
Hardware support for GPUs in based on compositor. X11 supports them better but Wayland is faster, both are available on most popular distros and swappable via a logout login.
Modern looks can be done with desktop environments like KDE and Gnome. Both are good, but KDE is more customisable.
If you don’t want to compile stuff yourself every now and then then choose Ubuntu or Fedora based distro.
Having the freedom to install anything you want is a fun requirement. If you mean literally anything then Vanilla OS might suit you since you can use all package managers but you get less modern features with it. This gives you 20 year old apps stuff that only works on some fringe dead on. If not that extreme then Ubuntu based is a bit better than Fedora based in those situations.
Ubuntu is nice and all but you’ll have to follow a guide to add flatpak support otherwise a very good distro.
So here’s a suggestion list from me:
KDE Neon (Ubuntu based on LTS versions)
Fedora (Gnome or KDE variants)
VanillaOS (if edge cases)
PopOS (New kid on the block. It’s just nice)
I recommend downloading whatever interests you and start them up in a VM.
I personally use arch with i3 window manager. Before anyone says anything, no, this isn’t another “I use arch btw” gag. It is fast, highly customisable, barebones and in my experience i3-wm works great with games which have fullscreen/windowing issues as it is easy to toggle between full screen and move windows about. For example, Gmod kept sticking in between my two monitors on Ubuntu and wouldn’t let me move the window. With i3, you can move containers around with ease. Plus if your arch installation breaks it is almost always your fault. I also have better performance than when I was using Ubuntu.
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