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Scary_le_Poo ,
@Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org avatar

Open shell or start 11 from stardock

IDew ,

May I interest you with Ameliorated?

als ,

Linux is free btw

zecg ,
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

Geez, MS, it’s a place to filter a list with a few keystrokes and/or click a link or punch enter. It’s such shit ad real estate you’re just pissing off people about to discover nobara or this for nothing

henfredemars ,

Every day that passes, I feel more validated in my decision to no longer use their OS.

WhiteHotaru ,

Linux looks more and more like the better choice. Some more reasons here despite the ad annoyance: xda-developers.com/reasons-linux-good-gaming/

kindenough , (edited )

Thank you kindley Microsoft, It is what I crave! I need it like the Microplastics I got installed in my ballsack.

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

God damnit. I have a W10 drive left because SteamVR is still a little clunky on Debian.

I really hope valve comes out with a new release of SteamOS for desktops, the Steam Deck version is damned near flawless.

SteveFromMySpace ,

Really just does not seem like they are interested in doing it. I feel like they would’ve said something by now

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

It won’t make them any more money so it’s not like there is a financial incentive for them, but they do occasionally do things just because they aren’t assholes.

SteveFromMySpace ,

Honestly I would kill for a proper steamOS release. I’d even pay money for it.

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

Ditto, a purpose built gaming OS would be worth the price of avoiding Windows.

Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

A steam deck beta update from the past week or two that they were working on adding support for the ROG Ally. The verge asked valve about it, and they confirmed they’re actively working on making it support other handheld PCs.

SteveFromMySpace ,

Handheld =/= tower I want to build lol

Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

Right, I would just assume bringing it to other handhelds is the first step in it having universal hardware support.

SteveFromMySpace ,

Eh you’d think that but they haven’t done a desktop update since early 3.0. It’s been years

Diplomjodler3 ,

There’s been a lot of positive buzz about Bazzite.

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

I’ll have to look again, I thought it was abandoned.

DaddleDew ,

They figured if they make Win 10 just as bad as Win 11 people will finally switch over.

Obligatory Linux plug.

mrsemi ,

Can’t get any linux to work on my gaming laptop

DaddleDew ,

Your laptop must be an exception. I’ve installed Linux Mint on an old laptop that couldn’t even run Windows 10 properly and it just worked with zero hiccup.

mrsemi ,

How entirely unshocking that old, established hardware has support whereas brand new, non-mainstream hardware has issues

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

What make and model, what problem is it giving you?

mrsemi , (edited )

Maingear ML-17.

Uefi does not see any version of Linux as bootable after installation.

I can get it to see grub, but it fails to boot when selected.

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

I had a similar problem with an NUC where the install would work but was unbootable after. In my case the USB showed up as both a BIOS and UEFI boot device and the mobo was picking the legacy mode. This made the install a legacy boot install which was not bootable.

To fix it I had to manually choose to boot the install USB’s UEFI mode.

tcsenpai ,

I assume this is either a meme or a very unique situation. “Not working” is too generic, if you can provide more details we could even help

mrsemi ,

It’s a maingear laptop. Installation appears to proceed normally, however on reboot grub will absolutely not allow me to boot into linux. I’ve tried ubuntu, mint, and arch. I suspect it’s actually an issue with the uefi, but as the hardware isn’t mainstream trying to run that down is fruitless.

JovialSodium ,

I’m not familiar with the brand, but general ideas that come to mind to troubleshoot are:

  • Disable secureboot if enabled. Understanding you’ll lose that security feature of course.
  • See if there’s an option to mark your storage as removable in the installer (–removable flag in grub iirc). My (pretty old) motherboard does not seem to respect attempts to add uefi entities but it happily boots off a “removable” uefi install.
NegativeInf ,

Skill issue.

Moops ,
@Moops@fedia.io avatar

sudo git-gud

mrsemi ,

My home computing experience extends back to manually setting IRQs and programs that came in the form of booklets of code in text. I’m not a stranger to getting fiddly with my software. This laptop just will not play nice with linux. It’s from maingear, and not even windows 11 recognizes all the hardware without some proprietary drivers, for example the keyboard backlighting.

NegativeInf ,

What’s the model number?

And specifically windows recovery partitions enjoy nuking grub at every step.

mrsemi ,

ML-17. I have work software that must be run on Windows. Not able to dual boot is also a non-starter.

bingbong ,

Does it allow for a second SSD?

mrsemi ,

I got a second SSD specifically for this purpose. Installing to either drive fails identically.

grue ,

What happens if you boot it with only the Linux SSD attached?

NegativeInf ,

Well, there’s your problem. Windows nukes it in a blind panic.

As an alternative, windows in a vm for your work software, Linux as the only physical install.

Diplomjodler3 ,

What distros did you try?

lengau ,

Super weird. My laptop had a new enough GPU that Windows didn’t even have proper drivers yet and it worked out of the box on Linux.

BCsven ,

When you say Any Linux, are you referring to debian derivatives only? Have you tried rpm based? I had same issue with one laptop. However Bazzite offers images based on hardware type so one of those might work

bread ,
@bread@feddit.nl avatar

I migrated the day before yesterday. A company can only feed you hot logs, straight from the factory, for so many years before you tire of pretending the taste is acceptable.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

I dunno, I’d eat Costco hot dogs all day every day.

atlas ,

Preach, brother. I wouldn’t live long, but I’d finally live happy

gravitas_deficiency ,

They really do have outstanding tubesteaks

30p87 , (edited )

At least I could install Windows 10 in QEMU. I think I’ll go back to Win7 for VMs then.

Beaver ,
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

Microsoft wants everyone to suffer. Even the smarter windows users.

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

You would think they make enough on their corporate licenses to cover the cost of home users and whatever piracy still exists.

Beaver ,
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

I was sucker back then as I paid for a home license for $165 cad though I rectified the mistake by donating more to Linux projects all together

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

Same, I bought 7 and 10 but have since put more into Debian, Wikipedia, Archive.org and some other projects than I will ever spend again on a Windows license.

henfredemars ,

There’s no such thing as enough in this capitalist wasteland.

luciole ,
@luciole@beehaw.org avatar

Gotta chase that perpetual growth.

Gerudo ,

Office is what pays the bills. Everything else is icing on top.

YourPrivatHater ,

YEEEEEEY! THIS IS SOOOO COOL! SUCH A FEATURE!!!

god i hate Microsoft.

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