• doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Windows is unfortunately still better for gaming. Full stop. I still use both in different settings. Fuck Apple though.

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Windows is only better for you if you have a high-end Nvidia GPU and/or like having a good HDR implementation (KDE’s HDR support is a joke by comparison). If neither apply to you, then there’s no reason to ever use Windows.

    That said, from what I’ve seen since I joined Lemmy, most people here couldn’t give a single fuck about HDR. In fact, every time I even bring it up, I get nothing but hostility from the community (cause how dare I dual boot instead of using Arch fulltime? *sigh*).

    You’re missing out on a colorful image that more closely resembles real-life (clouds and sunsets look especially beautiful in HDR), but if you’ve never experienced it before then I can understand why the general opinion around here is that HDR is useless. I mean, I used to think that VA panels had good contrast and that IPS had superior colors, until I got a 4K144Hz HDR OLED… Hell, at one point I used to think that 60 FPS looked smooth too…

    Anyway, that’s the end of my little rant. You can go ahead and downvote me now.

    • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The only thing Windows has ever done with my HDR is decide for no reason to put insane contrast and color temps on my displays. Then I have to flick it on and off repeatedly until it looks a bit less terrible

    • NicestDicerest@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      My dad always used to tell me how the dutch government was jokingly bad at IT & other stuff. But booooooooooooy did i not expect it to be this bad

  • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I honestly hated idea of linux for soooo long. Ew. Like ew. Doesn’t work, borks, needs command line, wtf is that steaming pile of…yeah. Ew.

    But insert the goddamn bird with cracker meme after I tried Nobara last year (tried some other distros too). When Windows 10 loses support, I am pretty confident that Nobara will fill most of my needs.

    And, well, have some IT experience, with linux too, so occasional terminal isn’t that bad. I was simply afraid of constantly having to work in terminal.

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      I use CLI a lot because I find it much more convenient, so I’m genuinely curious where do you actually still need it in a modern distro as a standard user?

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        Hmm, mount a network drive, or any drive? On Windows it’s a few clicks in Explorer, but I’m not aware of it being that easy on any distro I used. Always had to go into /etc/fstab manually

      • Cort@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I just use it to get updates with apt-get or Pacman or yay. I haven’t seen any other way to update non flatpack programs on the distros I use

        • jj4211@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          I actually use KDE’s discover to apply all the updates (flathub and yum). Mainly because I’m lazy and the update icon appears and it’s quick to just click through.

          • Cort@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            I just checked and it doesn’t seem to pick up all the updates that pacman or yay does. Looks like, among other things it’s missing updates for samba, konsole, and plasma-addons

            • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              12 hours ago

              That is probably very distro dependent, I’m currently using bazzite on my daily driver and there the “updater” goes over absolutely everything: system images, custom dnf packages, containers, apt-get inside distrobox, flatpak… I guess also Android apps in way droid, but that I haven’t gotten into yet.

          • Cort@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            I’m a recent convert, so I picked KDE since it looked familiar. Might try gnome in the future tho, since I hear a lot of good things about it.

      • Demdaru@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Well, the thing is, you almost don’t. But like the other commenter said, most instructions are for terminal when something happens and from my - fairly limited as of now - experience, terminal is still key to linux configuration.

        What was mostly generating the Ew response was the fact that linux isn’t really known for being newbie friendly. Then getting hit with headless debian during studies also didn’t exactly change what I thought.

      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        It’s not that you neeeed it for most basic stuff, but if you search how to do something the results are more commonly terminal commands.

        • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
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          2 days ago

          In my experience learning Windows 10 for my job, the results of searching for how to do something are: ‘click-this’ tutorials that don’t work because Microsoft changed something in the next edition, editing the registry, or PowerShell commands. The registry editing sometimes doesn’t work because Microsoft changed something. The PowerShell method is the way to go, because Microsoft has embraced the command line.

        • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          Which is honestly a good thing, it’s so much better than instructions that are like click here -> drag to the left -> open a three level deep menu -> check the box -> reopen that menu -> click go. Or even worse, instructions that are a video

  • Constant Pain@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Windows is better… if you need game compatibility, slave in Office or Adobe, have a Nvidia card, wants HDR and or fractional scaling…

    Everything else, it’s pure unadulterated garbage…

    • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Games: nope. Same as someone above, I’ve got Cyberpunk on Linux

      Office/Adobe… may be a fair point for some Nvidia card: nope, works fine

      HDR: did not even bother to learn what is. Can be a fair point

      Fractional scaling - genuine question: who the hell ever needs this? I have gone from 1K resolution (standard laptop) to 2K to 2.5K to 34K with curved monitor and never ever ever did I think “hey, this big screen? I want everything bigger/smaller on it”. What do people use fractional scaling for?

  • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    3 days ago

    As a relatively recent Windows refugee, I want to share a recent success that has made me feel fully confident in never needing Windows again and fully feeling the Linux superiority.

    I got Cyberpunk with all my previous mods running.

    Maybe not a big deal for most people, but this was one thing that had kept me holding onto dual boot on my main device. Conversations online also kept making modding on Linux seem so impenetrable.

    Then I decided to spend an afternoon figuring out modding games in general on Linux, and yeah parts of it was tough for me to figure out, but now I’m confident that anything I used to do on PC, I can probably do better on Linux.

    I am ready to take up arms alongside the Weaponized Assault Penguin squad.

    • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’m going to be playing through cyberpunk again after not touching it since the launch fiasco and recommendations?

      • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        3 days ago

        For mods? Personally I just browser Nexus mods for what looks fun or interesting. Just getting command lines going is fun enough for a start. I always at least start a run giving myself a bunch of cash. But honestly, the vanilla game is plenty fun now and pretty well balanced compared to when it started. Still finding side content and weird stuff

        For general modding I started with the Redmodding Wiki and then I got over complicated trying to use a mod manager, messing with Steam Tinker Launcher and Mod Organizer 2. In the end just did things manually following the redmodding wiki.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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    3 days ago

    The Linux community is united! (Unless you mention Rust, or Wayland, or systemd, or Snap, or GNOME, or…)

      • NukeNPave@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I used to prefer Gnome for the longest time. It seemed to be lighter on resources and cleaner. I tried KDE again a few years ago and was blown away at how much better it has gotten. KDE has quickly become my go to. The ease of customization, theming, and the wealth of settings sold me on it.

        I ought to go back and try Gnome again since it’s been a few years. I’m sure they’ve gotten better too since I last used them.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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        3 days ago

        There’s an ongoing debate tantrum about introducing Rust code to the kernel. Some people are pushing for it, some people have made it their life’s purpose to make sure that doesn’t happen, it has led to a wave of maintainers resigning, and Linus is sitting with his thumb up his arse when his leadership is needed.