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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)
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[–] 19 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Once you get it all setup and proud of your work, make a fucking backup image, because a single update that changes an obscure library in some forgettable package that was part of your install will break everything and you will be pulling your hair out kludging a CLI script to unfuck some other binary that was unimportant, but now has affected another thing that was crucial for a graphics card or network adapter to function.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    i dont know what you are using but the general linux experience hasn't been like this in years. and even if there is a problem now and then a bit of googling generally is all it needs. the one thing you cannot get around is malware like kernel level anticheats. that's windows only.

    having a backup is good advice no matter what system you use

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know, the last time I tried Linux the fucking Nvidia driver fucked my system a couple times before I said fuck it and went back to 10.

    Going to try again with my amd card at some point

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    AMD support is baked into the kernel, so you really don’t have to do anything unless you’re on bleeding edge hardware and the drivers are in a version of the kernel your distribution doesn’t ship yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Isn't best practice to install your system on a different partition than /home anyway? Back when I used Linux (and the experience was a bit like they described) I'd just nuke the system partition and reinstall if I fucked something up.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah, same in my experience: updates do not breaks things in debian-derivatives at least. That's how I managed "well" without backup. That said, linux support is certainly hit-or-miss, which is usually the bigger problem.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    This is why I really don't want to have to use Linux, but Microsuck just can't stop with the fucking greed and I'm absofucukinglutly not running anything with recall... :(

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're either running Arch/some other bleeding-edge system without Linux experience (do not recommend) or you haven't tried Linux in 10 years.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I promise you I've been using Linux likely for longer than you've been alive, and have used every permutation of Linux, from old school CLI-only shit, to fringe PowerPC YellowDog, to modern Ubuntu/Debian.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Sure thing, friend. I only started on Knoppix and Mandrake. Commodore 64 didn't have it... I saw in the modern age C64 can run a Unix that takes weeks to boot. 😂 I haven't managed to put a Debian in dependency hell in about 10 years. 😅

    PowerPC YellowDog

    Reminds me of swap-trick to install burned Linux for PlayStation 2. I see someone is still compiling kernels for PS2, up to 5.x 😆

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