derbolle comments on Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

[–] derbolle@lemmy.world 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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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 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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[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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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[–] moleverine@lemmy.world 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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