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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

You named multiple things with major compromises.

Gaming is fine if you use Steam and the compatibility layer or jump through hoops, and don't play basically anything online.

The photo editing tools on Linux are dogshit.

Web browsing is fine, but not if you want to stream any content, because no one will serve you anything even medium quality without DRM.

Office stuff can kind of be replaced, but mostly by using the browser versions of the shit people actually use, because the tools to collaborate with others (particularly non-techy people) don't exist for open source alternatives.

The software available is absolutely a massive limitation.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Gaming is fine unless the game has kernel level anti cheat. Minor compromise.

    Photo editing tools are good enough for the needs of normal people. Gimp and Darktable are not dogshit, no compromise.

    DRM under Firefox works. Never had a problem with it plus most people don't even watch on computers. No compromise.

    Non techy people mostly not do collaborative projects. Plus registering for any cloud with office and collaboration is easy. Minor compromise.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Basically the entire multiplayer space is locked out. It's a massive compromise. And every platform that isn't Steam requires significant manual configuration and still has issues.

    No, they're not good. And they're not suitable for any normal person because the UX is a dumpster fire.

    Nobody with normal tv/movie content gives you comparable quality on Linux.

    Yes, normal people do need to collaborate. And no, none of the office options on Linux are capable of functional collaboration for normal people, except Google/microsoft through browser nonsense.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Basically the entire multiplayer space is locked out.

    Not all multiplayer games use this anti cheat techniques (and those might just be working in the near future anyway). CS:Go works perfectly, Rocket League does, Dota 2 does, LoL did at least (I don't know what they're up to these days), 7 days to die does, paradox grand strategy does, Mordhau does, Path of Exile does, and those are only sone of the games I personally can confirm.

    And they're not suitable for any normal person because the UX is a dumpster fire.

    People who use Photoshop professionally mostly agree, that GIMP is a great app that has just a few drawbacks compared zo photoshop. The UI was a dumpster fire, but they sorted that out. Photo Editing is on par with photoshop, at least with other free plugins. If your UX sucks, maybe it's an error on osi layer 8.

    Nobody with normal tv/movie content gives you comparable quality on Linux.

    I'm still running 1080p on everything and Netflix delivers 1080p to all my linux boxes. Is there a problem with 4k?

    Yes, normal people do need to collaborate. And no, none of the office options on Linux are capable of functional collaboration for normal people, except Google/microsoft through browser nonsense.

    Which tools on windows allow easy collaborative office projects other than microsoft or google? Well, other than cryptpad, OnlyOffice, koofr, almost every nextcloud provider, etherpad...

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