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  • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux@lemmy.mlPSA: PlaytronOS
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    10 days ago

    Just installed it here. Setup process was not as smooth as I had hoped but nothing beyond what I’m already capable of fixing on my own.

    Ended up nuking windows with it (with no backups) as it didn’t have an option to keep it without manually setting up every partition. Hope I won’t miss it.


  • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux@lemmy.mlPSA: PlaytronOS
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    13 days ago

    Do you recommend Bazzite, or any other similar distro, for gaming PCs?

    I currently have a dual boot system where I use Linux for work and windows only for gaming and gamedev. I’ve recently started cleaning up the windows disk in preparation for replacing it with something like SteamOS, but haven’t decided yet on what to use.






  • Well there’s a million ways you can interpret that data. Apple usually makes very opinionated stuff (“this is how it works and this is how you’re going to use it”). Autistic folks tend to do have big issues with that sort of stuff, so it’s only natural they’ll gravitate to something else where they can use it whoever they feel is better.

    And women in general have been pushed away from IT for a few decades due to how they’re treated in those groups, so it’s only natural they’ll be underrepresented among Linux users.



  • Same. I make good money today and I can pay for the stuff I use, but when I get some nostalgia and feel like playing a game from my childhood like The Little Samson, my only option is to go cry on a corner because the game isn’t available anywhere and is worth 3 thousand dollars minimum - which even if I paid would never go to the folks who made the game anyway.

    When I was a teenager I couldn’t afford anything. I didn’t even had a computer or a video-game of my own, I started working at a Lan house when I was 14 just to be able to afford an occasional snack. I played a bunch of SNES games at that time thanks to emulators - if piracy wasn’t an option I would never have played them and probably wouldn’t have gotten into videogames that much. 6 years later I managed to buy a DS and a couple games. Since then I’ve bought several consoles and a ton of games for each of them. Nintendo made several thousand dollars from me over the years and that would never have happened if I didn’t have access to SNES pirated games 20 years ago.

    I even got to make a game of my own now, which directly benefitted from piracy as well, as I noticed a bunch of people playing pirated versions on YouTube, with comments on those videos mentioning they liked it and bought it. My main concern related to piracy at that time was that those players were not getting bug fixes and new stuff I added to the game.

    In truth, there is no downside to piracy - it’s a net gain for everyone involved as long as the paying customers get to have a better, more comfortable experience with not having to deal with any hassle to consume your content. But if you make it harder for me to consume your content than the high seas does, well that’s on you.