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  • Carvex@lemmy.world
    33·
    12 days ago

    I use Lemmy and Steam games, someone please recommend a Linux OS and a browser to end this stupid shit for me.

    • methodicalaspect@midwest.socialEnglish
      11·
      12 days ago

      Linux Mint. If my 85-year-old dad can get used to it after over 30 years of Windows, you’ll be fine.

      /edit Also Firefox comes with pretty much every Linux distribution, but if you need something Chromium-based, I’m partial to Vivaldi.

      • starblursd@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        Nobara and pikaOS also both good options. I use CachyOs on my main PC and nobara on my htpc and have had a very pleasant time with the distros and their communities. Just gotta leave windows at the door and be open to learning a new way of doing things. Best of luck OP

        and browser I love zen browser and have Vivaldi as my chromium browser of choice when some niche task needs it

      • Aurora Chrysalis@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        CachyOS has recently stopped playing H264 videos on some websites after a system update.(on Librewolf and other browsers too). Installing ffmpeg4.4 will fix this.

    • Harvey656@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      If you have a Nvidia card, I’ve found mint and neon to be really poor performing. Kubuntu and Q4 have been amathiugh, I wouldn’t use Q4os unless you have low end hardware though.

      That being said mint is just the best os in the sphere for performance and usability, if it runs well for you that would be awesome.

      Libre wolf is an amazing Firefox branch, runs well, super private, good overall, though in my opinion it fails to perform well on beefy websites with alot of visual goodies (like sketch sketchfab and other 3d model websites.) Best to have both Firefox and Libre Wolf.

      On a side note some fun apps to use on Linux I found: qdirstat (winderstat replacement.) Portmaster (take control of what can access your pc via the internet, also has built in dns, a wonderful user interface, its just amazing.) Vencord (yeah I know discord sucks, but its almost impossible to get away from. Seriously I’ve tried to get my friends to use matrix, no Bueno.)

      Also, Plasma is the greatest thing ever. My god is it good.

    • P1k1e@lemmy.world
      61·
      11 days ago

      Had Win 11 on my laptop (came with it) swapped to Mint 2 days ago. First Linux device. I cannot express how much faster it loads shit now.

    • Ardens@lemmy.ml
      7·
      11 days ago

      Well, Adobe is not “household” software. :-)

      But there are a lot of other software, that people have a hard time letting go of. Like Affinity, Scrivener, certain games, a lot of small programs/apps, like FastStone apps (Image viewer and more), AllMyNotes, ActionOutline, Duplicate cleaner 5, EZ CD Audio Converter and more…

        • besbin@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          11 days ago

          Yeah, there’s a lot of niche software for specific needs that’s doesn’t have alternative or have subpar alternatives on Linux. Even as a full-time Linux users and supporter, I still have to acknowledge that the amount of investments gone into enterprise stuff over the year have basically made switching from Windows for a lot of professions almost impossible. Unless we start having more funding and development from state actors, the market share of OS won’t change significantly anytime soon.

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
          1·
          10 days ago

          My guess is, that you haven’t heard of a lot of apps or games, that a lot of people enjoy using… But it’s really of little consequence to the debate here, what you have heard of. :-)

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      11 days ago

      i used to think this too; but seeing tech literacy rate drop since the widespread adoption of smartphones makes me wonder if people will go with whatever works well enough and for the least about of effort.

      and linux still takes effort.

  • mub@lemmy.ml
    6·
    11 days ago

    There needs to be some sort of EU directive that once a hardware device sells enough units they MUST provide the equivalent software features and functions available on windows for Linux, and not just a plain driver with no config options.

    Imagine being able to buy hardware knowing you can configure it in Linux without relying on some unsupported thing made by the community.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
    4·
    10 days ago

    Even at my workplace I asked HR for permission to switch the office desktop to GNU+Linux. They required the installation of a few malware spyware but otherwise didn’t mind.

    I have been using GNU+Linux on and off since 2007 only using Windows when needed to. Now I’m fully Windows-free and intend to keep it this way.