Because I use free BSD
this is the only acceptable answer.
I do use Linux 🐧
Because it’s GNU/Linux 🧔♀️
too hard to find pirated games, i’ll switch when my mathusalem PC finally decides to break (and by then i hope to have some more coin, PCs really became expensive in the last six yeas!!!)
Just play pirated windows games? With lutris?
Many people don’t use it because it doesn’t come store bought…
As a matter of fact, ChromeOs proved to be successful because you could find it preinstalled in real stores
it’s google… and not a real os
Android does not mean smartphones only anymore, thanks to raspberry it completely replaced WinCE in the embedded world, just think of car entertainment systems, tablets, video conferencing systems, industrial automation (robots and co), VR equipments, etc…
It’s not a SINGLE os.
The base OS (the top layer in the pic) is gentoo based.
I have a bit of everything at home. A windows PC, a mac laptop, a couple of linux boxes to run media servers etc
I keep trying Linux for a week or so at a time, but every time I do, I just can’t do what I want on it. It lacks software like Playnite - a FOSS game launcher that lets me manage my collection of games across different platforms. Discord on it doesn’t support screen audio when screen sharing, and the app that enables it is finicky at best. I end up spending more time in my terminal than doing browsing, playing games, etc, like I’d like to be doing. I don’t hate Linux. I love the idea of Linux, but in practice… I just have a really hard time enjoying my time on my computer with it.
I just came off running Nobara for 2 days then moving because of compatibility issues and its UI feeling slow, then I ran Mint for another 5 days. I hope one day Linux can be what I want from my PC.
There’s a ton of game launchers, for instance this one just came out the other day and allegedly launches your games from Steam/Heroic/Bottles/etc. Not sure if it’s what you need but it seems weird there wouldn’t be an alternative to Playnite: https://flathub.org/apps/details/hu.kramo.Cartridges
Screensharing looks like something to wait on though. I’ve heard of people getting it to work but seems finicky
Edit: Looks like Playnite has distant goals of supporting Linux. Could be a race between these two apps for you to see which one gets working first
Nah I’ve been through all those. Playnite has things like the ability to auto-scan launchers, launching from emulators, running scripts before / after games launch and after they close, and a really robust library of plugins and add-ons from its community. I’ve looked into the others, the best one for my use would be Lutris, but even then everything just feels extremely jank and it’s entirely disheartening. I appreciate the thoughtful reply though. It’s clear you actually looked into this quite a bit.
Lutris.net is an alternative to Playnite.
I’ve installed Linux Mint (w/ Cinnamon desktop) recently in a workplace for teenage students school/office work on an old hardware. However, they did not accept it because it did not have a Microsoft Word but a LibreOffice Writer. Apparently, LibreOffice was too confusing for them so they just switched back to Win.
Linux guy here, there is a shrinking list of things that I can’t do with Linux. That’s when I spin up quick Windows 10 VM, do the task, and delete. Hasn’t come up in over 15 months.
I use it one everything except my word-provided laptop. I would use it there too, but our IT department is too Windows-brained to convince them otherwise.
easier, less hassle 🤷♀️
Real
Presently, I use Linux regularly (desktop, servers, etc.) I love it and prefer it, and all the games I play run on it. There are a few devices I don’t use it on yet:
- Work laptop runs Windows :(
- Got a Macbook Pro for a good price. (Was MacOS curious for awhile, hadn’t used it since MacOS 9)
- Mobile phones run Android and iOS. (Linux on mobile is not good yet)
- Windows dualboot just in case I want to use it for something
Android phones use a modified version of the Linux kernel, so they are ostensibly “running linux”
If you got the M1/2 check out Asahi Linux
Using Linux exclusively in private and almost exclusively for work for 24 years and counting …
I do use Arch Linux and Android Linux
I keep a windows computer exclusively for gaming. I know you can play games on gnu/linux but I have lots of peripherals, VR headset, wheel, pedals, joysticks, rudder, buttons boxes,… I don’t have the courage to even try to see if everything will be compatible and correctly recognized in games. For everything else I stick to gnu/linux.
