• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Start dual booting with Linux just to give it a try so won’t have to remove Windows as you give it a test drive. That’s what I did and I found out that Linux isn’t as bad or cryptic as some people make it seem. Haven’t even booted into my windows in over a month now.

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      4 days ago

      Linux is user-centric but it’s also a giant pain in the ass to use. Right now my laptop boots up when I shut it down and close the lid, so I have a perpetually dead battery, and I can’t seem to pass access to the camera to any apps at all. I also can’t seem to get any video editors to utilize the GPU for rendering. That’s just today’s problems.

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        Laptops not designed for Linux sometimes have weird hardware problems – someday I will buy a computer specifically built for Linux so everything works – either that or get an old thinkpad and just live with it being slow.

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        4 days ago

        Which online games are you trying to play? I’ve had pretty decent luck with most online games. Can even play Helldiver’s 2.

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          HellDivers 2 runs like a dream. It plays because it’s not PvP.

          The problem with every PvP game is that they refuse to allow players online unless they have kernel-level anticheat. That’s a dealbreaker, and nobody will negotiate on it.