andyburke

seconding Tidal.

but also feeling like buying more physical media going forward.

It works but there can be graphical issues that will force you to restart.

Ableton kinda runs under Bottles. 🤷‍♂️

This article is months old, right?

Meanwhile, article after article about performance benefits, usability benefits, privacy benefits of Linux…

I am sorry this one person had a bad experience with Linux on a laptop at a conference. 🤷‍♂️

Please, consider trying out linux if you haven’t: you can usually make a “live usb” and take it for a test drive without having to actually reinstall (if you don’t like it, just take the usb stick out and reboot back to windows).

I would dearly love to never again have to hear about the latest bullshit Microsoft is foisting on people.

Do your part! Switch. Everything just works better over here.

I think someone definitely needs to touch grass.

Why do they need this person? Can’t their AI do this job?

Am I supposed to feel sorry for a bootlicker who stayed behind to screw their colleagues?

Who is this lament for?

I understand, and don’t have any of those tools to hand.

It sounds like this is not a watch for you.

Doesn’t a little solvent and some gentle brushing usually clear this issue up?

The benefits for simple access through simple mechanisms, for me, is worth this bit of work.

But everyone clearly has different requirements. 🤷‍♂️

security parity is a password manager + 2fa generated on-device

This experience works perfectly for me. I have no need of whatever junk the latest consortium of megacorps has come up with.

🤷‍♂️

You are ignoring people who have walked this path and are giving you the advice right now.

Public file hosting is not where you start.

Sure, just know that this feedback is coming from people who have probably walked the same path and are trying to save you some pain. Best of luck, but I have found people like that are not engaging in good faith.

This just keeps happening until we decide our governments work for us and not for corporations.

Seems to me the difference between ethical and unethical marketing is the difference between trying to inform vs. influence your potential customer.

Products need a way to find customers, and customers need a way to find products - this is the problem marketing should be solving. Instead I see businesses hiring people trying everything but just informing customers.

this.

lul

Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of overlap with you. (I do own Star Citizen from the initial kickstarter, but haven’t tried it on Linux. There IS a Bottles setup for it that says it works well, but I have no experience to share.)

Phasmophobia I thought I played on Linux a bunch, but the game itself was just terribly buggy. Could be that was Linux, but I could swear my friends on Windows were having similar problems. (One reason we don’t play this anymore.)

The rest I haven’t tried, so can’t help. It feels like either you game quite a bit more broadly than I do, or you got really unlucky. Here’s a quick list of my recently played games with no hiccups - maybe the issue is indy titles tend to work better?

Vampire Survivors Schedule I Kingdoms Reborn PULSAR: Lost Colony Mindustry Star Trek: Resurgence Tales and Tactics Powerwash Simulator Motor Town The Headliners Ale & Tale Tavern Space Engineers …

No problems. Didn’t really have to think about anything with any of these.

You haven’t told me any of the games you’re trying to get to work.

If they have kernel anti-cheat, anti-Linux checking, etc then you’re going to have bad luck and may want to consider a VM and GPU passthrough.

With the vast majority of games I have tried on Linux, things Just Work out of the box.

I mean, usually you can think about your own process as a black box as long as you can take in whatever format they give and output whatever format they need.

You have to make your own decisions, of course. I just want to say: it’s not impossible.