Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521

Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience “hasn’t been great” is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    177·
    3 days ago

    Which operating system works out of the box for gamers that requires zero tweaks? Is it windows? Are you sure it’s windows?

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      911·
      3 days ago

      More so than Linux, yeah. No system is perfect, but some are less fiddly than others.

      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        144·
        3 days ago

        Stuff should work correctly out of the box. That’s what average user expects. Linux is getting better at that every single day, is Windows? Linux is where the innovation is for the user, not Windows or any other proprietary, profit-seeking OS. Is it perfect? Probably won’t ever be. Will it get better? That’s up to us and our actions. Will windows or any other proprietary OS get better because of our actions?

        • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
          104·
          3 days ago

          Linux is getting better… but it’s still nowhere near the default Windows position. A major factor in this is because development focuses on Windows for most studios, and frankly Linux is so fractured that it’s difficult to make a game work on everything Linux.

          But, that’s Linux’s main strength. It has a wider flexibility than other operating systems ny design. It will likely never be as “out-of-the-box” as Windows, no matter how much they sabotage themselves.

          The average Windows user would have to change wildly for them to care about 99% of the changes that most power users would. You can see that in most other platforms, like YouTube, reddit, Netflix and other streaming services. They enshittify day by day and the average user shrugs and says “that’s the way it is” and continues on.