Had a slow day yesterday so thought, why not wipe the gaming PC and put Linux on it.
I work with Linux every day for work so I wanted a debian-based distro as that's what I'm most familiar with. After a short impulsive-driven search, I picked pika-os. Never heard of it but thought I'd give it a go.
Picked KDE, installed the OS, booted first time and immediately regretted it. No network. I have a 2.5G Realtek 8125 nic and whilst it was detected, it was showing RX packets as "dropped". Couldn't install firmware-realtek as it conflicted with linux-firmware. Tried the Realtek website, what a mess that is, compiled a driver, couldn't get it to load. Ended up finding a git repo that created .deb packages for all realtek drivers.
Got network up and running and its all been great from there. Last time I tried this in 2021 I had loads of issues but so far, other than having to download a later version of Proton and select it in a game, or add some command-line arguments in Steam, its been great!
I'm so surprised that every app I normally use on Windows is either available as a Linux native app, works with emulation (bottles) or there is a decent alternative.
Definitely, 100%, the Linux desktop is ready.
Not accusing anyone here of white supremacy but "master race" is a term we really need to stop using/normalizing.
It's a reference to an old Zero Punctuation video. Plus, the community here put it to a vote about a year ago and decided to keep it
The majority can still be wrong
"It's just a meme, bro"
Competitive PC running then?
I'm glad we seem to be past "ricing"
I feel like I still see that one and awful lot, too.
Aw. Maybe I've just blocked those communities.
Stop being scared of words. It's the intent that matters.
Right, no stupid people have ever misunderstood a nazi joke in catastrophic ways that led to the fall of the western world.