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My gf doesn't really notice she plays on Linux or she just does not care. (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by lokalhorst@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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I am and always was a casual gamer, I like playing puzzles, strategy and builder games, sometimes I play with friends some 7 days to die or AoE2. I am on Linux Mint for more than a year now and was surprised how easy gaming was. From time to time I had problems with weird DirectX error messages, but all in all everything just worked.

My setup:

AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GeForce GTX 1660 Super
32 GB DDR4 RAM

So last week my girlfriend worked on my computer (we are not living together), she wrote some bills for customers and did some table stuff in calc. When I asked her at the end of the day how it was to work on Linux, she shrugged and said "Oh I didn't notice" lol (using Cinnamon as DE btw).

Today she bought Until Dawn the remake on Steam while she is here and because she really wanted to play she downloaded it to my PC. She just started to play and everything was great. I wondered again if I should say something like "you see how great you can game in Linux", but then it came to my mind - she doesn't care and she didn't even question it! The Linux Desktop got so mature, that non-tech people just don't notice!

I think the biggest "problem" with Linux adoption is that it does not come preinstalled on computers, and this kind of proves my point I guess.

Yeah that's all, I just wanted to share this with you guys.

P.S.: There were some bugs btw. but it turned out they have nothing to do with the OS.

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

I've been using Linux for 3 years, Mint then LMDE and the not tinkering is bullshit

On my laptop the boot drive is forever filling up with Linux Kernel updates and i need to delete them. i have a 1GB partition, there's no simple way to. do that, there's a bunch of commands i need to use in Terminal, it's bullshit that I even need to do it

On my desktop just installing Signal was a drama (no official flatpak) the command line given on the Signal site is not just copy paste and it's Debian.

then lets not even talk of Davinci Resolve.

i have zero intention of going back to Windows and my needs are quite simple but there is a fair bit of tinkering even then.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

i have a 1GB partition

Uh, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is probably your main issue.

I didn't even know you could run Linux on a 1GB partition.

That said, you should be able to increase the size of that partition with something like gparted. I had to do it recently for my Bazzite install as I didn't make the OS partition big enough at first.

It was a little confusing at first because you have to actually move partitions around and make it so the blank space that you want to add to the partition is right next to the OS partition on the table before it will let you make it bigger.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

There is a setting in the update manager which deletes the kernels for you. Regular Mint is also the better option because of the Ubuntu base.

[–] TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Out of three issues, two are just "app isn't made to be easily installed on Linux", which isn't on Linux itself, but the ones making the app. still, valid issues.

[–] Nurgus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The boot drive filling up is REALLY annoying because on modern systems there's no need for it to even BE a dedicated partition.

Even with encryption and BTRFS, boot can live in your root partiotion just fine. Only EFI needs a partition and that never fills up.

Distros need to change this default!

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't think Kubuntu makes partitions by default, I just have a single large partition aside from the EFI