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If you did your research (/r/linuxgaming), you might have found that an nvidia gpu would have better choice if you wanted to run a distro with old mesa packages

If you did your research (/r/linuxgaming), you might have found that an nvidia gpu would have better choice if you wanted to run a distro with old mesa packages. If you're so old and your time is oh so important, maybe you should learn to measure twice and cut once, instead of blaming your tools.

dash2 5y ago
The GP just offered his experience on why he went back to Windows. Reacting with hostility seems like a way to trap yourself in a world where you never hear of problems with desktop Linux. You will then be constantly puzzled why Linux is not more successful.
- sudopluto 5y ago
  the poster made a snarky comment, i got annoyed, made a snarky comment back. i don't care about evangelizing linux or converting people. as for losing users like him/her, for every 4/5ish of them there are 1/2 helpful people who aren't so self important
handrous 5y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting which distros I tried on the machine out of that post (it was then-current versions of Ubuntu and Fedora, for the record). [EDIT] If you read quickly, you probably just missed that I related three instances of Linux problems across three of the four x86 machines I've run Linux on at home in the last ~decade, since it stopped being my primary OS for most purposes. Only one's a hardware problem, but the other two are failures at doing extremely basic things like installing its own boot loader or not rendering itself unbootable on a system upgrade. One of those is running Debian, that's true, but I wouldn't try to use that on a machine with a very modern video card, you're right that that'd be a recipe for trouble. The only one that wasn't a bigger pain in my ass than it was worth was a trash-tier Chromebox I installed Void on. That was basically fine. It's consistently good on Raspberry Pis, too, since that hardware has a lot of eyes on it and is very stable over time. Sorry I snapped above, no excuse even when insult is perceived, I've modified it to take that out.

dash2 5y ago

The GP just offered his experience on why he went back to Windows. Reacting with hostility seems like a way to trap yourself in a world where you never hear of problems with desktop Linux. You will then be constantly puzzled why Linux is not more successful.

sudopluto 5y ago
the poster made a snarky comment, i got annoyed, made a snarky comment back. i don't care about evangelizing linux or converting people. as for losing users like him/her, for every 4/5ish of them there are 1/2 helpful people who aren't so self important

handrous 5y ago

I'm not sure where you're getting which distros I tried on the machine out of that post (it was then-current versions of Ubuntu and Fedora, for the record). [EDIT] If you read quickly, you probably just missed that I related three instances of Linux problems across three of the four x86 machines I've run Linux on at home in the last ~decade, since it stopped being my primary OS for most purposes. Only one's a hardware problem, but the other two are failures at doing extremely basic things like installing its own boot loader or not rendering itself unbootable on a system upgrade. One of those is running Debian, that's true, but I wouldn't try to use that on a machine with a very modern video card, you're right that that'd be a recipe for trouble. The only one that wasn't a bigger pain in my ass than it was worth was a trash-tier Chromebox I installed Void on. That was basically fine. It's consistently good on Raspberry Pis, too, since that hardware has a lot of eyes on it and is very stable over time. Sorry I snapped above, no excuse even when insult is perceived, I've modified it to take that out.