Just Switch Over

heh. This reminds me of electric cars. I've been happily driving one for 9 years.
Lots of people online and in person tell me "Electric cars aren't there yet. They won't work." Well, you must be correct then. I just handed down my first EV to my kid and bought a second one.
- Battery situation could be better.
  
  Sodium batteries seem promising, though density is lower than Lithium.
- Anyone who says electric cars aren't there are making inaccurate statements at best and at worst are telling non-factual ones. The truth isn't that electric cars aren't ready, is that the energy distribution isn't ready. Only urbanized areas are prepared to offer that much energy at scale and living in an urbanized area you shouldn't need a personal vehicle for most of your travels anyway.
  Side note, this is why I think plug-in-hybrids are the baby step we need to achieve first. Even with their obvious flaws they fill the gap between an internal combustion engine and full electric.
  
  I bought a PHEV back in June (Ford Escape), have driven 1500 miles since and have yet to add any gas. For most daily trips the battery gets me there and back without using any gas. I love it and am excited for full EV for my next vehicle.
- Wish I could empathize, but I refuse to trust a car I can't fix myself. There's entirely too many computers and entirely too many points of failure-- it's a good thing that I'm medically 'advised' not to drive. I wouldn't be able to switch over until someone released an EV with the kinds of home-maintainability that like. A 60's Mustang once had.
  I'm not tryna have to have the shit towed to a Firestone-- or god forbid the manufacturer themselves-- just to have to pay hand-over-fist to fix the errors borne of their shoddy fuckin work.
  
  I refuse to trust a car I can't fix myself
  Isn't that basically all cars nowadays? It's not about the type of engine, cars have gone "no serviceable parts inside" for at least a decade.
- It’s all situational.
  My wife could absolutely rock an EV for her 3 mile drive.
  However, for road trips we don’t have enough charger coverage where we live, so alas we have an ICE
- When is the last time you drove either down an unpaved washboarded road for 30 hours one way without any charging locations, and then back, and how did it fare? Also let me know how it works at -45 C.
  I'm sure it works well for suburban/city streets, doubtful it works well for the above.
  
  I'd be curious to know the stats of how many driving trips are done in cities vs your washboard example.

Honestly I couldn't give less of a shit of most triple A games or esports games not running on Linux because of EAC. I'll gladly keep throwing money at indy devs that make games that don't suck.
- I played Fifa on my friend's Xbox the other day. We had to wait for an active connection before we could play each other. Players were removed from the roster because of updates from the server. Once his game pass was verified, we still had to log out and log in a few times, navigate the strange menu hierarchy to actually play against one another. Same pattern when trying to play NHL, same with Madden.
  I remember when you used to buy a sports game, and everything you needed just loaded from the disk. Menus were easy, and you were two clicks away from starting an offline game.
  This is why FitGirl repack's are a god-send. Declutters the bullshit, repacks the parts you actually want, and let's you play the game like you're not renting it on the whims of a fussy game lord.
  
  +1 for FitGirl the GOAT! I wish I had money to throw her way, because the work she's doing is great and I hope she can keep it up for a long time to come.
- A lot of my problem there is a solid half the games I play and make mods for run through EAC, so I'd be losing outright hobbies, not just slop.
  
  I can understand that tbh.
  One thing I do miss is the larger modding commuinity. Like R2ModManager works on Linux so a lot of Unity-based games have mod support and it all works with Proton basically out of the box. There is a Linux build for the Satisfactory Mod Manager too which I thought was kind of weird lol.
  
  Exactly. I fucking hate microsuck for putting me in this position, but I pretty much only use my PC for gaming and watching stuff and the games I really like have this EAC bs...
  "Just get a console then bro" lol... Lmao even.
- I recently started pc gaming again, I had played some switch and ds stuff but the last time I had gamed on pc was almost twenty years ago. Even given that I'm focusing on 2d games, I thought there would be a lot more hiccups trying to run windows games on a machine with intel integrated graphics. I like indie games much better in general nowadays, I'm not even going to worry about what I'm missing without buying a graphics card.

When does something become mainstream? The Steam Deck has sold millions of units.
- Steam deck 2 with 1080p that can be (better) output to a TV.
  
  We'd need a suitably powerful APU upgrade in order to make running a 1080p screen viable. Most of the reason the Steam Deck performs as well as it does is because games are only rendering at 720p.
  My wishlist for a Deck V2 would be a
  Higher res screen (if it makes sense as I mentioned above)
  Higher refresh with VRR (partially handled by thr OLED 90hz but no VRR)
  Second USB-C port supporting USB4
  Fingerprint reader
  QoL improvements like smaller bezel, modern wireless chipset, etc.
  AND a Steam Controller v2 as a companion with the exact same buttons/sticks/touchpads as the Deck.
  
  you thinking like, mini hdmi port directly in the chassis? or just an hdmi to usb-c adapter in every box?
  also have you seen the aftermarket screen upgrade? it looks great, but apparently the (already kinda slim) battery life really suffers. I’m still very tempted hahaha

running bannerlord with mods just fine, because some hero had already done the work for me and just gave me the terminal commands to make everything function
- That is the best hexbear emote I have seen to date!
  
  We have the best emotes, folks. The redditors said that we couldnt have them, the lemmitors said we couldnt have them. But who has them now?

@cordlessterry This is what I’ve found recently. For years I stuck with Windows basically for gaming and no other reason. Finally threw in the towel a couple weeks ago and installed Zorin OS, expecting a massive uphill battle to get my games to work. Instead, it was just … fine. The most I’ve had to do is change the compatibility settings on a couple of games in Steam to use Proton Experimental.

Meanwhile in the real world, people be like "what's a linux?"

Linux has been ready for a while now It's gaming that isn't ready

Just dual boot and call it good.

I pretty much am exclusively on linux just because I prefer the workflow of gnome.
Sure a few games don't work but it's usually a competitive game I have no interest in.
Being able to use my computer without adds or shitty updates is a godsend

I could have sworn the last panel in this meme said "Stop having fun". Mandela effect?
- reddit bros would literally rather believe they slipped through the cracks in reality than that they misremembered one word for its synonym
  
  Darth Vader may or may not have said "Luke, I am your father", but he said something to that effect
- There are two versions of this meme drawn in almost the same artstyle. Here's the one this meme is based on, which says "quit having fun":
  This is in fact a redraw of an XKCD cartoon which is one panel and thus harder to make memes out of which says "stop having fun":
  It's not just you.
- Mandela effect. It's always been Quit. Stop just sounds more natural
  
  Not quite

I still have to keep Windows around for (ironically) performance reasons.
Some sim games like Rimworld and Stellaris just have a big hit on linux for me, native or Proton. And in a sim game, that means slow turns and stutters you can't avoid instead of slightly lesser graphics. And it's not sublte, native stellaris is like a good 30%-40% slower with even higher spikes last time I benched them back to back.

Not being able to play Valorant and Siege is a good thing

I do find the steam deck is kind of buggy, at least for my use cases (usually docked, mostly used for emulation, and so on). But I'm thrilled that it exists, so I'm trying to support it as much as possible.

I gave it a shot and discovered it's trash. Nothing works.
- For most people it is literally:
  1.Install steam 2.Change the setting so proton is used on all games 3.Download/install game 4.Play
  I guess there might be difficulty setting up lutris and drivers but that's something a search on your search engine of choice can fix, or even just asking here.
  
  Oh shit I didn't think of that. (sarcasm)
- Odd. Things continue to improve, maybe it has gotten better? The majority of issues/glitches ive experienced on Linux while gaming have been glitches present on Windows too. Out of my library, there are no games that are outright unplayable on Linux, and 1 game that I need to host lobbies to play multiplayer. I tend to get better performance on Linux as well.
  I recommend for anyone considering Linux for gaming, look at ProtonDB to see if your fav games are playable or require workarounds. I find it rare that I actually need to look anything up.
  
  Better in the last 6 months?

You can literally say the exact same thing with Windows. That's how you Linux peeps feel, constantly yelling "why are you using windows! Stop having fun!"
Is windows perfect? Nah. But does it work most the time? Yeah. All the bitching about windows being shit and yet my 300+ installed games all work..... Crazy....
How about just let people use what they like and shut up with the damn "my OS is better than yours" nonsense?
It's posts like this, that even though I've used Linux in the past, make me immediately think "nah, fuck that, I'll stick to windows. I don't want to deal with those people."
You're more of a harm than help.
- I'll stick to windows. I don't want to deal with those people."
  That's a strange conclusion to come to, installing an OS doesn't come with the obligation to deal with anyone.
  I like to play games on Steam but that doesn't mean I have to deal with the atrocity that is the Steam forums.
  
  Until you need tech support from a forum
  
  Oh, being annoying to casual user makes them anti to whatever we promote.
  The keyword is being moderate and helpful. Not forceful or annoying.
- The irony of posting this meme with a title telling other people how to have fun is just perfect.
- I'm def a windows hater but i dont fault people for using it. Most folks arent gonna know how to install a diffrent os or even want to if what they have already works.
  Use what you like and what works.
- my OS is better than yours
  heavy "btw i use arch" vibes
  
  Immutable distros are the new arch
- I'd say around half of the games I play on Linux require some kind of special launch script, specific Wine version, or even different versions of Steam to run properly. It's nowhere near as simple as people make it out to be.
  
  You must have an odd selection of games. For me, 90% of the time I just click play on Steam and it works.
  
  Different versions of Steam? What the fuck are you on about? You must be making your Linux gaming harder than it has to be. I've done all sorts of weird shit to install games and mods on Linux but I have never even seen an installation guide that requires somehow creating a different version of Steam.
  Even with launch scripts and wine versions Lutris usually covers almost every game I've wanted to install. Lutris makes setting up right scripts and wine versions as easy as it is to install runtimes on Windows.
  
  IDK man, I was sticking with windows strictly for gaming purposes but ever since I got my steam deck I haven’t had a single problem and any inconvenience is grossly outweighed by windows GD updates and halting the entire system to show an ad… on my $150 copy of windows…. I’m not saying every game will play that’s just objectively wrong but I am saying you either won’t notice or will easily find something that does work, also I don’t think people pay attention to how much tinkering it takes to get older windows games to work.