Meme moment when talking to my friend about her PC gaming rig

Do you know how many grey beards have waited their entire lives to have a girl ask them what Linux is. You've made a lot of irc mods jealous tonight. Stack overflow responses are going to get super spicy for a couple days
- I'd love to have a girl, or anyone for that matter ask me that. Though preferably not with the phrase "what the fuck" in front of it. I'd rather them ask me about it out of pure curiosity rather then out of distain and annoyance.
- This guy is spitting the facts
- get yourself a girl who not only knows what it is but runs it with you :)
- Stack overflow responses are going to get super spicy for a couple days
  Marked as duplicate?

Everytime I scroll past something from this community my eyes bleed. Y’all wanna fuck windows users so bad
- https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/680/203/ac5.jpg
  
  You can embed it:
- Yes.
- I may think windows users are dumb, but not so dumb as to exclude them from the ability to consent, so..
  
  wtf
  
  It’s a figure of speech, it means to be obsessed with.
  An alternative phrase would be: “they live rent free in your head”
  
  I don't know, given what they let Microsoft do to them I don't know if Windows users actually understand that consent is something they don't have to do.
  
  Relax stallman

Unfortunately gaming is about the least Linux friendly hobby there is. For most tasks you can find software that will make it relatively painless to wean people off Windows but many games, especially new ones, dont work out of the box on Linux. Most of the time, theyre going to have to fiddle with things to get games to work, if they can work and youre going to have to justify to them why they should do that.
- Install Steam.
  Play games.
  
  This literally happened to me:
  Install Kubuntu 22.04 and Steam on my kid's PC.
  Download Brickrigs, his favorite game.
  Crashes on title screen
  Spend the next week sporadically troubleshooting when I get a free few minutes here and there.
  After week 2, I finally decide for shits and giggles to download and install the "official" AMD driver from AMD's website instead of using the built in kernel one like every goddamn reply on every forum post has been telling me to use, because the PC's GPU is about ten years old at this point and the driver that came with the distro doesn't work with it.
  Lo and behold, Brickrigs works.
  THIS is how Linux "works", a LOT of the time.
  
  3: try every proton version
  4: try proton GE
  5: (proccessing Vulcan shaders)
  6: change launch arguments
  7: use protontricks to install some weird dependancy
  8: sacrifice your pets firstborn at an alter to achieve a running state
  Not that hard lol, get good bitches. Also fuck you for wanting to play rainbow 6 siege. All my homies hate rainbow 6 siege.
  
  What if game is not on steam and it's online game that I'll get banned if I use 3rd party client?
  
  Get booted out of said game because the anti cheat freaked out thanks to Linux.
  
  Wrong. Also master a bunch of Proton configuration and extra parameters and then deal with abysmal performance compared to Windows.
  Out of the box, Proton+Wine works on surprisingly little.
- So far I've only had an issue with one game (easy to fix, I just restarted steam). I'm relatively new to Linux. (Switched because I didn't feel like paying for windows when I built my PC). To be transparent, I did use Linux a bit 5 years ago in school. But I don't think that counts.
  
  Steam has many games but odds are most new games are windows and maybe mac only. None of activision's games have official ports and are run using WINE through the use of Lutris or some equivalent. In the past this worked ok but after a fresh install of Kubuntu 22.04, Lutris scripts do not properly install activision games like starcraft II. i.e the Lutris install script for battle.net does nothing (no files are installed, Lutris just stalls indefinitely) and the starcraft II install script just prompts you to install battle.net then goes into a loop.
  I can probably figure out why this isnt working eventually but the fact is, I shouldn't have to. Battle.net has been around since 1996 and it should just work without fuss but it doesn't and that is a huge problem.
- I used to also think gaming and Linux are not really that compatible, but Proton being built into steam makes it easy to run pretty much any game out of the box now.
- I use both Linux and Windows (Linux professionally, windows personally)
  Got a buddy of mine that will wax on for hours about how windows is pointless and should have been replaced by Linux years ago. I'll then go "Cool, so uh, did that game download yet? Lets play!" Then start up the game. Four hours later and he's still trying to get the sound to work or make the graphics display while continuing his rant on how user friendly Linux is.
  Like, Linux is great and all, but fuck me, it's not user friendly.
  
  Just how a significant portion of the community wants it. Nice and obtuse.
- It's really a bit like what we used to do when we poked at autoexec.bat and whatnot when running DOS games back when dinosaurs roamed the land.
  It's not really complicated, you just have to prod here and there until it works (unless it just doesn't because some kind of anti-consumer software lock just won't play nice with Wine, although that's becoming less common nowadays).
  OTOH, things that aren't Linux friendly... corporate accounting, an awful lot of dedicated software for niche industries... There's no lack of things that are still complicated in Linux.
  
  The problem though is that we are in 2023, a good 32 years after Linux came out. It shouldnt feel like you are in the DOS era. One of the problems that dawns on me is the real issue is a lack of consistency. Sometimes things work great, sometimes they dont. A lot of people arent having the same issues I and many others do which is frustrating because of how the community reacts when someone brings up those inconsistencies. There are a lot of people that dont run into them for one reason or another and all they see is people bitching about from their POV, seemingly nonexistent problems.
- right and wrong, games play nowadays, but good luck getting the same accessibility and flexibility as windows, you wanna download a cool new mod? No problem! Oops but the mod loader is only windows based and gives wine a seizure, you can probably do it, but not without an hour or more of work, not exactly casual user friendly quite yet. And god forbid the game uses a special pheriphal
  
  It is literally happening with Kubuntu 22.04.
  
  No, they are right.
  It took an enormous amount of fiddling for me to get games working on Debian 12
- Tbf you have to fiddle about with the game's graphics settings anyways. I think lots of pc gamers are fine with having to fiddle with things. Heck seems like everyone wo ever bought a steam deck does nothing but fiddle with it. For some that is actually the most fun thing about it all.
  
  Doing what you need to do to fix compatibility issues is in no way comparable to changing graphics settings.
  
  There are also a number of compatibility issues on Windows itself thanks to the mess of DirectX workarounds they need to add to the drivers with each new game.
- I'm a harsh critic of Linux but gaming is very easy on Linux these days. At least as easy as Windows. No fiddling required.

FYI, the creator of an original Arch-chan is RavioliMavioli: https://raviolimavioli.github.io/ . The pic above seems to be a derivative work.

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That's a really solid website! Very professional looking, even though all that is offered is drawing anime girls, lol.

It's not a religion it's just some damned software
- Y'all are very serious for a meme community
- Its not something that effect's your every day live its just a book
- Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our Motherboard and Server?
  
  Is it true that The Man in the Middle was cast down from on high?

Can tell you're that type of friends if you're replying with anime reactions
- UwU
- nice username

When she gets onto Linux:
"Now we just need to get you onto Arch!"

I knew about Linux when I was 10, and Linux was only like 2 years old at the time. How does someone be online in any capacity these days and not know about Linux? Linux users are everywhere and they never stop talking about Linux!
- Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour Linus Torvalds
  
  God bless his kind soul
- I heard the name Linux from Minecraft being available on "Windows, Mac, & Linux" when I was maybe 12-13 (2014-15), but I never looked into it, and all I thought of it was it was some kind of really obscure operating system. I wondered why I'd never seen a Linux computer in tech stores. And Windows seemed perfectly fine, so why would I need to use it? "It probably has some crazy UI that nobody can understand"(except I didn't know what 'UI' was at that age)
  That's back than... I've been using Linux as my daily driver now since mid 2021, and I've been on Manjaro for nearly 1 & a half years.
  However, I've met barely anyone who even knows what "a Linux" is. I've met a guy who was only using Kali Linux because he wanted to hack or something; and a friend at my church who manages a lot of the technology and computers: him and his father tried using Ubuntu about 10 years ago when he was a late teen. Than there's another guy at my church who, despite never having used Linux in his life; surprisingly new a lot about it and was able to help me solve a display issue I was having earlier this year. I've nearly gotten my Mum onto Linux Mint for her laptop 😂, because she really only makes documents, browses websites, and checks emails, and really doesn't need to be paying for Windows & having updates forced on her regularly. As a matter of fact, I'm downloading it for her as I type.
  
  The thing about not seeing them in stores is definitely a disconnect between our ages lol.
  I remember seeing Debian and Red Hat retail boxes being sold at Sears and Myrvin's and even Target growing up. Not so anymore. Haha
- We’ve got Linux and eggs, eggs sausage Linux and ham, Linux Linux sausage and eggs, toast juice Linux and ham…
  
  "But... I don't like Linux!"
  "DON'T LIKE LINUX?!"

You're a good friend.

F
- to pay respects

So can I play Microsoft Flight Sim on a 5120x1444 ultra wide or is that asking too much?

Ugh. The only posts I ever see from this community are about windows. I thought this was a Linux community. Blocked.
- Sorry, I promise that the next one will be about not being able to exit vim
  
  You guys exited vim?!

oh my god msgk linux

I'm currently on some pirated LTSC Windows 10 but I'll probably move back to Linux next. It just bothers me how much more effort simple tasks take on Linux, and how a lot of the options emulate the inferior Mac look. Whenever I see the red yellow green buttons on a window it makes me gag thinking about all the money that terrible company has scammed people for.
- Why worry about the fact that there's lots of options that emulate the Mac look, when there are many options that don't? My favourite Desktop Environment currently is KDE Plasma, which I use on Manjaro. It's more like the Windows design but in my opinion way better, and of course ridiculously customisable (which is what KDE Plasma is known for, especially compared to Windows 10/11). Also the exit, minimize, and maximize buttons I for some reason absolutely love so much better than anything else I've seen (no, they look nothing like Mac). My other favourites are Budgie, Cinnamon, and Mate which are all great options. Budgie's great for the minimalistic design while still looking very modern and clean. And besides, which DE's are you talking about when you say they are emulating Mac? Most, if not all of them allow you change the "Red, Yellow, Green" buttons to the more traditional Windows look, and move them to the right side of the Window from the left.
  
  Well that's nice but I was just voicing my personal gripes with the Mac interfaces which are on some of the mainstream Linux versions. I didn't say they were all bad, it just takes me personally more time to pick the correct ones. I'd hate to select an ultra specific customized version that gets abandoned by the maintainers in a year or two, I generally run machines for about 8 years.
- It just bothers me how much more effort simple tasks take on Linux
  Such as? I've never had this problem.
  
  It depends of what distribution and overall understanding the mentality being the how to install thing stuff. Most people don't know what's a package manager for example, how to manage multiple disks on the computer etc... While some linux distros are streamlined and made simple, they can feel quite different to windows.
  
  You don't just download an installer, go to the folder, click an icon with some associated details, and have warnings about the sort of modifications the program might make when installed. No, you have to learn the command line for this task and sometimes you need to know what parameters to set, and in the case of dependencies you should probably keep track of what all it comes with and what they do because when it comes time to remove a program it'll be even more tedious. If it takes time then it is work, and Linux is more work.
- So you not only think Microsoft is not a shitty company, but their UI is better? Lololol
  
  Lololol their UI is 100% absolutely better, and they are much much much less restrictive than Apple. Still a shit company, but if I had an extra 400 or 500 USD I'd pay them for the LTSC.

It is normal your friend doesn't understand what you are talking about since what you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
- Thank you for making this distinction. I've never heard this before. Especially not thousands of times by the most socially well-adjusted people on the planet.

stop calling people pathetic because youre more educated.. especially women
- It's joke
  
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- Why especially women?