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The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: "Gamers use Windows because of its' user experience not our de facto monopoly."

Next Image: Duff CEO with Windows-Logo in front of a "Out of Business" sign. Subtitle: "30 minutes after SteamOS is released"

Edit: Yo, I'm not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew's UX sucks ass.

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[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 38 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

Always had windows. Never wanted Linux because I didn’t want to dick around with every game install. You give me an OS that lets me browse and game WITHOUT having to dick around with every application, and I’d switch in a heartbeat.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Steam on Linux already does exactly that. You hit play and that's it, exactly like on Windows. The rest is done for you automatically.

Tinkering might be required with a few non-Steam games and programs, but for the most part, they just work as well.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

For the most part that's true, but when something goes wrong, it really goes wrong.

For example, I wanted to play Path of Exile 2, and it would get stuck at a black screen on startup. The fix is "easy" on Windows, you just edit an ini file in "My Documents". To fix it on Linux, that same file is stored in

/home/[YOUR USERNAME]/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2694490/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/My Games/Path of Exile 2/poe2_production_Config.ini

Which is insane by any standard.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

And lets be honest, it is not as if tinkering isn't required for a lot of things on Windows too, it is just that the tinkering is a lot more random "hope & pray" stuff like uninstalling and reinstalling things, rebooting,... and hoping the problem goes away.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I can't even remember the last time I had to fuck around with a Steam game, all the ones I want to play just work

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Lucky you, not my experience at all, even ended up repurchasing a game on Steam while it was on sale because at some point, time is money and I had spent a whole lot of money trying to make it work.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's a pretty seamless experience nowadays. I installed CachyOS on my handheld and installing games outside of Steam is pretty seamless with Lutris and Heroic Launcher

[–] missingno@fedia.io 17 points 15 hours ago

The first time you try Linux will have an initial learning curve. Just like the first time you tried Windows. But once you have everything set up the way you like and get used to it, you really won't find yourself having to troubleshoot very often. You certainly don't have to "dick around with every game install" either.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 28 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's actually gotten a lot better over the last few years; Valve has been putting in a lot of work into making gaming "just work" through Steam. It's still a bit jank, but honestly all OSes are a bit jank.

If anyone in this thread is interested, I'd recommend giving Linux Mint a go. There's nothing really to lose.

Anyway, I'm done shilling Linux so I'll let you get back to your Simpsoning. :P

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

There’s nothing really to lose.

Just hours of your time as some random miniscule feature you were reliant upon without realizing it until it was missing, then have to look up a dozen different fixes using some stone aged console commands, none of which actually fix your issue...

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 35 minutes ago

That is pretty much my experience when I have to use a windows machine at work. Sorry, the powershell command is how long? Just got this from ChatGPT, no idea if it works and I am not booting windows to test it.

Bash: grep -iRl "test"

Powershell: Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Select-String -Pattern "test" -CaseSensitive:$false | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Path -Unique

[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

This is my current experience with pop os. Took a while searching and digging through age old threads to figure out how to fix Rivals so it actually launches, then more searching to fix an issue I was having with the screen blacking out, and it's going to be more searching to figure out why audio keeps tearing while I'm full screened. It's a pain trying to make things compatible, so much so I'm extremely tempted to switch back to Windows 10 despite it hitting EOL this year. I really don't like having to waste my personal time making something work when there's an incredibly easy alternative where everything works always (aside from hardware issues)

Edit: especially peeved about trying to fix ffxiv. I want my shaders back >:(

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

I had tried mint years ago, and gave up when I couldn't even get my extra mouse buttons to work. I'm not going back to 1995 with a shitty 2-button

[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago

Good news, then!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

You can do that now if your games are on Steam.

[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 1 points 14 hours ago

But what about LEAGUE!? And Blitz, I can’t be fucked to pick my own runes.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That's the problem, IF your games are on Steam.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If they're not, then it's usually pretty easy to add them to steam as a non steam game, or sometimes you can use Lutris.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Then you have a launcher launching a launcher to launch a game, when that happens on Windows people are pissed, when that happens on Linux people act like there's nothing wrong with that experience.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago

You can run games with Lutris, which allows you to create shortcuts for games so that they would be launched through Lutris without invoking a UI

So from a user's perspective, the game just opens up as normal without any launchers or interfaces in between, like if you ran an .exe

Besides, plenty of non-Steam games can be run simply through Wine, then you literally double-click a game .exe and there you go.