Alt text: Trojan Horse meme, Steam Deck bringing Linux to Windows gamers

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    Lol you aren’t entirely wrong. You do sound kind’ve like a used car salesperson though hahaha.

    The user who responded to you is basically my response though. Plus, I’m used to fixing this house of cards, even if I cry whenever it bsod’s or whatever.

    Between 2019 and 2023 I troubleshot so many things to try to figure out what was breaking in my computer. Over that time, I rma’d almost all of the core hardware because it failed or seemed like it was failing. The last piece I rma’d was my gpu, an EVGA 3090. It was causing so many problems. Yet, my partner’s EVGA 3080 still runs fine to this day.

    My point is, it’s not always the OS. For me, it’s because of a lot of sketchy shit I do and old hardware that barely works. For example, I’m using a VERY nice but very old firewire audio interface.

    Also, I’m not as worried about losing my data, that’ll exist on drives and can be pulled off.

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      7 hours ago

      Lol yeah fair point.

      My main concern was that a fair amount of people tend to customize their windows install into oblivion and end up loosing their data. Did it myself before I learned my lesson 😅

      Took me a while to realise Linux was the solution all my issues, been very happy since! But ofc, whatever works for you is good enough, sounds like u know what you’re doing.

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        6 hours ago

        I have rainmeter and wallpaper engine, but those things are so unreliable resource hogs and old, that, while neat, aren’t worth spending any emotional energy on. But again, I have, mostly just to see the limits of the thing, and have some nifty tools out of them. I wouldn’t be that beat up if I lost them at this point, and probably wouldn’t install them again unless great strides were made in the underlying tech and efficiency. But brute force pinging stuff that wasn’t made to be pinged ten times a second is just… Maybe in the future, core systems will have data i/o just for this sort of stuff XD who am I kidding?

        Linux would definitely solve some of my issues, but introduce like a million others. It’s just an os (or rather, a variety of versions of an os), just like mac or windows. I hold no zeal for any, and do know in my heart that someday, I’ll likely switch to Linux and put forth the energy. But I’m not that young anymore and there are things I have to do, mountains to climb, grass to feel, people to taste, politics to survive, teeth to brush, all kinds of mortality to fight, shows to watch, music to make, parents to try to love before they’re gone, siblings to fix, friends to make, places to go… Linux is pretty far down that list.

        It’s on the list, just… Not that high. Higher than MacOS hahaha