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Is the joke that games are proprietary software too?
- Well that too. The real joke is that despite the fact we've had 10 "years of the linux desktop", it's still an absolute removed to get PICK A GAME working on that shiny linux box.
  My new Lenovo Legion, I'm struggling with desktop graphics tearing issues in linux (just viewing the WM, of all things). When i have time, I'll muddle through it, but I can't pretend that is easier in linux than windows. It's vendor-driven, sure, but the end user doesn't care why they waste 8 hours doing setup work, only THAT they do.
  
  THIS oh my god
  And the amount of people that will do ANYTHING to defend Linux baffles me, and they all do it thinking they help Linux in general instead of highlighting their issues so they can be fixed
  
  I mean, I freaking LOVE linux. And for what it's good for, it's the best of the best. I've never had a better dev experience than in Ubuntu, mostly because WSL is a pale shadow of a good unix backend (and because Macs, while good, are still subpar for that purpose). But that means I'm already committing 40 hours a week to maintaining and using my machine!
  But for gaming? For casual use? I dunno. The hardware has to be hand-picked carefully, as do the games.
  
  "Trust me guys, it's 95% better with Proton now" lol
  Some of those people need to see all the users asking for help on Linux gaming forums.
  Not trying to dismiss that Linux Gaming has gotten better before Proton but it can be an absolute pain at times.
  
  Yeah, trust me, Linux Gaming used to be real shit. "When it works it works" is lightyears better than it used to be.
  I remember in my linux-only years, trying to muddle through linux exclusives. Oftentimes you had to be super careful because linux doesn't love prepared binaries
  
  Hearing this sort of stuff before is why I just chose to use WSL with my Lenovo Legion. Especially since mine has an RTX card in it
  
  I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate WSL with a passion that makes me scream. It has BSOD-looped a computer on me before. WSL is the only thing worse than making Linux work on something like a Legion.
  Adding Docker Desktop on top of WSL is just a disasterpiece, and I have to work against a large dev docker cluster on a regular basis.
  But if I'm being honest, none of that matters for gaming.
- That and the software the hardware uses itself is proprietary
  
  It doesn't have to be

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