Still better than windows.

This picture is incomplete.

You need another guy on the ledt side, just casually watching as the others fight. That's Debian.

The poor dude being shoved into the locker is Suse.

The bully is Ubuntu.

Now we need a bigger guy behind the bully, waiting to get his hands on the bully. That will be RedHat.

Arch will be behind RedHat, getting ready to punch him in the face.

Gentoo will be right behind Arch, laughing like a maniac at the carnage unfolding.

And to the far right side of the picture you get to see this underrated guy, just shrugging his shoulders. That's LFS.

let me paint you a different picture

i'm the one shoving you into a locker.
- I was never small enough to fit in one, nor fun enough to be picked on. Plus, I was prone to fight back; I had very little to lose.
Alpine linux is already in the ~~locker~~container.
Debian is the school
Where's Guix?
- Next to Debian, I'd risk.
- In the shame corner wearing a dunce cap for copying NixOS without making the language situation any better (like, say, static typing).

All Linux are equal...

... But some are more equal than others

"Ewww! Ubuntu!"

I still have a soft spot for Kubuntu, but I had to move to Arch because I wanted my software up-to-date. It really fucking sucks when a new version of something comes out and you have to wait for somebody to get around to updating the repo. Sometimes it would take months.
- Opens dirty trenchcoat
  
  "Hey kid, wanna try some Flatpaks?"

BTW I use Arch Linux on my desktop. BTW I use Arch Linux on my laptop. BTW I use Debian on my server.

Time to change your username. BTW I use Debian everywhere. Best distro.
- Nah that title already holds NixOS

People who use windows are already locked in their lockers

Apple Bois being homeschooled. Still somehow bullied.
- Eh, as a homeschooler parent and a household of Linux users, more like Linux are being homeschooled and Apple is a fancy private school for rich folk (and scholarships for the not so well off of course)
And for most people that's OK. As I'm OK with buying eggs rather than making them myself in my garden with my own chickens, even if it would be better and I would have more control over it...
- most linux distros are easier to install and use then windows (think Ubuntu or Mint, as long as you don't rely on stuff like ms office or photoshop, which don't work that well)
- I thought about your comment. My conclusion: a Linux laptop doesn't need as much space as a normal sized chicken. It's cleaner too.
And most a fine with it…

Yes. But my version of Linux is better then your version. And that makes you a chump.

Cinnamon, mint, cocoa

Gosh there are a lot of food based Linux builds...

Gnome. Mmm, gnome, straight off the barbecue. The crispy hat tip is my favourite part.

Watch your backs, the FoSSHoles are out to getcha.

OP is why paired programming failed. The one that did all the work received 100% of the swirlies.

Fuck that guy, he's the reason flatpacks exist

The varsity jacket should have "read the wiki" embroidered onto it

I wanna use Linux, but gaming is stopping me.

It depends on the game, but Steam proton is pretty good.

This site is incredibly helpful.
- This, I did not know about, I see that for honor is definitely compatible, so it's looking like it might work out.
The state of gaming on Linux isn't perfect, but it is very, very good right now. The best it has ever been by far. The Steam Deck uses Linux, and Valve has their people dumping new features upstream into Linux for everyone to use.
Isn’t even the steam deck Linux nowadays?
- It is, and there are still some games that are borked, but most are quite good.
  
  This site is great for finding out what games work. https://www.protondb.com/
- Yeah it's skinned Arch Linux
- I....don't know. I wanna say it is, but like a special proprietary version or something. I really got nothing here.
One solution is just to stop gaming and start playing around with computers for fun.
- Gaming is what got me into playing around with computers for fun.
- YES! Someone else fcking gets it!
- Por que no los dos
Why is this getting down voted??
- Probably because gaming on Linux is in very good state right now. If you're a casual OS user I still wouldn't recommend it but if you know what you do, you'll barely need Windows.
I started gaming after I switched to Linux, so all of my gaming is Linux-based. It helps that I use emulators for everything, and Linux has excellent emulators. When I built my new computer and discovered I could emulate a Switch at a playable speed, it floored me.
- But but but Wine Is Not an Emulator
I could play Witchfire on day one, an early access game on the Epic Game Store, so probably the only games you cant play now are the online ones, but there are some you can.
I wanna use Linux, but last time I tried I had so many issues that it made it almost impossible to be productive. There are so many possible variations of a setup that trying to find answers either resulted in incorrect or just downright combative responses
- or just downright combative responses
  
  My favourite things Linsuxs users say;
  
  "You don't even need to use the terminal anymore!"
  
  someone asks for help
  
  "here's a terminal command, idiot. Go back to windows, idiot."
  
  or
  
  "Linus from LTT is so stupid for running a random terminal command from the internet, borking his install. Anyway, here's a terminal command, idiot. If you want the GUI instructions, go back to Windoze!1!"
  
  or
  
  "You can run that on Linux. Just download these 50 dependencies, run this custom script, modify WINE, and then it only crashes every 3 minutes!"
  
  Like nah, I will stick to clicking a .exe and having it up and running in 5 seconds with no crashing, thanks.
Even games that work natively on Linux just don't look as good because of the difference between OpenGL and DirectX.

I'm replaying Metro Last Light (not Redux) on a new PC with dual boot and I'm just playing it from Windows, even when the game (has) native Linux support.

To get the best grahpics I probably could run the Windows version from WINE as I already got Steam to work with it, but AMD's GPU drivers are unstable on Linux and I couldn't get the Mesa video drivers to support my MOBO's integrated video output that I'm currently using for one of my displays.

I usually complicate things while tinkering to get something working in a specific way, but other times I just don't feel like it.

I have an RT7900 XTX and I just want to get the best possible graphics with it.
- This comment seems a bit strange to me for a few reasons. The Linux ecosystem has changed and improved drastically in the last few years, and a lot of this reads like it was written a decade ago.
  
  AMD drivers have been rock steady for quite a few years now. The catch is that unless you're doing some exotic thing (not general-purpose gaming) you should not be installing anything extra. People used to downloading drivers for everything tend to make the mistake of hunting down and downloading the Radeon proprietary drivers when those are not needed, and in some cases actively make things worse. I suspect this is the case because you mentioned Mesa when talking about the integrated graphics card, but not the dedicated one. If I'm right about that, uninstall Radeon and let Mesa handle it with the AMDGPU open source drivers built into your kernel.
  
  Unfortunately, dual GPU setups are still very painful and annoying to set up and use. That is still an active pain point in the ecosystem. DRI_PRIME is still the best solution for this afaik, but it isn't exactly an elegant one.
  
  Steam comes with Proton built in (their own fork of WINE with a lot of improvements), WINE & Proton have made gigantic leaps forward with the backing of Valve, and pretty much everything gaming related has moved from OpenGL to Vulkan. Anything run in Proton, for example, is going to be using Vulkan, not OpenGL
  
  Checking out Metro's protondb page, yeah, seems like the consensus is that the devs did a shit job with their port. I'd recommend right-clicking the game in Steam, go to properties, compatibility, and enable Proton there.
Any kind of productivity is stopping me.
- This dude must only know how to click on shit
- I don't really do much of anything OTHER than gaming, so that wouldn't be an issue for me. Sorry for you tho bro
- Just finished setting up IIS, boss!
  
  https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-3t39xi9zbs/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/258/511/859013__42097.1587675179.jpg?c=1
- Depends on the task. It is much better for ml, ai, scientific computing and high performance computing in general, developers...
  
  But I use libreoffice only for cover letters and cvs.
  
  If excel is needed, Linux is a problem
I use Linux for work. Windows for entertainment.
- Ironically I work in Linux and use Windows and the os to do it. I deploy lots of container Linux from a work provided windows laptop.
  
  And I use Linux at home playing windows games through wine/proton.
- So you have like a dual boot on the same computer or different computers?

Would you mind uploading the template to !maimaivorlagen@discuss.tchncs.de?

Left guy are edge users on linux

Noo. I use it for bing AI I swear
- You can spoof the user agent to edge using a Firefox extension in order to use Bing AI. The functionality is mostly the same except for being unable to access a previous chat and lack of web page context search.