“No, Karen, I won’t hack your WiFi.”
“So you’re really good at computers right?”
I use Linux because the Windows normies recoil from my computer in fear whenever I open the terminal, like a school of fish around a shark.
This happens with my screensaver that cycles between error messages like bsod in different OS
try btop out 🤗
I leave btop open to scare norimies away from my Steam Deck at work while looking busy.
sudo apt install hollywood
no seriously install hollywood and run it it’s hilarious
Is this the application that shows more and more code whenever you hit a key on the keyboard?
That’s https://hackertyper.com/ that I know of
Not exactly. It splits the terminal into multiple tiles and each one contains a different Hacker screen. Anything from Matrix-style falling characters to echoing a random manpage to a filesystem tree to a character graphic world map.
Thank you. I love it.
Wait, which of these Windows users are aware enough of Linux to have a formed expectation of Steam working under it or not? Like, they don’t know enough to understand what it is, but they’re super concerned that Steam, of all things, won’t run on it?
Are these Very Real Windows Users from Canada? Did they approach the poster with tears in their eyes?
Here is my take on their thought process:
“it’s not Windows, gaming under non-windows is crap, my main game point is steam, so can it run steam?”
Here’s my alternative proposal for their thought process:
“Linux?”
Alternately “I wonder what’s for dinner”.
People really overestimate how top of mind Linux is for the average Windows user.
I think they expect gaming on linux to be like gaming on macos which is actually awful. As someone who has spent like her entire life gaming on linux, I tried to help a friend figure out how to run a game on their mac and it took so long to get working and was so confusing
It’s me lol and that’s basically my only concern as a potential newbie
A lot of very online gamers are absolutely vehemently against anything they don’t personally find value in. I’ve seen Windows users on Reddit get smug like this because they’re operating on the assumption that the limitations on Linux from 10-15 years ago were never overcome and, thus, “Linux sucks because it can’t run games.”
To me, it’s just another version of the Android vs. iOS cope for users who think their choice to use a specific ecosystem makes them superior. The reason I shill for Linux is because it’s free, I like supporting underdogs, and most Linux desktops are ready for daily use including gaming, not because I think Linux is objectively better than Windows.
Hey, at least you’re honest about it.
I don’t shill for software, man. Not for free, anyway.
But, you know, I talk to enough people about tech stuff to know that Linux getting name dropped generates at most some brief flicker of recognition in like 95% of adults, not some half-remembered decades-old stereotypes. There just isn’t enough awareness to support misconception here. And some of the misconception isn’t that “mis” in the first place, for the standards of non-technical normies.
FWIW, I’d love a free, usable mainstream OS alternative to Apple and Microsoft. I don’t think Linux as currently designed is built to be that effectively, but it’d sure be nice if somebody figured it out. Someone that isn’t Google trying to open yet another revenue stream for ads.
I don’t think Linux as currently designed is built to be that effectively
I agree, but only in the sense that I think Linux is in its Windows 98 era and still making some things hard that should be easier. That’s ostensibly because of the Linux philosophy of user choice but it also bites people in the ass sometimes.
Depends on how much knowledge you’re interested in acquiring in the first 3 months and how much you like to play around. When I was a kid, I broke Windows a lot because I was learning what you can and can’t do. Adults don’t have that kind of time to explore and fix things that break and a lot of us aren’t intellectually curious about technology.
If you’re a tech person at all and like solving problems (or you have someone in your household who would admin your system), I think it’s ready for you. But if you’re an end user who wants every Windows feature and more on Linux and can’t/won’t fix things by searching, it’s not ready.
This has nothing to do with Linux and everything to do with using unfamiliar equipment and/or software. I’ve gotten those comments on seprarate occasions from having command prompt up and from having an IDE up in dark mode. Also from using an external HDD, external sd card reader/writer, wired mouse, and wired keyboard back when external hdds were relatively niche. Too many wires I guess.
The first time I ever experienced this was in a printshop with a bunch of older guys who were definitely not computer illiterate, but all gathered around the monitor for the server that ran our RIP/platemaker to watch commands appear in the terminal when I remoted in from my computer to do something or other. (They would go into the room and work directly on the machine, but it was loud in there and smelled funny, so I remoted in.)
They made jokes about me being a hacker, and although being distinctly boomer-ish, it was high praise coming from some of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with.
(I’ve worked with more accomplished people, and more highly educated people, but not with folks who had built a successful business that dealt with a variety of complex tech from the ground up with their own knowledge and effort. It was a bit charming to have them wowed by such a simple thing.)
what is the point of posts like the one in the image? it just reads like fishing for approval.
Welcome to Linux Memes.
Tech posts and memes are this or rage bait and nothing in between.
“x is the way to do y” “x language sucks haha!” “x language is so good haha!” “x language has so many packages depreciating haha!” "don’t use x do (extremely archaic/impossible way) it’s the only way dude!!”
it’s even worse because tech YouTubers do the exact same thing with popular libraries and frameworks, it’s all ragebait (always has been outerspace meme)
in college almost none of my friends or classmates noticed I am not using windows, and almost all of them were CS students
Maybe they just didn’t care?
not only can i install steam i can run almost any game marked windows only
The crazy part is games run better and I don’t have to set my region to JP to play… uhhhh… JRPGs. Not to mention I can’t relapse into playing League with That Guy.
I can even run games that don’t work on modern Windows, like Fallout 3.
I’ve gotten to the point where I just assume that the game will work with proton. I’ll check protondb if it’s an expensive game but other than that I just pretend I’m using Windows.
I am looking at switching to Linux soon. I really want to be able to keep playing my old WH40k games and my City of heroes and my other MMOs. So you are telling me these will run fine on Linux? I am new at this Linux thing so forgive me.
not really an expert at warhammer but steam has done a lot of work in compatibility of games.
you can check protondb and lutris.net
The main hurdle is modern anti cheat. Many old games actually work better on Linux because of fans making dedicated tweaks.
In my experience, Linux has been superior for older games because proton (the compatibility layer that makes windows game work on Linux) has a ton of old windows components packed in that are broken on modern windows.
The main issue people have these days are with newer multiplayer games and anti-cheat not playing nice with proton.
Modding can also be a bit of a hurdle if you’re into that sort of thing, but with a bit of work it’s doable.
I have a lifetime STO account and I like to do a taskforce every now and then. Maybe I should just keep a machine that runs my MMOs and do everything else on the Linux machine. EDIT–I just looked this up and it will run through Steam
Most MMOs should be fine. Off the top of my head the games that don’t work because of anti cheat are Destiny, CoD, and the Riot games (League and Valorant)
That Linux distribution? Albert Einstein. Everyone clapped.
Its cute that Linux users think the average Windows users is even aware of the existence of Linux
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No one ever asked me “Oh, are you using linux?” Even if they see that your Desktop Environment is different from what they’re used to on Windows, they usually don’t notice it’s anything else than Windows.
Says yes to both
