Bubble phenomenon: We, who are familiar with it, know the limitations and can deal with the differences, think it’s the superior platform. But that isn’t an objective and universally understood fact when you factor in the UI/UX benefits of a single, largely uniform platform like Windows that people are already used to.

Particularly given the fact that “Linux” isn’t any single OS and switching is liable to confuse, intimidate and paralyse people with the sheer wealth of choices, the pre-experience of even considering to use Linux is horrible. How many different “which distro should I choose?” guides and discussions have you seen?

Linux is great in many things, but for the average user, the first problem starts even before the actual platform. Until the community at large agrees on and promotes one or two easy starter / transition distros that “just work” for all the essentials, that hurdle alone will disqualify it from being the universally superior platform. Its great strength - the plethora of choices - is its biggest weakness in the one regard that matters most for encouraging people to switch.

By and large, Linux advocates are technically-minded people. We approach systems and platforms differently. We underestimate the value of UX and particularly the pre-experience before deciding to use something for most people.

The difference between a million and a billioj is about one billion. Millionaires aren’t the biggest bloodsuckers by a long shot, so the focus right now is on damage control by opposing the parasites.

I studied CompSci, so a very technical field, and with one exception (Power BI), everything I used ran on Linux just as well. For my Thesis, I used TeXStudio. For normal writing or presentations, I just used LibreOffice. For calculations, I used Python. For collaborative document editing, we used Google Docs.

Word of caution: LibreOffice supports the various formats of MS Office, but I’ve had issues the other way around, where a presentation I created in LO wouldn’t work in MSO. If you need to collab on files together, I’d recommend Google Docs. If it’s just you, I recommend sending PDF versions along with (or instead of) the original file, just to be sure.

The axis is cut off below 6, so the difference between the columns’ size isn’t representative of the actual scale

AFAIK there is support for EAC in Proton now, as that was required for Elden Ring. But there probably is some work to do still on the devs’ part, and if they’re not willing to invest that time for what so far is still a niche…

It’s a bit of a self-perpetuating problem, like all cases of platform inertia: People are reluctant to switch, so unless the draw to the alternative becomes strong enough, they’re more likely to stay. But for the alternative to become appealing, more people would need to switch.

It’s the same reason many people aren’t leaving Twatter: If you want to reach many people, you’ll want to be in the place with many people.

Anti-Cheat is a bitch, special sound setups not working out of the box is a shame, and it certainly isn’t a complete replacement for all use cases.

But the performance issues are definitely not universal, and claiming that anyone who uses it as daily driver is delusional overshoots the mark of criticism and into pointless insults.

Fuck me, I guess - All the fun I’ve had the last two years wasn’t actually real? I only thought I was having a good time? Why didn’t you tell me back then so I could have been appropriately miserable!

I’ve got an RTX 3060 with a Ryzen 5 5600X, running Nobara as my sole OS and I’m playing plenty of games just fine. I can’t say that I’ve ever had to do any tinkering to get BG3 to run, and when I recently decided to replay AC Odyssey, it ran smoothly out of the box.

Granted, sound issues can be annoying, but it’s not like there are no guides for setting up 5.1 with pulseaudio or pipewire. Yes, it’s some tinkering, and I agree that it would be nice if it ran out of the box.

But if plenty of people around you have theirs working fine, calling them all delusional because yours doesn’t is kinda stupid.

“Could it be that I’m doing something wrong? No, it’s the linux gamers that are wrong!”

You haven’t provided any info about your partition scheme for either drive, but I assume you’ve got your bootloader installed in an EFI partition in the newer drive. You will still have an EFI partition on the old drive created by the Ubuntu installer, so just be sure you know which bootloader you’re using.

Yes, the new drive has a boot partition mounted to /boot/efi, according to the Disks utility.

It’s not clear what issues you’re worried about, but if you’re nervous about breaking the Ubuntu installation[…]

Actually, that’s a good point. I’m expecting to get rid of the installation anyway, so I don’t need to worry about breaking anything there.

It’s not clear to me what the goal of option 3 is

Same as option 2, avoiding breaking a system I’m getting rid of anyway.

Thanks for pointing out the errors in my line of thought!

I feel like you are overthinking this

Yes, most certainly, but given my own inexperience I figured I’d rather overthink than fuck up because I didn’t know about some detail.

Take special attention to the /boot partition. I don’t know which drive the bootloader for your nobora os is installed. It may have been automatically put together with your Ubuntu to your HDD.

Fairly sure the boot partition is on the new SSD, but I’ll check and leave it untouched if I’m not sure.

Thanks for your advice!

Pretty sure I installed protontricks from a flatpak too, and that one is a console app. But it depends on some flatpak being available for the app.

Like the other reply said though, you can use other means to install apps in ways that don’t require altering system files.

I like the name Holy See C for his personalised flavour of C

Does ~/.config fit the bill for the second one?

Privately? Win7

Professionally? Win10 currently, looks like it’ll have to be Win11 soon. I get no control over my work laptop’s OS

Oooh, I missed that. Nice!

hehe funny sex number

(69 Flatpaks)

Right? “Oh look, country with huge population has more downloads than country with small population!”

Good on him for giving Linux a platform. Bad on google for coercing him to do so in a clickbaity manner.

Fair enough, I guess that nuance got lost then

I might be the minority, but I’m more inclined to click a video that says “Plasma 6.1: Release, features and my opinions” than one that proclaims it THE BEST THING (unless it’s from a creator I already know and like anyway, they get a pass as long as the content is good)

Sure, but the common consensus seems to be that you shouldn’t be annoyed at the constant updates when that’s an explicit feature of that system. Maybe that’s just a misreading, but I assume the expected reaction would be “Not now” rather than “Not again”.

(I’m not taking a position, as I’ve never worked with a rolling distro and can’t really comment on either stance, just trying to navigate the confusion here)