Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows

• Stitch0815@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you don’t mind me asking: What problems did you run into? And what distro were you using?

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve tested out Manjaro, KDE Neon, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Fedora.

    Problems have been all over the spectrum. Not being to install at all, trouble getting it to dual boot after installing (despite following a guide), getting NAS drives to be writeable, hardware compatibility, finding alternatives to proprietary software which may or may not do everything the original did, and more.

    I’m semi enjoying the tinkering for now, and I’m not regretting trying to de-Windows as much as possible, but I think people who say Linux is ready for mainstream are out of touch with the average person’s computer literacy.

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    • toodd@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      dual booting anything with windows (including another copy of windows) is an insufferable nightmare caused by windows.

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      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not all instances were dual booting, nor are all of the problems I’ve encountered or described above related with dual booting.

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    • highball@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Imagine the hardware compatibility issues you’d have trying to install MacOS on your machine. Probably a nightmare. Better to just buy hardware that is compatible with the OS you want to run.

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      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well it’s not a very compelling sales pitch to tell me to ditch the multiple thousands of dollars of hardware and just buy new stuff. If the goal is to get people to switch to Linux from Windows, I hope you’re not the one leading the charge.

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    • prude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you want gaming you should try the nobara distro, great stuff

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      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I do a lot of things other than gaming.

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    • Stitch0815@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh ok very interesting. Thanks for the insight.

      And good luck :D

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