• IaparEnglish
          111·
          2 months ago

          It doesn’t for everybody. What is so hard to grasp about the fact that your experience isn’t a general truth?

            • IaparEnglish
              71·
              2 months ago

              Then think about it this way:

              You install the same os, you don’t get the same experience.

              That’s it. Like really simple.

              Edit: The underlying hardware has a effect on the behavior of the os. If hardware differs, the experience differs.

                • mrvictory1@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  2 months ago

                  Let me elaborate. I have spent quite a lot of time providing voluntary tech support on Reddit and forums. In both of them you will see people having a blast & praising the community, and people pulling their hair due to frustrating issues right next to each other. Having the same OS or distro does not guarantee the same experience. People have different hardware, run different software and play different games. Also, choices regarding compat layers can make a difference, for example someone forces Proton Experimental on all games and it works out, while sb else uses Proton stable and it doesn’t work. Or the other way around. Oh, also don’t get me started on my Linux experience, it’s a roller coaster.

        • Valencia@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          71·
          2 months ago

          That’d be cool if that was true… But I installed nobara on my brand new PC and kingdom come crashed when I fast traveled, Hades 2 ran at like 20 fps, and dragons dogma just wouldn’t launch. I get Linux is cool and all but I don’t have time to troubleshoot every game I install anymore…

          • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            72·
            2 months ago

            Not quite “just works” but I’d be willing to bet that your computer defaulted to the iGPU instead of your dGPU because you didn’t specify as such in your launch options

            • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              I’d be willing to get those games run fine on a console and in Windows with no extra steps.

              • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
                26·
                2 months ago

                No extra steps

                So you don’t download your GPU drivers? That’s more steps than adding a launch option

                • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  I don’t know if you’ve used Windows lately, but you get the GPU drivers on a fresh install (if you’re using a remotely mainstream video card).

        • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I am indeed. I’m actually pretty proficient with OSX and Linux…but fuck me…getting games to run is a whole new level of hell. I fucked around with it for a day or two trying to get my gaming laptop to run steam games in Ubuntu…wasn’t worth it.

          • _NoName_@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago
            1. What games? That’s a VERY big part of this whole process.
            2. What are the laptop specs? The hardware is also a massive part of it.
          • Raptorox@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Huh. I use Arch (obligatory btw) and iirc I just installed steam and it worked. 4th gen i5 with an rx 480 and things like Elite Dangerous run fine, the problem starts with UE5 but that’s a hardware issue.