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[-] dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What if we count WSL and Android?

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 1 year ago

WSL definitely. It's a gateway drug I've peddled to many a developer.

[-] sudo_tee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

WSL on my work machine is a godsend. Otherwise I would not be able to tolerate the dev environment on windows.

[-] ZIRO@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is why I had to switch. It was just too clunky to get CUDA and Pytorch and Tensorflow set up in Windows. In Linux, it was a total breeze.

Edit: And then I thought, "well, wouldn't it be great if I didn't have to use Windows to use Linux?"

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[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

I have been using Linux on desktop full time since 2017 so this is really cool to see the populairty growth.

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I decided years ago to switch next time I change OS. I'm not ever getting Windows 11, but I'm still too much of a lazy bastard to move off Windows 10 til it stops getting support.

Maybe a wild hair up my ass to do it early will hit, but at the latest I'll switch when 10 is dead. Or if I decide to finally build a new machine to update my poor dinosaur it'll have Linux day 1.

In the meantime I'll have to do some homework on proton and such to learn what I'm getting into with games so I can hit the ground running.

[-] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You a want a suggestion on how to make the dive easier ? Install Linux on a USB stick.

Any old 32GB USB thumb drive will do. Linux is way smarter in how it handles storage devices, so you can boot it from a USB stick and it will be just as happy as if you installed it on an SSD or HDD. All you have to do is tell the installer to use the stick as the destination when installing. Then you can boot from it whenever you want and try out Steam and Proton.

Heck, you can even take it with you and use it to boot other computers into you own pre-configured Linux.

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[-] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Linux still doesn't play nice with nvidia right? Last time I tried to daily drive it I had many issues with my dual monitor setup, where each monitor is a different resolution refresh rate and has gsync.

Has Wayland caught up to WDDM? Microsoft has been steadily improving multi monitor rendering, and this is the only reason I haven't switch yet

[-] wiggles@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nvidia driver still doesn’t work right with Wayland for me on my 3090. It caps at 60fps and has screen tearing. But switching to x11 on fedora 38 is easy enough when I want to game. There is an easy toggle on the Lock Screen to switch between Wayland and x11. For gaming x11 works just fine so far.

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[-] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

And as bringus studios said windows on tuch screens suck and especially on mobile gaming devices

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