Ugh, fuck that. I’ll have to bite the fucking Linux bullet at that point
Can’t find the package “bullet”, I guess i’ll need to google it. Oh, there are dependencies i need to install first. Can’t find them via apt though. After three hours of googling I find a forum post from 2008 that describes how to compile the dependency yourself. My question in a Linux forum is already locked because there was a similar question in 1997 in which neither of the commands nor software packages or links even exist anymore. I try compiling myself, but it seems i need another piece of software for that. That thing was abandoned in 2012, replaced by another one, then another one in 2018. It doesn’t compile though, no matter what i do. I read somewhere that the whole distribution i use is not up-to-date enough and i need to install a nightly bleeding edge upgrade that contains the needed dependencies. I do. After reboot, my audio doesn’t work anymore, the resolution is 500x133, there is smoke coming from my mouse and coffee pouring out of the buttons of my screen. I decide to use a completely different distribution, because the one i chose was for noob losers anyways. Three hours later, after three failed attempts of installing because seemingly i exhaled in the general direction of the USB-stick while it was written, I manage to install the right boot manager so that my windows partition isn’t lost in the abyss, install the correct drivers for everything, set the keyboard to german three dozen times so i don’t become psychotic when i try to use the terminal, save the princess from the evil lord and provide the village with enough resources that they survive the next winter, i finally open up the terminal to install “bullet”.
There are dependencies I need to install first.
I really hope it’s different now, but about a decade ago I tried to use Linux for multiple years and I really tried to like it, but it has always been a pain in the ass as soon as you try to set up something that is a little more fringe/advanced like software for music production.
Yep, I had the same thought. I run Win10 on my desktop and PopOS on my laptop; I plan to keep running Win10 for as long as possible, but if this cloud-based nonsense is the future, I’m not hesitating to also switch my desktop to Linux. This stuff is so ridiculous.
that’ll be a bigger flop than windows me was
I feel like this is gonna go as well as cloud gaming did. Working directly on a server is great in an office setting, but at home it’s just stupid and unnecessary.
“We take the Personal out of PC”
man that sucks ass, the only thing that’s making me not mainly use linux at this point is gaming compatibility.
majority of games run just fine on linux/proton, some don’t but only cause devs are stuckup and won’t allow proton in the anti-cheat (destiny, rust, lost ark, to name a few)
Most of the games I’d use Windows for I cna run easily and just as well with Proton on Linux (Arch).
You need to enable Proton for each game in the right-click settings but once you do you can sinatll anything.
In fact Irecently played a cracked version fo Hades without using Steam. It just installed and ran using Wine.
Most of the games I’d use Windows for I cna run easily and just as well with Proton on Linux (Arch).
You need to enable Proton for each game in the right-click settings but once you do you can sinatll anything.
In fact Irecently played a cracked version fo Hades without using Steam. It just installed and ran using Wine.
Well, Microsoft can fuck the fuck off! First of all, you should own things you paid for. And second, they can’t even make Windows Update function reliably. I have no desire to have my OS stop working just because some server isn’t responding. No, thank you.
and if your internet is out or shit, you can’t even use your computer. I’ll pass.
I can’t even imagine how that would even work other than being blocked out of access without uninterrupted Internet connection. “Oh, your Internet provider shit themselves? Too bad. You get nothing.”
Any idea of how this will sit with government organizations and colleges/universities?
I believe in Canada most (if not all) provinces and even post secondary institutions have data policies that don’t allow most cloud services since they can’t guarantee data isn’t being stored or processed in a data center outside it’s borders.
There are some exceptions for the use of OneDrive, but we are prohibited from storing any sensitive data there. Other cloud based apps are hosted on a proprietary instance, but I’m not sure if this option will be available in this case.
More and more what I buy gets turned into a brick if I’m offline. Ugh.
