How do you feel about Linux?

I have a bootable CD of Linux Mint 19 codename: Sarah. So I ran on that for a while, then installed it to my PC for all of 2 days. Got really bummed out I couldn't play almost any games so went back to Windows.

If Linux had the compatibility with software, it would be fierce competition for Microsoft. It seems like the only thing the people behind Linux cares about is having a million flavors 🙄🙄🙄

Not quite sure how that helps anyone wanting to play games on it and get away from Microsoft but whatever

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pdxlinux · 41-45, M

i think that you have made a good point about linux. it works well for people like me who are mainly using a web browser and a little bit of other things like productivity apps and shell utilities. it's never going to be a good tool for games, but maybe VR? i don't know.

twiigss · M

@pdxlinux Yeah, I think it could be useful for VR, but again, you need the software compatibility, not 500,000 flavors of the same thing. They truly fail to see that. They focus on the back-end which is pretty much solid.

I continue to quote this movie, Silicon Valley. It showed how Apple and Microsoft got started. According to Steve Wozniak, that movie is the closest thing to the honest truth on how the two companies started up. In the movie, Bill Gates is sitting there at this table with Steve Ballmer at IBM. Bill tells IBM that he has the answer to all of their problems with DOS, the Disk Operating System. According to Ballmer in the movie, Bill had nothing, nada, zip. And they're sitting there with the highest IBM execs telling them they have the answer to all of their problems.

In the movie, Bill says how he wants to retain ownership of DOS, and just sell a license. The IBM execs smirk and ask, you want to keep the rights to the software? Bill goes, yep, that's right. The IBM execs look at each other and say, well, the money is in the hardware, not this, DOS. Okay, that's fine, you got yourself a deal.

What is hilarious is that the money is in the software and it always will be. You can have a 40" monitor with 20k resolution, and a computer with 4 hard drives, 10 fans, RGB all over it, but at the end of the day, without software, all you got is something you can't use.

And if the people over at Linux really wanted to be competitive with Microsoft, then they have to have more software compatibility. Now I'm not saying go and hijack every little thing that is Microsoft, but there should be some way that people who love PC gaming should be able to game on any OS they want, and it should all run the same. My thing is, Linux doesn't nag you, Linux doesn't track you secretly, Linux doesn't force updates on you every 2 weeks (which is why mine are 100% disabled).

I'm just glad that I did dabble with Linux for a little while and it was familiar to me, even though I had never used it before. As an OS on it's own, it's nice. I just think it can do more and it should be able to do more. A lot more.