Nobody needs marketing people.

I’m gonna make my life extra hard just to make a point against capitalism…

And you’re not the average gamer. You’re probably more of an average Linux user.

Your comment just shows how disconnected this community really is sometimes.

I’ve used both for 10 years. So I’m in a better position to compare both. I’m a software dev and hobby sys admin.

How is skill related to booting up an OS and launching a game? That should not require skill.

Besides, I’m probably more skillful with Linux. I could probably fix all of these issues. I just won’t. It’s much faster booting into Windows.

Not on stock Ubuntu. Don’t believe me? Reproduce with:

1. RTX 3070
2. Install Ubuntu
3. Install Minecraft
4. Launch Minecraft
5. L for stutters and screen tearing.

What else do you want me to say? The benchmarks seem to be wrong I guess.

Thanks for sharing your experience. But I don’t share that. All of my devices and games run perfectly well out of the box. Heavily modded or not. On stock Ubuntu it doesn’t. Nothing else to say.

Everyone who says Windows is a viable alternative as a daily driver for things other than using Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel is just delusional.

Thanks for bringing that up too. Because this is another prime example of popular software not running well on Linux. I’m not using that software though. I mostly just use the browser features of my Nextcloud instance for that. But browsers work just fine on Windows. Right… not even that works on Linux properly. Try watching DRM content on Firefox Linux or getting the hardware acceleration to work.

Nah man. I’m not a beginner with Linux. I’m using Ubuntu Server for hosting multiple docker images, a webserver, a Nextcloud, a professional Minecraft server. But I’m not using Linux Desktop anymore. If I need Linux for something terminal-related like easy ssh access to my server or git, then I’ll just boot up a subsystem on Windows.

Delusional.

I’ve been using Linux for over 10 years for work and dev. But for gaming it’s still absolute dogshit. You need to constantly tinker to get shit to work.

• Even Minecraft, which is just Java, runs at 20% less FPS than on Windows, constant stutters and screen tearing that Vsync won’t fix.
• And then there is all of the RTX raytraced games that are broken or have considerably worse performance. - What about 5.1 surround speakers that work out of the box but will not work on Linux. I tried every driver and every tinker. So I can basically enjoy my game without sound, because my Razer headset also won’t connect automatically on boot. I have to unplug the dongle every single time.
• Ah yes, forgot about all of the Anticheat games. Nope, stop blaming it on the game devs. As an end-user, I don’t care about that.
• Then what about my Logitec mouse and keyboard and Corsair RGB? Can’t configure that either.

So this basically leaves me with half of my game library than on Windows, half of my gaming hardware, no sound, and a worse performance even in Minecraft.

Everyone who says Linux is a viable alternative as a daily driver for things other than software dev or sys admin is just delusional.

I think stock Ubuntu looks sexy af. Plus, they make great use of your Desktop space. Barely any clutter in the way. But that’s just personal taste.

Modern design they say? It still looks like 2010. They can’t even get the spacings and paddings right.

It’s probably even higher than that. These stats are mostly based on website visits I believe. And many Linux users are also privacy-minded and might spoof their OS in the browser. I bet a large portion of the Unknown is actually Linux too.

He came here to complain about priorities.