What average user uses CAD? I think you are conflating what an average user requires.
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Agreed.
Yep, makes sense. 1500 dollar Mac or a 100 dollar USB dongle. Logic checks out.
Little guys like this one were 5 dollars over ten years ago now. I know because this is the one I would tell folks upgrading from win7 or win8, to win10, to use when their wifi nic wasn’t supported. I also used them for my crypto miners.
Or he could just go back to an OS that works.
Shocking, use the OS that is compatible with your hardware. If you are on XP or Win7 and you want to go to Win10, guess what you have to do. Make sure you hardware is compatible. Same difference. If you want Win10, and your NIC isn’t compatible, you buy a new NIC. Nobody seems to complain about that. People want MacOS, they buy new hardware, no one complains about that. But for some reason, with Linux, “this free OS better work work with my cheap Chinese network card or I’m going straight to the electronics store and buying a Win11 machine”.
Long time Linux user here. I’m definitely in the Linux just works camp. That’s why I use it. I do see some of the posts, “I have to spend an hour fixing my computer running one of the most user friendly distros every single time the power goes out”, I know you are being tongue and cheek but some of the posts sound like they haven’t tried Linux for 20 years, some sound like they never tried Linux and they are just repeating some stereotype from 30 years ago. The ones that seem legit, seem more like they just didn’t have compatible hardware or only partial supported hardware.
A lot of recent Linux hardware compatibility has come from OEMs trying to save money on WHQL certification costs from Microsoft. They are all reusing the same chipsets. Then someone like Intel or AMD writes a Linux driver for that chipset and suddenly a bunch of machines that have that device become more compatible. That’s given the new Windows converts a false reality. Then they say, ‘yeah, install, it’s great (which it is)’. To be fair, it does seem like most hardware is supported these days (it surprises me), but it’s not quite that good yet. Just make sure your hardware is compatible before you install. You can create the install media and boot the entire OS off the install media before you ever install and you can see if your hardware works or not. Just remember, if you have slow install media, Linux would be slow running initially.
Also, Nvidia is not fully supported with all configurations yet (mostly laptop from what I understand). Nvidia is making a lot of ground over the last year. So just keep that in mind.
Can confirm. I started on Slackware 3.6. I did need to know stuff about computers. The same stuff I had to learn about Windows. We all helped each other out. And there was never an average user installing Windows, ever. Average users would just ask for help. It seems to so moronic to read, “Linux needs to be made easier for the ‘average’ users to install if you want people to use it.” Windows isn’t easy enough for the average user to install but somehow Linux needs to over come that feet. So ridiculous.
Reminds me of that Linus Tech tips video where they try Linux for gaming. Linus, says something like, “We are all tech people, Linux shouldn’t be this hard”. Right, so I’m good with Linux so I should just be good at every other OS out there. Every MacOS techie should know everything about Windows and Linux and every other OS floating around on the internet?! Makes total sense.
I’ve never used Mint, but you don’t have to update in all those places. The system should cover it all for you. Even deb files you download manually can (if the developer does this) register with secure repositories to be auto updated by the system itself. You should be able to just download those and double click to install them. The software store will handle the install for you. Good example would be Brave Browser. It’s there, just not common to download .deb files manually.
A 5 to 15 dollar USB dongle was too much for you? There used to be a time when people understood they would need to buy compatible hardware for the OS. We’re not just talking Windows to Linux here, this same thing happens between Windows versions. Imagine switching to MacOS from Windows or to Windows from MacOS. “Guess MacOS doesn’t work on my Windows hardware. Whelp, back to Windows.”
for 3rd parties to put forth any effort, there needs to be incentives… which would be in the form of demand
I mean this is it. That’s why Microsoft’s vendor lock-in strategy has kept Windows dominant on Desktop. It guarantees money will be spent on Windows first and foremost for all these OEMs. Which guarantees 3rd party support.
If they turn the screws on users hard enough then Linux might gain enough market share for there to be real demand
Regular users wont switch to Linux until the machine comes preinstalled with Linux. Microsoft can screw over their customers and the average user will just have to take it. The average users just doesn’t know any better. Ultimately, average users need to see a machine they want to buy in a brick and mortar store. As long as Microsoft’s vendor lock-in strategy is in affect, the average user will never see a Linux machine, from your typical OEM, even to unknowingly consider. But, if Valve releases a Steam Console, they could put that machine in a brick and mortar store. Lots of regular average users would buy it for the gaming, not realizing it’s Linux. Eventually they would learn they could use the desktop mode in a pinch (same as what happened with the Steam Deck). When they realize the desktop mode works just as well as their PC, likely, they will stop buying a PC altogether. It will be like when PlayStation sold their PS2. Lots of people just bought a PS2 because it came with a DVD player. DVD player sales declined rapidly. If something similar happens with a Steam Console, Linux would have a market share 3rd party developers could not ignore. I don’t know if that would break Microsoft’s vendor lock-in strategy, but I think 10M - 20M Steam Consoles sold every year would definitely get the attention of 3rd party hardware vendors and software vendors for at least the gaming market. And all that would be supported on desktop Linux too; making it even easier for the tech nerds to switch. Then you are just waiting on the network affect to take off.
We will have to see, what unfolds in the next couple years.
Worst take ever. Outside of Desktop, Windows gets dominated by Linux. Even on Azure, Linux is the number one OS over MS’s Windows Server. Windows is free on IoT and still Linux dominates. So what makes Desktop different? 30 years of Microsoft’s vendor lock-in strategy. All the OEMs have to invest into Windows because they have to take the volume licensing deal from Microsoft or be priced out. This ensures Windows engineering efforts for drivers, software, and testing. Because the machines were Windows, 3rd party hardware and software had to invest into Windows as well. When there is no vendor lock-in, Linux receives the money for engineering efforts and dominates Windows. Nobody complains about having Linux on their Smart TV. Right, because the money for engineering efforts are not forced to be put toward Windows. How many people are switching their Steam Deck to Windows 80%? 50%? 10%? 1%,? more like ~0.1% switch. The money is there to make a great experience and so there is almost no reason to switch. It’s only the tech nerds that are installing OSes. Average people don’t even know what Windows or Linux is. When Microsoft loses it’s lock-in strategy, Linux will take over. Nobody is choosing Windows for Desktop. It’s just what comes on the machine at the store.
Nonsense. It has always been listed on the box if there is support. Same as all the other OSes. How many times have you bought random used Windows hardware to see if you could install MacOS on it? Nobody buys random Mac hardware to see if they can install Windows on it. There were Hackintosh’s but when some didn’t work out, nobody blamed MacOS. Back when Windows ran poorly on Intel Macs because of poor support, Nobody blamed Windows. It’s a double standard.
Shocker, you bought hardware with a compatible OS. That’s the dudes problem. He didn’t buy hardware compatible for Linux. 1984, so I know you are well aware, you have to buy hardware that is compatible with your OS.
Make Local LUGs Great Again.
No source to compile it yourself?
Sounds like a good strategy. I don’t know all the details, but from the way I understand it, your Linux build would be run by Steam in a Linux container, Steam Runtime. So build and test against that if you can. If I have it right, maybe the Steam Runtime container will give you more confidence if you are able to go with a Linux build.
edit: If you sell your game through Steam.
You have a OnePlus device? You can go to EDL mode to unbrick.
With WINE you wouldn’t need USB pass-through. Only if you are passing the hardware into a Virtual Machine. The pass-through just tells the Host system not handle the device. But you actually want the HOST system to handle the device. WINE is just translation, not virtualization. (or Emulation, haha)
P.S. USB pass-through does work really well in VM’s. If WINE doesn’t work for you. You could always keep around a Windows VM for the occasion you need the msm flash tool.
Msm flash tool
If that’s all you need. I bet you could just run it from WINE. I updated my PS5 controller using the PlayStation flash tool or whatever it’s called. I used Bottles to do all the WINE stuff. Just installed the flash tool and it worked like it was Windows. Pretty shocked if I’m being honest.
What is your swappiness? If you have all that ram you should not be swapping. You are probably still at a swappiness for an average system, 60. Try 10.
sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10
Correct, and it’s the same for any OS, and figuratively every user. The average user has no clue how to install an OS nor cares to do so. Few people switch the OS on their phone. Few switch to Windows on a Steam Deck. Nobody it trying out different OSes on their SmartTV. It’s the tech nerds that install OSes, they are the ones that switch. That’s why it’s always hilarious to read them complain about Linux needing to be made easy to install for the “average” user.
This couldn’t be more true.