Here’s the list of things I miss:
I just miss my social life. Back when I was on Windows I had a lot of friends and was banging people constantly in my free time. As a Linux user, I’ve pretty much been ostracized by my local community and my mojo no longer works on the daily trimmings. I might give Mac a try, but I’m just not sure how many tide pods I could possibly eat.
I miss targeted advertisements. It’s important that my OS tracks what my interests are, so that I can be served more relevant advertising.
Advertising that doesn’t know my interests doesn’t hold my interest, and having no ads means that I have no idea what I’m supposed to purchase next. It’s crazy.
i miss some software so im writing my own
tbh it’s just good incentive for me to learn c
Out of curiosity, what software?
it’s a thing for specialised input remapping, I’m honestly surprised it doesn’t exist on Linux because Linux has so many keyboard remappers
I switched in 2005, I miss being in my 40’s. 😋
Dragging chrome tab to another screen. On windows and chrome os it works fine, i can drag a tab from one window and it becomes a separate window i can place anywhere.
On Linux, as soon as i move the tab, the new window is created but I’m no longer dragging it. It annoys me greatly because i often want to move tab to the other half of the screen, or another screen and i can’t do it in one motion.
Works on Firefox if you ever get angry enough to bother switching.
Every game I want to play actually working first time everytime.
How to know someone hasn’t gamed on Linux in years.
Not like that at all now.
Actually I’m completely new to Linux and only started using it as my main pc a few days ago. The games I’ve tried so far is: cs2 which plays natively without proton but with significant performance impacts which makes it virtually unplayable. And I’ve tried space engineers which is supposed to work but without audio (it wouldn’t launch for me) and beamng which is gold in protondb but I couldn’t get it to launch at all. Come to think of it I must be doing something wrong because so far I haven’t been able to get any game to launch when using proton.
Often times, games that have a native Linux runtime will still play better using proton and the Windows version. So try that with cs2. Only source game I’ve played is HL2 (recently) and i think I might have had to switch to Proton for it to run well, but I forget.
There isn’t really anything wrong to do… The first time you load up a game, it might take a little bit longer, so you might have to let it sit for a minute while Steam says “exit” instead of “play game” (meaning the button you click in Steam to start the game). That’s only the first load, after that, it should load right up.
You might also want to look at you settings for loading shaders (steam settings). I prefer to compile shaders before the game starts so as to avoid stuttering in the first few min, but it can also make it so it takes an additional 30 sec or so to open the game.
Another suggestion I’d have is to get proton-GE. Basically it’s some dude’s custom proton release that usually has better compatibility and often works better than official (if you want to avoid having to download a separate program, try “proton experimental” in your Steam compatibility options).
But getting proton-GE is easy. You have to switch to desktop mode once and use Discover (app store basically) to download “protonupQT” (I believe, this is all from memory so it might be slightly off). You can run that app in desktop mode, or do what I do and go back to game mode and add it as a “non-Steam game”. Now you can update proton-ge without having to go into desktop mode…
Anyway, I’m sure that seems like a lot but it’s really not. Hope it helps.
Edit: I’m just realizing now that your didn’t mean “Counter Strike,” but rather “Cities Skylines”. Yeah, can’t speak to the performance there. Still worth trying Windows version with proton
No you were actually right the first time! I did mean counter strike. Thanks for the help though.
Update: I got beamng.drive to work I haven’t tried space engineers although my guess is it will work but without audio (acording to everyone on protondb) whuch is unplayable imo so i will probably use windows for that. The problem was that I didn’t have write permissions on my secondary hard drive which is probably linked to my Windows install (I am currently dual booting with two ssd’s) so I installed beamng onto my main ssd and everything just worked!
Not sure how to fix the write permission error I’ve tried launching dolphin with root privileges. At the moment the best solution I can think of is formatting my hdd on Windows and then that may fix it. Although it would be nice if there was a solution without formatting it.
consistent middle click to scroll in all programs.
I miss windows eating my work when it chooses to install updates and reboot automatically while I’m asleep
Edit: even after I’ve set registry flags and policies to “never automatically reboot” - it’s always fun losing 4 days of work because windows randomly says “fuck you”
Games :(
At least that is something that is getting better and better. Though I do hope that if Steam OS and Proton keep pushing things at the rate we are seeing. Maybe Linux will get used enough to justify more devs to make real Linux releases of games instead of just Windows releases. Apple finally getting their stuff able to run things at similar levels of gaming PCs is also kind of helping with breaking out of Windows only code.
I honestly loved some of the default Windows apps, like Notepad, Paint and believe it or not, the default file manager. I find that most file explorers on Linux can’t strike a good balance between simplicity and the amount of features.
Thankfully (or not, if you use Windows) they started enshittifying each and every one of them, so there’s nothing to miss any more.
The only time I’ve used windows was in school computer labs where they taught us how to use paint in windows xp and few other dumb shit.
So I don’t know what I’m missing but looks like nothing important
to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT all night long
That’s far too retro. No one else will get the joke.
Got to tweak dos startup menu to maximise your conventional or ems memory.
My Steam library.
The CMD key. MacOS got it figured out with CMD separate from ctrl. Never have problems copying from a terminal because CMD+C is not ctrl+C
