if you care about your friend and he's on an nvidia card don't recommend an entirely new OS
if you care about your friend and he's on an nvidia card don't recommend an entirely new OS
Khaha okay, good call. 
Hthis, plus they come from xbox, they might want to use the xbox stuff from windows (if they know or learn about them)
KBazzite and just steam gamemode and I tell him to press the update button weekly would be fine ...
But my worries are the nvidia + xobx/ms stuff
But my worries are the nvidia + xobx/ms stuff
Khe still got the last gen xbox btw
Kbut f*ckery with lutris would be too much for him
Hi would honestly sit down with them and learn what they expect to do with it and decide on OS from that, and if you go with bazzite then teach them how to know if a game is supposed to work on linux or not
KBazzite autoupdates
Kbut not the gamemode version, right?
KYep, I guess I'll do this
Hgamemode doesnt work on nvidia
Hand honestly get your friends input, if they want to go unga bunga press button and not think if the game has anticheat or something then put them on windows
Hif they are willing to do some reasearch before buying/playing a game (a simple search) then they might be willing to try linux first.
plus if you put the games on a btrfs drive they can be used on windows anyway if they end up moving to windows later
plus if you put the games on a btrfs drive they can be used on windows anyway if they end up moving to windows later
Hshoehorning linux into someones life almost never ends well (even though we want to)
Ksh*t, didn't know that. Ty. This is such a great feature, especially for a Console like PC.
KYea. I will tell him that.
He said he won't buy next gen consoles and wants to hop on PC, because Xbox is basically PC and more and more sony games are on PC now. So the best of both worlds :D
He said he won't buy next gen consoles and wants to hop on PC, because Xbox is basically PC and more and more sony games are on PC now. So the best of both worlds :D
Hyeah just make sure you get to find out what your friends expectations are.
if they are like "man i want to be able to play call of duty" then you know they will need windows no matter what if they want any of the newer ones (i belive some older ones work on linux but dont quote me on that and im too lazy to check)
if they are like "man i want to be able to play call of duty" then you know they will need windows no matter what if they want any of the newer ones (i belive some older ones work on linux but dont quote me on that and im too lazy to check)
K
Kdo you ever converted someone to linux?
Hplus launchers (EA/ubisoft/etc) will always be a bigger pain on linux even with lutris
Kone of my biggest fears ...
K"Hey I want to play Diablo 4"
H5 of my friends are planning to switch next year when windows10 goes EOL
Olol its not a religion
Oas long as you're happy with linux be satisfied
Hbut they also know a bit more what they are getting into at this point since i have used linux the whole time they have known me
O"how many have you converted?" ^
Hyep its why i say use what works for you
Khahah
KOkay it's on steam now.. I forgot
Hmy most computer illeterate friend jumped straight into gentoo... this was about 6 years ago
Hhe still uses gentoo
CDid he survive?
Ko.O
CWhoa what
CAbsolute mad lad
Dgentoo docs are goated tbh
Dthe real challenge is having the patience for gentoo
KIt's my religion
Hcompiled kernel and everything on his horrible hp laptop. he had no idea what he was doing but followed documentation and the compile took i think 1 week
CGentoo is nice if you have a life though, there's always compile break time
CSo you can look outside, hear the birds chirping
CPC fan going full throttle in the background
CGood life
Hget aggressively attacked by seagulls if you live at my location 
Hthis is the computer equivalent of learning to cook by being sent off to an uninhabited island
H
Hhey he did it out of the blue after i had not talked to him for 3 years 
K"Install gentoo"
"Sure"
"Sure"
PPlayed it today a bit via Lutris, everything works normally, even DLSS. Didn't think to check for RTX but it's fully playable without any noticeable drawbacks
LEven on the BNet launcher it was fine. Played when it was first released on my Steam Deck and Nobara at the time.
