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I tried gaming on Linux... [Jeff Geerling] (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Thann@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice and mature response, a lot better than shitty Linus's video.

[–] MrGamingHimself@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Shitty Linus's video" pointed out issues with Linux and its communities that people have been talking about for over a decade, yet people only just now realized because now a popular youtuber saying it.

Linux is awesome, but it has a massive UX problem. You have to use the console, but first you have to learn how to use the console, and when beginners install/update/remove something the console spams 300 lines that are hard to parse. Then when you mess up, you can damage your system. All of these things are obvious, but people only got alarmed when Linus struggled with it...

It's been getting better with GUI tools and flatpak, but man 99% of distros are still a UX disaster and not made for the average person.

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Linus didn't attempt to learn anything, and slapped the keyboard like a toddler having a temper tantrum.

Instead of using the software installer gui, he pasted apt-get into the manjaro console, and then complained it didn't work 🤦‍♂️
Thats not a UX problem its a PEBKAC.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Linus didn’t attempt to learn anything, and slapped the keyboard like a toddler having a temper tantrum.

Just like 95% of all computer users.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

you're not wrong

[–] MrGamingHimself@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Because everyone keeps giving him conflicting info and told him to use the console, it's pretty much what happens to every new Linux user but everyone is so used to Linux that they think it's a non-issue. My first reaction was to download Steam flatpak, but that version had issues so I installed it from the console, and you bet most newbies will copy/paste because nobody wants to learn how to use the console...

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I love how people simply decided that he was complaining when he talked about that.

He literally said that that's how he found out Manjaro uses a different package manager. Before that, he didn't understand that different distros use different package managers. It's wasn't a complaint, it was him talking about his learning process.