• Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    Effort free gaming on Windows

    I’ll acknowledge that gaming is much better than when I entered the field 20 years ago,

    but it was so nice being able to just install a game and have it function instead of install a game and play the 50/50 gamble of whether or not it’s going to have some bug that forces me to go online and search the issue.

    Proton DB has been a lifesaver for most issues that have occurred, but there are still so many games that have obscure problems that while not all of them prevent you from playing at all, a good portion of them have issues with them that dampen the gaming experience.

    And as a bonus one, the lack of a decent Android emulator. I have tried so many different emulators for Android, and all of them work notoriously worse than BlueStacks did on Windows and a lot of times take up double the space it did. As a person who plays a lot of mobile games that require constant looking at, it was so much easier to just have it running in BlueStacks on the third monitor and then just look at it when needed

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 day ago

      I miss effort free gaming on windows too. It looks like they laid off everyone in that department and put everything in to AI and subscription begging which has made it a miserable experience lately. I had to click deceptively placed no buttons like 30 times just to get to the desktop so I could update the damned mobo rgb controller to detect and turn off the lights

  • Roopappy@lemmy.world
    164·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    I do like that splash screen on Windows before login, where it shows me a different beautiful landscape each day.

    • nul9o9@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      They are working on a cross platform app now. I can click mod manager download on cyberpunk mods, and it will install them as easy as the windows version.

      Currently takes a bit of tinkering to set up, but its promising.

      • bundes_sheep@lemmy.one
        2·
        1 day ago

        Also, if you’re okay downloading and installing mods manually, many of them “just work”, even some of the more tricky ones if you’re willing to tinker a bit. Some games have mod installers that are cross platform (for example, Satisfactory Mod Manager has a linux version and it works great).

  • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
    61·
    2 days ago

    When I switched from Windows to Linux back in 2002, I never looked back. I missed absolutely nothing. Linux offered everything I needed and more, with unmatched freedom and flexibility. In late 2008, I bought a unibody MacBook, and while macOS wasn’t bad per se, it just didn’t feel like home. I missed Linux too much, so I wiped the MacBook and installed Debian. From that moment on, I’ve never switched again—Linux has always been home. I’m currently rocking Arch (btw) on my main desktop & Debian on my laptop…

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    273·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • sunshine@lemmy.ml
    81·
    3 days ago

    On Windows, there used to be (possibly a third-party application) a desktop widget that had a “turtle”, and if you clicked on the widget it would drop a little pixel of food, and the turtle would slowly walk over to it and consume it. I thought that was really cool.

  • mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    2 days ago

    I’m honestly surprised that nobody has said anything about MS Office, but it’s not like I expect anyone to miss the application itself, it’s just that if your work requires you to interface with it, there really is no alternative to running Windows or MacOS. Microsoft’s own Office Online versions of the apps do a worse job of maintaining DOC/PPT formatting consistency than the possible Russian spyware that is OnlyOffice, which also screws things up too often to be relied upon. LibreOffice is, let’s be honest, a total mess (with the exception of Calc, which also isn’t consistent with the current version of Excel, but can do some things that Excel no longer can do, so I appreciate it more as a complementary tool than as a replacement).

    • MarcDW@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 days ago

      SoftMaker Office is what I’ve used on Linux for lots of years. Has served me well.

    • Grenfur@lemmy.one
      2·
      2 days ago

      I never thought I’d miss xlookup… But here I am. Calc isn’t bad, I hate the ui but that may just be years of excel muscle memory getting to me. But calc does 99% of what I need it to. The rest of libreoffice I never touch.

  • capital@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    The ability to properly wake from sleep.

    Not having to set my displayport version back to 2.1 upon every boot.

      • capital@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        • bazzite:stable

        • Bazzite 41 (FROM Fedora Kinoite)

        • Linux 6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64

        • AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (16) @ 5.01 GHz

        • AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX [Discrete]

        • AMD Raphael [Integrated]

        • 6.31 GiB / 62.01 GiB (10%)

        • 447.25 GiB / 1.82 TiB (24%) - btrfs [Read-only]

        • 7680x2160 @ 240 Hz (as 5120x1440) in 57" [External]

        • KDE Plasma 6.2.3

        • KWin (Wayland)

          • capital@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            Full output of that command:

            amd_atl                69632  1
edac_mce_amd           40960  0
kvm_amd               249856  0
kvm                  1449984  1 kvm_amd
gpio_amdpt             16384  0
gpio_generic           20480  1 gpio_amdpt
amdgpu              20111360  70
amdxcp                 12288  1 amdgpu
drm_exec               12288  1 amdgpu
gpu_sched              65536  1 amdgpu
drm_buddy              24576  1 amdgpu
i2c_algo_bit           20480  1 amdgpu
drm_suballoc_helper    16384  1 amdgpu
drm_display_helper    290816  1 amdgpu
drm_ttm_helper         16384  1 amdgpu
ttm                   114688  2 amdgpu,drm_ttm_helper
video                  81920  3 asus_wmi,amdgpu,asus_nb_wmi
[    0.330346] pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: setting as boot VGA device
[    0.330346] pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decodes=io+mem,owns=none,locks=none
[    0.330346] pci 0000:0e:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decodes=io+mem,owns=none,locks=none
[    2.202336] ACPI: video: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[    3.766492] amdgpu: vga_switcheroo: detected switching method \_SB_.PCI0.GP17.VGA_.ATPX handle

            And yes, KDE is standard. If I wanted Gnome, that’s a different download entirely and is based on Fedora Silverblue.

            • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
              4·
              2 days ago

              Ok so it’s not on the OS level. Might be a wake setting in the bios. Allow wake from USB might fix it.

              Power management requires coordination between vendor firmware and linux, so new kernels may require updated vendor firmware. The ACPI open standard tells linux how to discover and configure the hardware. Some vendors support acpi_osi=linux on the kernel command line, others may need system-dependent entries.

              From https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/issues-with-amd-gpu/135241

              That’s all I got sorry. Good luck

  • greedytacothief@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    There was a lot more I missed when I switched, can’t think of anything now. I was going to joke that I miss being 19. But eh, I’m doing better now than I was then.