Had a slow day yesterday so thought, why not wipe the gaming PC and put Linux on it.
I work with Linux every day for work so I wanted a debian-based distro as that’s what I’m most familiar with. After a short impulsive-driven search, I picked pika-os. Never heard of it but thought I’d give it a go.
Picked KDE, installed the OS, booted first time and immediately regretted it. No network. I have a 2.5G Realtek 8125 nic and whilst it was detected, it was showing RX packets as “dropped”. Couldn’t install firmware-realtek as it conflicted with linux-firmware. Tried the Realtek website, what a mess that is, compiled a driver, couldn’t get it to load. Ended up finding a git repo that created .deb packages for all realtek drivers.
Got network up and running and its all been great from there. Last time I tried this in 2021 I had loads of issues but so far, other than having to download a later version of Proton and select it in a game, or add some command-line arguments in Steam, its been great!
I’m so surprised that every app I normally use on Windows is either available as a Linux native app, works with emulation (bottles) or there is a decent alternative.
Definitely, 100%, the Linux desktop is ready.
Not accusing anyone here of white supremacy but “master race” is a term we really need to stop using/normalizing.
It’s a reference to an old Zero Punctuation video. Plus, the community here put it to a vote about a year ago and decided to keep it
The majority can still be wrong
“It’s just a meme, bro”
Stop being scared of words. It’s the intent that matters.
Right, no stupid people have ever misunderstood a nazi joke in catastrophic ways that led to the fall of the western world.
I’m glad we seem to be past “ricing”
I feel like I still see that one and awful lot, too.
Aw. Maybe I’ve just blocked those communities.
Competitive PC running then?