[kraquepype]

I recently built 2 mini PCs for my kids to play games on, and went with Bazzite.

It was really surprising how put together it all is. The steam integration is seamless and it can play a ton of stuff even on an older NUC w/out a GPU.

It was the first time I can say that installing a linux OS was easier and friendlier than Windows.

[Gormo]

> It was the first time I can say that installing a linux OS was easier and friendlier than Windows.

I'd say that from work experience managing an IT department that maintains and deploys both Windows and Linux machines, the administrative overhead involved in working with Windows first exceeded that of Linux at some point in the Windows 10 life cycle -- at least five years ago. Since then, Windows has been getting worse and worse, and Linux has been getting better and better.

With most corporate software being accessible via the web and/or being cross-platform these days, we're seriously debating moving the standard corporate workstation configuration to Linux.

[wholinator2]

It's only getting easier and friendlier comparatively. Recently i bought a new computer and installing an external drive and putting kde linux on it was easier than fighting my way through the windows telemetry gauntlet, the setting, and all the bloat. Modern windows disgusts me continuously in new ways

[sotix]

How are you finding KDE Linux's performance? I'm really excited for its progress!

[slipknotfan]

I prefer arch btw

[unsungNovelty]

Here you can see Arch users in their natural environment

(In David Attenborough's voice)

[tasuki]

No one asked about that. The question was about KDE Linux.

[ErroneousBosh]

> It was the first time I can say that installing a linux OS was easier and friendlier than Windows.

It's been that way for about 20 years. Where have you been?

[al_borland]

Installing maybe… getting all the hardware to actually work was a completely different story. Broken WiFi was the norm. Bad display drivers that only worked in 640x480 or 800x600. Not to mention consulting website before installing to see how well your laptop was supported and what you could expect to never work.

So years ago you also generally had to understand partitioning and filesystem formats, which most people are clueless about.

Sure, they were learning opportunities, but most people weren’t trying to learn anything. They just wanted to get on MySpace, download free music, chat with friends.

[xmcp123]

I still have a wifi issue that forces me to pin to a specific wifi network. If I do not, it somehow cascades into a GPU driver failure that breaks everything.

My last laptop used an audio amplifier that made the speakers not work for ~2 years, that required patching the kernel to fix. It's only recently a vanilla version of the kernel works.

We aren't completely out of the woods yet.

[ErroneousBosh]

It sounds like you may have been using very strange or not-working-properly devices.

No-one really needed to care about partitioning.

[al_borland]

I was using a Thinkpad mostly, which were usually considered some of the best options. Some of the bigger issues may have been 25 years ago, not 20.

I remember spending a lot of time partitioning stuff in those early days, especially if trying to dual boot.

[ErroneousBosh]

Thinkpads are normally pretty okay for that sort of thing although they went through a phase of using really weird WLAN cards.

[kraquepype]

20 years ago I was running linux as a desktop for fun.

It certainly was not as easy to setup as Windows.

[ErroneousBosh]

I've never successfully managed to install Windows on anything. It's got such limited driver support, nothing works out of the box.