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I am and always was a casual gamer, I like playing puzzles, strategy and builder games, sometimes I play with friends some 7 days to die or AoE2. I am on Linux Mint for more than a year now and was surprised how easy gaming was. From time to time I had problems with weird DirectX error messages, but all in all everything just worked.

My setup:

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Super
  • 32 GB DDR4 RAM

So last week my girlfriend worked on my computer (we are not living together), she wrote some bills for customers and did some table stuff in calc. When I asked her at the end of the day how it was to work on Linux, she shrugged and said "Oh I didn't notice" lol (using Cinnamon as DE btw).

Today she bought Until Dawn the remake on Steam while she is here and because she really wanted to play she downloaded it to my PC. She just started to play and everything was great. I wondered again if I should say something like "you see how great you can game in Linux", but then it came to my mind - she doesn't care and she didn't even question it! The Linux Desktop got so mature, that non-tech people just don't notice!

I think the biggest "problem" with Linux adoption is that it does not come preinstalled on computers, and this kind of proves my point I guess.

Yeah that's all, I just wanted to share this with you guys.

P.S.: There were some bugs btw. but it turned out they have nothing to do with the OS.

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[–] Graphiar@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, if you have Windows like DE’s it’s really not THAT hard for a Windows user to use Linux. The issue is when you have Gnome and others installed.

But yes I agree with you. I definitely think we’ve come a long way from having to use the terminal for everything.

[–] TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Linux Mint Cinnamon has been a blessing to me tbh

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How so? If I'm not reading some blanket / feel good /empty statement like this about it, it's bitching left and right about specific issues and actual experiences. There's no karma system here, so why make karma farming posts?

[–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I personally wouldn't go as far as to call it a blessing... But mint was a super easy transition from windows for me. I've only had one issue where it locked up on login. Granted that's fairly major but I was able to roll it back after a cheeky search engine review.

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What was your reason for switching, and what do you use your computer for?

[–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 1 points 23 hours ago

I initially switched to see if I could revive my old laptop, it used to take 15-20 minutes before it was even usable on startup, now it's about 2. I use my computer for everything, some home labbing , simple CAD work