xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@applejack I tried getting my younger brother to use Linux for a while. We had some old custom-built PC that my brother won at some auction at the place he worked at the time. There was no OS pre-installed so I just installed Linux Mint on it.

My younger brother used that computer for a few years until he decided to build a custom PC of his own. He decided to ditch Linux and instead use a pirated copy of Windows 10 that his friend gave him. He thought that it would be better because he thought the games world run better on Linux though in reality the problems he had with Linux was most likely from the old hardware and not the OS itself.

@BigDawg869789 @Hyperhidrosis The online requirement would probably still be there. It's usually meant for copy-protection.

@berkberkman @beardalaxy System76 sells empty cases, but they don't provide bays for optical drives.

https://system76.com/components

@KaiserKitty Not every game is on Steam though.

@KaiserKitty I never made that associated even back when I used Windows. As a kid, Linux was presented to me as the mythical operating system that I always hear about but never see anyone use. I had no idea what it looked like until my brother tried an Ubuntu Live DVD.

The most common complaint I hear about Linux from Windows PC gamers is that installing programs is not what they are used to. I guess EXEs are just more user friendly than packages.

@PurpCat @pwm @BigDawg869789 At least some Falcom devs from the 80s and 90s also worked at retail, but that's because they were also a computer shop at one time.

@Zergling_man I'm talking about the type of PC gamers who will only play games if their PCs allow them to play on max settings. The types who refuse to switch to Linux because their games run slightly better on Windows.

I primarily game on PC, but I'm not some snob that insists that I should play only on the cutting edge hardware with max settings.

@BigDawg869789
>which keeps needing new parts to play newer games released in a few years.

Not really, depending on the settings.

I agree that PC is better than console and that consoles are basically dead at this point, but I fucking hate the culture behind the "PC Master Race" with a passion.

Why? Because they are the most entitled, spoiled, rotten pieces of shit in the gaming community. They are like those fast-food customers who place the most ridiculous special orders, or the upper middle class to rich people who can only watch movies in a home theater set-up. They won't play a game unless they can play it on max settings with the most perfect frame-rate.

This is also one of the many factors that is preventing the "year of the Linux desktop". Even if they game already has a Linux port that is perfectly playable, I know a lot of people who out-right refuse to play on Linux because "the game runs better on Windows" (and by "better" they mean only a slight framerate increase). Let's see if that attitude still stands when Windows goes full SaaS and requires you to be micro-chipped in order to activate it.

I could go on. I also don't like their obsession with RGB lighting on everything and making their computers look like they were designed by aliens. How are you supposed to sleep at night if you are someone who keeps their computer in their bedroom?

I've been PC gaming since I started gaming, and I have always been perfectly content with a mid-ranged PC or even a toaster if I'm just sticking with indies and emulators. No RGB lights, no fancy keyboards or mice, no curved monitors. I really wouldn't have it any other way outside the inability to emulate 7th gen games.