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.

  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    In a time where Nazis have made a comeback and racism is rampant world wide, maybe it’s time we dropped the whole “master race” joke

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Nah, let’s keep associating that concept with a joke, because that’s just what it is

      • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Remember when a Trump presidency was just a joke? I do.

        Jokes get taken over by people who are too dumb to understand satire and irony. They don’t see a joke, they see an appealing idea being normalised.

    • Hund@feddit.nuEnglish
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      4 months ago

      You do know that the PC Master Race was originally intended to make fun of the pseudoscientific Nazi ideology “master race”?

      It feels like we need this joke more than ever before.

      • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        You do know know that “Trump for president” was originally intended as an ironic joke?

        It feels like we need to stop making jokes that normalize nazi shit.

        Edit: also your statement isn’t even true. First time I ever saw “pc master race” was on 4chan /pol

  • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Not accusing anyone here of white supremacy but “master race” is a term we really need to stop using/normalizing.

  • Surp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Its not 100% ready if you had to find drivers for your Ethernet and mess around with settings to get a game to launch. Most people aren’t savvy and expect their programs to just launch.

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Just a fair warning, PikaOS is a hobby project. The authors of this distribution make it very clear with a warning message when you install it. They’ll try to maintain it as best they can, but provide no guarantee.

    It’s nice for messing around or if it’s for a dedicated gaming PC or device, but it’s a terrible idea as a daily driver.

    Either way, I hope you enjour it!

    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Thanks. This pc is just games. It’s only turned on when I want to game. It gets used twice a week, if I’m lucky. If I were to put Linux on my main machine it would be direct Debian.

  • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Had a Realtek network card in my gaming pc. Had nothing but problems with it under windows AND Linux. Finally ripped it out a month ago and replaced it with an intel. It’s so nice to have finally a stable connection.