Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521
Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience “hasn’t been great” is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.
Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).
I unsubbed from that channel. Every title is clickbait. I’m not going to watch a video that is like “this is a game changer”, no idea what it’s about, no idea if it’s relevant.
channel name JayzTwoCents
look inside
tfw opinions aren‘t even worth a penny
I tried nothing and I’m all out of options.
The other two main TL;DWs are that:
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He justifiably complained about PVP games having non-Linux-compatible kernel-level anti-cheat.
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His benchmark testing showed a big performance difference between Windows and Linux on his system, which has an AMD Radeon 7900 XTX. Being an admitted noob, he didn’t notice that it was an unusual discrepancy and figured that worse gaming performance in Linux was “real,” but a bunch of folks in the comments are telling him that RDNA 3 drivers have a known issue that means the card probably isn’t running at full power and tweaking the settings can probably fix it.
tweaking the settings can probably fix it.
Which is another points against Linux. Stuff should work correctly out of the box. That’s what average user expects.
Stuff should work correctly out of the box.
That’s why Windows isn’t ready for mass adoption
Its not the fault of linux that the hardware manufacturer doesnt make functioning drivers tho…
Yes it is.
For the end user, if one platform has driver support and the other one doesn’t, then one platform works and the other one does not.
“It’s not my bug” is a thing engineers get to say to close issues on their backlog, but it doesn’t magically fix the problem for the end user if the other side says the same thing (or doesn’t care).
If you want people to use Linux, then Linux has to work, and that includes the third party drivers.
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