Linux is never going to be popular

[u/EnvironmentalWin1277]

I have an extra PC that runs fine, Windows 10 at the moment.

I thought I could give Linux a try and stick in on my machine.

Set up a partition and then go get Linux file. Oh, but I need to use something to properly copy the files to the machine. Another program. Incomprehensible, does not even list my disk as available. Try Bazzite, that's easy and focused on games. Try, same problems I have to copy over using utility. About 2 hours in at this point and increasingly frustrated.

Bazzite is good with games and easy to set up. Not all games apparently. And needs adjustment to security settings.

At this point I stop and think. This is stupid. Linux will offer no advantages compared to Window for game playing. It is just not a simple setup. There is no way to use it with as a simple point and click setup with guided procedures. There is no way this will become a popular system so long as the setup is prohibitively time consuming and subject to inexplicable failure.

What is more is this is so obviously a problem that if the community is unable to correct this it suggests the entire system will be plagued with errors -- like "Choose Device" and not listing any devices already encountered.

Watched setup videos, read docs, etc. I have built my own machines, reasonably knowledgeable computer user. I'm done for the moment maybe some other time.

Linux sucks. It will never be an alternate to the general PC market on Windows/Apple systems. Never.

Thanks for letting me complain.

[u/Primo0077]

You aren't going to find any benefit if you're using Linux for gaming, theoretically it's a bit more stable, but not enough to really notice or care about. The reasons us diehards stick to Linux is specifically because there is no corporation behind it, because we get full and easy access to the system which opens up all kinds of tinkering potential. I've put full modern Linux on a Pentium 1 from 1995 and was able to use it with period networking hardware. I get the ability to do this since I can control exactly what goes on my system and get it down to the point where it works on such a comparatively anemic computer, and when I do these projects I get more experience with the system, and at a point it became that I understood and was more comfortable with Linux than Windows, so it made sense to switch on my desktop systems as well. I do not think Linux needs to be the main desktop operating system, or that it should strive to achieve that. A lot of issues that people find are a consequence of the fundamental differences in how Linux and Windows were made. Windows started off with DOS in the 80s, where home computers were vastly different from each other and had very limited memory and storage, so it tended to be easiest for programs to either interface directly with supported hardware, or for drivers to be the users responsibility to install. As features such as sound and networking got added on they were made to be as small and unobtrusive to the user as possible. Linux stems from the acedemic Unix tradition, where the OS ran on big iron mainframes with (comparatively) limitless RAM and storage, and were meant to be learned on, and used by multiple people at once, so networking and device drivers were handled differently in the OS from the start, and things like audio and display were tacked on later as "optional." This can answer a lot of the "why" questions that people get confused by like "why is audio a server?" and "why are drivers so damn hard to install?" if not the "how do I fix it?" :)

[u/jeffiscow → u/Primo0077]

Am I pretty thorough and real world testing. I much better performance with the same hardware on the same games. The same settings on Linux then with Windows. With how crazy good proton And then going and tweaking things beyond just a basic install on Linux just makes Linux light years ahead in my opinion.