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.
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
Nah, let’s keep associating that concept with a joke, because that’s just what it is
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.
It’s originally for lame PC gamers to feel superior. It’s always sucked
That is taking what is said so far out of context that I’m more concerned for your comment than the title.
I think they have a point.