Very positively surprised by how seamless the switch from Windows was

[dil@lemmy.zip]

like an hour and a half superslow install, cachyos was so fast I thought it was an error

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

I don’t think we’re in “just works” territory yet, but we’re getting closer

Based on the types of things you're talking about, Windows and macOS are also not "just works." I have to do stuff like that periodically for a lot of games regardless of OS.

[lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.world]

I'll have to look into this, thanks for the suggestion. Been installing games with Lutris, then if they don't work I try all the proton versions there, then try non-steam games and still run into some that I just give up on. Having a mounted ISO on games that ask for a disk on startup I haven't figure out a way to get Lutris/Steam to recognize yet. Hopefully this will help.

I have found that games like The Sims, and Stardew Valley are the most consistent at working easily. Which is good, spouse enjoys those

[rooty@lemmy.world]

I'm glad gamers are finally escaping Microsoft's grasp. The latest corporate bloatware is simply too ineffective for users that are always looking to squeeze as much oomph out of their machines as possible.

[joelk111@lemmy.world]

Mine works about the same on Linux as it did on Windows. I paid for it so no need to pirate it. If I hadn't paid for it I probably would've started using something else.

[eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah if you have your games on Steam it seems to (mostly) just work. Other services get a bit more janky. Xbox App is, sadly, impossible as far as I can tell.

[vraylle@lemmy.sdf.org]

I switched to Mint in January and it's been great. Most games just work straight out of Steam. I have Skyrim modded to an insane level and it can be a little finicky but works.

What really cemented it for me was when I wanted to run an old 32-bit weather software package. I decided to try adding it to Steam, and it...just worked. Like native.

[swelter_spark@reddthat.com]

They're still used by businesses a lot.

[squaresinger@lemmy.world]

import sys
import random

inFilePath = sys.argv[1]
outFilePath = sys.argv[2]
damagePercentage = float(sys.argv[3])

with open(inFilePath, "rb") as f:
    d = f.read()

damageTotalCount = int(len(d) * damagePercentage / 100)

print("Damaging "+str(damageTotalCount)+" bytes.")

dList = [ x.to_bytes(1) for x in d ]

for i in range(damageTotalCount):
    pos = random.randint(2000,len(d)-2)
    dList[pos] = random.randint(0,255).to_bytes(1)
    if (i%1000 == 0):
        print(str(i)+"/"+str(damageTotalCount))

d = b"".join(dList)

with open(outFilePath, "wb") as f:
    f.write(d)

If you run it, the first argument is the input file, the second one is the output file and the third is the percentage of corrupted bytes to inject.

I did spare the first 2000 bytes in the file to get clear of the file header (corruption on a BMP file header can still cause the whole image to be illegible, and this demonstration was about uncompressed vs compressed data, not about resilience of file headers).

I also just noticed when pasting the script that I don't check for double-corrupting the same bytes. At lower damage rates that's not an issue, but for the 95% example, it's actually 61.3% actual corruption.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

Thanks, I'll make good use of it. I gotta to learn to write scripts like this.

[randelung@lemmy.world]

I mean, Xbox is MS. I wouldn't expect them to help dig their own grave.

[omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I remember thinking this same thing until my first fstab issue lol. Joking aside the switch itself is relatively painless, you do sort of have to switch your mind to the Linux way of thinking though. And the Linux way of thinking has to include "something is going to break eventually and I'm going to have to figure out how to fix it"

[obnomus@lemmy.ml]

LACT my beloved

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

So oddly enough when I went to get the specs on the laptop I had it on and installed it just for funsies while I was at it and it seems to be working better now... At least in the 10 minutes or so I played around with it. Not sure what the problem was before, maybe some update was made since then or something. Gonna mess with it more this weekend.

[eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah, I'm not surprised by it, but it's still a bummer/roadblock.

[squaresinger@lemmy.world]

It does take practice, but once you know how to do it it becomes easy. That was like 5 minutes of work.