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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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I miss the Barnacules Jayztwocents live stream days. Can't even watch Jay anymore because of the click bait, trying to appease teenage boys as a grown ass man thing he's trying to do.
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.
I tried nothing and I'm all out of options.
Thank you for including the spoiler. This tech vlogger's irresponsible headline would normally have earned a downvote from me.
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the idea that you can just jump to linux with zero research needs to go
- no you can't have every game and program you're used to
- no you can't translate windows or mac knowledge
- yes you have to know what partitions, desktop environments, distros, and other bunch of terms mean
- yes you may have to type terminal commands (no one complains about ipconfig when figuring out whether it's ISP or DNS problem)
- yes there are a bunch of shit tutorials online with copy-paste commands that don't work
Honestly, in that case, don't expect mass adoption. Simple as that.
If the idea is to keep Linux as a niche, then that's fine. But if you/the community want Linux to rival Windows/Mac, than these are the exact bullet points that must change.
I want to make sure I am understanding what you are intending to communicate correctly. At first I thought you were basically saying, "normies need to get good". But in reflection you could be attempting to say, "Linux advocates are communicating unrealistic expectations which lead normal people to frustration and disappointment." Or is your intent something else?
I'm not OP, but I agree with the latter.
Go in expecting to need to learn some stuff, and you'll probably need to learn less than you expect. Set aside a couple hours for the setup process, you probably won't need it, but you might. Figure out where to go for help before you start. Leave yourself a backup plan in case you don't finish.
Linux is pretty easy to use these days, but it's a new thing and will take getting used to. Expect the worst and be pleasantly surprised when things work out.
This is what burned me. I was promised that Unraid would be easier than windows. Dozens of people all promising me that I would have fewer issues, and I would never need to touch the CLI, and it would take me an afternoon to set up. I have spent 200+ hours on this thing. It's finally where I want it to be, but if I never, ever touch another Linux OS again I will die happy. If I had gone in with different expectations I would have had a VERY different experience. I wouldn't have thought that every issue I faced was me being dumb. I have since learned that my experience is totally normal, and I'm pissed off at the people who lied to me.
Yeah, Linux is definitely oversold.
I get where people are coming from, if you say it has a learning curve, fewer people will try it, and a lot of those people would've had a fine experience. But those that have a rough time will convince others to not bother.
I think it's much better to undersell it and have people be pleasantly surprised.
100%. I'm not sure if it would have put me off, but I wouldn't be as bitter as I am now.
And the next part of the equation is that when you go online to ask for help, people tell you you are a noob and it's a skill issue.
Well...
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A lot of Mac knowledge can translate. I learned the basics of bash on Mac OS X. I also kept my boot partitions on different drives before I switched to Linux only(I was never Windows only or even Windows Primary).
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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
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I helped my mom with her windows install when the update half a year ago nuked keyboard support (I had to use the onscreen keyboard just to login). Before thar I had to forcefully install the correct wifi driver as well to get it working properly. This is was running from their factory installation. Stuff working correctly out of the box is a problem on both platforms.
Its not the fault of linux that the hardware manufacturer doesnt make functioning drivers tho...
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He justifiably complained about PVP games having non-Linux-compatible kernel-level anti-cheat.
I'm tired of people conflating gaming as a whole to extremely mainstream titles that fit into "online PVP with malware anti-cheat" such as Apex Legends, Valorant, and Battlefield, and then bashing Linux for "poor gaming experience".
Their experience with titles they enjoy is very valid, as valid as any other, but it's not the entirety of gaming and OS experience, at all. There's tons of games that run extremely well on Linux, even out of the box, no tinkering required, both on Nvidia and AMD hardware.
Grrr.
Personally, I find the Linux incompatibility with games that want to do shit to the kernel a plus so I don't accidentally install one without realizing it comes with malware.
To your first comment about incompatible anticheat - in must cases it's a conscious decision the publisher makes. Are We Anti-Cheat Yet it's a good resource. Personally I find my OS preventing me from being able to run a privacy invading rootkit to be a pro as well.
To the second comment, a good amount of games bench better on Linux, not sure what's going on with his system so I agree.
Definitely unfortunate to see a creator publishing content without first doing some research but that's more and my common nowadays.
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As someone who games on Fedora as my main OS, we need to stop pretending that Linux gaming is all sunshine and rainbows.
Yes, fuck Windows, and it probably did fuck his boot loader, but it doesn't invalidate his other poor experiences he had with the OS.
Hell, I don't think that even that was necessarily an invalid experience just because it was caused by Windows. Dual booting is a thing people have to do, especially if they want to play the games that just don't work on Linux. Even if you don't like the games personally, they are huge and a lot of people want to play them. Even my main Linux group dual booted recently to play the BF6 beta.
Being elitist and calling people stupid because they had a bad experience will do nothing but hurt Linux gaming. Instead of calling JayzTwoCents stupid because he dual booted for a valid reason, explain alternatives that he could have done to prevent the issue. If we want to grow as a community, we need to provide actual helpful feedback, not by being toxic.
The real problem is people refusing to learn a new workflow. Which is why anyone would need Windows and dualbooting. Yes you can't tun every software on Linux that you can on Windows and vise versa; which is the whole damn point. There is software which lets you do the same thing just in a different way - but no one wants to explore the option, if it doesn't look and work exactly the same, people run away.
I play on Linux. I can count on one hand what games won't launch. One of them was my main game and their decision to drop Linux off a cliff last year has just grown my hatred for them and Microsoft, which I think is a much healthier and normal response than to submissively bend-over backwards and rush to install Windows which is exactly what they were counting on like we're some kind of sheep; like all the dual booters out there licking boots.
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I also dual boot, to separate physical drives, and the Ubuntu bootup process is constantly breaking. Every other restart I have to fix it so that it will boot. Having said that, gaming on windows was untenable. Every single game would crash between 1min and 30min, always with an nvlddmkm error code showing in the event viewer. Using a laptop rtx 4070. I tried absolutely everything to fix it. I even tried buying new ram sticks. Same error. I started to think something was wrong at the hardware level.
Since switching to Ubuntu, I haven’t had a single crash, playing every game on steam with maxed out graphics. It works perfectly. Also I’ve noticed that booting into windows sends cooling fans into overdrive while booting into Ubuntu is quiet as a mouse. Fuck windows, it’s basically spyware at this point and it doesn’t even work.
I can't get doom the dark ages to run at a playable frame rate on my Ryzen 9 / etc 5080 laptop.
Literally the only issue I've ever had with Linux gaming.
average tech youtuber not knowing anything about tech
Hey, at least he's up-front about it and didn't type in yes, do as I say! like Other Linus did.
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