It was actually 2022, the year when steam deck released. The proton compatibility shot through the roof. Linux now supports a far wider array of software than MacOS, even.

Still is the key word

Haha, try installing anything on NixOS before learning how to program

Desktop mode is kind of funky, though. You need to open steam to type on the on-screen keyboard, lol. App store got patched and it’s better, but sometimes the apps get stuck downloading and I need to open up the command line to make them install

Doesn’t let you just do whatever you want. I turned off the windows firewall in windows 7 and went on with my life. Windows 11 wouldn’t let me download updates with the firewall off.

Unusable on a hard drive, would just freeze while scanning all your files. Wouldn’t let you turn it off

I’ll tell you why I use it: to use open source software. I noticed whatever freemium program I used on Windows that was cool eventually got enshittified and became spyware. Like fucking clockwork, the author of uTorrent sold out and all the new versions became cancer

Linux has better support for a lot of open source software, you can use a package manager to download most of it, and flatpak for a bunch that’s not there

It’s just so much easier than trying to find the official site for the program you want.

Now that I think about it, that original meme was not true either. My friends always argued about windows vs. Mac, and continued to Android vs. iPhone

Like, people talk about OSes in general conversation

I use NixOS, FWIW

Google is the Google of Linux. They actually make their own distro

Spent a ton of time trying to install GrapheneOS because web USB doesn’t work in snap version of chrome. How about letting me install the normal deb version? Nope, can’t let the user choose

I found this that might help:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-use-a-local-directory-as-a-nix-binary-cache/655/13

Nix is better for CLI programs since it also figured out how to avoid dependency hell

Install CLI packages with Nix. You don’t need a proprietary system

The South being down is a convention, Antarctica is actually sideways from you if you live on the equator

Just install it to your profile

I play games on Linux

Not an issue on NixOS, you can ship old deps with it

Nix: you package it yourself and do a pull request

Sadly, many flatpaks don’t even work on NixOS properly because of assumptions about the file structure or similar

No, enter gate