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1. UkeBLCatboy (ukeblcatboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 18:34:31 JST UkeBLCatboy

   • Dushman

   @dushman I'm sorry is that windows XP or *shudder* windows Vista?

   • Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 18:34:30 JST Dushman

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     Nah it's almost definitely xp

   • Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 18:35:13 JST Dushman

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     Actually I'm 100% sure it's XP judging by how the fonts are rendered here

   • Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 18:36:03 JST Dushman

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     Also trashcan icon and such

   • Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 18:37:30 JST Dushman

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     I mean you can change icons but replicating the way win xp/2003 renders certain fonts would be pretty hard

   • UkeBLCatboy (ukeblcatboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 20:12:42 JST UkeBLCatboy

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     @dushman nice save then xD XP was peak

     Or maybe 7 actually, the search feature within the start menu so you didn't have to remember which folder every program or game was in was a godsend xD

   • Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 20:12:42 JST Dushman

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     Windows went to shit so I've been rocking only Linux and BSD for a while

   • Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 20:19:51 JST Dushman

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     Windows 11 is a straight downgrade to 10, especially the UI imo.

   • UkeBLCatboy (ukeblcatboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 20:19:52 JST UkeBLCatboy

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     @dushman well I still like windows 11, but it's less peak xD

     Of course it's only win 11 on my ally, and my gaming desktop runs both 11 and mint mate. As long as not every game runs on Linux without any bs, I'll dual boot XD

     Oh and an old hp probook 3rth gen i5 laptop with 8 gb of ram and a 120 gb SSD that runs windows XP. Every few months I break it out and play an old game on it. Obviously it makes quick work of Windows XP era games as it's 7 era xD

     Hell with mint it's perfect still

   • Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 20:20:58 JST Dushman

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     Gaming on Linux has gotten so good I'm not missing out on anything by not using Windows. I use Arch, Alpine and OpenBSD.

   • 👺防空識別區👹 (sojourn maxxing) (adiz@wl0.9ch.nl)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:32:40 JST 👺防空識別區👹 (sojourn maxxing)

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     @UkeBLCatboy Unfortunate! The games I played ran better on Linux than they did on my Windows partition. But, my Windows partition just runs hot all the time anyway. For the longest time I thought it was some firmware or driver issue but after an exhaustive effort to try sourcing any/all bits of missing firmware for my machine I have just decided that Windows be bloatey and resource-heavy as hell. I only use Windows mostly for running RekordBox. There's a brilliant Linux app called Mixxx which I use when I'm at home with my other controller (works better than RekordBox!) but with the controller I use on the road it's not yet mapped or supported. @dushman

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   • 👺防空識別區👹 (sojourn maxxing) (adiz@wl0.9ch.nl)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:32:41 JST 👺防空識別區👹 (sojourn maxxing)

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     @UkeBLCatboy I recently installed Steam onto my Debian machine and checked things out. Was very surprised at how many games "just work" out of the box. No doubt due to compatibility with SteamOS/Steam Deck...which is just Arch Linux. I think we're going to see a lot more games on Linux in the future as developers work to make things compatible with Steam's hardware. @dushman

   • UkeBLCatboy (ukeblcatboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:32:41 JST UkeBLCatboy

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     @adiz @dushman I was thinking so too, but it seems a lot of the games with perfect steam deck ratings still don't seem to want to work in my pc... and I don't have any weird distro or drivers or hardware installed :(

     Heck, I tried kubuntu, deepin, and mint, and it was the same in all three :/

     Hopefully it gets better. Untill then, modern games on windows, old games/emulators on linux. :D (Either pc or, mostly, ally or r36s handheld xD)

   • UkeBLCatboy (ukeblcatboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:32:42 JST UkeBLCatboy

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     @adiz @dushman understandable, just a shame that windows 10 won't be getting updates anymore after mid next year. Then again, 10 years is a very decent timeframe for updates. Someone should really tell that to most linux distros, like wth does kubuntu get only 9 months or like 5 years on LTS - I get that you can upgrade it for free, but it very very often breaks things, you need to backup first etc, its a hassle. 9 months is insane XD

   • UkeBLCatboy (ukeblcatboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:32:42 JST UkeBLCatboy

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     @adiz @dushman But yeah I have discord, telegram, zoom, spotify etc on my mint too. And of course instagram and youtube and mastodon etc can just be used online. Qbittorrent has linux version too and I use libreoffice anyway. It's a great daily driver, I just miss my pretty fancy opera GX :( but apart from that it has everything.

     So I mostly use windows for very specific software too: games. It's just that specific niche is most of my computing time LOL

   • UkeBLCatboy (ukeblcatboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:32:42 JST UkeBLCatboy

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     @adiz @dushman Genshin is on my ally, so it doesnt really count for this, but there is so many games that should work on linux that just don't for me on my desktop too. And its quite new, updated drivers, updated mint, heroic game launcher with proton etc. Its a total crapshoot and the proton launcher means nothing. Like, eg plague innocence worked perfectly right away, but other games with gold proton ratings just wont start/crash.

     Windows easier. :D

     Linux when I know not going to game xD

   • 👺防空識別區👹 (sojourn maxxing) (adiz@wl0.9ch.nl)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:32:43 JST 👺防空識別區👹 (sojourn maxxing)

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     @dushman I had so many problems with 11 (and this was very recent) that I just went ahead and went back to 10. No more problems. I'm dual booting it alongside Debian which is my daily driver. Use Windows for very specific software. @UkeBLCatboy