A young broke me once spent 3 weeks after school each day in 1994 downloading slackware floppy images from my Dad’s AOL account via modem so I could try it on my 386.
With dial-up that probably cost more than buying Slackware.
I had a very similar memory. I had an IBM Aptiva 386SX with Windows 3.1 on it. I wanted to try this new thing called Linux and remember wiping everything without know what I was doing.
Install slackpkg+, install multilib, enable alienbobs repos, install steam. Like, yes its not holding your hand but it also gets out of the way for everything.
Is Steam off Flathub that complicated on Slackware?
- Download Slackbuild helper (similar to yay for the Arch User Repository)
- Install it
- Read dependency info for Flatpak Slackbuild (you can also do
sqg -afor the entire repository) - Install it
- Add Flathub repo
- Install Steam Flatpak
It’s not that complicated.
Average Linux user: “we could just use the Windows totally-not-an-emulator!”.
(They’re this close to getting the point while saying it.)
I’m far away. What is the point?
Wine or proton
The point is: If “just simulate a Windows environment” is the best thing you could come up with, chances are that Windows is what you should use anyway.
I’d rather simulate some Windows function calls on a system I control than install Windows and give up all control over my system to a foreign corporation.
You give up all control over your system to other US corporations though, like Red Hat (who are - and should be held, IMO - responsible for systemd) and Microsoft (who contribute quite some code to the kernel). The only system you control is a system you write, I’m afraid.
TIL letting my teacher make suggestions on my draft means they control the entire contents of the final paper
I don’t use systemd, and Linus Torwalds controls what’s actually allowed into the kernel.
Setting aside the fact that that is not even remotely true, do you think Linux = Red Hat? What about almost every other distro being run by volunteeers?
I’ve only ever seen redhat used by government and some corporations. As far as the broader community goes (especially the foss community), they are a pretty minor player.
It’s honestly insane that you can sit there and shill for Microsoft these days. They’ve always been pretty evil, but now they’ve gone so far off the deep end they’re even driving away people who have been all-in on Microsoft their whole lives. Even non-tech people are getting simply fed up with all of the spying and intrusive, AI-infested bullshit. Linux marketshare has been steadily increasing over the last couple of years, and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon. And all of it is, ultimately, because Windows is forcing people away.
Please stop feeding the troll, for crying out loud.
What about almost every other distro being run by volunteeers?
You misunderstood: Red Hat The Linux Distribution (not quite relevant for Linux development) is not Red Hat The Commercial Entity (quite relevant for Linux development). However, volunteers repackaging (“distributing”) Red Hat software still don’t change the nature of the software, but that’s a different discussion.
It’s honestly insane that you can sit there and shill for Microsoft these days.
I do not do that. What I actually wrote is: By moving from Windows to Linux (assuming you use Linux-libre), you gain a certain level of freedom, but that freedom still relies on commercial entities and their own ideas that are contributed to the kernel. Just because you can see the code, you still can’t decide about the code.
Note that I do not use Windows. You make it sound like I would.
Let’s leave it at that. We probably won’t solve this debate over Christmas, and life is too short to argue about software. :-) Have a good one.
It’s not just that your comparison is so far fetched it already disconnected, what you say is also plain wrong. You don’t give up anything in this constellation.
Maaaaaybe when Windows wasn’t actually disrespectful to its user base but now that they’ve gone full “we know what’s best for you” and are actively ruining their OS and fucking with their users to push garbage tier AI shit no one wants… Yeah, miss me with this shit man.
Linux respects the autonomy of its users and for that reason alone it has gained me as a user.
On some machines PC games actually run better under SteamOS than Windows but sure, use the inferior OS if you insist.
I use neither. Just wondering.
