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My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux (feddit.nl)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by VitabytesDev@feddit.nl to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play FIFA 17 on his computer. After 5 whole hours of troubleshooting we were able to get FIFA running smoothly with some issues. Next, he wanted to play Roblox. I guided him through the process of installing Waydroid and libhoudini, only to discover that Roblox would run at 10 FPS. With Minecraft, it wasn't any better. It took us 1 hour to get it working (not skill issue, he wanted to play cracked through Prism Launcher). Now, he wants to go back to Windows 10. I have already told him about dual boot, but he has only 256GB of storage and he wants to play a lot of games. What should I do? Install Windows to his laptop, install some other Linux distro, or try to convince him more about dual boot? Thanks in advance and sorry for the essay.

UPDATE: Of course I will help him install Windows on his computer if he wants so, I don't want to force him to use Linux after all. I just wanted him to give it a try, and maybe daily drive it, if he can.

EDIT: Because for some reason it was misunderstood, let me clarify it here. Roblox ran with poor performance on Waydroid, not Minecraft. I just said that the installation of Prism Launcher cracked was difficult. After that, Minecraft ran smoothly without any problems.

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[–] urska@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Bro go with something solid Opensuse, Ubuntu, Fedora or Debian. Mint is old boomer shit.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

Or just Windows

This poor person doesn't want Linux shoveled down there throat

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ok Boomer.

Mint is literally the youngest distro on your list. OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, and certainly Debian were all around for years when the very first release of Mint came out. With so many new distros to choose from, how did you manage to list only the old ones. Forgot the /s?

Mint is actually based on Ubuntu which is itself based on Debian.

Debian was a teen-ager when Mint was born. If Debian was a person, kids would be calling it a Boomer.

Funny stuff.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

Slap the bottoms of his bare feet with reeds until he complies. /s

If you want to persuade your friend down the road to give it another shot, try asking what things he'd like to do and see if you can configure everything in advance. It's impossible to predict all future desires, but knocking out some of the bigger ones could help. Honestly, I'd be surprised if he tries again any time soon. Can't blame him. We all have different levels of tolerance for drudgery vs wanting things to just work.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago

I've been using Mint for about two years and it games okay and also feels outdated. I built a gaming computer for a friend recently and put Bazzite on it and it runs games great and just works great as a whole

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe your friend have Nvidia GPU? I only just switched over to Linux and I managed to get all of my games working without any hassle with the help of Wine Proton and Lutris, maybe try to run games in steam launcher? I have better with it

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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Nvidia user?

[–] PowerCore7@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Next time you want to sail the high seas with Minecraft, try HMCL. Should be less of a hassle.

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