Frustration, mostly. I really like Linux and I think it should be more accessible, but the community keep shooting themselves in their metaphorical feet.
> Lol maybe even do it for every major distribution. Nvubuntu, fedoria, etc. And then we can be done with this? Idk.
That would help. NVidia drivers are a major pain point even for more experienced users, and yet are critical for something that can be used for gaming.
> Great, you know how to use the package manager? Everything you like about NewShinyDistro's defaults can probably be hadon the distro you're on already.
I know that, and I am very happy with Tumbleweed, but that’s not really something we can say to the general public.
> Christ maybe the better approach is my other idea - customnixos.org. You always get nixos, but you get to pre-pick the desktop environment, theme, background, etc, and then it slips you an iso with those options set.
A huge part would still be missing: the integration of all these pieces and setup so that they look like something that works and not a Rube Goldberg OS. Something that at least Ubuntu is doing, for all their faults.
Look at game controllers for example. That’s another major pain point for gaming on Linux. You can use all of them (the various generations of xBox and PlayStation gamepads that work over Bluetooth, not sure about the Switch ones) with quite a bit of fiddling. OTOH, on a Mac, iPhone or iPad you just pair them and they work, and can then be used with whatever game you want. No fiddling with the package manager, no config file wrangling. This integration work is important for an OS we want everyone to use.
Frustration, mostly. I really like Linux and I think it should be more accessible, but the community keep shooting themselves in their metaphorical feet.
> Lol maybe even do it for every major distribution. Nvubuntu, fedoria, etc. And then we can be done with this? Idk.
That would help. NVidia drivers are a major pain point even for more experienced users, and yet are critical for something that can be used for gaming.
> Great, you know how to use the package manager? Everything you like about NewShinyDistro's defaults can probably be hadon the distro you're on already.
I know that, and I am very happy with Tumbleweed, but that’s not really something we can say to the general public.
> Christ maybe the better approach is my other idea - customnixos.org. You always get nixos, but you get to pre-pick the desktop environment, theme, background, etc, and then it slips you an iso with those options set.
A huge part would still be missing: the integration of all these pieces and setup so that they look like something that works and not a Rube Goldberg OS. Something that at least Ubuntu is doing, for all their faults.
Look at game controllers for example. That’s another major pain point for gaming on Linux. You can use all of them (the various generations of xBox and PlayStation gamepads that work over Bluetooth, not sure about the Switch ones) with quite a bit of fiddling. OTOH, on a Mac, iPhone or iPad you just pair them and they work, and can then be used with whatever game you want. No fiddling with the package manager, no config file wrangling. This integration work is important for an OS we want everyone to use.