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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And the windows circlejerk says private, secure, performant OSes that also play most games are trash not worth trying. Hm.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not a circlejerk to want to play a game I've paid for

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Weirdly defensive about something that you yourself admitted that no one accused you of being

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm saying calling it a circlejerk to still be on Windows is unnecessarily derisive when the post I was responding to even calls out that Linux alternatives play most games. Most games is not all of my games. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy by any stretch, but if it's the only way to play a game I want to play, that is what I'll do.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I despise the term "circlejerk" and was only using it sarcastically. But in any case, I do grow tired of people shitting on linux. The reasons? I have explained a million times.

I mean, either deal with windows and its 1000 flaws or the same with linux. Some of us would just rather deal with flaws that are honest. I'd rather deal with a bug that 100 people around the globe work together to fix in a timely matter than deal with shit-ass "features" that actively ruin my experience because some disgusting executives want to buy more Porsches this summer. While pretending to care about me as a customer.

Cue "I just want to play games". Well yeah me too sometimes. Now that I have an AMD card, I never have a problem with it. I spent a lot of time testing my games and 86% worked fine. This included a lot of sketchy/old games (Jedi Knight 1 and 2 for example -- those barely can work on anything newer than win 98) that I didn't expect to work actually... If we're only talking new games, it's probably like 95%. I don't play games enough to care about an occasional poorly-written game not working.