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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Yes, and that is netflix's limitation. Nothing to do with Linux in itself.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Play games on GeForce NOW at a higher resolution than 1080p. :-/

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Reinstall Candy Crush.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  1. Power management on certain chips is simply better than anything Linux has to offer (AMD Zen+ mobile for instance)
  2. Modular driver architecture with drivers that aren't complete jank to manage and install. A lot of people see this as a pain point, but in reality it's not such a bad thing, especially nowadays.
  3. This is a given, but as lots of stuff runs on Windows (namely older games), you can only really make stuff for Windows on Windows. So if you need to develop Win32 software, you really have to use Visual Studio for proper development. Mingw cross compile exists, I know, but that's never going to be as good.

Number 3 is keeping me on Windows. I make mods for old games and I need Visual C++. I almost got the compiler to run under Wine but who knows how it would behave if it did run.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

Literally everything easily with much less effort

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i tried producing music with linux native daw and plugins via yabridge. pain in my stupid ass.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Run normal games like fortnite and warzone, and run other games not through steam without needing to install proto tricks and get the right dependencies for every damn game

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Double click to install a program

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Nowadays I'd say driver discovery for virtually any modern hardware you might plug into your computer. You don't even need to visit websites to download installers anymore. Literally plug it in and it will grab whatever is needed for it to work properly. Yes even Nvidia display driver. Even VR headset.

Never had any issues with multi-monitor setups out of the box either. It just works.

I'd also mention disposable Sandbox and virtualization in general. WSL also runs at native speeds.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The granularity and scale of active directory is a major thing that is keeping linux out of offices, etc...I know you can do a lot with certain tools but nothing comes close as far as I have seen.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Use the map editor for C&C Generals

Oh look, another command & conquer comment from me. How surprising.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

VBA support is non existant on Linux

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Don't worry, Microsoft is dropping support for it soon too

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