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Ubuntu with it's Telemetry and bizarre proprietary Snap store?

It's not just the initial install. Eventually for almost every distro I've installed things get rough and you need to use the command line.

Want to play Fortnight, well you can't. How about Roblox , might be possible but it's a full comp sci project.

The only thing that will ever change this is if Valve comes out with a full laptop. The Steam Deck is the closest thing we have to a mainstream adoption of Desktop Linux.

In my personal life, Linux is where I go to when I really just need to focus and get things done. Less weird background crap going. It's much easier to enter a flow state with Linux.



> Want to play Fortnight, well you can't. How about Roblox , might be possible but it's a full comp sci project.

Those two games put a code that will intentionally stop them from working if it detects them running on Linux. Justified because (at least in Fortnite case ) they can't install kernel level anticheat.

> The only thing that will ever change this is if Valve comes out with a full laptop.

Unfortunately Valve Laptop won't solve this either, unless if Valve goes against the spirit of Linux and lock it down


> Want to play Fortnight, well you can't. How about Roblox , might be possible but it's a full comp sci project.

God forbid they want to entertain themselves without using spyware.




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