Canonical may be ramping up its efforts to improve the Ubuntu gaming experience — yasss — but it seems their Steam snap package is causing a few headaches
If every time a user points out an obvious usability issue your reply is “what part did you pay for again?” you’re going to have a great time at 0.9% desktop usage adoption and will eternally live in the “next year is the year of Linux for sure!” limbo.
That said, I use Linux without Flatpaks and don’t have any issues. If 10 years ago I explained to some Linux community that I came from the future and all Linux apps want to be packaged as sandboxed annoying containers, they’d think Google took over or something.
You are the one being defensive buddy, not the other person. The reality is simple - people want as easy a solution as possible. They want to sit down after a 9-5, plug in their controller and play the game. Linux not being that, and requiring you to jump through hurdles, to know how to use a command line isn’t that. This specific user had issues with drivers and doesn’t know how to fix that issue. That’s okay, and their criticism is valid.
They don’t care that one experience is made free open source, if it is a worse experience. That’s a perk for a specific subset of people, not for the average user.
There is no disconnect. The user was talking about his specific experience they had. There is no need to defend gaming on linux - you won’t change their experience retroactively.
If every time a user points out an obvious usability issue your reply is “what part did you pay for again?” you’re going to have a great time at 0.9% desktop usage adoption and will eternally live in the “next year is the year of Linux for sure!” limbo.
That said, I use Linux without Flatpaks and don’t have any issues. If 10 years ago I explained to some Linux community that I came from the future and all Linux apps want to be packaged as sandboxed annoying containers, they’d think Google took over or something.
deleted by creator
And guess what, the Steam Deck worked with my adapter from day one without having to “let it do so”
deleted by creator
You are the one being defensive buddy, not the other person. The reality is simple - people want as easy a solution as possible. They want to sit down after a 9-5, plug in their controller and play the game. Linux not being that, and requiring you to jump through hurdles, to know how to use a command line isn’t that. This specific user had issues with drivers and doesn’t know how to fix that issue. That’s okay, and their criticism is valid.
They don’t care that one experience is made free open source, if it is a worse experience. That’s a perk for a specific subset of people, not for the average user.
deleted by creator
There is no disconnect. The user was talking about his specific experience they had. There is no need to defend gaming on linux - you won’t change their experience retroactively.