aniWhat makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?
FQQDSometimes not feeling like being part of the online friend group. But I won’t switch to Windows, it’s just too bad.
I only play two games and cant for the life of me get them to run properly on linux, and i only start the computer when i want to play so windows it is.
0xteroI need Linux for my work, so it's not really possible to switch.
I do keep a Windows machine for gaming at home though.
Right tool for the job and so on..
Flying SquidWhy the hell would anyone run TempleOS?
Find vulnerabilities that could grant access to heaven
Ah, but with no Internet access or support for external devices, it’s completely secure!
Not from E-Vil
I’m plenty free from evil after reading my daily devotions gifted to me by the god OS
Because God told them to.
rotopenguinBecause it is quite possibly the last of its kind - a desktop OS that was built from scratch by one person with one (strange) vision. Everything else has a lineage to AT&T Unix or CP/M.
What about Redox?
There are a surprising number of one person OS projects, many of them more useable than TempleOS.
What makes TempleOS unique is the fame of its creator, sadly largely as the result of his mental illness. His story also explains how it was able to become so famous while also not attracting contributors.
Other OS projects either stay obscure or, if they become widely known, they attract contributors. SerenityOS is an example of what was a single man effort but is now a reasonably large and thriving community. It has become self-sustaining enough that the founder largely focussed on the web browser these days with the OS connoting to move forward largely via the work of others ( including ports to other architectures ).
You don’t choose to run it, God appears to you in a vision and commands it and then you have no choice.
…to hear the words of god? Kind of a silly question
Footnote2669League of Legends being broken every patch (like right now). Or Linux not being the focus of the game devs most of the time. Screen sharing not working on discord. Adobe like apps not working on wine (no I won’t use GIMP. It’s easier for me to boot to windows than to learn the GIMP way)
The discord one is just the discord developers being lazy to be fair. Pretty much everything else has proper wayland screen sharing by now
Why make your app fully functional across all systems when instead you can make some custom mute-mic icons to sell for $120/year?
Just need to change electron versions iirc
The longer you use linux excluslively, you don’t think about windows or mac. You think about fedora or suse, kde or gnome, yay or apt, distrobox or toolbox.
IKR the longer I use Linux the more I think about TempleOS
Lmao
astraeusThey don’t give us free games with the OS anymore but TempleOS has HOLY games
That is…true, actually. The longer I use Linux, the more I’m like “…but what if, man, what if I ditch Arch for Fedora or NixOS or give Pop_OS! another chance (and i very well might when Cosmic launches)?” And sometimes I do…and then always come crawling back.
Going back to Windows full time ain’t even crossed my mind for a hot minute. Partly because i have a spare driver running it for emergencies (that i barely use anyways, only because Windows literally runs one important app that I need, that I can’t run on Linux), and partly because going back means being stuck with Windows 11 again, and I really dislike Windows 11’s design choices, personally (and Microsoft in general, but i digress).
SaltySalamandergoing back means being stuck with Windows 11 again
Windows 10 can 100% still be installed. I say that from a Win10 install.
Oh I know it can be installed, but after the headache I got re-installing 10 once before and then trying to get 11 running on…anything, really, i just decided “you know what? What will be will be at this point. I’m not gonna need it for much anyways.” when i finally got 11 to accept and install into a random external drive that i never really used (it didn’t like the one i had inside my PC reserved specifically for it. Somehow…).
(Note: this was a while back, so installation could be a helluva lot better now and i have upgraded a bit since then but, shrug. Already got Windows ready to go on a drive, and only have it because I might need it moreso than me actually wanting to have it, so meh)
I can’t anymore.
Leads to system crashing randomly.
11 works unfortunately.
GustavoMNah, I’m 100% done with Windows. Even if good ol’ Bill comes up with something that forces me to use Windows for whatever reason, Linux will always be in my routine thanks to single board computers.
Compatibility, though it’s usually forced, like the Xbox controller with a drm chip that you need a workaround for
Skyline969Game Maker is still only in beta for Linux. They warn against working on serious projects on it because it can just randomly break them.
I’m done with Windows myself. The only time I ever touch it is for work when I gave to deal with some of our VMs for Photoshop users
I’m approaching the point where I’m seriously considering buying a spare drive for a Windows install exclusively for VR. I’m currently dealing with 3 separate serious issues with SteamVR on Linux, one of which I sometimes can’t even work around depending on how it’s feeling that day. Not to mention, every new release lately seems to introduce a new problem.
I haven’t had a Windows install on my system since my previous SSD died 2 or 3 years ago, but it’s getting to the point where it’s more trouble than it’s worth.
PerogiBoiWhat headset do you have? The Index is fully supported in Linux.
That’s excellent to hear. The Index is the only vr headset I have ever been considering getting.
The parent comment is not correct. The Index paired with SteamVR on Linux has a plethora of issues and sometimes doesn’t work at all. It’s usually possible to get it working through some combination of switching SteamVR versions and rebooting, but it’s never a guarantee and usually takes a good chunk of time to get sorted when it’s being temperamental.
It’s not fully supported: old.reddit.com/r/…/vr_on_linux_makes_me_sad/
No async reprojection
No bluetooth support for base stations power management
Does not work on Wayland, at all (Nobara, KDE)
Lacks the ability for you to continue using your headset if for some reason it disconnects and reconnects (base stations will not be detected, neither will any bluetooth adapters like the SW7)
A plethora of bugs
It feels like my headset view is on a delay? Maybe due to no async reprojection
I’m quoting this guy because I think that VR straight up doesn’t work on NixOS, and I haven’t gotten to testing my Index on any other os yet.
To Valve’s credit, since that post they did implement base station power management and some DEs now implement Wayland’s DRM leasing protocol, and there’s a somewhat buggy async reproduction implementation in place (although it’s broken in SteamVR 2.0 onwards).
It most certainly is not. Besides the missing features mentioned by the other commenter, SteamVR 2.1 literally shipped last week with a bug that caused it to completely stop functioning on Linux. I think the hotfix version still isn’t in the release channel. There’s another but still present in 2.1.7 that prevents VR games from starting. SteamVR Home doesn’t work at all anymore.
2.0 had an issue where vrdashboard was using the wrong pixel format which caused the red and blue channels to be swapped (pretty sure that made it into the release channel), and there was a regression introduced in the last year (and is still yet to be fixed) that causes vrdashboard to be rendered to the controller instead of the battery indicator. Granted, these are more minor issues, but it shows the level of QA that goes into the Linux version (next to none).
This is why I have a windows box. I’m hoping when they finally release SteamOS 3 for PC it will have stable SteamVR support.
catguyrussell@ani honestly temple os just does what I need my computer to do nothing else can come close to it. I have tryed everything.
NegativeLookBehindBrain damage
I never “switched”. I just started using the right tool for the job. I use Linux for productivity stuff. Windows for gaming and audio/music production, mostly. I don’t own a Mac anymore but if I did, it’d probably be their laptops, and I’d probably take over some of the development work, and some of the more creative work. I’m admittedly not very “religious” when it comes to the software I use. Whatever works best for me. I’m not married to anything. Makes it easier to switch things out down the line.
There occasional hiccups with Linux that are sometimes by design, like Flatpaks not having access to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. This makes some things need minor workarounds where they wouldn’t otherwise, because there aren’t enough people on Linux to make these workarounds the norm. I don’t really mind, but it is nice not having to do anything like that on macOS (although there are other issues there, like not having access to /usr/bin in the first place :P)
At the end of the day, though, the development workarounds necessary on Windows are absolutely insane. Even as well documented as they are, I am very glad I don’t need to touch Windows ever again because they still suck.
The fucking GTK file chooser. It’s like all application developers have made a pact with each other to never use a consistent UX, with the exception of having to press ctrl-L to edit the path textbox. It’s painful. And as much as I like XDP, support for it is spotty at best, and sometimes downright broken.
I searched around for a bit, and apparently one could preload a library to replace the file dialog functions with an own, custom one, and I’d root for rofi (with a dmenu theme, kinda).
YourMomsTrashmanMinor compatibilities aside,
Nothing that Windows itself has to offer, maybe some wallpapers I can just get online anyways lol
StillhartI feel like this post is guerilla marketing for “TempleOS”, which I’ve never heard of before and will absolutely not be looking up after this.
For real though definitely do not access this site right bellow here and install this OS
▶️▶️▶️❗❗ templeos.org ❗❗◀️◀️◀️
Dude, if you gonna post a link and say dont go to it at least defang it so people cant click it by accident! Also im pretty sure there is nothing malicious about the site or the OS. Its a relatively well known OS made by an mentally unwell person who thought he was being guided by god.
whoosh
His reply was so serious, I didn’t dare to whoosh him. What if that reply was a joke as well? The internet is a scary place.
Was I just wooshed myself? Damn 😂
IllecorsIt’s not. TempleOS is a famous from scratch OS created by a guy with serious mental illness. It’s a sad story, but the capability of that guy was incredible. He’s gone now :(
Doll_Tow_Jet-skiDefinitely
TempleOS (wikipedia) is a meme os. It’s supposed to be god’s os and was singlehandedly coded by the late Terry Davis. So this post isn’t really marketing, and the reference is just supposed to be humorous.
It 100% is guerilla marketing for Temple OS.
Shut up and take my money
Shut up and take my money prayers
I have looked it up and to include it in that list is just downright ludicrous. Let me give you some quotes from the wiki
“The system was characterized as a modern x86-64 Commodore 64, using an interface similar to a mixture of DOS and Turbo C.”
“TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, LoseThos, and SparrowOS) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system (OS) designed to be the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible. It was created by American programmer Terry A. Davis, who developed it alone over the course of a decade after a series of manic episodes that he later described as a revelation from God.”
“The system was characterized as a modern x86-64 Commodore 64, using an interface similar to a mixture of DOS and Turbo C. Davis proclaimed that the system’s features, such as its 640x480 resolution, 16-color display, and single-voice audio, were designed according to explicit instructions from God.”
What the actual fuck?!?
bdonvrYep. Dude was definitely nutso, but he was an incredible programmer. Shame really.