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  1. Possibly, but I'm hard-pressed to say that Linux has this problem with a lot of things. For desktop environments you have: KDE --> The K Desktop Environment XFCE --> The XForms Common Environment LXDE --> Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment For non-desktop environments often WM (Window Manager) is integrated into the name; i3WM, BSPWM, AwesomeWM There are of course also items that you don't know what they do; Deepin, Pantheon etc. However, I don't understand why it's a problem that you have to google those. For plenty of things, we simply say that they are a google search away. Not to mention the amount of software in Windows / Android that we don't know beforehand what it does. What does "Steam" mean to someone who hasn't heard of Valve before? Or "C++ 2017"? "DirectX Redistributable"? Or even in your example; what exactly does a launcher do? Is it just something that sits between your homescreen and the applications and takes care of launching them, or is it actually an entirely new front-end for your home screen? Those are things you start picking up over time, and things we kind of were forced to pick up over time because we were forced to use Windows for most games. Now that there's a choice it's very appealing to go for the simpler choice of Windows because you already know it. It's completely the opposite. In Linux this is done for you in most cases because the Package Manager figures out what you need, installs it and sends you on your merry way. Have you ever opened a Windows program only to see a message along the likes of "The program can't start because MSVCP140.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." ? What is MSVCP140.dll ? I google that, I come across a janky site like missing-dlls.russia and download seven viruses. This is NOT non-existant in Linux, but it happens a lot less because dependencies are registered. This is already an issue on Windows. We're fine by downloading gigabytes to terabytes of game data from companies because they are companies, despite there being rumours about the Epic Launcher including spyware, for example. Anyone who googles "Fortnite Download" gets first linked to the Epic Games site where they download the launcher, so they'd need an additilonal google check of "Epic Games Launcher" to come across the allegations. I totally can understand that Linux is harder to get into than Windows, and there could be more work on making it easier. But there's loop there. Not enough people use it, so it's not profitable to make it easier to use. It's not easier to use, so people don't use it. Additionally, there are still things that are hit-and-miss on Linux, especially peripherals. Linux fans have been shouting for years that it's finally time, but they're more likely to know how to use it, because they already have. We're just hoping that others find it worthwhile to learn how to use Linux efficiently and it gets the boost in popularity it deserves.
  2. So, we got a ultimate setup video. Then we got more of those. Now Linux is inching closer and closer to a real usable platform for video games, and we got videos on those. Logical next step, perhaps an ultimate Linux gaming setup? Things like eyefinity, non-daily peripherals (steering wheels etc.), maybe even your ultimate clean setup with the daisychained thunderbolt hub and eGPU? I'd love to see that.
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