To be fair, it's just because windows is the most used and common desktop operating system and the two OSs are different. People would be confused about windows too if the tables were turned.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also the Linux community is toxic and overcomplicates things for no reason.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is true to a large extent. No one goes out of their way to make Linux easy.

Don't get me started on GitHub.

[–] moonburster@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see you're getting down voted and I feel for you. Linux is a breeze if you know what you're doing and git if the dev knows what they're doing. But if you're not an it wizard or very much an enthusiast, Linux just is more complex.

So this is nothing for you, but more to the gatekeepers downvoting you

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What really pissed me off when I switched to Linux was I suddenly went from OS wars to sub-OS wars.

What? I'm an idiot for not switching to Linux? Ok, I've switched to Linux.

What? I'm an idiot for not using Arch? Motherfucker, all you told me was to switch to Linux and I'm already having trouble figuring it out.

[–] moonburster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I totally feel this. I came first to Ubuntu and people immediately went, why no debian/mint/arch. Now I'm on popos and happy and still some would say you doophus

[–] Laser@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's confusing about wine prefixes apart from the fact that wine itself doesn't come with a graphical interface to manage them? On a Deck, Steam should handle these for you

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Calling them "prefixes" is about the total of the confusion. Call them "instances" or even just "boxes" and it's suddenly clear what they do.

(The only reason I'm not using "sandbox" is because they don't really provide sandboxing from a security point of view, only a kind of separate instance with its own configuration but with access to everything via the Z drive)

Once you figure out that using a different "wine prefix" only really means a separate "Windows" with it's own config and file structure there's nothing confusing about it.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh I know what prefixes are. Configuring them is the bitch part

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just use Lutris, which generally does most of that work for me.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Same. However some mod programs that rely on Windows prerequisites like C++ and .NET don't have that (which is where my frustrations were stemming from)

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah.

I have so far avoided that specific pit, but that's because for maybe decades now and still whilst using Windows as my main I've avoid proprietary solutions (except for games) and went for Open Source ones instead, which has yielded the benefit that since I moved over to Linux for good a few months ago, I have yet to be faced with needing something I used to use in Windows and not finding a Linux native version.

I'm sure I'll end up in the same kind of situation you describe.

By the way, have you tried "Bottles"? From what I've heard (but did not test myself yet) it might help there and it's not specifically for games.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Yep! Have bottles installed along with protontricks

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was led to believe you could put windows on steamdeck? Am I wrong? I don't have one.

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 16 points 2 months ago

You definitely can. The UI from Steam OS (Linux based) is much better though.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

You could, but you wouldn't