>play game perfectly fine on Linux Mint 18.1 >aquaintances

>>60179027
What games are they trying to run? Are the games proprietary? If so, that could be part of the problem. Game developers are extremely ADD, often they just want to do the laziest job possible on the game and then move onto the next one. Most proprietary games I've seen on GNU/Linux try to do stupid stuff like link with an old version of glibc, or ship with a bunch of .so files for the wrong architecture, or depend on some outdated third party library that was only built for 2.x kernels, or some shit like that. It's not your friends' fault, you can blame the game developers for their shitty development practices.

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>not using Ubuntu based distro
>they are using Debian

>don't like apt-get? you can install pacman or whatever programs/utilities you desire
You can replace the package manager but it's so much work it's not worth it. Just install Arch instead.

>>60179027

>why do they resist?

they want to outhipster you, the whole point of using linux really.

I run ubuntu exclusively for steam.

>>60179027

>play game perfectly fine on Linux

Wrong. Performance is vastly inferior. Barely a few games run the same on GNU/Linux and they're all 2D games like Terraria, Hotline Miami, Plague Inc. and the likes. Why do you Mintcuck?

>Linux Mint

TerroristOS

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>>60179027
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>60179107
debian is like a cloud of dust and Ubuntu is like a star

Mint is like a better star

>>60180185
>he fell for the canonical/steam shilling pact

>>60179027
no problems with arch and steam

>>60180185
what

>>60180869
>like a better star
kekd

>>60180869
>better star
lol

>>60180869
Mint is the most obese aberration that exists in the world of distros.
It installs Virtuabox guest additions even if it's not in a VM.

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I recommend using Windows 10 Professional for the best personal computing experience possible.