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Wtf is a Dropbox again?
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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> Be me, uses linux
> Need to share ReTHAWed mod files on their website
> catbox.moe does not keep files permanently
> OneDrive and GoogleDrive are too evil 4 me
> Could use ProtonDrive, but no
> Dropbox is handy and familiar to most people
> Now I just give up and use Dropbox because reasons
I use s-ul.eu for my occasional filesharing needs, downloads are no bullshit you click the link you have the file and never had issues with it. Not sure if storage limits on the free tier are lower than dropbox though.
Oh and you get your own url prefix.
Dope, thanks for the info!
I had Dropbox installed on Linux awhile back. Not just a Windows thing.
But did it install itself?
Yes lol
Be me
Computer shat itself
No backups
Skill issue
Real
One day, Linux will be ready for a no-headaches gaming PC. Genuinely looking forward to it.
Everyone will have a different experience based on their hardware, distro, and game preferences; But for me Linux has been a far less headache-inducing gaming platform than Windows literally for years at this point.
Yup
Its mostly there if your ready to dump your League addiction. Proton Db has guides for the games that don't just work first try and most of the fixes are select a different launch option from a drop down in Steam.
Except games with shitty anti-cheat like Battlefield. Those are just unplayable.
Good.
I discovered that Helldivers 1 ran fine on Linux despite having an anti-cheat, because when the anti-cheat fails to launch the game just says "fuck it" and runs anyway. Though other games like PUBG refuse to run when their anti-cheat fails. I love PUBG but not so much that I'm willing to let some shady publisher from the other side of the world run unknown and unrestricted code at the lowest level of my home computer just to play it. That will never be a worthwhile trade.
Though on that note, I started playing a lot of DOTA 2 on linux without issue.
It is native on Linux, just like most of Valve's catalog, so it should run as well as running a Windows game on Windows.
Some games run worse natively on Linux, because they fall back to some badly optimized OpenGL renderer.
Ironically, from what I understand (haven't done direct comparisons myself), a lot of games written for windows run just as well or better on linux.
DOTA 2 is just noteworthy to me because it's an exception to the "other than competitive games" exception. And while I can't say for sure that no one is hacking on there, I have yet to see any blatant cases of it (though admittedly it might be difficult to tell in a game where it's normal for some players to snowball significantly over others).
Ironically, from what I understand (haven’t done direct comparisons myself), a lot of games written for windows run just as well or better on linux.
Yes, Wine/Proton translates DirectX calls to Vulkan calls, and Vulkan is so efficient that native Windows games sometimes run better on Linux than they do on Windows.
I'm deeply sorry for your loss.
I had this mindset for about 2 decades, from when I first played around in OpenSUSE and Compiz back in 2005 up to 2024 when I finally switched because of Windows 10 being put out to pasture by Microsoft. But since I'm now in my early 40s and no longer play competitive games as I used to 15 years ago, I've had zero problems with Linux and gaming.
So I totally understand your mindset as I too once thought the same.
Problem with waiting is of course that developers don't favor linux due to lack of people on linux playing game, so it's a vicious circle:
- not playing on linux because it's not well supported by games
- game devs not making games for linux because not enough players are there.
I hope you enjoy linux when you're ready.
I switched in my 20s when I stopped caring about competitive games, and I'm always surprised at how little effort it is to do the things I want to do.
This post accurately described my life. High five brother.
already is for me!
Well, is Windows?
So far it's working fine, yeah. No need to choose among a zillion distros someone swears is the best, I know for a fact there are first-party drivers for everything, no need to fiddle around with CLI, it plays everything my graphics card can muster, and I don't need to worry about game compatibility or whether Nvidia deigned to support my OS.
Windows has a lot of problems, but if you're just looking to play games without too much complexity... It's as close to "it just works" as I can imagine getting without switching to a console (or limiting myself to the few games that work on Apple devices, I guess).
Plus, big argument, it's familiar. You can forgive more annoyances when you're not learning something new. Humans are just lazy like that.
First and foremost, I do think Windows is the better choice for most people to play games on, mostly due to vendor support.
However, I'd say that a lot of people have some sort of issue with Windows, albeit probably less than they would have with some Linux distributions. I just wanted to express that "without headaches" is a goal that is maybe higher than necessary.
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Can someone enlighten me as to what is M$ doing this time?
I had to install windows the other day on my kids laptop, and had to skip like 10 screens of Microsoft ads and then disable OneDrive, but saw nothing about Dropbox.
In this particular case, it's not windows since they started pushing one drive.
It's probably the PC manufacturer being paid by Dropbox to install it with system utilities.
You can also look into ChrisTitusTechTools. That’s how I lock my windows SSD down as much as possible from M$.
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anon, it's time to uninstall windows
All I use dropbox for these days is synchronizing various extensions to it as a cloud backup service. Like Violentmonkey (userscripts) and Stylus (userstyles, like for making lemmy look nicer) to mention the two that come to mind.
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