cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715
Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?
Pretty good. But I’ve been dabbling in Linux for the past decade or so and already had a Linux based home server. But in the past year I finally swapped all of my non-work computers over to linux. If games won’t run, I won’t play them.
I’m running CachyOS on my desktop workstation, laptop, and my handheld Lenovo legion go. Unraid on my server.
Edit: the only issue I had with the CachyOS installs so far is my remote desktop solution, which admittedly I don’t even use often. VNC is ok. I liked NoMachine for a while but it messed up my graphics drivers or something weird. I don’t remember the specifics, I just flat out nuked it from my machines. I need to try rustdesk
Great until a recent update, now my games run at 0.001 frame a second.
Please check that your video driver was updated.
Why didn’t I think of that!!!3!4!59265358979323846264
I’ve copied and pasted a bunch of stuff into the terminal without really understanding what I’m doing so … yeah going great. I think.
Nothing eventful. It’s just a straightforward OS.
Boring is what most people want in an OS - usually for most people it’s at it’s best when it’s quietly enhancing the user experience and then getting out of the way.
So painfully, boringly good.
Day-to-day, it just works, I don’t have to fight it. It doesn’t do anything I don’t want it to do. I don’t miss office, everything is clean and snappy.
I have managed to play almost every game thrown at it (Bazzite) - the only one that didn’t work was an older DX7 title. DOS games just work - they took more effort than this under Win9x.
I have got a couple of minor issues but all fixable.:
- I encountered a issue where it wouldn’t wake from sleep - fixed by selecting a different color profile in the display settings.
- I managed to break something in fstsb trying to setup a persistent network drive. Very easy to roll back, I’m 100% sold on immutable until I need something more customisable
- Recently my Bluetooth kb/mouse would drop off when the PC went idle, wouldn’t reconnect/wake up until power cycling the PC. Fixed by disabling BT hibernation/sleep
Having said that, last week I had to install Win11 on the kids laptop to be ready for school - I hadn’t installed 11 outside of a controlled Corp environment with solid group policy control since the early days. God-damn Win11 is a dumpster fire! The install UI looks nice but the noise is turned up to 11, popup, wizards, setup this, setup that, backup, OneDrive, give us all your information and sign away any privacy.
Regardless of any minor issues I bump into on the way, I am never going back!
Pretty damn awesome and loving every minute of not having to use Windows
Mint since May. Preferring to work from home these days not to have to deal with Winslop 11 on my work laptop.
I switched from windows 10 to pop!_os on my thinkpad p15s almost a year ago. My biggest surprise was thinking I would still need windows for anything when I haven’t needed to think about it since.
The most frustrating part is that I’m requires to use windows 11 for work and it just feels so broken. But in all seriousness the biggest issues I’ve had were a couple driver issues that were easily fixed from the debug.
Honestly my biggest regret was not switching sooner. The learning curve really wasn’t bad. Just read the forums and docs. I run it on everything now. I game with it, I run a small homelab with it, I’m productive with it. I dont think there is anything I would miss. Everything works as well if not even better.
I’ve been using Bazzite for months and I love it. It’s different but I’ve been able to figure things out. Zero show stoppers for me and no real problems.
I’ve been thinking about giving fedora atomic sway a spin.
I am somehow managing to crash Firefox/LibreWolf on a daily basis now when using sites that load lots and lots of graphics in one page. I always knew infinite scroll was a BS mechanism.
Well I use Arch, btw… So pretty good
It’s been great overall, after about one full year now. The only major complaints are keyboard-related. Between my work-supplied macbook that runs macOS, my old macbook that runs GNOME, and my desktop that runs KDE, keeping my muscle memory in tune with keybinds and shortcuts and window management is a headache. Maybe sometimes I’m thrown off by some command line tool not being available on Mac or Linux or it’s named differently.
Keyboard shortcuts are endlessly customizable in KDE. You could always just change them to what you’re used to
No I know. But there’s no going around the keyboards physically having a different number of modifier keys left/right of the spacebar. Macs have 4 left, 2 right, my desktop keyboard has 3 left, 4 right. And there’s no way that I have found in either KDE or GNOME by which I could wire the Macbook keyboard to function exactly like in macOS in each and every application. There are so many pitfalls if you attempt. And the window management features would be different anyway. And thus my old macbook will always feel like a Mac to my fingers (after using it with macOS for a decade), but behave differently now. I might adjust if I only used Linux, but since I have to use an actual Mac on the daily, it’s not clicking. Cross-use is just not a good experience.
Linux is great so far. It’s been a bit of a trick learning the ins and outs, but now it’s getting close to a year I’ve ironed out most of the kinks and have a stable functional computer.
See this is the problem. You shouldn’t have to learn an operating system to have a stable and functional computer.
I chose to use an unstable distro both for more performance and to force some learning. Most of my problems were honestly either software not built to run on Linux, or the fact I didn’t disable my integrated graphics in the BIOS.
Like things could be better, but I think it’s pretty good. Windows would have wiped a significant amount of customisation within a year, and that’s my baseline.
Yes I remember when I was 5 and inherently knew how to use windows. /s
Built a new PC last January and started fresh with Win11 on one drive and Nobara on another. I was able to play all of the games I wanted on Nobara just fine. After a month or two I had a problem develop where I was unable to update because it would start giving errors and the update process wouldn’t complete.
I decided to try out Bazzite and have been with it ever since. I very very rarely boot into Windows. I highly recommend giving it a shot!
Installed Pop!_os maybe a year ago. It’s been fine.
I couldn’t quite figure out how to make the bg3 mod tools play nice. There’s probably some proton prefix stuff I’d have to do and I gave up before getting too deep.
I bet the next time I want to play a game with mods it’s going to be a bit of a headache.
Other than that, it’s fine. I ran mint for about a year before this, with an interlude of windows 11 that came with the desktop.
