Welcome and I am sorry.
I’ve been gaming on windows and had my laptop running linux for 3 years now but I’ve recently moved my PC to the TV for a more console-like experience. I realized that I almost exclusively play games with a controller anyway.
To that end I switched to Bazzite. Has been working pretty much flawlessly! Even with an Nvidia GPU.
Switched to Bazzite last weekend. Fantastic distro.
This is the way!
I professionally maintain Linux kernel and custom drivers for embedded applications. I fell in love with Aurora on my first run and chosen Bazzite for my brand new Nvidia gaming PC. This will also be my office/web browsing/dev machine when not gaming.
Why? I am tired of managing / sysadmining Linux OS and don’t want to bring the job to my free time (although it looks like my MoBo could use a kernel patch for supporting fan speeds controller hee hee). Bazzite and siblings are the first distros I stumbled upon that flawlessly supported GSync and nvidia graphics out of the box without changing a single option. The defaults are sane, customization is easy. The whole general idea around how these distros are redesigned solve many many pain points that many uses are yet to experience with standard / “legacy” ones. I am more hyped about them than I was when I first discovered NixOS.
Atomic distros like this IMHO should be the default choice now for new Linux gamers. Period.
Tbh as an end user Bazzite was so nice and easy to install, especially since the website makes you configure the iso for what you’re gonna use it on. It was a very no-bullshit way of getting linux on a PC.
Exactly! They even took care to provide you with convenience scripts for further setup with very detailed description right after you open the terminal.
Enabling TPM based disk decryption, secureboot, upgrading everything etc etc is waiting for you just one command away starting with
ujust
Welcome!
dual boot or single boot? and is this on your main device?
Single boot. And yup, main device. Bye, bye, Windows 👋
Windows 11 is enshitified enough to be annoying and loaded with government and corporate spyware enough to be alarming. Meanwhile, Linux has become user friendly, optimized for everything but the latest hardware and capable of running most games.
“A computer is like an air conditioner – it becomes useless when you open Windows.”
This might become my favorite quote.
1st Linux? congrat. Whats your partition layout?
I envy the people who live a life that enables them to just ditch Windows like that.
One day…
I switched like 25 years ago. For a long time I had a Windows partition for booting up games, until Microsoft stopped accepting my old licenses. Luckily I really didn’t care at that point.
This is my favourite meme format of all time
Welcome to the team
Me too, but he covered the wrong guy’s face.
The guy on the right makes these update posts about his friendships.
Lol oops
yesss join us
I wouldn’t say I was friends with Windows. It’s more like escaping an abusive relationship IMO.
I was its friend, but it wasn’t my friend
“Would you like to activate Co-Pilot for text entry?!”
“For your convenience, you are now sharing all of your personal files with Microsoft.”
And for Microsoft’s pocket book. And for the U.S. Government’s research purposes.
I changed to Linux a few months ago. I’m using Linux Mint and gaming has been pretty easy, no major problems whatsoever. I had some struggles regarding audio with recording and playing guitar. At first I had the urge to distrohop but now I just use my pc daily without even thinking about the OS.
Yeah I made the switch and finally moved my daily driver of to kubuntu and it’s been surprisingly painless. Only thing I’ve really struggled with is finding a music player I like.
yeah it’s weird cause the music player thing was also a hang up for me too. I liked cmus cause it was simple but some of the things in it annoyed me. I liked Audcacious or whatever its’ called cause I could install old winamp skins on it.
Eventually though I just ended up making my own TUI that has all the features I personally want. This seems to be a theme for me and linux. I always find things that have features I like but their separate apps so then I just combine all those features into something I build myself.
In case you haven’t heard of it, I like strawberry.
Welcome!🐧 Personally I like seeing giant album covers and synced lyrics with mpv, idk if it might work for you. Not a music library program tho
Elisa is good too.
Or, once OP has come fully to the dark side, ncmpcpp
I’m finally back on Linux after a while away. I went with pop os just to have the Nvidia drivers pre-installed. I used Mint back in grad school and liked it.
Nice! I switched my desktop from win11 to popos this weekend. So far so good, but all I’ve done is play some games (guild wars 2, binding of Isaac) and some quick tests (camera, HDMI to the TV, music)
I’m a fellow pop user myself, and enjoying it. It’s my first Linux distro. I’m excited to try their new version when it’s ready. I’ve been thinking about switching and trying it out in beta cause I’ve heard good things already.
https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1 still in Alpha 7. When it hits beta, I’m going to jump over as well.
Thanks for the correction. I hadn’t checked in a while.
Is it actually in beta? Last I tried it was in alpha 7
Still Alpha 7. https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1 When CosmicDE hits Beta, I’m going to jump as well.
Same. I used it in alpha7 on fedora. But it keeps locking up, and the power management dosent work right. Still , its super cool and I’m excited for it to get finished
My pleasure to meet you 😇❤️
