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Man, Microsoft advertising for Linux Mint YET AGAIN?! They are so gracious.
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Why is everyone reccommending linux mint all of a sudden? What happened to ubuntu and fedora?
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Uh
Who's ready to talk Linux
Sadly, steam VR and fusion360 are still tying me to windows. :(
No they don't. Steam VR is native on Linux, and most of fusion 360 can run in wine. Good news for you!
Steam VR runs on Linux natively, doesn't it? I switched to Linux a few weeks ago but haven't tried VR gaming on it yet.
It does, but performance seems a lot laggier than Windows.
I've been using Linux full time for a while now, and only recently installed Windows on a secondary drive, just for those two things.
Before, on Linux, it was a bit of mixed bag. Sometimes it would start up without issue, other times sound wouldn't work, etc.
Using corectl is a must, and make sure you have a stable steam install. (iirc the steam I installed didn't come with half of the 32 bit libs it was expecting). I'm rocking a 7900xtx, so it's not exactly low-end, and half-life alyx was giving me a lot of stutters.
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I'm liking Linux Mint and Kubuntu personally.
Especially Kubuntu for my main desktop PC, Linux Mint for my little clunker PC I use to run my 3D printers.
Same, I just loaded kubuntu on another new system
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I'm so glad I finally ditched that shit for good
I just deleted my old Mocrosoft account. Forgot I had it until recently.
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I really hope the whole shift away from American products will convince more software and game developers to provide native support for Linux. I am approaching the fence.
They give me more and more reasons to stay on W10 until I give up games and move to Linux permanently.
I'll miss my TCMD scripting, though. But besides that and gaming, most of what I do nowadays is cross-platform.
Same here.
Game performance on Linux isn't always the best. So I'll keep a Win10 around.
Are Linux ports of games so hard to do? Genuine question. I am not a games dev.
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What games keep you on Windows? Besides a few anticheat-enabled ones which choose not to support it, basically everything works fine. I game (and work in gamedev!) 100% on Linux.
My vr driving Sim rig just works in windows, the most I've ever had to do is map my shifter in game. Steamvr, hardware drivers, the actual games, it all just works without doing anything. Plug and play. I'm sure I can get it all working in Linux, eventually. I was(trying to) gaming on Ubuntu 10.04 with wine. I was first batch steamdeck and the amount of progress with gaming I've seen thanks to valve and proton means I'll be coming back. But I'm just waiting for steamOS to be open release. But I am a KDE head so honestly I'll end up whatever distro that does proton and KDE by the end of this year.
Install bazzite. Done.
Come on in, the water is fine. The latest version of Ubuntu is like 24, so things have changed a lot, and for the better.
Get yourself a Kubuntu image, and give it a try.
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Every time I hear about Microsoft it makes me wanna take a shit
Pavlov Reaction?
I have heard about identity provider software on Linux for self hosting.
Is that a possibility for family members' win11 accounts too, when they run into that problem in the future? Or is a M$ account the only way then?