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6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I got a new PC recently so unfortunately I am now on Windows 11. I’ve been wanting to make the swap to Linux but I can’t really make a clean break because at least some of the games I play a lot won’t work on Linux. I do think I’m gonna try to set up another hard drive with Linux on it to try to slowly start learning it and ideally move over anything that I can over there eventually and just keep the windows drive for those few games.

Does anyone have any recommendations related to that? Distro for gaming/ease of use? What’s the best option for setting up the dual boot? Anything I wouldn’t have thought of that’s relevant?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

What games are they?

One of the reasons i am sticking with Arch is because steamdeck os is build on it, whats good enough to game for valve is good enough for me.

I have both Arch and my old windows install on separate m.2 ssds. By default i log into the arch one which uses the windows ssd as a game installation drive.

This way when i do have to use windows for some game modding or testing, i can easily access and sometimes run the games from there.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Why Gates in the picture tough?

He stepped down as a chairman over 10 years ago and didint he leave the microsoft board like 5 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He was the face of Microsoft for most of OP’s life.

Let us not forget the single most impressive feat of athleticism in the 20th century.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I would like to switch to Linux on my gaming machine but me and my girlfriend play Valorant together so I can't switch just yet.

My server and laptop already run NixOS, I'm just looking forward to the day my gaming/main machine join them too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't care to much about steam at the moment so no real problem. But I will make the switch to linux on the machine used for gaming. No Win 11 there probably, some Arch-related, EndeavourOS is my actual choice.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I just gave up on windows gaming. If the game cant be played on my steamdeck, I just find something else. Otherwise its macos and linux for anything non-professional that requires windows. And even then I fucking hate it. Oh look at that... all my documents say "Auto-recover (version 1)" because it forcibly rebooted on me.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I already switched to Bazzite Desktop and it's been so good. I had some pains configuring somethings to my liking, but that was more due to me not being familiar with Linux. I'm never going back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If I was considering Bazzite and Pop OS as options, which would you suggest I go with?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well, I cannot comment about PopOS because I simply don't know how it is, but Bazzite on desktop has been great. I didn't need to install anything related to gaming because it already comes with everything on it.

Pretty much anything I needed is on the discovery store and it's handled like the app store on Android, so no headache of messing it up with installations or worrying about updates. Although, Bazzite is an immutable OS so anything that you need to install that's not on the store can be a headache.

Also, my computer is an old laptop, so I got a performance boost as the system feels way smoother now than with Windows.

About games, I played some indie games on Steam and Lutris and it worked flawlessly. But do note that for more recent systems, it appears to be some headaches, especially with NVIDIA graphics cards. I only play new games on streaming services, so I don't have those problems. But I do have some problems with the streaming service using my 8BitDo controller, but it's not related to the system, it's related to the service's bad drivers. When I stream the game using Steam, it's smooth sailing.

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