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Today, I switched the last of my Windows machines to Linux: my gaming PC. I've been using Linux on servers for many years but was a bit apprehensive for gaming.

Turns out it just... works. Just installed steam and turned proton on, have zero performance or other issues. I'm using Ubuntu 25.04 for the 6.14 kernels NT emulation performance tweaks. Aside from there not being a catalyst driver for it and so I can't undervolt my card everything is great.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

I had the exact same experience: been doing Linux since the 90s, both for fun and professionaly - the latter mainly in pure server configurations - finaly got around to moving my home PC (which is mainly for gaming) to Linux (using Pop!OS, since I have a Nvidia graphics card and it just supports it out of the box) and it just worked.

Only problem I have with it is that on startup of X I usually get a blank screen and have to switch my monitor OFF and back ON again.

Oh, and startup times are a fraction of Windows startup times (my Windows 10 work machine literally takes longer to wake up from hybernation than my home Linux PC takes to cold boot, and they have equivalent SSDs.

I think I got more hassle with Windows than I do with Linux.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

I moved to Kubuntu recently. I'm overall happier, but I've had a number of pain points.

  1. I bought DaVinci Resolve thinking they supported Linux. They do, just very poorly. Figuring out how to get that up and running was a faff. Davinci Resolve also doesn't support AAC audio on MP4 files on Linux, so I had to write a script to transcode the audio of media to WAV. It also doesn't play nice with window management. Overall, using resolve has been a huge pain.

  2. I use Insta360s software just to stitch 360 video, getting that set up with bottles wasn't the most straightforward but it works now.

  3. I still haven't figured out Fusion360, and I really don't want to spend the time learning a new software. I learned it before I'd started making an effort to only use cross-platform tools.

  4. I bought the Xbox Store version of Forza Horizon 5 so I could play it on my PC and Xbox. I no longer have the Xbox, and I'd have to re-buy it on Steam if I wanted to play it.

  5. My Index just isn't detected on Ubuntu. It was on Windows. I've tried a bunch of things, but it just doesn't show up, so I haven't been able to play VR. It might have a bad cable, but I'm not sure. Weird that it showed up before and doesn't in Kubuntu.

Linux is all about finding alternatives. There is an alternate workflow, but you might have to deal with inconveniences or put in effort to learn something new. It's been a lot of work. Also, I might need to dual boot windows to play VR stuff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

+1 for onshape. I use both fusion and onshape. I used to be a diehard fusion user but onshape has won me over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Fusion isn't going to function fully. I think the cloud integration pipeline messes with it. You're better off with OnShape.

FreeCAD is fine with addons but it's just not streamlined in my experience.

If it weren't for CAD I'd have a linux workstation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Have a look at the Linux VR Adventures Wiki for possible VR solutions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

My only hangup is installing repacks or modding games. It for sure works, but it's a bigger headache. I use mint on my daily driver laptop otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago

Made the switch myself about a year ago. Installed 24.04 LTS and it has done very well.

My main issues have been dealing with a few things I run not playing the nicest with ubuntu or when trying to flash ESP8266 or ESP32 boards through the web browser.

Gaming wise everything I have installed via Steam works fine though sometimes needs a reboot.

Overall been happy with it and glad to get off the forced upgrade with bloatware train.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Holy hell, the Ubuntu ISO is 6.3GB now. Soon it may not even fit onto a DL DVD.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

Who still uses DVD to install anything?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Yesterday I installed cachyos and I was shocked to see that the 3gb install image was actually a net install and I couldn't install it offline. I used my phone as hotspot thinking "how much data would download it anyway, maybe it just needs internet to do geo2ip for suggesting locale" (it actually does that) but instead it downloaded another 3gb

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Good thing there's BD-Rs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

How many floppies is that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

4,375,000,000 of the 3 1/2" disks. Sierra would be proud.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

Zip disk users rise up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago

One, at least.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

We've moved on to usb sticks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

You've moved on to usb sticks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Who on earth still burns disks (other than pizzas) in 2025?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Me, they retain data alot longer than any solid state data storage device. They are much more usable for archival storage. Also I burn CD's to listen to music on my Stereo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

According to Google, burned CDs and DVDs retain data for 5-10 years.

SSDs are between a few years and a few decades, depending on the age, type and quality of the SSD. Same goes for USB sticks.

HDDs are between 10 and 20 years.

Tape drives are at 30+ years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I have CD-R demo discs from the early 00's that still play fine. Also according to Wikipedia: "On July 3, 1991, the first recording of a concert directly to CD was made using a Yamaha YPDR 601. The concert was performed by Claudio Baglioni at the Stadio Flaminio in Rome, Italy. At that time, it was generally anticipated that recordable CDs would have a lifetime of no more than 10 years. However, as of July 2020 the CD from this live recording still plays back with no uncorrectable errors."

Edit: Yes, a tape drive would be ideal but i'm poor af.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's always a game of statistics.

You might have some 20yo disks that play fine, but there's enough 10yo disks that don't play fine. Also, especially with audio disks, having some data loss on them won't be noticeable. You could probably have up to 10% of data loss on the CD without hearing much of a difference.

Things are very different for data storage though. Here losing a single bit (e.g. of an encrypted/compressed file) might make the whole file unreadable. And if it's a critical file that might make the whole disk useless.

Audio CD is a very low-data-density format. There's a ton of data on there that doesn't matter (as exemplified by the fact that MP3 CDs can easily hold 6 times as much audio as a regular, uncompressed Audio CD). This low data density creates redundancy.

The data retention values above aren't about "After X years all of the data disappears" but about "This is how long the data will be fully retained without a single bit of data loss".

I also have HDDs from ~2000 that still work fine. The probably oldest piece of tech I own is a Gameboy, which has its BIOS in a ROM, and that one still works fine, even though it's older than 30 years now. But for one I don't own enough Gameboys to know whether I got an outlier here and I don't have the means to check if every single bit on that ROM is still identical to the original.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

Sorry if I'm mostly focusing on paragraph 3 but I have to. MP3 CDs sound way worse than a redbook audio CD though. You can losslessly compress PCM by about 50% by using a codec like flac or alac, but there is data loss if you use a lossy format like .mp3. You can compress 20 vacation photos taken by an iPhone 16 to fit on a 1.44 mb floppy disk and you will have something resembling the original data, but I think you'll agree it's worse. Back to my original point, A CD-R is much more likely to reatain data for 5 years than an SSD is. Unless it's periodiclly powered on of couse. I have an HDD from 2008 in my PC actually. I'm often impressed how long they can last.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Me too, so we

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That don't mean people don't still burn discs just because you and whoever else doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Yeah and we're still we.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just in case you didn't know, odd numbered Ubuntu versions (in your case 25) are considered short term releases and won't be maintained beyond a year or two.

Unless you really need that version, you'll want to install 26 when it comes out next April (upgrade should be very seamless).

Even numbered versions are supported long term, often for several years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Can't you just upgrade to the next release? (It's been more than 10 years since I installed/used Ubuntu)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago

Unless you really need that version, you'll want to install 26 when it comes out next April (upgrade should be very seamless).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

You made the right call, for your situation.

They're just letting you know that you will want to apply each annual upgrade when they come out, to ensure your system stays secure.

This may contrast with any Ubuntu-running friends you may have, who may not be applying updates annually.

Once you've upgraded to 28 (in ~ 2028) you can safely skip the next four years of updates, if you feel like it, because 28 will (probably) be the next Long Term Support (LTS) release.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Assuming you're playing games through Proton rather than vanilla Wine, kernels before 6.14 already have fsync which is used by Proton and effectively does the same thing as ntsync.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Good info, but I guess I just upgrade my way to 2604

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

Don't get too hung up on it. It was an fyi not a "stop what you're doing you newb!"

We need people to test the latest, bleeding edge. So you're helping with that! But since you're new to Linux I wanted to make sure you knew what you were getting yourself into.

It's not that odd numbers are less stable. It's more that they aren't supported for long term. Many of the lessons learned are pushed to the next version though so either way you're doing good.

I'm not a PC gamer so for me stamina and longevity matter more to me than bleeding edge technology.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Any issues with brand new releases or has all that been figured out?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Usually it's fine. To be honest, most new release AAA games have problems on Windows too (and sometimes it's worse, such as the first part of the FF7 remake).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Valve takes care for brand new stuff on steam usually, except for kernel anticheat stuff where they can’t fix it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I will always have to check protondb.

https://www.protondb.com/

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