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?
Every game needs a stupid command argument, things are broken, and everything is incompatible, but its largely been awesome.
been using Linux professionally for years (programmer). recently switched my gaming PC to Mint and haven’t had any problems. everything just works.
caveat: i don’t play any new triple A titles that require anti-cheat.
Been on Linux only for a couple years now. My biggest complaint is how terrible the trackpad experience is. The upside is I have a pretty keyboard centric workflow (tiling window manager), so I dont have to use the trackpad too much, but wgeb I do its not a great experience.
Fwiw arch (BTW), with hyprland on a framework 13.
Install touchegg and add it to your startup scripts. It gives you an “apple magic trackpad” like touchpad experience.
I’ve switched from win 10 to mint for an old i9900k and 1080 to run Helldivers 2 and it worked so well I put it on my newest rig to replace it (9800x3d RX 9070xt) with little to no problems. It does take a little while to get things tailored to how you want. The bios clock keeps being off (but OC settings remain) so maybe the battery is dying already. Been putting off replacing it since it’ll require a bit of disassembly.
I then tried Bazzite on the i9900k and ran into a couple problems. Multiple monitors pose issues with the mouse not staying on the game and requires an applet or app to keep it contained (no issues with Mint). HD2 runs the same performance but it stutters every second or two, making it unplayable. I’ll have to see if I can troubleshoot some more or try a different distro.
After Bazzite I switched to Garuda. No regrets. Might be worth a look.
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.
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.
Bazzite. Fucking love it. Have had to spend some googling and learning and troubleshooting. But it’s incredible how much shit just works. Definitely recommend getting comfortable with terminals, shell scripts, etc. You can do some cool shit.
I love ffmpeg.
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.
Is great. No notes.
Switched from Window 10 to Linux Mint about 3 weeks ago so I’d have something familiar to work with.
Honesty, so far Mint works just like Windows should have worked. I’m surprised at how much stuff has been made automatic and easy for a lifelong windows user. Some specific games have a performance issues, Alt+Tab to switch apps doesn’t work if you are in a full screen application.
I would encourage anyone on Windows to buy an small drive (I used a 500 GB SSD I got for like 40 bucks) load a Linux distro on it and give it a shot. You probably won’t be back on Windows.
Regarding alt tab, are you on multiple screens or just one?
One screen. It will bring up an application switch widget in the middle of the screen, and I can hold alt and hitting tab to cycle through options, but when I release alt-tab, it does not switch the application.
Great until a recent update, now my games run at 0.001 frame a second.
Please check that your video driver was updated.
I switched from Windows 10 to Kubuntu some months ago and it’s been pretty rough mostly. I’ve been having issues with but not limited to: multi-monitor setup, nvidia gpu, network dropping, game/software support, hardware support (headset working poorly, motherboard not reporting any sensors), poor performance in some cases…
Still better than spreading my cheeks and letting Microsoft fuck me in the ass though
I had issues with Kububtu and switched to CachyOS and they’re mostly resolved. My second monitor still only shows 60hz but its not used for games so meh.
I switched full-time last year. Went from windows 11 to fedora kde.
The switch took a bit of getting used to, and getting to know the innards of the distro (broke my sound typing pulse-audio related commands then discovering that fedora uses pipewire, this kind of stuff…)
But I’m kinda cheating since I’ve been using linux on all my other machines since windows 8 (had a hunch about imminent enshitification, windows 10 didn’t contradict it and windows 11… ha!).
I’ve been using windows since the 9x days, windows 11 became unbearably shitty, despite my incredibly unbloated version (originaly a windows 7 install that got “upgraded” to 10 then 11), with unwanted features getting disabled as soon as they appeared. I had a windows 11 with a local account and no one-drive and they still disapointed me! (the last straw was copilot)
Now running linux full time is a real pleasure, some stuff break here and there but nothing unfixable (usually just downgrading the faulty package until it is fixed just works), games just work most of the time, the KDE desktop is the windows one but not shitty, from an alternate reality where desktop widgets took off, and where you are allowed to customise stuff. (had to wait years on windows 11 to finally get back the “display the window’s title on the taskbar” option as I’m used to since 95)
The only thing I’m missing though : system-wide autoscroll bound to the mousewheel.
Running PikaOS (Niri) on a RYZEN 5800x3D and RTX 3080. No real issues to speak of aside of a few issues with some games. I still have another system with Windows 10 running android emulation (LD Player) for idle games other main games. VR… is on the back burner for now (used Windows 11 on another drive for that).
All in all, happy.
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!
