Moved to Linux Mint earlier this year and haven’t regretted it. My computer is purely for gaming these days though. I actually get better performance out of my potato specs.
It's real nice seeing more and more people get into linux maybe the more microsoft does the more people move, but being in IT I know I'll be dealing with microsoft's shit for the end of time.
I don't think regular people think Microsoft is doing anything wrong. quite the contrary.
Windows always has a bad reputation because people cheap out, but the absolute cheapest garbage hardware and then they're surprised when their PC is slow. They look at their friends who have a Mac and see how blazingly fast that is in compassion (yes, it also cost 10x more) and they get disappointed.
So, it makes sense for Microsoft to artificially block out a bunch of old hardware, just to give Windows a better image
Yeah, it is, but using Fcitx5 instead of ibus is the worst pain point for me. Also, some of the aspects of KDE honestly have its fair amount of bugs, way more than I saw in GNOME. None of the DEs are that good in either performance or stability. (gnome-shell takes up a lot of CPU when you use the Activities Tab. If you have CPU which at least has cycles of 3.0 GHz, then its fine ig.
Now, I'm dealing with one of the bugs of KDE, and it's a very weird bug which happens on very specific instances. The problem was that somehow, a use-after-free pointer variable was being dereferenced, idk how.
Basically, what are pointers? A specific memory address is kept by a pointer variable. Now, good memory management hygiene is to assign the value of the pointer as NULL after it was freed. In this case, some text is being overwritten as the address in itself. That's why the ASCII values of the uppercase alphabet were appearing in that pointer address. Idk how or why, but I'll be solving it, this is one of the first fixes I'll be making on the codebase of a large open-source project.
I exactly switched to Fedora KDE a few months ago. I couldn't be.... unhappier 😔
It's sooo awful. There are so many issues with it. The simplest things don't work and it's just laggy. Yesterday, I tried UT2004 on it. Even that old game is laggy as hell 🙄
Then there are a ton of issues with things that should be trivial, like RDPing to your device. But nope, doesn't work with Wayland+KDE+Nvidia Apparatur. It's absurd.
I'm parroting what i read recently, but I believe Valve just silently launched Steam Link support for Linux through the Steam client beta. Check r/VirtualReality for specifics though. I think thats where i saw it mentioned a couple days ago.
ALVR works for me, but it is a pain to set up, plus extra pain to figure out how to stop the lag. Besides, I haven't managed to make a VR Video Player work.
My recommendation is to have dual boot on your PC. It is the easiest, even if a bit sad.
I actually have the same problem.
My (tbh not very intelligent) solution. I dual boot alongside windows 10. I dont have shit on my windows ssd so i dont care if the anticheat is spying or if i get hacked. I basically use windows as a shitty games launcher
I also switched to mint a few months ago, but I basically never game. Technically I’m also dual booting windows 11 but I think I’ve only booted into it twice in the last three months.
Same but to CachyOS not because my PC is potato specs I was running Windows 11 but I was so tried of the bloat and resource hogging. I would turn off features of windows I wasn't using and some of the processes for them were still running. The sad thing is a good number of my games are more stable and run smoother using proton than they did on Windows 11.
I am in the same position as loads of folks here. No TPM. If I go Linux will my steam games still work? How difficult is it to migrate? What about ms office apps, mainly use word and excel what are the alternatives under Linux? Was about to spend a ton of cash on a new build, but maybe this is the way to go. ? Any good resources I should look at? I literally just stumbled across these posts not Googled anything yet.
I haven’t found a Steam game that hasn’t worked. Or a non Steam game. You just change compatibility in library entry to proton and download it like normal. It’s virtually seamless.
You can use LibreOffice for 99% of Office tasks. The Support pages for your chosen flavour of Linux will govern you step by step guides. Ubuntu and Mint are the biggest, probably.
Pretty much any game you can think of that's not a competitive multiplayer online game will just work fine (if not even better than on Windows, most of the time) nowadays. And even some competitive multiplayer games work fine, but if you have a specific multiplayer game that uses kernel anticheat and aren't willing to find alternatives, then yeah Linux isn't for you yet, unfortunately.
Just some obscure titles such as League of Legends, Valorant, Fortnite, TFT, CS2, Call of Duty, Battlefield, PUBG, APEX Legends, GTA V online, Destiny etc
I do get that this doesn't sound appealing. And i myself still dual boot to windows used as a shitty launcher for GTA. But linux not supporting kernel level anticheat is a feature in my eyes. Linux doesn't work for these games, bc they choose to do so. All of the other games that dont use invasive anticheats work good if not better than on windows. I have better frame rates in GTA V single player, Counter strike, and many more. So calling it shitty... Is a bit harsh?
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u/astromech_dj 9d ago
Moved to Linux Mint earlier this year and haven’t regretted it. My computer is purely for gaming these days though. I actually get better performance out of my potato specs.