I have moved from Win 10 to Fedora. I know i should do the usual troll "no photoshop, no League of Legends" routine, but just imagine it, and let me tell you my exp.Note, I fiddled with this in a VM for a week to have a concrete post install script to set it up how I want. Minor hurdles right now include>one of my games does not work no matter what I do (Endless Space 2)>can't have full Visual Studio (bloated, but debugger and call stack drilling is goated)>gamepad refuses to work in XInput, works only in DInputGripes about setup (Fedora KDE specifically)>replacing secret service agent with Keepassxc needs fiddling with defaults, otherwise some programs sperg out>repo selection - I get it's some licensing issues, but holy shit, free, nonfree, fusion, tainted - surely this can be made more consolidated.>media compability - the whole autistic is it free approach to things like codecs, or ffmpeg, or gstreamer The "just werks" (for me):>steam with gayms>VSC with addons for my tech stack>net core>docker>unity >my hardware (minus the gamepad issue and needing to akmod nvidia driver) - works out of the box. Pretty new stuff too (last year).>firefox with my extensions>ironically i like the UX of KDE more than windows>dnf install software is such a nice thing to haveWhat I'm missing:>didn't find a good music playerWhat pissed me off the most during this whole endeavor:>try to find an answer to a problem - it's 57 different people arguing about pasting magic commands they don't understand to terminal and like 1 or 2 guys actually knowing their shit. Overall does it just work? Mostly, but you will have much greater result when fiddling in a vm beforehand and customizing your experience to fit your needs.If you fiddle - I am happy for now. Going on for a week and overcoming the initial rough edges I have a system I'm very happy about.Thanks for coming to my TED talk, subscribe to my blog for more like this.
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Very based reasonable poster.You didn't ask but:>can't have full Visual Studio (bloated, but debugger and call stack drilling is goated)Rider mogs VS even on windows. There's a free version now if you're poorfag.>replacing secret service agent with Keepassxc needs fiddling with defaults, otherwise some programs sperg outNot sure why you'd bother desu, secret service is different to a general password manager, just use the system default for system secrets and keep using keepassxc for passwords>didn't find a good music playerStrawberry is ugly as sin but easily the most feature complete player that just works on fuckhuge playlists
>>108607797>Rider mogs VS even on windows. There's a free version now if you're poorfag.Would disagree, but agree it's very good. May give it a try if Linux support is good.>Not sure why you'd bother desu, secret service is different to a general password manager, just use the system default for system secrets and keep using keepassxc for passwordsMain reason was kwallet config and popups were driving me insane.>Strawberry is ugly as sin but easily the most feature complete player that just works on fuckhuge playlistsChecking it out, don't care about ugly, I care if it works, thanks
>>108607772I'm using Audacious. It seems completely fine and has multiple skins but I dunno what features you are looking for.sudo dnf install audacious audacious-plugins-ffaudio
>>108607847Here's the look that makes old men happy
>>108607772>one of my games does not work no matter what I do (Endless Space 2)That one worked out of the box for me in Mint 22.Don't remember having any issues with it.
>>108607847Neat, adding it to checklist, thanks>>108607880Granted, I only play like maybe 10 games in total, but this is the only one that give me issues. GoG version, best I could do is a 1 second flash of window appearing and wine exiting all processes with code 0. I suspect some window grabbing issue or missing dependencies inside the container, but I can live without it for now
I also moved to Fedora KDE months ago anon>didnt find a good music playerI'm also on this kekMy PS4 controller just works, my old Wii U pro controller that its supposed to work, doesn't and refuses to get paired, so also a similar issue>media compatibility - the whole autistic is it free approach to things like codecs, or ffmpeg, or gstreamerdelete the default VLC player, download the VLC on flatpack, problem solved, for the most part, I think I only had to go out of my way to get the mp4 stuff iirc
>>108607797You were correct, pretty ugly, but absolutely nice to use. Cheers>>108607986I settled on this>sudo dnf config-manager setopt fedora-cisco-openh264.enabled=1>sudo dnf swap -y ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing>sudo dnf group install -y multimedia --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin>sudo dnf install -y libavcodec-freeworld x264 x265 gstreamer1-vaapi dav1d flac gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld --allowerasing
for Endless Space 2, did you try installing GE Proton? I recently got Enter The Gungeon (I don't have a powerful GPU) but it would not launch with Proton Experimental or whatever Steam uses as the default compatibility layer. It only launched after using GE Proton.
>>108608024yes, I run it in Lutris, tried everything from steam runner to my hand installed GE Proton to GE Latest option to going back to versions 8.x.x - nothing works. GoG version, same as other game I have from there, only this one doesn't work, setup the same as the rest.
>>108608021some tips for Strawberry, enable Repeat Playlist if you like to add a lot of random songs into one playlist. At least on my version of Strawberry, if I add a song to the queue, it appends the song to the end of the playlist but after it plays the song, it ends the entire playlist. Enabling Repeat Playlist + Shuffle gets rid of that. Or if you want to just listen to full albums, you don't have to enable those two play options
>>108607772>gamepad refuses to work in XInput, works only in DInputIs it a xbone controller?I had an issue with mine and I had to boot into windows to update the firmware, once I did that it worked flawlessly. Just turned it on and connected via bluetooth, no issues.I switched last week myself. Did the same thing, ran in a VM, fucked around, then did a dual boot for a week to make sure I could still WFH properly, and once I did that, I deleted windows, moved Arch to my nvme, and reformatted.I still have windows in a VM for the 2 work apps that simply do not work in Linux and a small windows partition just in case. The only thing I miss is Windows 11 paint. KolourPaint just doesn't cut it, so I mostly just use GIMP now.All my games just work. Some of them work better than on Windows. Expected a lot of issues because I heard Nvidia was a shit show, but they must have fixed stuff recently because it's been smooth.
its so strange to see newbies trying to replicate what they got on windows here, its such a wrong approach.
>>108608114>fuckedWe don't fuck around these parts. We fiddle
>>108608114It's an 8bitdo Ultimate 2 Wireless. XInput only works on Bluetooth, but is very laggy. DInput works flawlessly on wireless/bluetooth. Firmawre updated in VM machine since they don't have a linux software port.>>108608149so what, I should ditch everything I know, and learn everything from scratch? For what purpose? I moved to Linux because I like it better than Windows now, not because I want to stick it to MS or whatever.
>>108608190Nah, I fuck around in this hemisphere. Fiddling is molesting in our slang. I don't want to molest my OS.
>>108608190we diddle
>>108607772i would move to linux instantly if i could play league of legends. Ive been horribly addicted to that game for over half my life now.
>>108607772>didn't find a good music playerI recommend strawberry.
>Endless Space 2https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=35297
I also moved from Fedora to Windows, and had a lot of small annoying issues. I think I'll move to Bazzite, or maybe Mint
>>108609579I tried it on and off over the last 2 or 3 years, when something that mattered to me was not working, i simply went back to windows and waited. Now that it does work, I moved. Everyone should evaluate themselves, not follow the cargo cult tribes.
>>108607772Godspeed Also download 1 or 2 linux books
I have too many PCs to switch and I understand too much about how to do things in Windows to relearn that.
>>108607772if all youre missing is games that need anti cheat well I'd say you wouldnt be missing much
>>108607772>What I'm missing:>>didn't find a good music playerYeah, there's nothing like foobar2000 and I don't mean just the music playback part, but the different components you can add for transcoding, lyric fetching, etc.Same with the video player, there's nothing like PotPlayer which lets you drag another file as an audio stream, re-time subtitles for different frame rates and much more.Same again with the image viewer Honeyview/Bandiview open instantly, don't chug even with large files and cache the previous/next image so you can flip through a large photo folder quickly, and the interface gets out of the way.Even the pdf viewers aren't as convenient and fast as SumatraPDF that lets you zoom in and out with the RMB+Scroll (super convenient on desktop).I wish they would just port these programs to Linux, because I don't expect the FOSS offerings to match these programs any time soon.
>>108607772Thanks but I'm a grown man with real job and responsibilities
>>108607772>>didn't find a good music playerSame here. Nothing on Linux comes close to MusicBee. Try Tauon, it's still playlist based but best one I could find out of the 20+ I tried. Theres also gapless but it's even more basic, upside are the looks.
>>108607772>>one of my games does not work no matter what I do (Endless Space 2)https://www.protondb.com/app/392110>>can't have full Visual Studio (bloated, but debugger and call stack drilling is goated)Yes you can.>>gamepad refuses to work in XInput, works only in DInputWhat controller?
