>7800X3D>RTX4080>64 GB Ram>nvme samsung 990 pro and 970 evo plus (2TB)Should I take the step? I have backed up all my data, etc.I'm already use my MBP for work and don't need windows at all. I only play old games or emulate stuff on my win pc.
>>109044943the TV is 4K but my Monitor is mirrored to the tv.
depending on what you emulate, you can also do the same on GNU/LinuxIdk what old games you play but in my case I found it annoying to play Touhou via Lutris. Nothing wrong with trying out a dual boot.
I don't know how well NVIDIA works nowadays but yeah you have pretty much the ideal use case for getting rid of Windows
>>109044943>Should I take the step?Yes, I'm proud of you, anon. Just do it, make computing fun again, learn something new, enjoy all the Emulators, enjoy games in general (but rip Fortnite, CoD and Riot Games). Linux is so much more than fucking Gayming. If you have problems, just ask claude all LLMs are trained on Linux data.If your usecase is older games, emulation, singleplayer, 4chin, emails... there is no reason to have Windoze shoulder watching you, unless you need Adobe and Kernel Level Anti Cheat.
anon you are not supposed to mention such things as memorycards unless its /p/
>>109044943>two GPUs usecase?
Try bazzite first before pulling the trigger
>>109044943>nvidia
>>109044943I have an RTX 4080 and I’m on CachyOS too. Everything works great, so I’d say go for it.> used to run Fedora, but after one major kernel update my NVIDIA drivers broke and the whole system became unusable> had no time to fix that mess, so I switched completely to Windows 10 IoT LTSC> it was stable, but the workflow and UI felt outdated, WSL sucks for daily use, and I missed my almost zero-tinkering GNOME setup> this year found out about CachyOS and how much better it is compared to other distros> started using it, NVIDIA drivers just work, everything is stable, and rolling back after an update is easy if anything goes wrong
>>109045374From my experience, NVIDIA these days is mostly fine on gnu/linux, it's got hurdles with hardware acceleration on some software but most issues are resolved with recent versions, including wayland support
>>109045374My 5070 works perfectly fine with Arch.
>>109044943if you have 2 drives and wanna ditch winblows just install cachy on one and keep winblows on the other in case you need it.its what i did when switching to fedora and after a few months i never touched the winblows drive so i just wiped windows from it and used it for something else.also another note on cachy: there's a massive shitshow in the AUR right now with tons of AUR packages (atlest 1300) being hacked. mostly old orphaned ones but be careful when installing anything from AUR these days >>1090454312 GPUs is actually great in many usecases i wish i got an IGPU in my system. when running local LLMs or playing VR titles you can run your GPU without any display output or the desktop/various programs sitting on the vram since you use the IGPU for your desktop
>>1090454317800x3d is a CPUdon't know why AMD likes to keep the same fucking naming scheme for both CPUs and GPUs
I switched about 2 years ago and have not regretted it despite some teething issues. And soon the last big annoyance will be gone too as HDMI 2.1 support for AMD will come later this summer probably.
>>109045479How is GNOME on CachyOS? Used to hate the foot but now want simpler setups
>>109044943you should definitly switch since you arent trapped to any bullshit software that can only run on windowsall games run on linux except those with malware anti-cheatsi recommend going with a more newbie friendly distro for a year or two and then when you understand linux better switch to cachy IF you want (i personally sticked to a newbie distro because it works for me)some things on linux are diferent and it takes a while to understand how they workmy recomendations are mint, zorin or fedoraalso a small tip because people always tell newbies switching to linux that the terminal is scary: those people are fucking retarded and you should not listen to them. i spent YEARS fixing windows with its terminal because every update those jeets released would corrupt files and cause system instability. the terminal is your friend. you dont have to use it all the time but you should learn how to use it.
Windows died after 7.
>>109044943Wait until the Arch AUR attack is mitigated.
>>109044943that's what I did, I use my MBP for work and installed Linux on my desktop for geymen, 10/10 would recommend
>>109047697based
>>109047644elaborate
>>109048384CachyOS is an Arch derivative. A lot of the software you'll use will come from the AUR, a user-maintained repository that hosts third-party apps. It's really nice to use.As of yesterday, an attack has surfaced on the AUR. It seems that some person snuck into some orphaned packages and injected a rootkit into them. If you as much as simply install them, you're fucked: it steals your crypto, your cookies, your passwords, etc.The AUR is not supposed to be this bad and a bad actor gaining control so easily and quickly means that something is seriously rotten in there.https://www.sonatype.com/blog/atomic-arch-npm-campaign-adds-malicious-dependency
>>109048384>>109031268
>>109048550This is why containerization is necessary. Can't wait for Flatpak 2/Next.
>>109048597Flatpak sucks and is also pozzed.
Made some gparted acrobatics to dual boot windows.Had to enable safe mode before disabling some intel storage bios settings.All in all great, even moved my batman save files (thanks voices38) and the xbox controller works greatI wanted keep windows for firmware updates just in caseCachyos is pretty snappy with kde plasma, would suggest
>>109048384Some skiddies are sniping abandonware with less than 1000 downloads. Nothingburger./g/eets just love to hate on arch.Ubuntu got a much worse hack earlier in the year and nobody made threads about it.
>>109048693big number more scarier
>>109048701It’s probably just someone running an LLM to scrape for easy abandonware targets.Easy af to fix for on the AUR’s side of things.
>>109048693>Ubuntu got a much worse hack earlier in the year DDoS'd, not user-facing malware>nobody made threads about itrevisionism2 strikes, anon
>>109048743You'd think this shit would just go read only if the maintainer left and a fork would have to be made but that would make too much sense wouldn't it
>>109048810Sorry i meant Xubuntu, no Ubuntu. And yeah it was pretty bad, website hacked and a Xubuntu_installer.exe trojan kind of ordeal.
>>109046317No complaints, works as intented
OP here. Today is the day. I will install it and kill both of my nvme SSDs.
OP here again. I read all the stuff about the AUR thing. Should I still install CachyOS. Because this Shelly thing allows to download AUR packages and some users said CachyOS comes with pre installed AUR packages too.
>>109052306CachyOS maintains their packages on their own repositories. It does come with paru (a pacman helper that can handle AUR packages) and Shelly if you absolutely need a GUI, but you'll never have AUR packages unless you explicitly install them. I only ever use pacman anyway.
macs have:>soldered SSD/RAM/WLANdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>when pajeetOS runs out of RAM it swapfile rapes the SSD to death within 3 yearsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>when the SSD dies it bricks your entire currybook because the EFI is stored on the soldered SSD to save $0.05 on a dedicated chipdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>components serial numbered and tied to the motherboard to prevent repair and replacement (including battery)doesnt exist on 99% of PCs>riveted keyboard that requires total destruction of the chassis to replacedoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>flexgate cables that are so brittle they crack from opening your screen past 90 degrees more than 2 dozen timesdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>screens so fucking shit they have over 90ms response times (essentially 10Hz)doesnt exist on 99% of PCs>screen made from pajeet trash glass that cracks from temperature change in seasons or tape over the iBotnet webcamdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>so fire and explosion prone the FAA have banned them from all flightsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>uses phone CPU that's so shit it gets destroyed by decade old i3s from 2017 and can only "compete" by cheating at benchmarks in extreme edge cases with hardware acceleratorsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>curryniggers at apploo get so full of sniffing their own currynigger silicon shit they ship currybooks with no fans and they run so hot they melt the keyboard keysdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>keyboards with 63.5% failure rateunheard of on PCs, and yet you curryniggers defend it with "jus werx fer me!"just because you're in the 36.5% survivor group doesn't make your currynigger trash any goodthis list goes on foreverthere's no PC laptop as total fucking currynigger shit as crapple's streetshitter booksthey are the biggest heaps of steaming currynigger shit in the history of computing second only to curryPhones
>>109044943>Should I take the step? I have backed up all my data, etc.sure go for itGNU/Linux has its issues ofcbut I'd rather deal with those than with the shitshow that is Windows and modern OSX/macOS
>>109045374The biggest issue with gaming is that games like Rust or Valorant want Kernel level access to your hardware since they can't logically just ban a player based on them doing god like things like flying across the map and climbing vertically up walls but will ban plays for stand on a horse or each other
>>109048550>A lot of the software you'll use will come from the AURWhy does this keep getting parotted? I've been using Arch for 5+ years and only have 3 AUR packages installed, all of which are entirely unnecessary.
>>109052747So even CachyOS is mostly AUR free?
>>109052954>mostly AUR freeNTA but anon, you will not have anything from the AUR with a fresh CachyOS install, you can only get packages from the AUR if YOU go out of your way to install them.
>>109053025Okay, thx blessed anon. I post later in this thread. Time to kill Windows.
>>109044943>goodbye windows>hello aur malwaretop kek
>>109044943Sure go for it, if you're having a good time. Personally, I'd keep windows on a separate hard drive, accessible with a different boot option. That way when (and it's definitely "when", not "if") there's a program that you need to run on Windows, be it a game or something else, you still have the option.I boot mainly into Ubuntu on my desktop, and have Ubuntu as the only OS on my personal and work laptops. I'm having a great time. Development is a lot of fun and easy to do compared to Windows, which is mostly what I do.
>>109053093>there's a program that you need to run on Windows, be it a game or something else, you still have the option.But I already work on macOS. And I don't play Online Games with crude Anti Cheat.
>>109044943Linux mint
>>109053190That's true, I was assuming your MBP was strictly for work. I don't put a single personal thing on my work laptop and vice versa.
