Should I move my PC over to Linux or is it a meme?My PC is running Windows 11 but Microsoft's comments about becoming an agentic OS have got me thinking about finally switching.Not sure if my specific hardware is relevant or not so here's what I've got:7800x3D4070ti Super32GB RAM4TB SSD and 8TB HDDNot sure if this is relevant at all but I play on a 1440p monitor and I have a secondary cable going to my TV to play in 4K from the couch.Sometimes I plug in a drawing tablet for art stuff but I mostly do that from my laptop which I'll probably keep on windows for now.I used to dual boot Ububtu on a laptop like 12 years ago so I have some experience using Linux but the dual boot experience was kind of shitty and there were audio problems (audio sounded like absolute shit, idk why). I eventually switched back to windows. But it sounds like Linux has come a long way?
>>725986862It's a meme. Programming socks are in your future if you install Linux. You'll also have an insatiable urge to install Adobe Photoshop™ as soon as you boot Linux.
>>725986862>ubuntuno wonder it was shit since gnome is shitinstall mint xfce to help ease you in
>>725987091also i have the house computer running on mint xfce since it will run like shit if its on windows and my parent can use it with no issue and theyre both 60
>>725986862i would say try fedora kde its what i am using you have to enable a third party repo for your drivers and codecs after installing it though
>>725986862People say Nvidia drivers suck on Linux. Good luck.
whatever you do don't do fedora, everything is read only>my stupid ass when you can't even install Java
>>725986862if you're gonna use nvidia get cachyos or some other gamer distro that won't try to shove in the nouveau drivers first and make you uninstall and blacklist them, they just install the nvidia drivers automatically. Also if you're gonna use a drawing tablet kde will recognize it and the second screen, so you wont have to mess with drivers and configure it. So far every game I tried on steam works well and lots of games i had installed on windows will run when added on steam as non steam game with proton
>>725986862try it out a distro yourself. gaming on linux is okay but some features are missing. I like to use DSR so I keep windows around. Just dual boot, no need to get rid of windows unless you're really against them
>>725987619Just sudo retardBut I get it, its kinda stupid how the OS won't let you do anything unless you do the thing that gives you all permissions, which will let you fuck up things. In a way it makes thing less safe than if it just gave you some basic permissions so you wouldn't have to use it for everything. And I'm too lazy to look up how permission groups work on linux when I can just sudo and be done with it
>>725986862whatever distro you choose is gonna be missing some features from windows, maybe you could try it on your laptop first
OP is coming out from xheir shell, xhe's cute ;3
>>725988040that might be true, but I can guarantee when you start messing with bash and learn everything you can do on linux, it will far outweigh whatever feature you were missing from windows.
>>725986862Yeah bro the biggest gaming distributor of all time is just pushing Linux for a laugh.
>>725986862Dual boot will always be kinda shit, audio works perfectly nowadays. I recommend just sticking to Linux only if you don't need your computer for work that can't be done on it. Tablets work just fine, but most commercial art software doesn't. As for the distro, I always recommend Arch with KDE or GNOME, its "hard" to install for the first time but it doesn't get on your way, doesn't assume insane defaults and has the most software of any distro. If you have the time to learn it's definitely worth it
>>725986862It depends entirely in what you like to playIs it FOTM multiplayer games with malware kernel level anticheat?If yes, don't botherIf no, you might like it
>>725987993to quote my seething on /g/>get Bazzite anon, it's the GAMER OS>install>runs fine for anything on steam>try to run a Minecraft server>can't install necessary dependencies because Bazzite is read-only>try to run it through a box>have to open the terminal and cd just to run the software>hours of troubleshooting just to run the server>can't expose it to the internetnoob trap
>>725987091>>725987459also xfce has this if you wanna still feel like its the 90s
>>725989247you will never be a woman/windows/woman+windows
i use linux for everything including gaming. i havent had a problem with it on steam, but make sure you use proton so the possibilities are endless :3
>>725989178idk how bazzite works but you just install with your package manager, sudo apt install openjdk or something, and not being able to expose it might have something to do with your ports idk this isnt tech support
>>725989536>idk how bazzite works butthen dont make a post about it retard
>>725989665how do you install things in bazzite?
>>725989763https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/
>>725989536>>725989178>To run a Minecraft server on Bazzite, the recommended approach is to use Podman with Quadlets to run the server as a containerized servicewhy do linux devs suck at naming things
>>725989763it all has to be flatpacks
>>725986862>NvidiaGood luck
>>725989945aren't amd drivers even worse? that's what i always heard
>>725989825ok so its fedora based, just sudo dnf install openjdk wow so hard>>725989886flatpacks suck and you should avoid them whenever something is in your distro's repos
>>725986862Complete meme.
>>725990036amd and intel have been supporting linux forever now
>>725986862I use CachyOS with similar specs, though I have Windows installed on a second drive for games that refuse to run on Linux.
Fedora with the KDE Plasma Edition, do not use atomic/immutable meme shit.>>725987091OP wants to use multiple screens and probably wants to use modern gayming features so he needs Wayland out of the box. That means no xfce.
>>725990036On Windows. The open source AMD/Intel driver Mesa is excellent.
>>725989763>Open Discover (the app store)>Search for a program>Download itDone
Use nobara
>>725986862if you have to ask stick to wangblows
>>725990036Yeah. On windows HAHAHA
>>725990146Immutable distro, anon. Can't use dnf
>>725989178retardhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_permissions_and_attributes
>>725989945Nvidia is fine on Linux now.
>>725990036>that's what i always heardyou fell for shill campaigns, amd drivers were bad 20 years ago, now they are equal with nvdia.
>>725990775Oooh I get it...But why?
>>725990839>dumps a bunch of gobbledygook onto a windows refugee and calls him retarded while expecting him to understandI need context for how all this shit works, anon. I don't want to be retarded but this doesn't help me without a frame of reference, that being said I'm already considering dropping Bazzite because the immutable shit only seems useful for a home entertainment system, it's making it harder to learn than it should be
>>725986986>Programming socks are in your future if you install LinuxI'm a software engineer though>>725987091I'm really not sure what distro I would even go with but I don't think it would be ubuntu again>>725987575Well, that's reason enough not to switch.
>>725987914Not sure what the purpose of dual booting would be. My desktop is mostly used for gaming and some light game dev. Switching to Linux for miniscule other things sounds retarded.
>>725991684The context is there, that is a perfect explanation on what the command does, how to use it and examples of so, can you not fucking read retard? Stick to windows.
>>725991034Guarantees that everyone has the same system settings. Makes troubleshooting, searching for answers, tech support and updates much easier. It also prevents newbies for going for the most popular footguns.
>>725988067Go back to pol
>>725988449Nobody said that. It's also worth noting that their device has AMD hardware. I have an Nvidia GPU, and some other anons in this thread said that might cause problems.
>>725986862honk honk linux is bretty gud :3 but maybe get an ez modo version like mint.
>>725991725>Well, that's reason enough not to switch.Because some retard parroted something that hasn't been true for years? Stay on windows, I guess.
nonot worth it. as soon as there is some software you want that isn't on linux you will be butthurt
>>725990036Linux is AMD land, even if AMD releases shit drivers you can be sure there's people that will fix the drivers for you eventually. You can't say the same for Nvidia.
>>725991871No, fuck you. This page sucks and you suck but I'm going to figure it out anyways, then write a tutorial on it. Faggot.
>>725986862>should I downgrade my PC or is it a meme?
>>725991871Can you not be a complete faggot about it. The guy clearly wants to learn but lacks the proper context to understand.
>>725991684Yeah, you're pretty much correct. I wouldn't recommend bazzite if you want to do any system level operations. Great for gaming and web browsing but that's it.
It's a meme, meme, but I use it, because it's a meme, and because I want to own my computer.
>>725991871
>>725986862Just install it, it's fine. I have better setup than you but about the same breakdown amd cpu, nividia gpu and it works? Nividia are retarded but it's been pretty fine with the 5070ti.
>>725991684It's the arch wiki it's fucking way better than anything fucking windows offers
>>725986986How much different is it to pirate software on Linux?
>>725986862>>725986986Actual meme. Just instal Windows 10 LTSC or Windows 11 LTSC. As long as it’s specifically LTSC. Has all bloat ripped out by default
>>725995716>As long as it’s specifically LTSC. Has all bloat ripped out by defaultlol
>>725986862I recently switched to Cachy (Arch) after avoiding anything Arch based due to how insufferable the users are.They were right. It's literally the best. There are a slew of issues I had that I figured were just Linux, but were indeed Ubuntu issues. Not a single one has reared its head since I switched to Cachyos, one of which was audio crackling or even completely breaking at times til I restsrted the audio service.I completely understand why they shill Arch so heavily now. It comes less preconfigured, but is the better choice without question. I feel really dumb for avoiding it for so long just because of the vocal users.
>>725995716>what is Windows telemetry>>725986862Oh, and Nvidia driver support doesn't suck on Linux. They're just delayed. Expect brand new drivers for brand new games to come 1-2 months late. Sometimes this is a major issue, other times it isn't one at all.
>>725995927Yes nigger, that’s exactly what it does.
I have cachyos fatigue
>>725995936>due to how insufferable the users areWhere do you even hang out that you would get this opinion? Distrowar ragebait threads? Twitter? It seems like a self inflicted problem.
>>725987619regular fedora isn't like that>>725989178people should stop recommending bazzite for PC use, it's better for console/handheld type thing. people recommend it for noobs because it's harder to break the system, but if you want to do more tinkery things you run into issues like that.
>>725986862Its okayPros:>zero telemetry >lots of documentation to retard proof your experience>very customizable Cons:>lack of software and features>hardware and software anomalies that sre incomprehensible >depending on how you get your software it can be several times larger in file size than windowsI wont lie to you like a lot of faggots here. I cant get mango hud to work and ive been on linux for several years now. I just installed guitar hero 3 from a disc and the process was a nightmare. Games are on average more stable than Windows but you run into more visual bugs because compatability layers. My controller has the left analog stick as the dpad by default. I have to launch retroarch 2 or 3 times to get audio out of it. It is not hassle free but once you are able to do cool shit like having animated wall papers or booting straight into kodi for a television type experience with one click on the sddm (login screen) it ain't so bad
>>725996353I don't hangout anywhere. That's the thing. If I had, I probably would've seen normal arch users. It's the fact that I DON'T hang out anywhere and the only people who bring up Arch outside of such spaces are insufferable fart sniffing dorks.
>>725989178>>725989826yeah bazzite isn't really a server OS but you can definitely install a MC server through containers. i'd help but i don't know how what the meta is on minecraft servers. you DO have podman installed though.
>>725989178>>725997742also if you're on a bazzite you do have distrobox installed too. this gives you the option to install a mutable distro on top of your OS and from there you can install the minecraft server. good if it's not a permanent thing.
Is there any reason not to go with LTSC over Linux Mint?Is it still spyware?
>>725998234I hear if you ask bill gates nicely in the command prompt he'll stop spying on youjust type "net send * please stop spying on me"
>>725989178>podman run -e EULA=TRUE -it --rm -p 25565:25565 ghcr.io/itzg/minecraft-server brings up a temporary minecraft server
>>725995634Hard to say. I don't think he's ever used Linux
>>725998820HAHA SO FUCKING FUNNY YOU STUPID CUNT LITERALLY PISSED MYSELF LAUGHING THANKS RETARDI don't fucking know anything about it which is why I'm asking.
>>725999057goes without saying this is ephemeral and won't keep data. if you want to keep it i think you have to add "-v yourdatadirectory:/data" with yourdatadirectory being where you want to keep saves
>>725999063he made his own linux when he hacked power stations for blizzard
If I run a windows game on linux, and I set the wine prefix to something like /home/myusername/games/nameofthegame, but then later I choose to uninstall the game, is it enough to just right click the game in lutris and then click remove, or do I also have to manually delete the folder under the games directory?
>>726000067Pretty sure lutris includes a "also delete the folder" option. It wipes the prefix but not the game files for me because I keep the installers/loose files for pirated shit in a separate folder.
>>725986862yes, its at a point where if you arent doing something super specific that NEEDS windows, you should switch. (read: cannot work with wine, or windows VM) linux is as easy or as autistic as you want to make it. was on mint for ~3 years before switching to arch omarchy btw. My socks should be here by monday but i truly enjoy using my computer again and am realizing just HOW locked down windows actually fucking is. the .exe is nice but theres a lot thats nice about being able to >windows key (super) + alt + space>install>type "steam">enter>steam is now installedand plenty of faster ways to actually install the shit that you want. Proton is literally a gift that gaben has given us as far as gaming. Piracy just werks, old games (mostly) just werk. At some point people are putting more effort into staying on windows than it would to learn what sudo apt install does.
>>726000991There are people that spend more time daily defending windows for FREE here than it would take to install a simple linux distro. You can't save everyone I suppose.
>>726001724I like TronI've yet to see anyone spam the thread with racebait edits and posts of her though
Are we stooping so low as to start gossiping about artists making OC of characters you don't like?
>>725992023I had an nvidia card until a couple of years and it wasn't too bad. As long as you make sure to install the proprietary driver and not the open source one almost everything will work, you won't have access to the most advanced features (or so they say, I never really missed anything) and performance will likely be a bit worse than on windows but that's it.This is mostly because until a short while ago nvidia entyrely refused to give any documentation to the open source driver developers, which wouldn't be too terrible if they gave proper attention to their proprietary ones, which they don't. This started changing last year when they started releasing some documentation, so if the trend continues we will soonᵗᵐ have an open source one as good as amd's.
>>726001793not even installing the distro. The fact that you can make a FREE live usb of nearly every FREE distro is just inexcusable at a point. its like trying to teach someone who constantly complains about internet ads or that netflix took off their favorite show, to pirate or at the very least use stremio. Unless you literally stand in the room with the remote they arent even going to try and engage with it for whatever reason.
>>725987575works on my machine
>>725986862its not a meme windows literally gets worse every single day
>>725987914its 2025 everybody should be really against windows. fuck microdick
>>725991950go back to lgbt
>>725987914There's less and less reason to dual boot.Most CPUs come with an iGPU now, most people still use Nvidia and most distros have support for PCI passthrough, so it's super easy to just spool up a Windows VM, get more powerful tools from the host Linux and avoid Windows sabotage at the host level.
>>726006095>gpu passthroughit's a pita, even on amd. hopefully the steam machine will sway more developers into making a linux anti cheat solution which will remove the need for windows altogether.
I made the switch 8 months ago and so far i've been able to play every game I wanted. Even MMOs. I heard shit like Fortnite or cowaduty do t work but who cares about that shit.
>>726009301>who cares about that shit.most people unfortunately, these multiplayer microtransactions fest are the most played games by far. 90% of games might run on linux, but certainly not 90% of the games that players are spending all their hours on.
currently enjoying some kingdom cum 1 on my 9800x3d, 7900xt, 32gig ram pc at 2k resolution and 120+fps (around 80 on towns) with archlinux and i3. feels good not being on winblows anymore
>>725987575people are parroting out of date information the drivers work fine now
>>725992504https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3709this is not true, amd has had issues with x11 hardware cursors being completely broken and cpu usage being abnormally high on 7000 and 9000 gpus (meaning the majority of window managers dont work). also hdmi 2.1 doesnt work on amd although thats for reasons out of there control. the only benefit amd has over nvidia is the dx12 performance is better in rastarisation (but nvidia still performs better overall especially with RT because they simply make more powerful gpus). the meme that only amd drivers work on linux hasnt been true for years now, the rtx 5000 series drivers have less bugs than the 9000 amd drivers
>>726009858>nvidia works fineexcept when you play dx12 games. except if you want to use wayland. it's still very far from the seamless experience of aymd.
>>725990226>so he needs Wayland out of the boxGaming works fine with x11, what are you talking about
>>726010056>not using wayland in 2025god the linux ecosystem is slow to adapt to new shit. GNOME has had wayland as the default since 2017.
>>726010056>No HDR>No VRR (if multiple displays)>Different refresh rates cause stutter>No fractional scalingX11 is worthless for gaming now
>>726010118no one except "people" who care about transition effects use gayland
>>726009301General rule of thumb is that multiplayer games with kernel level anticheat do not work, so stuff like battlefield, fortnite etc, however some may work, like helldivers 2.
>>726009983No one unironically uses dx12 when dxvk exists and there are workarounds for wayland.
>>726010168is that a tranny reference? x11 has been deprecated for like 10 years, and deemed unmaintable by its own developers who moved to wayland. at this point it's only maintained by redhat who occasionally throw in a bugfix.>>726010253most games don't give you a choice, it's either vkd3d or get bent.
Arch+KDE+Wayland works on my machine. Used to be Nvidia but now I'm with AMD (9070XT). Steam games work out of the box, non steam games need a Heroic Launcher or Lutris entry and that's it 99% of times.
>>726009858they don't, not even the desktop environment works as expected on NvidiaI tried this shit last week go fuck yourself
>>726010345>at this point it's only maintained by redhat who occasionally throw in a bugfix.and that's the best kind of software. you're basically beta testing troonland.
>>725986862I'm going to do it within a couple weeks. Not a meme but probably still annoying for most people just because of relearning shortcuts and having to swap from certain programs.
>>726010623>relearning shortcutsnot really a thing, you can customize everything on linux, even on GNOME. but yeah, you're going to have to find alternatives for some core programs.
>>726010623The hardest thing was just getting used to the filesystem imo. Oh, also fstab will be your first boss likely if you have multiple drives like it was mine.Everything else was just weird little things I got over or just tolerate because the alternative is so much worse.
>>726010535>beta testing 17 year old softwareIt's an abstract kind of hell.
>>726010858>fstab will be your first bossit's not the first time i've seen this opinion, does kde like not have a front end to deal with fstab?
>>726010858>mount everything in the right spot>genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab>done
>>726010973In my case, the gui did nothing.>>726011097Its easy once you actually know what you're looking for. Trying to google that shit without even knowing the word fstab is the initial hurdle.
>>726010858Administrating a linux PC isn't even a problem any more. I added a drive yesterday and asked chatGPT to give me the commands to format, encrypt, add a filesystem, generate a keyfile, add keyfile to LUKS, and add auto unlock on boot to crypttab
>>726012741oh, and mount*
Being an nvidia user on linux is kind of suffering.I cannot set my monitor to its max refresh rate if I want to use adaptive sync.On wayland I have to run applications through xwayland in order to get decent performance (firefox stutters on wayland mode). I use Wayland because I do use HDR.Gamescope is buggy on nvidia as well. I often think of switching to a setup where, if I want to play with HDR, I just have a gamescope session separately, but that doesn't work so well and I get a crash here and there (and I haven't managed to find a way to enable VRR on a gamescope session, only HDR works well).Can't undervolt properly.Nvidia driver updates are as exciting as terrifying, because sometimes they break to the point you can't even use certain resolutions anymore.I'm pretty much ignoring any gaming performance issues at this point, I'm not even bothered about that anymoreThe only good things about nvidia on linux I've seen so far: VRR works over HDMI 2.1, had less trouble with getting davinci resolve to work well, and that's about it.
>>725986862I switched to Arch half a year ago. Distro doesn't matter much beyond what package manager and default repos you prefer to have. Bazzite or Nobara are probably the easiest choices if you just want something that runs games.For software compatibility most games in Steam will work through Proton out of the box. Sometimes a specific version of Proton has better compatibility, but that amounts to looking the game at Protondb and changing it on the launch option dropdown menu. Lutris does a similar thing for games outside steam.Software that will not work is games with kernel level anticheat. Includes stuff made by Riot Games, newer Battlefields and Fortnite. Also Adobe software, but I've personally always drawn on Krita so it newer bothered me.
Does modding bethesda games still suck ass on Linux? It's one of the few things keeping me a dualboot cuck at this point
>>725992023>>725986862>I have an Nvidia GPU, and some other anons in this thread said that might cause problems.AMD GPU's certainly do have a higher success rate of just working out the box with Troonix with zero tinkering in my personal experience but so long as your not using some obscure meme distro or running bleeding edge beta software in your PC your 4070ti will probably work just fine. Worst comes to worst you might have to downgrade or upgrade your GPU drivers depending on whatever problem you run into.
>>726013490modding in general is basically hacking the game to work the way you want it to, it's buggy even on windows. short answer is it's gonna depend on the game and the mods you want to install. wine compatibility isn't perfect but it's getting better.
I will find those who tricked me into installing Manjaro
>>726013527Uh, airflow?!
>>726013564manjaro sucks balls, what you should've installed is gentoo.
>>726013564>I will find those who tricked me into installing ManjaroI fell for the joke too anon, once shit randomly started breaking I immediately just went back to PopOS. Never gonna fall for the 'retard proof arch based distro' meme again.t. professional retard
>>726013564Believe it or not there's still people out there recommending it.And worse of it all, people comparing it to Endeavour and CachyOS because "it's a derivative, they're all the same thing!".
>>726010858Doesn't your distro have a GUI for disk management?
Hi guys, op here.I decided to keep it on Windows for now. Reading the comments made it really clear that Linux is still a retarded meme OS. Thanks for the help everybody, much appreciated.I'll think about it again if Microsoft ever does that agentic bullshit but for now I'm not going to bother with it.
>>726013971>I'll think about it again if Microsoft ever does that agentic bullshitsee you tomorrow.
>>726013546Good to know, thanks for the realistic answer
>>726013971oh and before I forgot, I suck cocks btw
>>726013971>I'll think about it again if Microsoft ever does that agentic bullshit but for now I'm not going to bother with it.Nah I don't think you will.That "agentic" bullshit can be replaced with "copilot". "Recall". "Pluton". "TPM". "Hardware attestation". Really it doesn't fucking matter. There's a controversy about Windows every fucking month since the 90s. Nothing will make you, or many people, change. It doesn't even matter because everytime they talk about these ominous things, they fail to implement them properly.
>>725986862>Should I move my PC over to LinuxYes you shouldDidn't read rest of the post though
>>725990221Same situation for me.Been on cachy for half a year and barely use windows anymore.
I've been using arch for about 2 years and it has never broken to the point I need to troubleshoot it, I don't get posts like >>726013752 what are you even doing with your system that it breaks?
>>726010973It does but it sucks and confusing. I use Gnome disc on KDE. It's probably the only thing that Gnome does better.
>>725986862I will give you an actual real guide from someone that has distrohopped the most on /v/, probably in the world.I have used EVERY SINGLE DISTRO under the sun, for multiple weeks too. One month I did a new distro every day, I wipe my system constantly. The only distro that is actually good as of right now is KDE Linux, it is in Alpha but it fucking works. However, it doesn't work with Nvidia cards yet because it is alpha but keep it on your list OP and move to it when it supports Nvidia. Anyways, don't use Ubuntu, i tried to love it for years but so many problems, same with Mint, Gentoo, Arch, Debian etc. The only distro I'd really recommend is KDE Linux but I can't since you have wrong card, so I have to recommend you PikaOS Linux. That uses Gnome but actually works. I only use KDE Linux because I prefer KDE now but PikaOS is goated out the fucking wazoo. These are my opinions after 5 years of using new distros every week and wiping my system constantly. KDE Linux (10/10) and PikaOS. https://wiki.pika-os.com/en/homehttps://kde.org/linux/Also, i will get flamed by other people here probably but I instantly move to a new distro if I encounter ANY problem, however small, and PikaOS and KDE Linux have served me well.
>>726017332>recommending KDE DE to new usersopinion automatically discarded.
>>726017435It's just the experience I've had as professional distrohopper
>>726017469i'm sure it's fine for power users that are already experienced with linux.but recommending anything in beta to new users is downright malicious. whether it's KDE distro or fucking cosmic.
Is there any non-esoteric tutorial for the Arch install (with clean drive encryption/backup system)?
>>726017332bait
>>726017709the arch install script will get you set up with whatever you want.if you want more there's the arch wiki. RTFM.
How do I minimuze input lag and latency on linux? What distro and DE should I run? I've tweaked my windows and it feels much better than linux
>>725986862I got tired of W10 bs and moved Bazzite since Januray, despite not being able to play BF1 due to EA's borking it, I've had no problems using it. I know is a meme distro, but when I get some free time and extra memory I'll give other distros a chance.
>>726017840x11 with disabled composition
>>726018367thanks
>>726018367>let's sacrifice the compositor for an extra 2ms latencyyou can probably do better with a minimal wayland client.
>>726020262I'm new to linux and wayland is already shit with firefox the catalog stutters.
>>725987575The driver itself is performant, it's the dealing with it that can be a pain in the ass. CUDA, NVENC, Vulkan (DXVK) games all work fine for me.
>>726020402works on my machine.wayland is just a protocol, you're very dependant on your compositor. KDE's wayland implementation is still relatively recent. in other words, blame KDE.
>>726020559Well I'm trying to understand this without crying to /g/ or anyone else. So far I'm really not caring for linux where my ancient windows 7 install runs better and just werks
>>726020685wayland is not like x11, everyone is reimplementing the compositor instead of having one shared implementation.so each compositor, mutter, kwin, wlroots, hyperland... will each behave differently and have different bugs.
>>725987575Good thing they work so fucking well on Windows
What's the most lightweight performant mouse-compatible at the moment?
>>725986862Linux has never been a meme, people have only always been stupid.The difference between Apple users and Android users. Apple is for Tech illiterates an Android for power users.Linux is and aleays has been next level. If there's a problem, it's just you.
>>726021589>Android = Linuxnot this shit again
>>726009983>except if you want to use wayland.All I've used is wayland and it just works
>>725987575NVIDIA driver performance is worse than AMDFor comparison.Windows = 100%AMD Linux drivers = 92%NVIDIA Linux Drivers = 86%However, what NVIDIA doesn't have in performance, NVIDIA has in stability compared to AMD.NVIDIA Drivers are MORE stable than AMD.>t. someone with a dual gpu laptop(amd and nvidia) that tried linux for 6 months
>>726021995>man uses a fucking laptop and claims to be the master of GPUslollmao
>>726022090Feel free to provide counter evidence, otherwise you're just a faggot fanboying for corporations.
I want normalfags to stay on consoles/jeetsoft.
>>726015698What is its name? I tried to find an fstab frontend for kde recently.
How does one little penguin cause so much seething?
>>726021054>desktop environment*Bleh.
>>726023048Inferiority complex from windows users
>>726021995>>726022225These are average of goyslop which is windows turf, linux is for autists, AoMR for example run at 80fps on windows and +140fps on the same PC with linux because autists care about RTS, similarly MHWilds ran without any issue on release with the same performance but without stutter, meanwhile non of recent CODs work on linux still and that's entirely because nobody cares.
>>726023048It endangers the livelihood of dozens of thousands of indian immigrants.
>>726021995https://careers.amd.com/careers-home/jobs/67222?lang=en-us>Firmware and Driver Development Engineer Hyderabad, Indiahttps://careers.amd.com/careers-home/jobs/68021?lang=en-us>Sr. Lead SW Dev Eng (Platform / RDMA driver) Bangalore, Indiahttps://careers.amd.com/careers-home/jobs/71476?lang=en-us>Senior Linux kernel developer Bangalore, Indiahttps://careers.amd.com/careers-home/jobs/69253?lang=en-us>Linux Kernel Developer (Graphics) Bangalore, India
Linux is next level. Stop being a little bitch and step up.
ive been on linux (cachyos) for about a full year now and i have yet to find a reason to boot into windows even though i'm dual booting
>>725986862it's actually bretty good, all offline games run smoothly, and a lot of older games run better with dxvk.only problem is if you play online, shit like anti cheat, denuvo and other rootkits don't work>>725995634same as on windows, just download the game and run it with lutris.
>>725990176>muh benchmarksthis is the problem with allowing illiterate retards tot make youtube channels and speak on the internet...i bet the retard, doesn't even have same drivers between the two PCs.
>>726030871to add to this, all games run within the margin of error in linux, except some older games who run much better due to dxvkgranted, those games would run much better on windows as well
>>725986862Don't fall for all the meme distro recommendations and install Debian
I have nvidia and the last time I tried linux it felt kind of shitty.>the OS UI felt kind of choppy and laggy (gnome) or both laggy and buggy (KDE)>firefox was also choppy until I went into settings and turned on hardware acceleration as it was still "experimental">hw accel video in the browser still didn't work apparently>no thumbnails in the file picker>in KDE there was seemingly no way to change mouse sensitivity (lots of advanced acceleration curve shit tho), in GNOME you could, in both the mouse wheel scrolled too slowly and there was no way to adjust itOn the bright side I figured out how to use some arcane command line settings on an xbox driver to save my old drifting xbox controller and make the stick usable again. And games themselves seemed fine even if performance was a little worseIn the end it was the desktop experience that filtered me, going back to Windows it felt like my system resources were actually being used again, it felt much more responsive and pleasant to use. Probably nvidia's fault but oh well. It's been years since I tried it though so maybe all this stuff has been fixed? I hope it gets sorted out before W10 actually loses support desu
>>726015302manjaro just sucks, and the changes they made to "increase perfomance" and "improve stability" actually made it more unstable and perform worse. it's a dead distro for a reason.
>>726009146will sway more developers into making a linux anti cheat solutionthe insane thing is most anti-cheat does work on linux. the developers that implement these anti-cheat systems simply don't pay for or enable the linux version. In some cases it's literally just a couple lines of code or clicking a few buttons in a GUI, but they won't even do that.
>>726031921To be fair, on linux they run in userspace, making their functionality much more limited. And even if anticheat was allowed to have a kernel module, with generic kernel a dedicated cheater community could build a kernel fork, modified to trick the anticheat module.
>>725986862Linux users are the vegans of the computer world.
>>726032798Eating cow dung and refusing to eat beef makes you a vegan too, you know.
>>726032798>posted from android, linux
>>726032865Linux has the largest marketshare in India.
>>726032976No, the largest Linux marketshare is Nordic countries. The lowest Linux marketshare is China, to no-one's surprise.
>>726033334>The lowest Linux marketshare is Chinawindows is free in china.
>>726033334
>>725986862Install CachyOS
I've used the same arch installation for the past 3 years on nvidia and it's so out of the way at this point it's not something I even think about anymore. The worst thing i have to do is add gamescope launch arguments to steam games for HDR. I'll never use windows again desu.
>Seeing retards constantly praising steamos as some kind of savior of vidya or some crap>literally reskinned archAnd worse because those dumb cunts obviously don't use it.
>>725986862i have almost the same ringstuff pretty much ran the same as on windows BUTgetting shit to run in the first place always sucked cause you have to do it for every single gamethe kernel would load the wrong driver for my motherboards fan controller so i had to fix thatseeing your 8tb hdd, linux doesnt work well with NTFS so you wont be able to use it aside from storing movies or whatevermost big multiplayer games dont work because of kernel level anti cheatanything that is a niche will either be not supported or have very scuffed implementations
>>726036692it's just an excuse to not switch
>>726036692Arch doesn't have a skin, though. It's just KDE with steam preinstalled and big picture mode enabled.
>>726036829it's not. it's a gamescope session running ONLY steam.kde isn't even loaded unless you try to alt-tab.
>>726017435It's the most braindead easy that also gives the most and easiest customization.
>>726037159GNOME is simpler, i'll agree with the customization angle though. i was talking about KDE the distro there, which is what the op was about, not the DE.
>>725991725>software engineer>can’t find the answers to basic questions >asks his questions on /v/ not /g/Checks out. No wonder everything is a bloated, buggy piece of shit these days.
>>726037301Gnome needs extensions for basic functionality like having a normal taskbar. KDE is Windows-like by default that you can turn Macos if you are crazy.
>>725986862Might I recommend Manjaro?It is based.Do not believe the sycophants.
>>726037417>Gnome needs extensions for basic functionalityit does not. it "needs" those functionalities only if you are accustomed to the windows workflow. vanilla GNOME works perfectly ootb as a hybrid between mac and android
>>725986986>Programming socks are in your future if you install Linuxhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinsockWhat do you mean?
>>726009146Kernel level anti-cheat is a meme that doesn’t work. It’s just an excuse as always.
>>726037509Hi, sorry.I'm just saying, you can suck my motherfucking dick.Gnome as sucked ass since gnome3 and you know it.Their tablet bitch-ass workflow fell flat and *you know it.*Now kindly suck my dick, you donald trump fag.
>>726023048>>7260244683% market share.
>>726037772That's because the vast majority of you are fucking retards.How difficult is this for you to understand?Now go subscribe to netflix.Dumbass.
i love linux but what made me switch back to windows (ltsc):>nvidia tax on linux>mods for some games are a big pita>some programs i use dont like wineotherwise, its perfectly usable and if my windows install ever breaks or something ill end up just using mint and saying fuckit
>>726035639You say that, but you're not getting any support unless your question is a significant pull request. I had issues with video acceleration and Wayland, but was just completely ignored. To this day, that post sits at a maybe a few hundred views, but nor reply. You kind of need Wayland for HDR desktop support, as far as I know. Maybe Bazzite would be better.
>>726037509Gnome is for touchpads, it's a laptop DEKDE is for mice, it's a desktop DEIt's really fucking simple, I don't know how retards can't reconcile this
>>726038180KDE is for men.Gnome is for boys/manchildren.
i dont wanna autustically updoot or go away for vacation and fuck my machine because i waited too long to update or something, i hear mint is too old for gaming, should i just use fedora?
>>726038316I suggest you get your own experience and stop letting faggots on the internet decide things for you.Go. Go on.You can do it.I believe in you.
>>725987575Hasn't been true for close to a decade.
>>726038180let me guess, you can't press <super>?>>726038260i got tired of customizing my OS 15 years ago, we can reconvene in a few years.
>>726038471You don't have to customize shit, nigger.Just make it look and operate like windows 7 and you're golden~
>>726020262you can, it's what gamescope is for
>>726021054Just use KDE.
>>7260377723% market share and yet every Linux gaming thread on /v/ is filled with seething about Linux.How hard are you shills gonna cry once we hit 10%?
>>726038536>Just make it look and operate like windows 7pass. enjoy your bottom taskbar, your tiny icons, your terrible SSDs and your minimize button.
>>725986986> you'll also have an insatiable urge to install adobe photoshop> install adobe photoshop> adobe photoshop> photoshopmy dude you can't be serious lolthey don't make photoshop for linuxif you install linux, you're gonna be installing gimp or kritawhich, both blow photoshop out of the water and neither steal your art like photoshop does, so, there you go>>725986862Install something with KDE Plasma desu. Kubuntu's a good option since large swaths of the Linux community assume you're on an Ubuntu variant, there's also openSUSE and SteamOS (when SteamOS finally comes out lol).Either way, the first thing you do: Install Steam. It's so good, it's got the Proton compatibility layer built in, everything just works (unless you try to play something with kernel level anticheat but those games are basically rootkits so you shouldn't be playing them anyways)
>>726038580Do you have the original sickOS penguin? I need it for a meme
>>726038735Haha, faggot fuck.My dock is on the top, like a real man.My eyes are up here.Also, I got a good desktop reveal right in the top-right where it belongs.You can put it in the bottom-left if you're a little bitch, but you can also suck my deck.KDE is the swiss-army knife of DEs.It is what you make of it.
>>726013616>Uh, airflow?!I think that's the joke or something, I've considered building one of those smol form factor PC's too but if I ever do get around to doing that I'll just get skip trying to cram a dedicated GPU in it entirely and just get a 9 9950X as a do everything good enough CPU+iGPU setup since I'd mostly just be playing older vidya on it and doing some seeding an sneeding a few torrents too so I'd rather cram some extra storage in it instead anyway.
>>725986862>drawing tablets Tablets is the only reason I don't use Linux. unless they are wacon, linux really hate tablets
>>726038937Sorry, bottem-right*
>>726038580>seething about LinuxYour imagination isn't a good source.>How hard are you shills gonna cry once we hit 10%?Yes, you're totally not literally shaking right now. Maybe you'd reach 4% had it not been for these delusions of grandeur.
>>726038570Can you get HDR on KDE?
>>726038937>KDE is the swiss-army knife of DEs.>It is what you makei don't want to "make" my own DE thanks. i'll take GNOME with sane defaults any day.
>>726039221Yes
>>726038790No, sorry I don't.I can give you this one.
>>726039296Yeah, that's where you're a bitch-ass motherfucker.Sorry for the vocational terms, but it's true.It doesn't take much to make KDE look like Windows 7. It really doesn't.Now Mann Up.
>>726039000xp-pen just werks on my machine
>>726039426>windows 7 i've already had that, it sucked, if i were to use KDE i'd just make it look like GNOME, at that point, why bother?
>>726039685>if i were to use KDE i'd just make it look like GNOMEExtremely homosexual post. GNOME looks like appleshit.
>>726039971>i'm all out of arguments so i'm just gonna insult you nowi accept your concession.
>>726039971nta but this is why nobody uses linux because of fags like you
you guys reckon the steam machine will have a sizeable impact on linux support for games as a whole?not beeing able to play some of the big MP titles is a hard pass for most casual gamers
>>725986862Ill help you install gentoo ITT if you promise to not be retardedbeing retarded would be running commands without telling me or posting a question and not waiting for an answer and mucking about making the problem worse
>>726040742the previous steam machine was a complete flop, don't expect too much.
>>726040742Probably not. Or at least not anymore than the Deck has.
>>726040060>GNOME looks like appleshit.I've never understood where this comes from. Is it became Gnome has a top bar?
>>726031017switch to the testing or sid branches tho. enjoy something tremendously better than Ubuntu and its derivatives. I guess there's also using flatpaks for everything like an immutable distro, too, if you're overly cautious and want to stick with stable.
>>726038316you can. or you can just use flatpaks on mint to supplement with newer mesa versions.
Cachy OS requires regular updates before installing any software.Fedora does not.By this metric I suggest Fedora, and the KDE desktop for both. Mint is for your grandma and bazzite is a meme. None of the other OSes matter. Use chat gpt or grok for debugging
Look my problem with Linux is that a bunch of games and AI-related stuff just don't run on it. What the fuck am I even using my computer for?
>>726042504>Is it became Gnome has a top bar?Among other things
>>726043205more ai stuff runs on linux than on windows ranjesh
>>726043205>winkek getting crumbs of the Linux fest: AI stuff doesn't work on your system!top kek
>>726043205>AI-related stuffFirst I've heard of that. I'm too lazy to use linux at home but pythonshit on Windows is cancer. The cli is cancer, compiling packages is cancer, a lot of the cuda ML packages are Linux only. On AMD Windows is completely unsupported. If I did more AI stuff I'd switch in a heartbeat.
>>726042504you're talking to people that haven't used GNOME in years, if ever at all. modern GNOME looks much more like android - the overview, the panel... the adwaita row buttons are basically copy pasted. the gtk4 apps with the side panel look like windows 11.
>>726033963>Linux "marketshare"This is real Linux Desktop market shareYour map is map of scrapping/spamming bots endpoints.
>>725986986>Linux is for tranny'sNope. I started using bazzite and I found out my wife is pregnant.This is for chads only microjeet. Go back to india
>>726043836only retards use flathub
>>726044128I guess India is just full of geniuses then lmao.
>>725989886it doesn't.
>>726043836these stats are just as biased as everything else, india for example uses linux a lot in government and schools which are much less likely to run flatpaks.
>>726043609 Based and Linuxpilled. Imagine crying about AI not working on Linux when 90% of the frameworks are developed there to begin with. TensorFlow and PyTorch basically assume you're on Ubuntu. Windowsfags get the privilege of hustling with outdated python wheels and half-functioning CUDA installs. Stick to playing Valorant, champ.
>>726045232It's not necessarily less biased, but statcounter is useless if user agent spoofing is common, as would be the case when unlisted browsers might be blacklisted by default.An OS listed as unknown on statcounter is just an unrecognized user agent and that represents a lot of Indian traffic on statcounter.
Does anyone happen to have high quality benchmarking for like, 0.01% lows in video games on Linux? Maybe it's just my hardware or some other shit ass thing I have installed but I've got games that occasionally hitch on Windows and I'm curious if Linux has better "absolutely worst case ever" performance than Windows has in games.Might just be my system/Windows install though albeit.
>>726047272it's pretty simple, if you want performance and you're on nvidia stick to windowsif you're on aymd it's about the same. the driver stack is completely different though, so you won't run into the same issues as windows for amd.
>>726043205the fuck? most of it runs on linux dude. being able to use uv or run that shit in containers mogs windows.
>>726013564literally happened to me>"OMG anon install manjaro it's a noob friendly distro">install it, everything seems fine>update>suddenly weird graphical error>ask for solutions on a forum describing the problem and posting my specs>"It's your fault for buying Nvidia, buy an AMD next time. Closed thread"
>>726013564manjaro is a noob trap
>>726049601and mint
>rdseed32 is broken. disabling the corresponding cpuid bitarchbros?
GPU accelerated Steam client has been broken on Linux for like a year. What is Valve doing?
>>725996227What bloat is it ripped then? :^)
>>726047272Sometimes linux can help stuttering if it's a shader compilation issue, I remember hearing about early builds of ER stuttering a lot less on it. But I wouldn't count on it, you'd have to test your game specifically, it could easily be worse as well.
>>725986862FPBPLINUX TROONS BTFO
>>726055601Replied to the wrong post. Everyone point and laugh.
>>726053024Assuming you mean>https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9383I'm pretty sure it's broken only if you have more than one graphics device. Instead of disabling hardware acceleration or removing the PrefersNonDefaultGPU line from the desktop entry (both of which will fix the crashing but the latter then requires adding some shit like DRI_PRIME=1 to games' environment variables to make them use the non-default GPU while Steam doesn't), I just went into BIOS and disabled my worthless integrated graphics, and now the Steam client works with hardware acceleration turned on.I agree with the>What is Valve doing?though.I guess they just give absolutely zero shits if it doesn't affect SteamOS on approved hardware. Either that or the guy who jannies the issue tracker doesn't actually get to talk to the client developers.
>>726038461>>726032480>>726021995>>726009858>>726004516Nvidia drivers are broken as shit on Linux and Windows 11 today.Nobody cares about your illiterate outdated posts jits.
>>725989178I have been telling this Fedora faggots to stop recommending this trash OS. There's a reason GabeN went for Arch Linux. Get CashyOS instead.
Whenever someone says CachyOS or to install/switch to it, it makes me feel insecure in my Mint installation.
>>726052451Mint is perfect for getting out of Winblows for normies but not for gamers.
>>726017332>immutable trashstop recommending this for gamers
>>726056089weird, i'm using a 9800x3d and that thing doesnt have integrated graphics as far as i know. enabling gpu acceleration on the steam client doesnt crash anything it just freezes the steam window if i change workspaces on i3, so i have to close it and open it again to get it to respond
>>726057674>9800x3d and that thing doesnt have integrated graphics as far as i knowyou are a retard
>>725986862Your pc seems pretty pimped, so if you want the macos aesthetics you should install pop os or zorin, if you want a lighter but still equally powerful os you should install mint, it also has the same layout of windows, if anybody else has a toaster there's xubuntu that's as powerful as your machine goes but it's extremely lightweight and can also be used to breathe new life into your old machines that are collecting dust on the shelf.
>>726057674AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D Desktop ProcessorHarness the ultimate gaming edge with AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D Processor. Enjoy faster gaming with 2nd gen AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology for low latency.Graphics Model AMD Radeon™ GraphicsGraphics Core Count 2Graphics Frequency 2200 MHzUSB Type-C® DisplayPort™ Alternate Mode Yes
does SteamOS provide FDE yet?
>>725986862it really depends anon. speaking about gaming specifically; WINE and steam proton have really come a long way since the 2010s. the only real issues you will run into are multiplayer games with anti cheat that simply do not like WINE, and modding games. other than that most things are click and play and steam makes it even more retard friendly (which is good for me). for example, for GTA IV and GTA V you simply will not be able to use scripthook .NET mods because for some reason WINE/Proton just cant install the needed dependencies. other than that, you will need to specify which .dlls must be loaded. using the GTA scripthook example again, so you would need to use winetricks/protontricks to go into the wrapper (the environment the “windows” application is installed in) and add d3d9.dll as a native library or someshit. speaking of wrappers, opening filebrowsers from within windows apps or games running in WINE/proton, it will think the wrapper is C:, so you will have to get used to backing out and going to My Computer and finding your way from there.
>>726046832>m-mm-muh browsercope lmao
>>725986862Running Linux for 14 months now on all my computers, personal and business. A few still have dual boot configurations that never boot into that shitty windows anymore. So yeah, fuck Micropajeetshit.
>>725986862Linux Mint, CachyOS or Nobara Linux (has all the gayming related stuff)
>>725986862Bazzite is comfy. Switched my Laptops to it
Mint if you don't want to tinker, but drivers and packages are always like 2 old.Arch if you're willing to tinker a bit, comes with the latest drivers and kernel so performance will be better. Just slap any DE that you like on it, I recommend KDE.
>>726062528*2 years old
>>726062450>He installed Bazzite on an actual computerBro Bazzite is for those Steam Deck clones that come with windows 11, since it tanks the performance on the devicesImmutable distros are a fucking nightmare actually use, they sperg out about everything like they think they're Windows>NOOOOOOO YOU CANT SUDO THAT NOOOOOOOhow long have you had it installed for?
>>726062768>Immutable distros are a fucking nightmare actually use,source
>>726062768Bazzite is fine if you're not a power user
>>726053024>>726056089i had a black window with it enabled on nvidia, and it fixed when i switched to wayland.
>>726063450The irony in Windows and macOS' ancestries and forcing competition out.
>>726063636That is to say, the third panel looks like desperation from their side.
>>726063854this but color the skin of the left and the right brown
>>726065607>english onlyoh, guess im not counted in that graph.