What distro is /v/ running for Linux gaming?Cachy? Bazzite? Ubuntu?what's your experience been with Linux now
Nope. Everytime I think about switching to Linux I remind myself of all the shit that needs layers of hacks and copium because it won't work the same as on Linux. And even games marked as gold/platinum on ProtonDB are attached with "as long as you do a bunch of le tinkering, also you need to tolerate cracklig audio and visual glitches and gamepad problems".
>>741278096the lost words shit in kiseki is the single worst plot contrivance I've ever seenworse than all three versions of the Curse
>>741278451What year is it?
>>741278096Mint. Shit just works.
Games just work most of the time without any tinkering, you use Proton-GE or Proton-CachySometimes niche and old things can still be a big pain
Windows is still better for gaming unless you're on AMD
>>741278451>Too hacky use Windows insteadkekWindows doesn't support newer filesystems and it handles peripherals as if it was still expecting PS/2 and serial connections.You need to hack Linux on top of Windows with something like WSL2 or Cygwin to get anything approaching modern functionality and newer Windows versions keep dropping support for legacy Windows hardware and software, so Linux is starting to handle those better than Windows does.Windows is decades of unmaintainable spaghetti codebase piled on top of NT.
>>741278096Arch-for-retards, also known as CachyOS.It just works™.
>>741278096I'm a person of average intelligence and Linux is for smart people so I never bothered.
I installed Cachyos on a secondary ssd and the installer deleted all my data on my primary ssd. It was also buggy as hell, the UI was flickering and it failed to download stuff without a terminal command. Other than that the OS itself seems pretty good so far.
>>741278096nixos>inb4 tranny wah wah
>>741278808Cool, call me when updating firmware doesn't get met with "erm you need to have another PC running windows and do it there, we can copy the software but doing updates is a no-no"
>>741278096Guys I love the oxygen icon theme. Just look at all the texture on these things. Fuck flat design.
>>741278096>>741278618I'm thinking of switching to Linux and goin g for Fedora.
>>741278096Fedora.
>>741279158https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/FwupdWhat do you mean? Discover can even handle fwupd for you so that you can do it graphically.
>>741278096Only Nioh 3 gave me trouble so far, but it runs like dogshit on Windows too.
>>741278890>I installed Cachyos on a secondary ssd and the installer deleted all my data on my primary ssd.what the fuck, chat is this possible?
>>741279163How many icons are missing though. Papirus might be flat but it has an icon for practically everything
I'm running Arch and my experience when it comes to gaming specifically has been alright. There are some eccentricities which affect gaming in particular, though. For example I have to run Rimworld with a monster command to get a good experience.
>>741278451so have you used it or are you just repeating shit you heard elsewhere?
>>741279385Windows will do the same thing to retards who can't tell their partitions apart.
Linuxbros who still have Windows sitting on another drive, do you use it and if so what for?
>>741279457Dual Boot? Using Linux on NTFS or Windows on EXT4 are both bad ideas.
>>741279457my mouse and keyboard configuration software doesn't have a linux version
>>741279457I have an ISO of Windows PE sitting on my storage hard drive, which I write to USB when I need to boot to Windows. I use it to fix my NTFS drives (Linux doesn't have tools to repair NTFS), I haven't needed it for about a year now.
>>741279457>>741279484>>741279519Poor compatibility between file systems stops me using Linux more right now desu.I have a 1TB boot drive split 500/500 Windows 11 LTSC and Bazzite. I have a 4TB NVME formatted as NTFS. I have a 6TB HDD formatted as NTFS. It's hard to share those two drives between both partitions.
>>741279582I use Linux exclusively and using NTFS drives is not a problem for me. They are a huge problem if you dual boot, though.
>>741279629NTFS is slower, more prone to corruption, and has completely different permission model that breaks games for example Segas MMO.
>>741278096Arch.>what's your experience been with Linux nowBetter than Windows that's for sure but not issue free sometimes.
nvidia performance tax need to go before i move
>>741279730Would it kill them to just give their driver to mesa and support it
>>741278096I've been using Nobara since September and its been great, no real issues.
>>741279417Yes I did. And again, I'd rather wait and get some use out of windows for a year or two than switch to Linux right now, all the troubleshooting and le tinkering is just not worth it. On windows everything I want just werks.
>>741279693NTFS doesn't get corrupted if you use it on Linux exclusively. There is no point using it over EXT4 or some other better FS, but there are no problems with permissions or corruption using the NTFS3 driver (not ntfs3g/fuseblk) as far as I can tell. Everything I tested works.I don't know about performance, my drive still does about ~200-250 MB/s which is about the most it can do as a mechanical drive.
>>741279869But why would you use NTFS exclusively on Ljnux? There are better options for exclusive use on Linux for sure. You want to use NTFS for that compatibility with a Windows partition.
>>741279415No idea and I have no idea how to check that. So far all icons native to the system have just worked.
>>741279457I haven't had windows installed in a partition for 10 years. At most I fire up a VM to make use if the issues I'm having are game bugs or bugs with proton.
>>741279582Good news. Next kernel version will make NTFS actually usable.
>>741280010Because the drive was formatted in NTFS for 5 years on Windows 10, reformatting it is a hassle because it has over 4TB of data on it. That data would have to be temporarily moved for the duration.
>>741280225I had to do this with 5TB of data recently because Apple decided to stop supporting fusion drives.Took a day or so.>>741280157What's changing?
>>741278096I've not properly touched Linux in 6 years now.I first dipped my toes into the Penguin team with Linux Mint back in 2020, when the "Win7 is... le KILL!!!" fear mongering started and the first games that didn't launch on 7 started arriving on Steam. Decided to try the good ol' Linux Mint and made it look like oldschool Windows.It was honestly a pretty good experience even back then. Gotta remember that Proton (nowadays "Steam Play") had only been rolled out 2 years prior. My hardware was already anemic at that point, but it ran smooth as butter.In the end, I just went back to Windows 7 for the time being. Minor inconveniences, like dragging and dropping pictures into Steam chat window not working were minor inconveniences, but still enough to tip the scales in Windows' favor.Ended up using 7 just fine up until 2024, when MS itself deleted AND prevented me from re-installing a crucial software of theirs that I needed for my work. So gritting my teeth, I installed W10 IOT LTSC Enterprise edition 2021, cracked and hacked it to shut the fuck up. Still using it as I'm typing it; it has received exactly ZERO (0) updated, and I let nothing go in nor out without my personal permission.Wee11 I won't even consider. That piece of shit is a 100% deal breaker, through and through, and fags shilling it deserve a .45 ACP to the dick.
>>741280225It is actually possible to do an in-place conversion from ntfs to btrfs, but then you're probably playing russian roulette with your data.
>>741280346Someone rewrote the whole driver and commited to maintaining it.https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-New-NTFS-Driver
>>741278096Mint just works. I'm not seeing the use case for a gaming tailored distro when its all the same.
>>741278096>what's your experience been with Linux nowRoughly two years, and it's fine. Steam does most of the heavy lifting anyway.Though I tried to pirate Forza Horizon 6 recently and it just wouldn't launch. Installation through lutris went fine, applying patches through it was a bit awkward, but I just followed the same steps, but it would just exit right away after launching. Then I read a one-off comment on a russian forum that this specific scene release wouldn't work on Linux somehow. I kinda gave up after that because it wasn't worth the hassle.Also, I wanted to have a way to control my CPU fans and it turns out I just can't do it because some chip on my motherboard can't be seen by detect-sensors or whatever.That about sums up the Linux experience; fine until you want to do something less surface level.
>>741280547Well that's pretty fuckin' neat.
>>741280481The data is mostly unimportant enough for losing it to be just an inconvenience and I have backups of anything important, so that'd be an option to try... but honestly I don't see a point when NTFS works great even with the old NTFS3 driver.
>>741278096i still just use ubuntu.but it's getting more annoying every year. it used to be a shoe-in, but it seems we're returning to the old fragmented ecosystem where there's no best choice. of all things even arch is beginning to look good in comparison (i use arch on one my machines)
I'm currently still on W10 and want to switch to CachyOS soon. I am a little bit worried about dual booting and not giving Linux whole control over the drive because of access speeds and/or encryption messing things up. Am I being retarded? What's the best way to do it, just shrink the W10 partition and don't be a bitch about it?
>>741278096Mint>>741278451>retard gaslights himself as an excuse to not leave his comfort zoneEnjoy your agentic OS saar.
>>741278096gentoo if you can compile, chimera linux otherwise
>>741280806Don't use a single drive it's simply asking for problems, dual booting is a meme. Just switch the boot option in the UEFI with two separate bootloaders.
>>741280976But I only have 1 drive, and I don't want to buy another one. I don't think I even have the connections for another PCIE SSD.
>>741279457>Linuxbros who still have Windows sitting on another drive, do you use it and if so what for?i have a windows drive i slot in from time to time>for updating motherboard firmware>for running pirated gamesi've used it about three times in the last two years.most recently for oblivion remastered, i predicted (correctly) i would get bored/annoyed of it just outside the refund window
>>741281124Are you using a craptop?Then don't do it, sounds like you don't even have a backup for your existing system.
>>741281163>windows drive>for updating motherboard firmware
>>741281303No it's a desktop. PCIE / M2 lanes / slots being used isn't uncommon. >sounds like you don't even have a backup for your existing system.What leprechaun told you that? Because he's lying.Clearly you have no fucking clue.
I built my first pc when I went to university in 2010Win7 2010-2020Win10 2020-2026Spare computer ubuntu 2021-nowCachyos may2026-nowI swapped my daily driver to cachyos and it's been mostly fine. I was having just as many issues on windows, and when I was troubleshooting my sleep cycle being fucked, I finally had a moment where I thought "why am spending this much time having to fuck around with windows to make it work, when I could be using that time troubleshooting linux?"I still have a 250gb ssd in my pc unplugged with that windows install on it. But besides using it to run diskcheck on a drive so linux would read it, I haven't needed it.
>>741281570Then you have nothing to lose. But even a small sata SSD would be a better idea.
>>741279457I have a Windows VM for CAD and to get boomer office shit to just werk.FreeCAD is constantly getting better, but a lot of stuff happens constantly and still isn't done.>>741279507I have the opposite problem. Linux on some DEs has the handy dandy ability to assign keyboard layouts on a per-device basis and Windows for whatever reason needs to switch every time.Yes I realize this is probably just as much of a meme for most people as using arbitrary monitor rotations instead of 90 degree increments, but I still like it.>>741279756Unironically yes. They still use the same chips between Enterprise and Consoomer variants. If they give the driver to mesa, then suddenly a lot of enterprise features like vGPU are closer to being available on consoomer cards.
>>741281336what about this confuses the anime girl
>>741278096Gentoo.
>>741280806just buy a new computer and put linux on that.if you need to use your old windows, use the old computer.
arch and so far so good, the only game I can't play are kernel anticheat without linux supplrtI have not find why my gru like to something nuke itself but I've been used to reinstalling it by now maybe it's because my distro has been installed on a nvme but whatever the point was to try to switch from windows I could always reinstall later
>>741281668>Then you have nothing to lose. Would your suggestion then be to completely wipe it and give it all to Linux? Because that's what I was thinking first.>But even a small sata SSD would be a better idea.How would that be better considering the massive drop in speeds? I didn't buy that SSD to fart around on SATA.
>>741278451Soon it won't even be worth it anymore
>>741281721UEFIs have firmware updater built in and it's infinitely easier to use than anything Windows based. Firmware that doesn't use UEFI built in updater is updated with fwupd (such as Lenovo firmware for their laptops)ucode is updated normally by package manger (at least on Arch), so for that you don't even need to do anything beyond installing the package.Needing windows to update firmware is some wacky shit which I assume involves shitty cheap Chinese peripherals.
>>741281847That's retarded, just scrap my old PC because installing might be difficult?
why do any linux tinkering when you can just run tiny11
>>741281865Remember when Xbox mode came about? Like I want it to be good, but it's Microsoft, so my expectations are extremely low, and I still expect them to fall under that too.
>>741282046>why train my dog when i could just muzzle it
>>741282076tiny11 only muzzles the terrible shit and you dont have to tinker with -nixslop
>>741282046>Running a tainted OS imageThere's going full retard, and then there's this.
>>741281762Mint
>>741282139it juzt werkz tho. how is it tainted? you build it yourself.
>>741282145Arch
>>741279701>BApost plat
>>741278096I went nuclear a month ago and ditched all megacorp shit entirely. Been using CachyOS the entire time now and have had 0 issues with it, in fact, the experience has been smoother.I also fell in love with the terminal but I wish the AUR wasnt managed bu retards and am surprised this shit didnt halpen sooner.
>>741281163Why not run pirated games on linux? Only hypervisor ones need windows.
>>741281858You won't see any difference between SATA SSD and NVME unless you are writing and reading a lot of data, games don't care about that for sure. You won't be able to directly access files on your Linux partitions from your Windows anyway unless you are going to use exFAT. Sharing any encrypted partitions between those two systems would be a huge pain but it's doable. With separate drive you don't have to worry about modifying existing OS setup, especially if you want to go full schizo and encrypt even boot partition with secure boot.
>>741282178I looked up the script and read through it, it's less bad then I thought it would be but I still wouldn't run it.
>>741282184LFS?
>>741282383As /v/ can see, I even switched to 3rd party mobile keyboards and now I don't have autocorrect lol.
>>741278096>want to switch over to linux>would have to reinstall tbs of gamesyeah nah
>>741282414>You won't be able to directly access files on your Linux partitions from your Windows anyway unless you are going to use exFAT. Sharing any encrypted partitions between those two systems would be a huge pain but it's doable.I was never planning to. I'm just going to wipe the disk and install Linux on it, keep the Windows image as a backup, possibly mount it in a VM if I need to access something. Your suggestion to practically just bin the drive is fucking retarded.
>>741282834>reinstalljust copy the steamapps directory and try to install gamesit'll auto detect the files
>>741282834if you're like me and you had a hdd for archive purpose I left it as a ntfs drive and converted the other one to ext4. That way I just have to move them out of the ntfs when I want to play or back in when I want to archive them.
Been running CachyOS for a good 7 months now. Took some slight getting used to and having to some learn new things, but it was worth it to get away from microslop. No way in hell I'm using win11 on my gaming machine. Forced to deal with it on work laptop.
>>741283028I have two laptops from work, one that's locked down and one that's basically just vanilla ass W11. The amount of fucking ads on that vanilla one is insane, don't know how people accept that.
>>741281889no, this was my top end ACER motherboard.i basically never update mobo firmware because why, but i had some reason this time.i downloaded the software from the motherboard website and used that. it basically just wrote binaries to a usb drive, i updated it from the bios. it's good to know that there are tools i can use on linux for this, but i have updated a mb bios twice in 20 years, it's not exactly something i need a convenient tool for
Been using Arch for a year now. I had to do some tinkering at first to get drawing tablet to work and to set GPU fan curves. After that I've only used terminal to update everything once every week or two. If games don't work outside the box nowadays the only thing they require is looking up what version of proton works according to protondb.
>>741283189You can install pi-hole in a docker on Windows to block most of the ads and tracking. Either that or use Zen Adblocker to do the same thing.
>>741282403the stuff i pirate on windows is usually obnoxious to get on linux. stuff like genshin impact self-hosted with solo mod. or single player tarkov.or shit with launchers and accounts.i don't like running untrusted code on my linux, i use umatrix as well
>>741283730Yeah I figured you can block most of the things some how, I'm just astonished when I boot the laptop up and I see a fucking quiz for Naruto on the lock screen.
>>741278096Cachy on deckGentoo on laptop
>>741283554That's weird, I have a drawing tablet and it worked out of the box for me on Arch. Everything as far as I can tell including pressure sensitivity.Granted out of the box for me was with Plasma desktop, since I installed that right away.
I heard Linux already has FSR4 and AMD framegen, is this true?
>>741282046>Why marry a model when you could marry an ugly downy midget
>>741284513Yeah it's existed for a while just not for Vulkan exclusive games yet for example Nu Doom.
>>741284513Yes, what GPU do you have? Because for RDNA3 you would still want to use optiscaler instead of FSR4 built into proton. INT8 version simply has better performance.
>>741284513since last year
>>741279457i planned on dualbooting after i set up my new linuxtroon PC but that was months ago and i still haven't bothered opening it up to put the old windows drive in, which is a nice linux endorsement i guess.the main cause of frustration i have with linux is wrangling those little programs you use maybe once or twice a year, like webm for retards.
>>741284013>GentooNobody knows how to install that shit
>>741282192Um post what? Also not sure if I can since I had to go to work.
>>741279415I think I found some. All of the start menu categories are just white blobs.
>>741278096cachyos has been pretty good, but forza horizon 6 doesn't work on itgaming still is kinda shit
>>741285652Forza does work on Cachy. You just need the latest version of proton.
>>741285038>webm for retardsThis is pretty handy if you want an alternative: https://github.com/ekisu/mpv-webm
>>741285652Forza does work tho
>>741284274If I recall correctly it was mostly self-afflicted issues. I had an anaconda virtual environment launch automatically due to Comfyui needing a particular version of python to function properly, but it screwed the installation for bunch of things since I didn't remember to exit the venv instance.
Linux just werks
>>741285652NShitia?
>>741285707>>741285798game crashes after like two seconds of driving last i tried itwhich one am i supposed to use?
If a game doesn't work on Linux out of the box, it's probably slop.
>>741278096SteamOS because I have steam deck and I realized Linuxbm just sucks in general with compatibility. I hate Linux even more now>bbbut my wine and protonFuck off. Just adding non steam game need extra fucking steps that may or may not even work because compatibility. I had to use an older Wine version just to make one game fucking work because proton isn't doing shit
>>741285901https://www.protondb.com/app/2483190
>>741285914Linux is just a kernel so no game will work out of the box.
>>741285889yep, i'm using what the vast majority of people usegaymers in particular
>>741285993so protondb is what i should be referring to to get games working every timeneat site
>>741286286I check pcgamingwiki and then protondb before I play games just in case I need to be aware of something essential.
>>741278096Stop shilling that Schmutz OP.Ust use Fedora for most complete out of box experience.
>>741285053You just follow the instructions
>>741286242Self-imposed issue.
>>741286584>j-just don't use the best hardware for gaming, and it just works.. *goes back to playing roblox*
>>741286717>bestAbsolute jeet tier drivers and I don't think they still have fixed the shader compiler performance issues.
>>741286717>*12VHPWR burns your house down*
>>741286717>nvidia>best hardwareTheir quality is down in the toilet. Both the board designs and drivers. Only reason they are still relevant is because AMD is just as shit on Windows if not more.
>>741278096I just can't see why the fuck would you use Linux anymore. For nerd/dev shit you have WSL, for gaming you have Windows which is actually officially supported by videogames and anti-cheats plus the performance difference is either negligible or negative, for a non-Windows experience you have macOS.You're left with a janky desktop experience no matter the DE or WM, never-ending tinkering even while using compatible hardware, pisspoor security measures that make Windows 7 look like a motherfucking Faraday cage of computing, updates that constantly break the most basic utilities, higher energy/battery consumption and not much else. Ricing I guess.
Cachy for a year nowI use it exactly how I used Windows except now it doesn't restart itself on its own every couple of nights
>>741287083
>>741286107If a game doesn't support Arch on KDE and XFCE, its slop
>>741286848>>741286912>>741287079best is a relative termif amd put out something better than nvidia, then i'd be using itbut amd's best card doesn't even beat a 5070ti,so i'm nott. r9 390 back when nvidia had the 3.5gb 970
>>741278096I use Bazzite because I only game and browse and don't need my OS to do anything else.
>>741287214Cachy for me since March. Loving it. No issues except for one that was fixed by switching out a HDMI cable for a displayport.
>>741278096I've been using Linux exclusively for maybe 6 years now. I used to fuck around in Arch, Debian, and especially Void, but these days I just use Nobara, which is a gaymen distro based on Fedora. I can highly recommend it to windows users for quickly setting up everything you need, being extremely easy to use, and looking pretty nice.
>>741278096I use Nobara and its been great
>>741287349Nvidia software is way too shit for me these days. I used nvidia exclusively since the late 90s when they first entered the market and never have I been more disgusted by their software than I am today.
>>7412873499070xt is on par with the 5070ti in everything but memetracing and is $200+ cheaper.
>>741278096I hope Parsec fixes their shit or a competitor comes along.(Sunshine and Moonlight doesn't count as these are meant for local networks) I want to play local co-op games with my friend over the internet. I also want Discord to fix their shit on Linux.And I also want NVIDIA open source drivers to finally match the performance of NVIDIA Windows drivers.None of these happened yet so I'll keep using Windows
>>741288673>I also want Discord to fix their shit on Linux.Discord on Linux is already pretty good. Yeah there are shortcomings still, but it has improved.
>>741288901I'm aware they've improved, but still not good enough as the Windows version.
>>741279250don't bother arguing with people like that they won't change their mind no matter how easily you prove em wrong.
>>741282145>>741282184Where are these wallpapers in high quality? I managed to find a few here and there but there seems to be a place that has all distros in 4k
>>741287349Yeah AMD not bothering to give AI support for its old GPUs when similar performance Nvidia cards worked just fine killed AMD for me. Just bought 5080 as my new gpu because i plan to use it for a long time too.
>>741278096Kubuntu because I'm not retarded.
>>741294312
>>741285993>You have to open your browser and search the game you wanna play everytime you install somethingGrim, I just wanna fucking play, Linux is a joke
>>741294649you don'tthat's just troubleshooting
>>741294649You don't
>>741294432Its all the same shit. Mine just has funding
>>741294649how is that any different from playing open beta korean mmos on windows? is it just a zoomer thing to get scared of troubleshooting
>>741295025>Forces you to install snapslol
>>741295078>false informationThats just sad you believe that anon. Also snaps are safer for certain things now that adware code exist that can scan your hard drive embedded in browser cookies, and snap response time is largely exaggerated on modern cpus. Either way you are either dumb or retarded. Take your distro console war shit somewhere else disingenuous faggot
>>741278096I use cachy, but i game on a windows vm that i pass my gpu to and pin most of my cpu cores to as well as various other tweaks. I've done tests against bare metal windows as well as against what other youtube videos get with the same hardware in bare metal windows. Against my own bare metal it's usually the same or maybe 2-3 less gps, and against other youtube videos i sometimes get like 10+ more fps in my vm.I get the best of both worlds, Linux as my main os and windows for gaming.It did require me to get a cheap rx6400 to power the host display, but in the future i hope to get a cpu with integrated graphics to avoid needing 2 full gpu's.And i run an hdmi cable each from both my gpu's, so i just need to switch input on my tv to move from host to vm, which I've set up to do with a hot key
>>741294649You do this on hindus with pcgamingwiki because nothing older than 6 months just werks anymore despite all the retrocompatibility propaganda.
>>741278451weird how the only people who have problems with linux are somehow complaining about imaginary issues they never faced, or are projected from their windows experiences
>>74129545190% of linux discussion on vee is just retarded console war tier bait
Linux takes a lot of effort to get working, including compiling one of ten pieces of software yourself from github and nobody can agree which one is best. Just to get care minimum functionality.You have to learn and use the command regularly. Good luck with that. You're only allowed to install software your repo manager allows, which is some fat tranny you've never met.systemd logs everything you do and reports it as telemetry.You become dependent on Steam for gaming Linux is for computer hobbyists who have spent years learning the ins and outs of computers.Linuxfags that say "it just works" are just like the geologists in that xkcd comic.Imagine how much effort it'd take to move all your files over and get back to the functionality you have now.God hates Linuxfags.You should just stay on Windows. It's better that way.
>>741295813Based false flagging linux user.But you cannot gatekeep forever.
the only thing linux users do with their computer is customize the desktop until something irreparably breaks at which point they celebrate because they have a reason to install linux againthey don't actually do anything fun or useful with their computers
>>741288673>I hope Parsec fixes their shitIs it broken on Linux? That's a deal breaker if it is, I use it daily with friends.
>>741296078a custom initram is fun
>>741296078All i do on my linux machine is play warhammer games, draw & watch YouTube while my desktop cycles shantae goon edits
>>741296078I play games on them though? I got all these anti-cheat games to work despite windowsfags memeing it won't work. Why so arrogant when you did absolutely nothing?
>>741296078Who says that I'm not having fun customizing my shit until everything breaks. Also, do you even beat me in hours of games played these last 2 weeks?You better be at least double mine, since unlike me you don't have to constantly reinstall your OS.
>>741278096>What distro is /v/ running for Linux gaming?Fedora at the moment>what's your experience been with Linux nowEverything has worked perfectly for me, with the exception of launching certain VNs with textractor so I can look up Kanji that I don't know. That's the only thing I have to switch back to Windows for.
>>741295232>Thats just sad you believe that anon.Can you check if your firefox install is a native install or a snap. Just a quick little checkup.
2TB hard drive... couldnt I just dualboot?? Win half when I NEED to play something that just works or is modded or whatever, and Lin for the other 95% of the time when I'm just playing chill stuff??? Whats the problem with this?
>>741296161Very cute. I gotta change the bootup logo too.
>>741297563You could. Though I'd recommend a separate drive if you want to dual boot
>>741297563You can if you want. When I first switched to linux I kept my windows partition just in case. After a year of linux, I hadn't booted up Windows even once and just found that 500gb taking up space I wanted for anime.
>>741278096https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY
>>741297404I use brave installed by the terminal. There are snaps installed by default but like 90% of linux distros you can rip out or install whatever you want. Snaps being installed doesnt mean you have to use them. Now go, anon, go and be informed and free instead of parroting its foss tier news for retards
>>741278096CachyIt works
>>741278096Install gentoo.
>>741279457keeping it on the side just in case. But man w11 is really bad
>>741278096Fine until i wanted to play on waydroid fucking piece of shit wont work
>>741299624My point was that ubuntu doesn't offer non-snap firefox.
>>741300583It literally does. You saying that is quite literally>I'm retarded so it cant be done
>>741300749He's right. It can be done by ubuntu is actively hostile to it. Firefox sucks dick and nobody should use it anyway.
>>741278096For me it was EndeavourOS, which is just Arch really.
>>741280380you're cute nevrek
>>741295331doesn't this still fail with anticheat games?
>>741296078ever since i installed linux, that's what i've been doing for the past weeki'm sure this phase will end eventually
CachyOS for my main driverMint for my Laptop. Both run even better with Linux installed.
>>741278096none cuz they lawfare me off itima get a linux pc handheld and just keep slow upgrading with older parts lmao
>>741278451i dunno anon linux is better than win 11 and 10 if i were you id just get a win 7 pc with whatever the best high core cpu is that works and grab a 780 ti or gtx 1060 to 1080 ti and then fuck off thats my plan
The compromised AUR packages incident convinced me to switch from CachyOS to Arch due to CachyOS using AUR packages in their repo.. Predictably, the experience is pretty similar and gaming works just fine. Just less handholdy and more reading the wiki to configure things.
>>741278096Been using CachyOS on my old ass laptop that runs as if new back in Win7 days and also on my main computer. Was distro hopping before from Debian to Ubuntu to Mint but there was always some ancient driver or other issues that irked me but so far Cachy has been running great for a year with minor tinkering for laptop and near 0 for main.In daily general use and gaming everything runs faster and better than it ever did on Windows
>>741278096Bazzite. It was kinda ass at first because the audio issues with my DAC would often fuck up.Recently it's been patched and for the most part been usable. Wouldn't have recommended it solely because of audio issues.Emulation still needs some work, even with Emudeck installed.
>>741301478>ubuntu is actively hostileIf anyone was worried about this they would only use parent distros or linux from scratch. But their not because its not true in the first place because that would mean debian is hostile to it and its not. Beyond that I will take a distro with funding over a distro supported by 6 weirdos where quality tapers off a cliff when one of those 6 tards goes nuclear
>>741279457Once in a blue moon, some modding thing or some application just wont work nice on linux with wine. Sometimes its even fitgirl repacks or something, and il just temoparily boot into windows to do it. At this point I should just remove my windows install and use a VM instead because that would save a shit ton of space.
>>741304490Arch is way better than CachyOS, it's not even close. The only problem is that everything has to be set up yourself unlike CachyOS where they make a lot of necessary setup steps for you, and I ain't talking about stuff that's obvious but also non-obvious stuff like split lock detection being turned off. The other side of that coin is an upside, though, Arch doesn't do shit that you don't want it to do either. Which is a problem with CachyOS. I hate their custom wine and proton bullshit.
>>741304892TBF some presets CachyOS comes with are a great convenience. Their btrfs/limine snapshots can be configuring so easily even a baby can do. Not so much so on Arch. But I don't mind. It's a good learning experience being on Arch
>>741305093It's not hard on Arch either, I use Timeshift with GRUB2 for snapshots. I don't know if limine with snapper (which I think cachyOS uses) is better, but honestly I'm not even sure how well the snapshots work because Arch has never ever necessitated for me to boot into a snapshot. The few times I broke it, I just fixed it from chroot instead of wasting time with a snapshot.
For those who think installing Arch is time consuming, check archinstall.
>>741278096I use memejaro. It just werks>>741279457I use it to backup Iphones occasionally
>>741296149It's not broken, it's missing features.On Windows you can use parsec to watch and host.On Linux you can only use to watch.
Been using Nobara as my first linux distro for 1 month now, been mostly great so far.
>>741282184>Manjaro
you fuckers swore this worked out of the box
>>741287643Was it really named after her?
>>741305854Are you using XIVLauncher?
>>741305854Works on my machine. Are you using XIVLauncher?
>>741305856From what I've seen, yea
>>741279457I built a second PC just for linux as a side project.Turned out to be nothing like I expected it to be and it just installed and worked.Spent some months getting used to the filesystem being weird, and i'm still not a fan of how it handles drive mounting (I still believe Windows separating physical drives into their own prefixes is the saner option, also fuck fstab)Its been about 2 years now and I just run both PCs side by side, with the windows (7) PC just kinda acting as media storage now for no reason other than arbitrary attachment.Never did switch to 10 or 11, jumped from 7 straight into Mint because I got sick of how aggressively and glowingly 10 was being forced and all the underage retards online who don't know any better parroting "security" while dumping their entire life history into discord linked to their facebook profiles
>>741305951>>741305928ive tried with xivlauncher and with proton experimental, xivlauncher last longer but it drops the same error anyways, the game ran perfectly on w11
>>741305854Do u have a dualsense connected to the PC? Dualsense causes FFXIV directx to crash. If you do, unplug the controller and try again.
>>741305982Based
>>741305854Skill issue desu
>>741306369Yea with XIVLauncher I had 0 issues
>>741306220keyboard and mouse WoL here, no controller.>>741306369xivlauncher does nothing for me, it may be because i installed it as a compatibility tool, but i dont see how it would make any difference
>>741280380How'd you get the classic windows theme for w10?
>>741278096Cachyos is pretty alright and somewhat idiot-proofed. Still filters all my friends though, they're too comfortable with windows 11. It legitimately takes a troubleshooting mindset to use Linux cuz the thing doesn't always behave itself 100% and it requires you to slap it back in place.
>>741306606Lemme guess, nvidia GPU?I don't understand why you'd have directx errors randomly after a minute of playing instead of immediately otherwise.
>>741306763>>741306606I've a gtx 1070 and xivlauncher(flatpak) worked fine for me when I played played. I think I had to do some flatseal stuff though.
>>741306763Corrupt files could cause this if something went wrong during the install. Or corrupt RAM. But anon would most likely have more problems than just FFXIV if it was corrupt RAM.
>>741306763i do, i tried to run xiv on linux before, i try every year or so to see if i can switch from windows, bceause fuck microsoft, but until it "just works" im not bothering, im downloading w10 right now.
>>741306217Works fine for me
>>741306898XIV itself is prone to random directx crashes even on windows, moreso for people jamming millions of tris and 8k textures into titty modding but still.>>741306948Sorry bro better luck next time (its likely a hardware issue)
>>741280380I recently finished DS1, great game desu.Started DS2 just the other day, feels a bit dumbed down with how handhold'y shit is at the beginning but otherwise its been good so far.
>>741278096>What distro is /v/ running for Linux gaming?>Cachy? Bazzite? Ubuntu?why would i do any of that. arch with KDE plasma 6 runs every game perfectly
>>741278451oh my reddit chonkers good saar, you're are so correctful! windows only way to going!
>>741278096Is NVIDIA driver performance still worse than Windows? Fuck NVIDIA
>>741278096I ran Bazzite two years ago when I migrated. I still recommend it for anyone migrating from Windows.Atomic structure affords some peace of mind when learning what's what, and helps recover from complete and total fuck. Just keep the install USB around in case some sort of boot fuck happens so you can get into the live environment.I've since migrated to CachyOS. I would prefer the atomic updates, but haven't had any problems with CachyOS.Only two issues I have really had have been1) remote desktops on Wayland are shit. Gnome RDP finally works. Haven't looked beyond that, and don't want to use Gnome. All third party remote desktop tools are basically kill. No Rustdesk. Sunlight/moonlight. You can use them, but it's such a pain in the ass as to be irrelevant, since you basically need to be remotely connected by some other means in the first place.2) HDR on Steam is still fucked on Wayland. You can HDR in proton. This isn't such a big deal. I typically use Steam Overlay for controller config because steam control API (not steam controlLER) is the bee's knees, but the Overlay is STILL not properly built for Wayland. So it is presently (last I checked) mutually exclusive with HDR on Wayland. Supposedly the overlay was getting updated, and I assumed it would be ready by the time the Gabecube launched, which I also assumed barring AI eating hardware economy the steam machine would have finally launched. But far as I am away, still no fully compatible wayland steam overlay, so still no HDR + controller API.the latter isn't such a big deal given HDR is typically a meme in games, with most being VERY poorly configured/supported. But it would still be nice to get the benefit out of an OLED where it works. I still can if playing keyboard/mouse, or the controller config doesn't matter. But I'm a sucker for gyro mouse control and 90% of games get gyro controller aim either completely wrong, or not at all.
>>741307628YesAn update is expected to come in the next 6 months that should close the gap with DX12 games(iirc but by how much is a good question
Has anyone encountered this before?>Be playing VT2 with a friend>Runs great 99% of the time>Suddenly game freeze for about 8 seconds, can still hear audio in background>After that its back to normalThis happens maybe once every two sessions and has only occured when playing VT2 so far. It hasnt made me crash yet either.
I use endeavoros. Works, maybe might hop again I'm not sure. A part of me would recommend against arch based as your first distro.
>>741279457>if so what for?Work: Bunch of boring business software I need to run every few months.Hardware Troubleshooting: dual smart TVs is not very well supported. Occasionally I need to do the setup on windows and export the setting to linux.Gamedev: Windows builds, once I get around to releasing anything.>>741307628Practically it's not an issue, at least in my experience on Arch. Ran everything from newest AAA to ten year piles of tech depth and anon's first try at gamedev. Maybe Path of Exile 2 has the fans spin louder than the windows version, but that might as well be the weather.UI scaling is fucked across the board, but that's just my cursed setup.
>>741279457I have a Windows 10 LTSC IoT install on an external SSD for some games that don't work on Linux, mainly private servers for old MMOs.
>>741307896RAM/shader cache dumping maybe?
>>741309154Beats me. Compared to playing on win10, steam now has a quirk where it starts downloading shader cache every time i start a game. Usually I stop the game from launching to let it compile before playing.t. linux nobara
>>741309570I disabled shader caching completely and just run the game, probably tanks my performance but i'm still hitting 144fps on mint as long as its not some modern raytraced movieslop
>>741279385Only if you are a retard.
>>741285707>>741285798after trying it with a variety of launch options, proton experimental or proton-cachyos,with even abysmal ingame settings (very low, no dlss, no rt, no fg, capped fps)nah, it's not playablei'm going back on windows to do the weekly
>>741306194>fuck fstabYeah, it sucks. Gnome disks seems to be the only graphical configurator for it. If you can tolerate text file editing, I can recommend generating a .mount file for systemd.Here's for example one of my drive mounts and it's much clearer than fstab$ systemctl cat mnt-Storage2T.mount # /etc/systemd/system/mnt-Storage2T.mount[Unit]Description=2TB Storage mount[Mount]What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/6978b61e-9912-484d-ad6a-d8752e0f2267Where=/mnt/Storage2TOptions=nofail[Install]WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>741279457league unfortunately
>>741306615>How'd you get the classic windows theme for w10?That's Mint, silly zoomie.For W10, just install OpenShell + use the oldschool theme.
>>741279457Everything I want to play works perfect, except chink and gook FMVs. They use this stupid avprovideo plugin thing for Unity that loves to crash on Proton. I had a VM going for that, but somehow I broke the GPU passthrough.
Opinions of Plasma 67?
>>741312597That dragon fucks human men
>using modern windows>using linux for running old windows softwareNothing but bad options. Wish ReactOS was a few decades ahead of its current stage.
>>741281865>Soontwo weeks to be precise
>>741278096Depends on if you're only using the system for gaming or if you're using it for desktop stuff too.If you're using it for desktop stuff I'd probably say to get something like Kubuntu or Xubuntu. If you're just gaming on it then either Bazzite or Batocera depending on your requirements.
>>741278451I've had to mess with the windows registry to fix dumb shit MS does more than I had to use the terminal on linux
>>741312597good. kde is still a patrician choice after all these years. x11 or gayland, doesn't matter which version of it you choose, it just werks.
>>741279457I had a W10 backup drive in case I needed it for something, and the only thing I ever used it for was running my gachaslop (Nikke). But even that runs with proton now so I haven't had to boot into Windows in ages. Ended up throwing that drive in my old computer and distro hopping with it for fun. The only Windows drive I have left is an installation stick with W10 LTSC IoT lying somewhere.
>>741312597Haven't tried an update yet due to the ongoing AUR problems, but the announced features look pretty cool. Still feels weird to have software that tries to improve for the user instead of just cramming in more tracking, ads and AI.Also funny seeing the occasional techbro seethe at the mascot, just like with Anubis.
>>741279301Nioh 3's engine behavior is weird. You have to have the framerate capped at a level that your PC can maintain consistently or the performance goes to shit
>>741278096Arch+KDE because it's basically what the Steam Deck uses. I haven't properly used Windows in a year. Have been using Linux since 2020 there abouts, and in 2022 full time. Pretty good, especially seeing shit just suddenly work one day, or apps like HedgeModManager getting it's own linux port.>>741279457>Linuxbros who still have Windows sitting on another drive, do you use it and if so what for?Literally just for extremely weird issues like Kyber BF2 being incompatible with wine or VPN/Hamachi shit issues like with Skyrim Together or Unreal Tournament.>>741312597I'M FUCKING KATIE THE DRAGON!!!
>>741312597excited to try out CSS themes but the general improvements look fantastici just hope it optimizes memory a bit before since it is bloated (by linux standards)
>>741280976Dual booting is fine especially if you have two drives. You just need to...1. Install Win / Linux to their drives.2. Point your UEFI to boot your Linux drive first3. Update grub4. ???5. ProfitAnd it'll give you a choice on what to boot.
>>741278096Minty
>>741303031Some can be circumvented, but i don't play competitive multiplayer games so i haven't really tried. But i know some types block it completely (but some people claim to have ways to circumvent all)Rewasd detected me being in a vm and refused to work, until i added some line in my vm xml that made the vm report as my physical hardware in every way
>what's your experience been with Linux nowit just works
>>741278096Is GPU Passthrough really good now? All AMD CPUs have an iGPU so it should be simple and work software like Davinci Resolve should work fine on the VM right?
>>741315085>Davinci Resolveit has native linux support though
>>741279701>worms wmdgross
>>741315229>supportFor their own specific distro lol
>>741315443works on my machine
>>741315667ok
>>741314079>I'M FUCKING KATIE THE DRAGON!!!Based
>>741313857I still think the original AI generated mascot looked better
>>741314079>I'M FUCKING KATIE THE DRAGON!!!
>>741314253>i just hope it optimizes memoryShould improve a little bit in 6.8 since X11 code is being stripped out.
>>741278096I use Artix on my desktop, including gaming (99.99% of my gaming these days is exploring retro shit I didn't grow up with since the modern era has overwhelmingly disappointed me, so I haven't encountered any major hurdles). It's a nice life. bedside faptop is still Windows 10 though>>741312597Really like it since it gives me upfront customization for a lot of aspects. Reminds me of older versions of Windows.
>>741278096>Tranchy>Tranniteunironically I will never install these due to the tranny shit
>>741315017This is beautiful. Theoretically, how hard is it to get Linux looking like this? Customization is one of the reasons I'm leaning towards trying Linux.
NVK save us
>>741318775not hard. depends on the DE (desktop environment) you choose and the look you are going for. some DE play nicely (xfce and KDE and spinoffs like TDE) and some will pretty much always look the same no matter what, like mint and gnome. there are also standalone window managers and those are usually heavily customizable but the drawback is that they can be buggy and not play nicely with steam... at least in my experience. i find its better to use a full DE with an included window manager so games and steam link run correctly. there seems to be some missing link between standalone window managers and the rest of the environment.
>>741318775Mostly just download and click
>>741278096Been on Arch for almost two years, very happy. That said, I kinda wanna monkey around with NixOS for no reason other than why not.
For anyone looking for shadowplay/relive replacement on linux, GPU-Screen-Recorder is great. But it doesn't work on G***e.
>>741321172I just use Steam's background recording shit.
>>741321172what do you mean that it doesn't work on gnome? it should (except for it being a bit janky with fractional scaling, because gnome shit)
>>741316681For me its the purple one
>>741322282Maybe because I was looking at the flatpak version requirements. Dunno.
>>741278096Linux will never be a consumer-grade OS. Stop shilling it, Windows just werks.
>>741324193Admitting to being too retarded to use linux is not a win anon. You are normiecattle with a low IQ.
>>741324319You're supposed to pretend they won so they stay on Windows where they belong. Only help people legitimately interested in moving to Linux instead of trying to convince Microshills or false flagging Linuxfags.
>>741324569>You're supposed to pretend they won so they stay on Windows where they belongTrue, but someone that retarded isnt going to even attempt to try linux because they would have to admit they are only using windows because its what they are familiar with and new things are scary. Stupid people do not have the humility to realize this basic concept.
Has anyone else found that DWproton has been a good replacement for Proton GE? GE doesnt seem to be getting updates as often anymore where as DW seems extremely up to date.
>>741278096I use Mint because I don’t have time to debug weird distro problems, and shit just work.I’ve also installed the latest AMD drivers on my machine, but not because I needed them for gaming - I wanted the latest version of ROCM for AI work.Anybody with half a brain cell can use Linux. Worst case scenario, you can ask a LLM for guidance if you need to troubleshoot any problem you may have.
>>741324878That the one that boasts about fixing gacha?
How do I stop steam from adding shortcuts to my application launcher on plasma? Its annoying.
>>741325142
>>741325220Man, how did I keep missing that.
>>741325009it has made wuwa work just fine for me, havent tried any others. though for wuwa i also did need to install something with protontricks and make sure the shaders always compile because otherwise sometimes cutscenes get skipped. I think the thing i installed was lavfiltersso it was protontricks 3513350 lavfiltersNow Wuthering Waves works perfectly 100% of the time.
i got a 9070XT and i still don't know if i should swap to linux, i play too much mainstream slop with anticheat and shit
>>741326809Just dual-boot. Or don't and stay on Windows. I'd just keep my mainstream stuff on Windows and Linux everything else. But ultimately, its your call to determine if the juice is worth the squeeze.
>>741326809>i play too much mainstream slop with anticheat and shitWhy are you on /v/ with such shit taste? Ball and gun gamers belong on fucking facebook and reddit lol.
>>741327362Hes perfect for nu /b/
>>741324662Actually, I use Windows because I like updates not breaking things. Doubly, I like being able to double-click on something and have it run without workarounds or caveats.
>>741328234>I like updates not breaking thingslol
>>741326809Most anticheats don't care but Riot's vanguardslop and Nexon's new shit does. Avoid those two and you're clear for like 95% of everything else. Actually thinking on it, it's basically only modern normie shooters that do this and its all quite literally the same game with a different brand name.
>>741328234>I use Windows because I like updates not breaking things.https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/21/windows-11-had-20-major-update-problems-in-2025-and-and-2026-started-badly-too-what-are-you-doing-microsoft/>Windows 11 had 20+ major update problems in 2025 and and 2026 started badly too. What are you doing, Microsoft?
>>741278451All you have to do is get cachy's proton for steam and faugus launcher for everything else. With faugus you just path to the .exe of your game. It's really that simple.
is it possible to use the gog installers in linux?is there a gog-games.to for linux
>>741278451i dont think you realize how normalized how hacky it is to do anything on windows
>>741278096How is Bazzite? I'm thinking about turning my second machine into a linux gaming platform for fun.
>>741332538you can install launchers using shit like faugus/lutris/heroic i'm pretty sure
>>741332538Yes, you can install GoG games on Linux. The best way is to use software like Heroic Launcher, Faugus, Lutris or Bottles.
>>741319329>fedora got plasma 6.7 and the new oxygen theme before archa little jelly ngl
>>741332538Use the heroic game launcher, it's great
>>741278096Its a whole hell of a lot better than when I tried dumping windows back in 2018Its not perfect, some things are still a little rough and need tinkering, but the learning curve is much more gentile now
>>741332801You can install it from the testing repo if you absolutely need it right now.
Linux bros, what are some good image editing programs I can use? Im sick of GIMP.
>>741333153krita and there are no better alternatives
>>741280157>>741280547If it's still just guesswork then I will not be using it. I will only use this if Microshit fully releases the spec, like they did with exfat. Otherwise it is not up to my standards.
>>741285652Try this:>proton-cachyos-11.0-20260506Launch options:>PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 DXVK_HDR=1 VKD3D_CONFIG=descriptor_heap PROTON_VKD3D_HEAP=1 %command%Nvidia driver:>610.43Kernel:>7.0.12-1-cachyos-eevdfI have my proton pinned to this out of date version because it is the only one that seems to work with my driver + kernel combo
>>741333153On Linux you cannot use all of Microsoft Office, everything Adobe, basically all online triple A games with anticheat, and you probably can't use FL Studio or any other DAW (though this may have changed recently, idk).
>>741333417You absolutely can use photoshop, but it'll have to be a portable version of it.
>>741328234>I like updates*bricks SSD*>not*resets all your regedits*>breaking*replaces standard programs with worse versions with fewer features*>things*installs more AI and telemetry without your consent*
>>741326809if you play those kinda games, i'd likely recommend against linux, but it doesn't hurt to trythe worst that can happen is you waste time reinstalling your computer if you fuck up by wiping your drive
>>741278096I ditched windows about a year ago and I haven't looked back.The only game I still have trouble with is koikatsu
>>741333665try faustusnothing would launch tobihime for me but faustus worked
>>741333247Alright, cool.>>741333417>Microsoft OfficeGood, fuck Microsoft.>AdobeDon't care, this is just for personal stuff and memes.>basically all online triple A games with anti cheatI haven't played a multiplayer game that uses kernel anti cheat in years.>FL StudioI don't work in audio, and from what I can see there seem to be a few guides on running it on Linux anyway.>DAWSee above.I've been on Linux for almost a year, I'm fine with what it can and cant do.
>>741333715faugus* not faustus
>>741333417you can just use reaper instead of flstudio on linux
>>741278451>oh no I can't figure out how to exit from vim
>>741333715I eventually got the game working with all my mods and shit through Heroic, but for whatever reason the color picker won't work. It's not a dealbreaker, but it's still a bit annoying.
id be used linux exclusively rn but i have an nvidia gpu. also the file system makes no sense to me but that might just be because ive been using windows for 25+ years.
>>741333417>you probably can't use FL Studio or any other DAWReaper is good. Getting your paid plugins to work is the problem. I tried with yabridge and it sucked. I'll prob have to get a MAC eventually just for the sake of music production since I don't want to dual boot windows or go back to it at all.
>>741333342i've tried launch options like that from looking at protondb, but that gave me blackscreens apart from ui elementsso anything 3d was fuckedhttps://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/2872basically exactly what this page is describing, even though the driver versions are differentmy setup:proton-cachyos-11.0-20260601610.43.027.0.12-1-cachyosis the eevdf part significant?are you suggesting i downgrade my proton and nvidia driver?
>>741278096>What distro is /v/ running for Linux gaming?Mint>what's your experience been with Linux nowmessing around in terminals larping as a system admin is fun but after a certain point I got bored of it and decided GUI is actually a good thing.Only bad experience I've had with linux is using Razer hardware>>741279457Work
>>741333665pretty ez last I checked- add winhttp to wine dll override list (so mods will work)- install winfonts- install dxvk
>>741334116Black screen except for UI elements is due to the your proton version. Other people had the same issue according to proton db.>is the eevdf significantNo, its just the scheduler my kernel is using. >are you suggesting I downgrade my proton and nvidia driver?Your proton, yes. Try 20260520, and if that does not work roll it back to 20260506. DO NOT MESS WITH THE LAUNCH OPTIONS BETWEEN TESTING.Leave your nvidia driver alone. I just left off the .02 on my version number.
>>741334425mmk trying it outit's using my left monitor instead of my main monitor, but whatever
>>741278096yeah cachy. but maybe i'll switch to NIX
None. Every friend I know that uses linux is also the least technically inclined. Friends that are tech professionals don't use it (except for servers). The linux users also run into troubleshooting bullshit 90% of the time whenever we play a new game whereas none of the windows users do. Every reason someone gives me to switch is just abstract bullshit or something that is literally made the fuck up.
>>741335206Works?
>>741333153I'm using Pinta for small things but boy do I fucking hate it compared to paint.net.I'm at the point where i'm about to just try running paint.net through wine and using that.
>>741336567yep, surprisingly hasn't crashed yetso 20260520 was the keyhow did you / would i find out which proton version works best?and i've been gradually increasing settingswent from very low, 72fpsto now up to extreme, 144fps, dlss perf, 2x fgturning on fg introduced some noticeable frame pacing issues, so this is likely the limitand no rt yet, but i'm already assuming it won't work
>>741336924and an explicit thank you, of course
>>741335696your friends are just uniquely retarded, steam literally does 99% of the work unless you are playing shit like marathon or valorant
>>741278096I use Mint. It just works, I guess.
>>741336924>>741337049I pirated the pre-release and camped out https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton issue page, trying out various configs until I got one that worked.That and I kept an eye on the protondb page, trying out configs that were similar to my setup (Similar nvidia gpu + similar kernel version)When proton updated and my game wouldn't boot anymore, I rolled back proton.Also yeah, don't enable raytracing. It will almost immediately crash the game. Just need to wait for valve or PGG to fix it.
>>741294649why the fuck to microsoftcucks always say shit liike this like they have never troubleshooted a game in their entire life on WINDOWS of all os's, you are not checking every time, you open the game and if it works it works and if it doesn't you look up the fix which is literally just changing proton in a drop down menu (better than the vast majority of fixes you have to do on windows when your games dont work BTW) and get on with your day.
>>741315017SOVLWhat global theme is that? Or you don't even use mainline KDE?
>>741336924The most important part is paying attention to the specs list on the various protondb reports.Most of time you can just yoink the settings from a report that is similar to/matches your system, but some games (like this piece of shit) are very finicky and will require you to read multiple reports and look for patterns in what works/doesn't.
I tried CachyOS, my Koikatsu BR crashed constantly on it. It crashed on Win 10 too, but somehow it is worse on CachyOS.
>>741278865They have dumdum Linux distros.Mint or cachyOS for example.Plenty of them have an installer you just click install or boot from a flashdrive/disc same as Windows and you get Linux.No serial number to enter or authentication like Windows though, it just installs.>>741278451I know it's a meme but quite literally it works on my machine.The only game I ever had to fuck with was an old 2001 Dreamcast game with a PC port (phantasy star online ephinea) and I just downloaded a set of parameters for the compatibility program that came with my Linux distro and bam, running good.I've played both indie games and AAA slop without issues.Monster hunter wilds/world, baldurs gate 3, mina the hollower, peak, star of providence, Rivals of Aether2, emulators, etc etc.>>741278705Windows is worse for gaming and Nvidia is trash but if you're stuck with it then ya, Nvidia tends to favor windows because thier proprietary drivers haven't been made public and they take microshaft $$$.I will concede however that the software controllers for both Nvidia and AMD are pretty much non-existent on Linux.Not necessary but still a point against Linux at the moment unless either of those two decide to release a Linux equivalent.
>>741279701Why are there so many desktop icons? Do you not launch from a library manager like Steam or from an app launcher?
>>741341278Desktop icons are soulful.
>want to use linux>most apps don't actually have linux versions>most new ai tools don't have linux support>can't use codex appwake me up when linux is actually relevant
>>741333715i really hope more people adopt faugus, so simple and not bloated
>>741341328codex app?
>>741341325I don't disagree, but I spend most of my desktop time on a maximized browser, so it's a lot faster for me to press alt+space to open up my launcher and type in what I want to open. Or since I have Steam minimized I can just open up and launch a game from there. In fact, I barely see my desktop in daily usage anymore. But I do agree it is soulful and that desktop pic is beautiful.
>>741341385https://chatgpt.com/codex/
I use basic bitch Fedora with KDE, it's okay.
>>741279701is that a chobits game?
>>741313478this post is 100% fabrication unless anon is playing dos games
>>741279212Same, but be sure to go with Fedora KDE.
>>741341620Depends on his setup for both Windows and Linux, I did have to fuck with registry a LOT, but I can't say more than the terminal in Linux, since I use the terminal all the time on Arch Linux. Also used it all the time on Windows to be fair. For me I needed to manually create registry entries for software on my user account constantly, because retarded Windows software requests admin permissions to install and then creates permissions explicitly in HKCU for some reason which is completely retarded if your admin account and user account are not the same.There was other stuff that you need to fuck with the registry for too, but I was constantly editing it for that specific reason and every other purpose took a back seat.Anyway, if he's using like Ubuntu, Fedora or Mint he wouldn't need to touch the terminal practically at all so even really minor regedit usage would outpace it.
>>741341482You're right, it's an antiquated way to use a computer. But I think that's kind of the appeal, and why a lot of these riced desktops copy older styles.
>>7412794576 months in I haven't touched my windows partition at all.I've been meaning to get rid of it. since the space would be nice.
>>741279519I've used ntfsfix to unbork mine.Dunno if it's enough for your usecase.>>741279582As a general rule of thumb, try not to have 2 partitions of different formats on the same drive.If you're dualbooting, ideally they should both be on separate ssds to avoid fuckery.t. ntfs media drive accessible + automounted by both with no issues.
>>741343214nta but i had an issue a while back where my computer crashed and it refused to mount my ntfs drives and ntfsfix didnt workhad to download a win2go installation just to run disk check on the fucking things because somehow my actual windows installation also got completely wrecked
>>741343301Interesting, hopefully I won't need it, but I'll try to keep this in mind if it happens to me.
>>741343332some advice i got personally was that its best to use windows fixes for windows filesystems because linux tools arent perfect and i can see what they meangoing forward i just wiped my windows drives and went full time linux with a win10 VM in case something doesnt work
>>741339581>software controllers for both Nvidia and AMD are pretty much non-existent on Linuxthen what kind of gpu would you recommend a poofag to use on linux?
>>741343214Ntfsfix is kicking the can down the road. If you use it, even if it works, the drive will likely brick soon after and require chkdisk anyway.
>>741278451fpbp
>>741333559your forgot>resets all your custom settings and hacks you did to make your shit OS bearable
>>741343998sorry missed your "regedit" line
>>741332801I installed from testing repos
>>741278096The only game that Linux can run is neofetch.
>>741278096I installed Linux in October 2024 and exclusively used it for gaming since the start of 2025. (With an NVIDIA card even)The only larger issue I've had in that time was FF7:R2 not working for a week or two after its release, but it got fixed eventually.Other than that, you generally just click play in Steam and things work. But I'm also not playing games with anticheat malware, so things might be different for you if you have to play the latest competitive games.
>>741278451>install opencode>tell it to make the thing work>it works so le hacky
>>741279457To remind me never to go back
>>741301684This but I removed the aur day 1 and changed some things. Love linux for how easy it is to swap stuff.
>>741346362Wuh? I don't remember EndeavourOS having any kind of AUR helper, does it? Maybe I just didn't notice it.
>>741346426Part of the installer options. I personally turned it off so it was never installed.
>>741278096Mint. Had some learning pains at the start, nowadays it plays more than I need, including chinese slop with kernel anticheats, and does precisely what I tell it to.
>>741338434ty man. it's just standard KDE plasma 6.6 riced to the best of my ability with the reactionary global theme
>>741333417>Microsoft Officegood. who the fuck wants to install that bloated shit on their PC in 2026 anyway? google office is more than sufficient>Adobeadobe photoshop 2021 works perfect, personal experience>anticheatgenuinely don't care to play games with kernel anticheat>FL Studio/DAWFL works afaik
>>741279457I deleted it earlier this year. I wanted to switch to a different distro and also resize the partitions (make the windows one smaller, make boot larger for snapshots), which also required me moving the positions of the partitions around. Somehow something went wrong and instead of trying to figure out how I could recover the windows partition with Testdisk or something, I just wiped it instead because I was not using windows anymore anyway.
is x11 or wayland better for gaming on a 20 series nvidia card?
>>741349184you can have multiple desktop environments installed, it's not really a choice you have to make
>>741349283i'd rather just use whichever one is better for gaming 2bh
>>741278451why do microsaar indians feel the need to lie so much about linux?Bill Gates is getting scared
>>741315017Is your pape Dante from DMC? Based
>>741349184just use wayland. nobody uses x display server anymore
>>741326809Use LTSC?
>>741349313Wayland then, that's where all future development is happening.
>>741349184Both work. Both have their own issues.Wayland problems (KDE):>mouse escaping to other screen in some games>copy-paste and drag and drop stops working randomly between xwayland applications>global shortcuts missing for many programs, some support the xdg-desktop portal to work around it.X11 problems (MATE):>no HDR>no multimonitor VRRSo, pick your poision. With X11 you need forcecompositionpipline in order to stop tearing which add a bit input latency.I personally still use X11 as it works the best for me as I don't care about HDR or VRR really. BUT, KDE is dropping X11 support entirely on Plasma 6.8. Plasma 6.7 was just released. So it's coming. The only choice at that point will be to switch to Wayland or use an entirely new fork of X11, like XLibre.
>>741349184Pretty much no reason to use x11.
>>741279457Escape from TarkovBattlefield 6RobloxMinecraftEverything else is Linux Mint.
I use NixOS. I like it but don't recommend it.
>>741281163Oblivion remastered was playable day 1 on Linux
>>741346648>, including chinese slop with kernel anticheats,how?
>>741279457I still have an SSD with windows but I haven't used it in year now. Contemplating deleting it, but I feel like some use case will come up as soon as i remove it.
>>741349813i've read that wayland is barely serviceable on 10 series cards, so that's why i asked if it's good for 20 series. dx12 games run really well on x11 for me at the moment. so i'm worried if i move to wayland, that won't be the case anymore.
>>741279163Oxygen was OK and far better than what came after, but I vastly preferred KDE 3.5's Crystal theme and Tango as a distant second. Crystal is still the cleanest looking icon set I've ever seen, felt miles ahead of WinXP and Vista in terms of unified look and feel when I first used it.
>>741278096Steam toolbar icon still doesnt flash when you receive a messageCachyos is garbage
W11 LTSC just works. Doesnt have any ai bloat in it
>>741350136i have a gtx1080, use wayland and have no issuesnot sure if it's still necessary but i have the kernel parameternvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1set to fix some sleep issue. that i s all.
>>741350136Turing and onward are supported with the latest drivers, so you should be good.
>>741349913Minecraft works perfectly fine on Linux though?
>>741350247>>741350263cheers, i'll consider it
>>741349993Most chink devs just allow their games to run on linux, surprisingly enough. Not 100% of games work, but for example Genshin, Wuwa and Endfield do.
Anyone running bazzite?Sorta wondering how running immutable works compared to Mint.
>>741350382the only reason i would ever want to use an immutable system is for a steam machine type setup or for use in my parent's PC.
>>741278451Why do Microslop shills always lie like this? Literally hallucinating problems that don't exist or haven't existed in years.
>>741351490He's literally right, half this thread is people complaining about shit not working on their GamingTurboPro™OS.
>>741349313"Use" and "Installed" are not the same thing. Install all of them and decide what works for you.
>>741351575Where? Do you even understand the scale of what is being complained about? The stuff in this thread is compatible to bugs that have been around in Windows for years. Except you're too retarded to notice let alone know how to explain them.
>>741350382Immutable sucks ass unless your use case is strictly confined to whatever is envisioned as the use case by the creators of the distro. Bazzite is not SteamOS. It's made by people who only begrudgingly include support for KDE because SteamOS has it, but they want you to use Gnome and Gnome software. If you like Gnome and you mostly just play video games in steam big picture mode like you would on a Steam Deck, I guess it's fine. It's just a shittier SteamOS with Gnome.
>>741351490>Literally hallucinatingAnon, you already know the answer. You're not responding to a human.
So far, the only issue I've had with Linux is that Smite 2 started doing this bullshit where the window will drop focus for a split second when a fight breaks out, I most likely open something I didn't want, and then I have to quickly get the game window back open before I get deleted for standing still in the middle of a fight like a jackass.
>>741351667Graphics cards literally not working is not "compatible" to mere bugs that happen in any software.>>741278890Buggy system installer.>>741279701Not issue free.>>741280552Games not launching.>>741281851Grub nuking itself.>>741285914Post hoc fallacies.>>741295331A guy uses VM just to play gaymes.>>741296841"Everything has worked perfectly for me, with the exception of [....]" - every Linux fanatic ever.And that's just the first 30 posts in this thread. Windows is better in every single regard, it's an actual operating system made by professionals. "Our piece of shit Linux is finally usable after >30 years and finally does what Windows did for the laity decades ago", wow.
>>741352126Mentally ill "Linux cultists" poster is a vee cross-poster LMAO. Linux absolutely lives rent free in your head doesn't it?
>>741278096>troonix gaming
>>741278096Sorry but I'm not trans
>>741352126>Grub nuking itself.>On ArchPeople who don't want this particular "shit not working" don't use Arch. I'd rather take GRUB nuking itself every time I have the audacity to type pacman -Syu than having to manually create registry entries for broken software that installs keys into the HKCU hive as admin. Neither is fun, but at least with the former I can blame myself for using Arch.Not that this actually happens every time, I've seen it once about a year ago.
>>741352126Windows is worse than Linux for literally everything other than video games, and by now Linux is pretty on-par when it comes to games, too. All the "BUT U HAD MINOR ISSUE" shit is just cope
>>741352218I have no clue what you're talking about. I've installed Fedora on a stolen craptop because it was tied to some Microslop account on W11 and I don't trust random Win ISOs and it's been a completely mediocre experience, the performance is awful and there are constant stutters, hardware acceleration seems to be not working at all, I don't see any reason for using Linux in 2026, ESPECIALLY if you are a gamer. WHY THE FUCK would you use an operating system known for not being able to run videogames as a gamer?
>>741352549>I installed this OS on an admittedly bad computer and it didn't work very well>This is clearly the fault of the OS
>>741352549That sounds like a you problem. Hardware acceleration works fine on Ubuntu Pro on my shitty stinkpad... for the few codecs that 8th gen Intel i7 supports anyway. That doesn't include AV1 which I have tons of 4k videos in, unfortunately.
>>741350136whatever you read is probably just as old as those cards
>>741351673Oh I loathe gnome.Guess i'll start with Mint or Cachy and then go SteamOS if they release a generalized distro.
>>741278096ubuntubeen my daily driver for some 5 years nowjust werksi'm considering cachy at home just to try a different distro outside my comfort zone
>>741350382if you don't have the talent of breaking shit just by existing next to it, immutable is pretty much useless
>>741278096Been using KDE+cachyos recently. Very happy with how it is right now and impressed with how far KDE has come. Can't think of anything I'd change.
>>741352549I can run all my games and actually run better on my 2018 toaster.Cause windows is fucking bloat hogging my RAM
>>741278096>Cachy?for retards who cannot use arch>Bazzite? for trannies and fags>Ubuntu? for general iditos who cannot think for themselvesI use Arch, as intended
>>741352279>>741352302>seething replies to OP in a thread with 400+ postsWhat's the point? Here, have some pity (You)s, don't spend them all in one place.
>>741278096no way to make my laptops panel have vrr without rewriting the kernel so I gave up and went back to windows where it just works.
I have been using linux for like 16 years I used to use ubuntu on my shitty laptop I had because my uncle convinced me, then I moved to xubuntu years later for awhile, then arch on my first PC I built and its been arch ever since. when I used ubuntu on my laptop time the only games I could play were freeware games and pirated minecraft jar files and like forum rpg sites it was a different time
