Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to linux. Should I?

[diesertypmatthias@lemmy.ml]

You should go with Fedora.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Believe me I tried. It just will not let me finish the setup process

[quik@infosec.pub]

As other people noted, Bazzite/Fedora Silverblue can absolutely bite you in the foot if you leave the "normal use cases" — and if you're not just gaming on the device, you sooner or later will. All of this is solvable and IMO worth it, but probably not great for a beginner trying to become more knowledgeable.

Tldr good for absolute beginners, good for "experts" (in both cases because it very rarely gets in your way/breaks)

[redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com]

Rude and unhelpful. Are you trying to innoculate OP against people like that in the Linux community? Why not just be different instead?

[victorz@lemmy.world]

Sorry if it came off rude. I'm only trying to say that switching to Linux shouldn't be something other people want you to do, it should be something you want to do. If you're on the fence, try it, see if it's something you like. Otherwise keep your existing OS or try a third option.

You feel me? Didn't mean to be rude at all. ️

Edit: this is for gaming as well, so there's that aspect, which I kind of missed.

In that case I would add further that it still doesn't matter. It's only preference. It only matters in the moments where you aren't running a game fullscreen and actually using the system's other programs.

[grilledcheese@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

This env variable might help with your cracked installers

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WINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1
‘’’

[epzillon@lemmy.world]

Very true, they do ofc exist there. Nobara just gives you a first-time install-wizard which lets you one-click condigure it. I was more thinking of a use-case as OPs where you wont need to tinker too much after the initial installation.

But yes, basically all distros do have the drivers in their package repos, so any would work.

[grass@sh.itjust.works]

I would actually recommend the nvidia image of bazzite since it takes the potential driver module and kernel mismatch problem out of the equation which IMO is one of the most annoying problems an nvidia user can face, and if it somehow bugs out anyway rollback is one or two keypresses away depending on if you hide grub or not.

Virtualization is possible with the boot flags and vfio if needed setup using the "ujust setup-virtualization" script. qemu/kvm, probably not virtualbox which also requires kernel modules iirc.

[a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

thanks, i will test it next time i encounter issues. But at least the Kaos Repack installers have some other issue, the UI buttons of the installer don't work as intended, they just don't react at all after clicking the install button.

[crabhands@lemmy.ml]

Always seeing the Bazzite recommendation. Just converted my kid over, 2 weeks ago. 0 complaints which is pretty amazing.

[cyborganism@piefed.ca]

I have had ONLY NVidia cards since my first ever own PC in 2000 when I started college.

I've used Mandrake Linux for a while then switched to Ubuntu when it came out in 2004 and have used that ever since.

I've NEVER encountered any problems whatsoever. In fact, it made using an NVidia card easier because of its built-in third party driver installation tool that takes care of everything.

If something doesn't work, it's very probable that it's because the user messed around with something and caused it to happen.

[matth78@lemmy.zip]

Didn't try it but FYI maybe PhotoGIMP could make GIMP usable for you!

[obnomus@lemmy.ml]

CachyOS since you're using fedora for 3 years

[pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The amount of these posts make me happy.

[seasm0ke@lemmy.world]

Garuda dragonized gaming will get you everything out of the box and you can change the theme after. It will walk you through a lot with assistants, which is nice to learn things on an arch based distro. Its an easy switch from windows, plus, now I can use fish konsole htop and paru alright.

[vamo@lemmings.world]

Unless you play anything by Riot or Fortnite, YES

[rah@hilariouschaos.com]

If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch.

[grass@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah back then I was in elementary school. I chased single percent performance gains from bleeding edge because I couldn't just buy better hardware. If you wanted the latest versions of anything ubuntu couldn't do it without iffy unofficial repos and dependency hell. I did it anyway and it sucked.

If you compiled the kernel but forgot to rebuild the graphics modules you had to live cd in, because a 64mb usb stick was like 300 bucks back then and booting off usb wasn't really a thing yet. Then next would be some janky terminal instructions off someones blog printed at the library because phones weren't even moto razr and arch wiki didnt exist yet, then pray it worked and that there was enough time left in the day to do whatever stupid homework needed the computer.

I never liked the nvidia installer and it's control panel that seemingly needed root then somehow fucked up the monitor config while not even applying the driver config, but it was all I knew as I never had a radeon until after the amd acquisition of ati. I also have no idea if the driver was always in kernel or if that was more recent but being able to compile a kernel with some silly buzzword feature that probably only situationally added 2fps to maybe one or two games and not risk graphics related boot failure was a game changer to my broke ass in the early days of working.

Anyway that was peak ubuntu era as I remember it. I mainly used ubuntu with spots of opensuse and some others here and there until whenever the r9 280 came out and then primarily used arch until the the early immutable distros showed up. Now even my dad and grandparents are on bazzite and my mom on aurora and its literally the best thing ever because they actually don't fuck it up anymore and I don't spend every waking hour on call for tech support.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

I am asking if my hardware will enable me to have a good experience since I know nvidia has issues on linux.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Peobably what I heard of before. Thanks for the link, will take a look.