Should i switch to linux? please tell me why or why not.
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I mean, I've bricked plenty of installs before I knew what I was doing more. I still regularly see, in certain places, people give purposefully destructive commands.
rm -rf /doesn't work directly anymore, but it'll work on your home folder for example. You also don't need CLI to install games, I would say literally never.If a good third-party launcher that needed to be run as a system package showed up, Bazzite would just add that. Games that just ship a Linux executable like a lot of itch.io stuff generally works regardless and doesn't need the CLI. Can you give an example of a gaming usecase that requires
sudo apt?You can also install packages to the system on Bazzite by the way. It's atomic, not actually immutable. It's just frowned upon because it makes things less stable, and increases the length of updates. You use
sudo rpm-ostree installin the same way, and it layers the package on top of the current version. It's treated as an absolute last resort, but it is way easier to reset to the base image if anything goes wrong.No not a lot. Was just distro hopping and tried bazzite. When I tried to install something that wans't in the software centrum it indeed said to try sudo rpm-ostree install. But monkey brain already found it too much. So yeah... My bazzite views probaly aren't the best lol. Have to give it a better try some day.
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Yeah but why wouldn't you when sticks are so cheap now? I have an E5-2680v2 and 32GB of RAM. I can have SO many browser tabs open, and games actually run quicker because Linux does a really good job of using excess RAM as file cache. If a game accesses a texture more than once it almost always ends up in cache. I probably will upgrade to 64GB at some point, because I've got two 16GB sticks so only using half the memory channels. Wanna get an E5-2697v2 first though, much better single core performance.
I'm not saying you shouldn't. I have 64 GB of DDR5.
️I was just reacting to the fact that 64 GB is unusually much for DDR3, since DDR3 is quite old and people usually didn't have that much RAM back in those days.
I reiterate: I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Add as much RAM as you like. Who cares.
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No not a lot. Was just distro hopping and tried bazzite. When I tried to install something that wans't in the software centrum it indeed said to try sudo rpm-ostree install. But monkey brain already found it too much. So yeah... My bazzite views probaly aren't the best lol. Have to give it a better try some day.
I mean, Bazzite is Fedora so even if it wasn't atomic, you'd be using
dnfinstead ofapt. Subbing outrpm-ostreeisn't much different
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I'm not saying you shouldn't. I have 64 GB of DDR5.
️I was just reacting to the fact that 64 GB is unusually much for DDR3, since DDR3 is quite old and people usually didn't have that much RAM back in those days.
I reiterate: I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Add as much RAM as you like. Who cares.
Well, yeah, but seen as it's old now it's dirt cheap, so anyone still running it is gonna have a lot just because they can. It's not like those old computers aren't upgradeable lol
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Well, yeah, but seen as it's old now it's dirt cheap, so anyone still running it is gonna have a lot just because they can. It's not like those old computers aren't upgradeable lol
There's no "but".
I'm not disagreeing. I was just reacting.It's like seeing a whole heap of fossils in one place. It's super cool and a neat find, but you react because it's a lot.
I know computers are upgradeable.
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There's no "but".
I'm not disagreeing. I was just reacting.It's like seeing a whole heap of fossils in one place. It's super cool and a neat find, but you react because it's a lot.
I know computers are upgradeable.
Fair fair
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Sandy Bridge is too old for CachyOS. Cachy compiles the kernel with optimizations for newer CPUs
thanks good catch
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There’s hardly any risk anymore. The drivers themselves are mostly fine, with a couple exceptions.
The only two risk factors are either using an immature distro with no properly packaged drivers, or an outdated one
Mint won't properly display games with my RTX 3080 unless I reboot for some reason. There can still be issues but they might be fixable.
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They sell 250 on 256 and 500 on 512, holding back the 6/12 gigs for wear leveling and other NAND management functions. At least that's what I understand.
Just looked it up and it was 240gb, and made by pny. My b.
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So i have a gaming desktop that not the best or the newest. What takes up most of my drive space is games, updates, and software's. Im wondering if i should switch to linux and if linux will improve any performance for my main machine? If you believe i should switch what os should i go with or why or why not should i switch?
I mostly game and do mess with ollama/ai tools because i think that's cool. I want to do more things in the future but that might beyond my drive space?
What would you advise?
wrote last edited by [email protected]The answer: Yes!
The why: Why not?
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Can you use the existing Windows partition for the games though (without it fucking them up)? Because while Linux fits in that easily, games do not.
Linux has NTFS drivers. Should work fine.
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Mint won't properly display games with my RTX 3080 unless I reboot for some reason. There can still be issues but they might be fixable.
When it's not displaying them properly, what does it do?
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So i have a gaming desktop that not the best or the newest. What takes up most of my drive space is games, updates, and software's. Im wondering if i should switch to linux and if linux will improve any performance for my main machine? If you believe i should switch what os should i go with or why or why not should i switch?
I mostly game and do mess with ollama/ai tools because i think that's cool. I want to do more things in the future but that might beyond my drive space?
What would you advise?
You know the answer!
Exactly, that's it.
So why not do it?
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When it's not displaying them properly, what does it do?
wrote last edited by [email protected]The game runs fine but there's a black screen. I might get a few frames actually rendered once every minute or so before it goes back to black. It usually only happens after I let the screensaver go on after each reboot.
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So i have a gaming desktop that not the best or the newest. What takes up most of my drive space is games, updates, and software's. Im wondering if i should switch to linux and if linux will improve any performance for my main machine? If you believe i should switch what os should i go with or why or why not should i switch?
I mostly game and do mess with ollama/ai tools because i think that's cool. I want to do more things in the future but that might beyond my drive space?
What would you advise?
A xeon plus 3060 is an interesting combo...
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The game runs fine but there's a black screen. I might get a few frames actually rendered once every minute or so before it goes back to black. It usually only happens after I let the screensaver go on after each reboot.
Is your computer going to sleep as well or just screensaver? I've ran into a similar issue on both AMD and Nvidia because the power management on each has caused me problems. I basically turned off the auto sleep to give myself a bandage fix to it. My PC runs pretty cool on idle though, so that's not too horrible.
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Is your computer going to sleep as well or just screensaver? I've ran into a similar issue on both AMD and Nvidia because the power management on each has caused me problems. I basically turned off the auto sleep to give myself a bandage fix to it. My PC runs pretty cool on idle though, so that's not too horrible.
Screensaver. Ran a test to confirm it by letting the screen go dark before it went to sleep. Turning off auto sleep didn't do anything, the PC would just switch to screensaver and go to sleep like nothing changed.
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A xeon plus 3060 is an interesting combo...
He probably slapped the GPU onto a workstation.
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So i have a gaming desktop that not the best or the newest. What takes up most of my drive space is games, updates, and software's. Im wondering if i should switch to linux and if linux will improve any performance for my main machine? If you believe i should switch what os should i go with or why or why not should i switch?
I mostly game and do mess with ollama/ai tools because i think that's cool. I want to do more things in the future but that might beyond my drive space?
What would you advise?
The biggest downside of ditching Windows is losing that comfort zone where everything just works without thinking about it. But if you're cool with putting in some effort to learn new stuff, Linux will feel way snappier right from the start.
Since you've got an Nvidia GPU, I'd definitely go with CachyOS - it's been my best Linux experience for gaming and daily use. The Linux community respects it too: https://cachyos.org/
For your setup specifically, you'll probably like how much less space Linux takes up compared to Windows, plus it's way lighter on system resources so your older hardware should perform better. Gaming works surprisingly well these days thanks to Proton, most stuff just runs.
You could dual boot first to test it first without committing. CachyOS would be perfect for what you're doing.
