6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
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I had read that Steam on WINE is pretty stable. Is it not?
Steam runs natively and uses proton for game compatibility, similar idea to wine but it's geared for games
It's pretty good. Most games will run, sometimes with a little jiggling to get it to work, although performance isn't quite as good (some games are particularly rough)
I'm technically dual booting, but I haven't launched Windows in almost a year, and there's only been a handful of games I passed on primarily because of support
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It has been already 2 years for me, I have no intention of looking back. It even works better than Windows at times.
Whatd you jump to?
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If I can still game. I might just move to Linux. But also am enjoying pricing out a windows 11 build with my imaginary budget.
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I'd consider switching if somebody spoonfed me into being able to use/know it's basics.
I am currently way too overstimulated with switching to privacy-focused and less (US-)corpo-reigned alternatives (like lemmy instead of reddit)
I'll second recommending Raspberry Pi as a secondary machine. That way your primary computer is still around as a fallback.
If you have a spare monitor to add, a Raspberry Pi 400 for $100.00 is a great way to try out Linux on dedicated hardware.
The Canakit version even comes with a printed welcome guide.
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You really don’t understand security updates.
I do and if the computer is for work yes update to 11. But for gaming only why would anyone care if it doesn't break your games? I do nothing but game on a PC and have no need to update until it is required for gaming. Also it is not like on that date all security updates to that point vanish. Firefox and Chrome will still update for security. Malwarebytes will still also update for security.
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I am on Linux and won't change to W11 for sure.
I too choose your path of not being tempted away from Linux by the lure of an ad-riddled Microsoft-account-locked expensive "upgrade" to Windows 11.
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I don't know. I might build a new PC, and make this one a steambox. SteamOS does sound VERY exciting, and I haven't ever been excited for an OS.
Nice!
SteamOS getting an official PC release is going to cause the first time I've spent a lot on PC hardware in a long while.
I'll build it from parts of I must, but I really hope they go for a tie-in deal with Alienware or System76 and just let me buy a big pre-installed tower to play on.
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for newcomers, maybe this is the best combo. Debian stable with KDE Plasma.
Debian is not a good choice for beginners. It's extremely bare bones compared to Ubuntu or Mint.
Drivers on Debian stable are also heavily outdated
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This is the advice I came here looking for. I'm intimidated by the switch and have no time, but if there's a distro that's easy to get going, I'm there for it. I'll check it out!
I just wasn't sure fedora based (bazzite) would be as easy to troubleshoot as mint (Debian based) since arguably debian/Ubuntu are the most popular distro.
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In what world is a Debian base not beginner friendly my fiancé that could barely use windows is using it just fine
Did she set it up herself?
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No Kernel level anti cheat will ever work on linux. But probably Windows will disable the possibillity to manipulate on kernel level either in the future.
But probably Windows will disable the possibillity to manipulate on kernel level either in the future.
Sort of, right?
We know Windows will continue cracking down on kernel module adds, since the Crowd strike disaster.
But I figure most anti-cheat will just shift to non-kernel and keep working.
Of course, at that point most anti-cheat of will then work under Proton, on Linux, too.
Which was maybe your point.
Okay, I don't think I added anything for you, but I'll leave this in case it helps someone reading along with us.
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Made my jump to Arch (btw) a couple of years ago and haven't really looked back. I have Win10 as a second boot option, but that's reserved specifically for Game Pass and VR, but it's very rare I boot it. Don't care to upgrade even after EOL, and I'd never recommend Arch to anyone but the most comfortable with Linux, but it's been a great option for me.
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This is the advice I came here looking for. I'm intimidated by the switch and have no time, but if there's a distro that's easy to get going, I'm there for it. I'll check it out!
Another distro that's easy to get going for gaming is Garuda.
Also, the easiest way to switch to any distro is to get a USB drive and install a program called Ventoy. Then you throw your install iso onto the Ventoy drive, boot from USB, and you're good to go.
As a tip, pick up an external drive large enough for your Steam library. Then in Steam, you right click on each game and select Manage/Back up game files.
Doing it this way will save you days of downloading.
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I moved back to Linux and it works wonderfully. Except for HDR. That require a bit of tinkering. And there is no good way of getting it to work in any Linux browser, except for some very clunky workarounds. Hopefully that will be fixed.
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My system isn't even that old (maybe 4 years) and the first few times I got that very annoying popup that I should try to upgrade it told me in vague terms that I couldn't. So be it, everything runs fine now. I have backups of everything, so if WIn10 doesn't continue to work as simply unsupported one day I'll look for ways to "fix" it like someone mentioned with a 3rd party, or go to Linux and adapt to it. Anyone who has ever had a drive failure knows that the solution is to use a recovery USB which will be a portable Linux, so it will be just another version of that.
Check out Bazzite Linux. It has been very stable for me and all the games I tested just works.
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Well my PC can't do windows 11, and upgrading is now impossible thanks to a certain someone. So yeah...
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Been a Linux user for ages, I do have Windows 11 installed on another partition but I rarely - if ever - boot into it.
I mention the above spiel because I don't understand what additional points people have against windows 11? It seems very similar to windows 10 for me - what're the reasons for people hating it?
Genuinely not trying to be obtuse, here - I'm just wondering what the primary pain points are of win 11?
Is it the requirement for using a Microsoft account to log in vs. a normal local account? Or the one drive stuff? (upon install it did move most of my personal folders into a weird OneDrive directory, and I had to use the registry to wipe out OneDrive and move them back. Very annoying.)
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Jumped to linux with a new laptop, but not gaming on it. It's fine for what I need. My old machine will be for gaming only.
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Swapped to Linux last week. Currently dual booting. Over the coming months, I'm going to slowly transfer all my stuff over as well
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Bought my wife a framework laptop, slapped fedora on it and have been helping her make the switch. So far so good other than Obsidian not working the same as OneNote.
