Thinking on switching to linux

[snotflickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

AMD drivers: Native, will auto-install as the mesa library, AMD is tits in Linux, it just works.

Gmail: Thunderbird works with Gmail accounts and can sync the calendar.

iTunes: Rhythmbox has a very similar layout to iTunes and so should feel pretty familiar.

Anti-virus: Linux doesn't really need antivirus in the same way Windows does because it's more locked down and doesn't have the same vectors of attack. If someone is hacking a Linux machine, it's a corporate server, not your desktop PC.

Py-Charm: As others have noted, Python is installed natively and is usually already implemented "out of the box" on a fresh install. No need for a program to run it, Python is just... there already.

Remote Desktop: Whatever distribution you have will likely also come with a Remote Desktop client. I am unaware of whether or not they will connect natively to iOS.

Star Citizen: You should be able to add this as a non-Steam game to Steam and use Steam's Proton compatibility layer to play it. A few years ago they were literally asking for Linux players to test it with Proton and Easy Anti-Cheat.

VPN: Linux has extensive VPN support including "roll your own" through either OpenVPN or Wireguard.

Windows Games: Steam, using the Proton compatibility layer, which is essentially WINe, just made a little easier. As with Star Citizen, just add it as a non-Steam game and viola.

Windows 10: The Distribution of your Dreams is just around the corner... Mint isn't a terrible place to start.

[Guest]

Only have two nonsteam games I play (Minecraft has a Linux version already) and Star citizen

[bombomom@lemmy.world]

Honestly, Mint works well for games too. Been running it for the last year.

[dan@upvote.au]

It's worth buying games on GOG instead of Steam where possible. Games on GOG are DRM-free, so you can download the installer and keep a backup of it, and it'll work indefinitely.

[fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You're still using itunes and not apple music?

[dan@upvote.au]

Most VPNs support Wireguard, which is built in to Linux. If your VPN provider doesn't have a Linux app, you can usually usually download a Wireguard config file from them and use it on Linux. You can import a WireGuard config into NetworkManager using a command like:

sudo nmcli connection import type wireguard file /tmp/example.conf

[dan@upvote.au]

PyCharm is cross-platform, so you can use it on Linux.

[Guest]

for a remote desktop app that also works on ios there's Rustdesk. everything else already had great suggestions in this thread

[3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world]

My bad. I run linux mint myself but i dont play games on it. I heard popos was great for gaming but glad to hear linux mint is great too.

[telorand@reddthat.com]

Drop Norton, full stop.

Take a look at https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/ to get a better overview of what you need to look for in a VPN.

[mactan@lemmy.ml]

star citizen LUG has a quick start guide, wiki, and helper tool to conduct install https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/knowledge-base/wiki/Quick-Start-Guide

[telorand@reddthat.com]

Linux Mint or Nobara would be great beginner distros and would each be great for gaming. If gaming is more important, I would lean towards Nobara. If general use is more important, Mint.

Keep in mind that you can try most of these out in a Virtual Machine. Some others to consider are PikaOS and CachyOS. I'm also working on my migration, and I install and set up everything with each ISO as if I was doing it for real, to see what hiccups I might run into. It will be slower, but it's just a trial run, so just expect things to be faster when you do it for real!

[Guest]

I just switched to linux mint and the install was a lot easier than i thought. Works fine. I love the customization, the lightweight OS and its quite easy to use. Barely needed to use the terminal. The only problems i've faced is discord screenshare not showing my cursor and time to time lagging my games, and gaming, mostly played deadlock, has in my experience came with some bugs.

[max_p@lemmy.max-p.me]

Honestly a VPN that doesn't support Linux at least through manual connection settings, run away. All reputable and even the sketchier VPN providers support Linux, because that's what the privacy crowd uses, not supporting it implies those aren't even the target user base at all. It's a red flag. It's not a VPN for privacy or getting another country's Netflix.

I'd trust Norton about as much as my ISP, so unless you use public WiFi somewhat often, it doesn't add much value, just the downsides of captchas everywhere. They're probably analyzing the traffic to map out malware campaigns and such, which would make sense but isn't very private.

The business model of antivirus companies is fear, and they sell the solution to that fear. They have a VPN because people assume VPN means more security, of course they'll sell you one. At best they block known malware domains and IPs, which is utterly useless on Linux anyway.

If you want a VPN get a real VPN.

[max_p@lemmy.max-p.me]

Proton is Wine but tweaked for the sole purpose of running games, so it packs a bunch of extra stuff needed to make games run well together.

Usually there's also a long list of per-game tweaks and changes to make sure it runs, it's all preconfigured so you press play in your launcher and it works. Not need to change settings whenever you want to play a game.

You can still use regular Wine but you'll have to set up a bunch of stuff yourself, and eventually you run into a game that needs a different version of something that breaks another game, you get into prefix management and it's a mess. Or oh this game runs better when we pretend to be Windows 7 but this one works best with Windows 10. Proton just does it all for you, every game gets its own space with all the correct settings from the get go, and you just launch into the game and play.

[Guest]

Star Citizen works great on linux with Lutris.
https://lutris.net/games/star-citizen/

[letak@lemm.ee]

Apple Music can be replaced with Cider on Linux.
Many use iTunes on windows for device management, the only thing that I know for this on linux is libimobiledevice.

[mactan@lemmy.ml]

nearly, it's too bad they're hung up on wine 8 default. have to manually switch to proton since 8-26 is too old

[euphoma@lemmy.ml]

VR on linux is scuffed. https://lvra.gitlab.io/ refer to this site for vr on linux. If you play VRchat, its pretty much unplayable in vr on linux, its literally somehow a better experience on quest standalone

[wolflink@sh.itjust.works]

Remote Desktop to iOS: I use moonlight/sunshine and it works great