Any other Linux users here? And has anyone fully migrated?

[SpikeSlania]

I know but maybe some one will make Microsoft change the their and they make Windows 10 work until they release a new OS with no AI bullshit and so on.

And I mean some one going there burn their office down or blow it up or something to make them get their heads out of their assholes.

Not going to happen :p But Microsoft is offering extended support for like $30 for another year. Also think there are some people doing unofficial support for Windows 10 past the deadline. It will just become an issue when the programs you use no longer support Windows 10

 

[DorfleFlorp]

I have been linux only since I switched to Ubuntu from windows 2000 back in the day. There are a few games I haven't been able to get working even with VMs but for the most part I have had no problems.

 

[diapered]

Currently backing up my other laptop that has enough ram to try out Garuda on it. So excited :3

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Alright @Leon , I went ahead and took the plunge.

So far, I am pretty impressed with garuda. The setup assistant was great (there were errors, but just had to retry), and the garuda assistant is great... This might give majaro a run for its money in terms of ease of use >_> I am going with octopi for the software manager (seems pretty good), since that was the only option for xfce from the setup assistant, and I don't want to "stray" too far on that.

 

[diapered]

I almost never use the terminal.

Same, now I only use distros that make software management easy with their package gui. I only want to use the the cl for things like ffmpeg where it is much more efficient to use it that way.

 

[flingninja1234]

Hi guys, I've been considering moving fully to linux but i'm just wondering if it will affect anything important?

I have been using linux on my laptop for 2 years but it's an older 2017 model that i only use for programming and web browsing, i use my main pc for heavier tasks like drawing, video editing, gaming, streaming etc.

I've been considering swapping over to linux on my main pc for a while but i'm not sure if i should, has anyone here swapped over to linux fully? if so what are your main gripes (i hear gpu drivers are a mess)

I don't think I could. Most of the computer games I play, need Windows.

 

[MRDeu]

I've always wanted to. I forcibly remove bloatware and BS from my OS typically, so it's not like I'm using any special Windows features that I'd miss. My only concern would be switching and then not being able to figure out how to have it run everything I need. I know more and more stuff is being supported, and I love troubleshooting tech stuff.

I'm more of a hardware person, so too much software stuff and I freak out.

I'd be so willing to learn but teaching myself stuff usually takes way too long unless I'm in 'hyperfixation' mode.

Yes, that's the standard argument that companies give you, but the reality is that they don't allow you to play because they don't have full control of your computer.

 

[GardeniaSky]

Yes, that's the standard argument that companies give you, but the reality is that they don't allow you to play because they don't have full control of your computer.

I remember back in the day you could customize and access everything in a Windows OS.

Now half the files I 'don't have permission' to even look at even though I am the admin and owner. No matter what I do, forcing perms and deletion of shit I don't want, it fights me tooth and nail. Every update I'm like, okay what bullshit do I have to deal with now? I put off updates as long as I can, until it won't physically let me turn off my computer without doing an update.

So many 'features' I just shut off and ignore. Just be an OS, stop trying to hold my hand.

 

[PepThePerson]

I'm dualbooting Debian/Win 10. It's comfy, but I wouldn't recommend Debian as the only system. I'd go with Arch or Ubuntu instead. Debian has its merits, but setting up Wine and Steam etc. SUCKS and I still can't make it work.

For context, I didn't wanna dualboot, but I was forced to. Thinking of installing Arch instead.

 

[diapered]

I'm dualbooting Debian/Win 10. It's comfy, but I wouldn't recommend Debian as the only system. I'd go with Arch or Ubuntu instead. Debian has its merits, but setting up Wine and Steam etc. SUCKS and I still can't make it work.

For context, I didn't wanna dualboot, but I was forced to. Thinking of installing Arch instead.

Before you try Arch, you may want to try Garuda. @Leon recommended it in the other linux thread, and I am loving it so far. It is closer to arch than manjaro (which I have been using), but still has nice gui assistants for updates, and even setting up the stuff you are talking about as you can see (although I don't use wine or steam, so can't comment how well it works)

 

[Leon]

Before you try Arch, you may want to try Garuda. @Leon recommended it in the other linux thread, and I am loving it so far. It is closer to arch than manjaro (which I have been using), but still has nice gui assistants for updates, and even setting up the stuff you are talking about as you can see (although I don't use wine or steam, so can't comment how well it works)
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Steam works fine, wine from what i tried worked fine too but i game mostly through lutris's wine or emulators.

The only game that didn't work was the windows version of sonic unleashed recompiled which i tried for the heck of it, linux obviously works fine though.

 

[SpikeSlania]

If I was to use Arch again it would be CachyOS. If you want a Debian based distro better set up for gaming there's PikaOS. I normally tend to stick around Fedora based distros.

 

[diapered]

Steam works fine, wine from what i tried worked fine too but i game mostly through lutris's wine or emulators.

The only game that didn't work was the windows version of sonic unleashed recompiled which i tried for the heck of it, linux obviously works fine though.

I have only tried the garuda gamer assistant for a few things. Retroarch, PCSX2, and mame installed perfectly, but duckstation threw a git error (forget what it was) and had to use octopi to install it (which worked fine and wasn't a big deal). I'm sure it all can be made to work, but I was commenting on how easy the assistant makes the setup for those applications: I misspoke. That's great it makes steam and wine easy! Like I said, duckstation gave me trouble, so I'm not sure how easy the assistant makes everything, and I can't comment on things I haven't tried.

 

[Leon]

I have only tried the garuda gamer assistant for a few things. Retroarch, PCSX2, and mame installed perfectly, but duckstation threw a git error (forget what it was) and had to use octopi to install it (which worked fine and wasn't a big deal). I'm sure it all can be made to work, but I was commenting on how easy the assistant makes the setup for those applications: I misspoke. That's great it makes steam and wine easy! Like I said, duckstation gave me trouble, so I'm not sure how easy the assistant makes everything, and I can't comment on things I haven't tried.
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One warning i will give you is that melon ds's linux version is unstable, at least for me, that said the windows version ironically works fine through lutris which i used to play metal max 2 reloaded in from start to finish.

 

[SpikeSlania]

I have only tried the garuda gamer assistant for a few things. Retroarch, PCSX2, and mame installed perfectly, but duckstation threw a git error (forget what it was) and had to use octopi to install it (which worked fine and wasn't a big deal). I'm sure it all can be made to work, but I was commenting on how easy the assistant makes the setup for those applications: I misspoke. That's great it makes steam and wine easy! Like I said, duckstation gave me trouble, so I'm not sure how easy the assistant makes everything, and I can't comment on things I haven't tried.
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I know I just use a separate ssd with Batocera to run my roms. Though if I was to run roms on my main desktop I would end up just grabbing the emulators off flathub and run the flatpak versions of them so I won't have to do any set up to make them work on whichever distro I am on.

 

[MRDeu]

If you are really going to migrate to Linux, the dual boot is not necessary, having a dual boot conditions you to be afraid because something does not work in Linux and makes you remain prone to depend on Windows.

Nowadays practically everything works on Linux and if you have a problem ChatGPT is highly efficient in guiding you to fix possible things.

It's obvious that Linux requires some getting used to, which once you get used to, you won't change for anything after that.

The main thing to migrate is the will and the desire you put into it.

But believe me, feeling that the computer is yours and you don't have to remove bloatware and see that it works really well out of the box, is priceless.

 

[FateLanegod]

I’ve noticed my windows skill’s became very rusty. Last time I used win2k in advanced way back in my college days.

Recently neighbours asked to take a look at their W11 PC, which didn’t boot up. I was in hurry and didn’t have tumble drive to write some recovery image…
Have to say, 20 years passed, but those “restoring to last known good state”, “safe mode”, “system recovery” options I tried still don’t really help and BSOD is just BSOD. I felt very ashamed of my computer skills and totally ruined my “hacker” reputation.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

If you are really going to migrate to Linux, the dual boot is not necessary, having a dual boot conditions you to be afraid because something does not work in Linux and makes you remain prone to depend on Windows.

Nowadays practically everything works on Linux and if you have a problem ChatGPT is highly efficient in guiding you to fix possible things.

It's obvious that Linux requires some getting used to, which once you get used to, you won't change for anything after that.

The main thing to migrate is the will and the desire you put into it.

But believe me, feeling that the computer is yours and you don't have to remove bloatware and see that it works really well out of the box, is priceless.

Nah. I'd rather keep dual booting, switch between distros and Windows when I feel like it, have most of my work OS agnostic, backed up and synced and redundant, and never rely to chatGPT.

Linux distros always had excellent documentation. From the Archlinux wiki to the various forums. I started using UbuntuStudio 20 years ago and there was already a site to describe how to set things up and running, and all in french. The site is still running with an active community.

Fuck chatGPT. The control you took back by using linux, you already returned it to openAI.

 

[SpikeSlania]

If you are really going to migrate to Linux, the dual boot is not necessary, having a dual boot conditions you to be afraid because something does not work in Linux and makes you remain prone to depend on Windows.

Nowadays practically everything works on Linux and if you have a problem ChatGPT is highly efficient in guiding you to fix possible things.

It's obvious that Linux requires some getting used to, which once you get used to, you won't change for anything after that.

The main thing to migrate is the will and the desire you put into it.

But believe me, feeling that the computer is yours and you don't have to remove bloatware and see that it works really well out of the box, is priceless.

I'm about to triboot on my couch gaming rig. 4tb ssd running ChimaeraOS for steam, 2tb SSD running Batocera for retro emulators, and getting a 512gb SSD today to set up Fedora mainly to run rEFInd

 

[diapered]

I know I just use a separate ssd with Batocera to run my roms. Though if I was to run roms on my main desktop I would end up just grabbing the emulators off flathub and run the flatpak versions of them so I won't have to do any set up to make them work on whichever distro I am on.

Yea flatpaks are great, I use a few on my manjaro install (the way manjaro releases packages makes it sometimes the only real option which is one thing that made me consider getting away from manjaro, despite how much I like it ;_;), but some make me paranoid, even if it is something non-critical like an emulator. For example, I do not use the dolphin emulator flatpak; it worries me it has full system read access and ones like duckstation work just fine without that. Fortunately, I find the dolphin core works perfect in retroarch, so don't need it anyway. Maybe I'm just paranoid?

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

I thought flatpaks were "sandboxed" by default as I had to use Flatseal to give access to other home paths to HeroicLauncher.

 

[diapered]

I thought flatpaks were "sandboxed" by default as I had to use Flatseal to give access to other home paths to HeroicLauncher.

Yes, they "should" be and I understand needing to maybe give extra permissions later. But why would a flatpak need full system access by default?

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Yes, they "should" be and I understand needing to maybe give extra permissions later. But why would a flatpak need full system access by default?

Yep seems weird. Never tried Dolphin from flatpaks tho. Retroarch is a flatpak on this box here and there's no core needing more permissions. Maybe run clamAV on the pak you got.

 

[diapered]

Yep seems weird. Never tried Dolphin from flatpaks tho. Retroarch is a flatpak on this box here and there's no core needing more permissions. Maybe run clamAV on the pak you got.

Yea, I thought it was weird, so I guess not just me.

Huh, is there a reason you use the retroarch flatpak? Does it just come with all current stable cores? I have never had a problem building retroarch/cores on an Arch based (manjaro, garuda) distro so never saw a need... But yea, I have encountered problems on debian based. Recently, I tried a fresh mint install and it gave me headaches with retroarch.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Yea, I thought it was weird, so I guess not just me.

Huh, is there a reason you use the retroarch flatpak? Does it just come with all current stable cores? I have never had a problem building retroarch/cores on an Arch based (manjaro, garuda) distro so never saw a need... But yea, I have encountered problems on debian based. Recently, I tried a fresh mint install and it gave me headaches with retroarch.

I've tried both deb packs and flatpaks, because I had issues with running the ScummVM core and some stuttering while using shaders. I also got it running from the Arch repo on the laptop. They're all fine, but on this box I ended up continuing to use the flat version.

For the record, turns out the stuttering issue is solved by using the framerate limit in the core options and set it to 30 or 50.

 

[SpikeSlania]

Yea flatpaks are great, I use a few on my manjaro install (the way manjaro releases packages makes it sometimes the only real option which is one thing that made me consider getting away from manjaro, despite how much I like it ;_;), but some make me paranoid, even if it is something non-critical like an emulator. For example, I do not use the dolphin emulator flatpak; it worries me it has full system read access and ones like duckstation work just fine without that. Fortunately, I find the dolphin core works perfect in retroarch, so don't need it anyway. Maybe I'm just paranoid?

I think I can give the full file system read access a pass since the code is open so it is under scrutiny by many users on what it is doing. The one that is giving me more pause is the read and write in Discord, though that may be a feature to show people what game you are currently playing. I'm not a coder so I wouldn't know what I'm looking at in the github, I just know when something does happen normally Brodie reports on it and gives me my FOSS Tea :P