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

[Varyag]

Oh yeah since my PC committed self-die due to Windows, I just might have finally found my reason(excuse) to convert fully to Linux. I just hope the NVidia RTX drivers won't be too much trouble, I hear they were pretty annoying with support.

 

[LastValsion]

Been working on my rice for Linux on the latest Fedora KDE Plasma 6 version. If you want to know exactly what I use you can look at the terminal fastfetch info.

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[Varyag]

That's KDE Plasma? Holy shit I didn't know you could make it look like that. I riced my laptop's XFCE but it's like a very simple setup with colors and themes. Nice mechbay there.

 

[Leon]

Oh yeah since my PC committed self-die due to Windows, I just might have finally found my reason(excuse) to convert fully to Linux. I just hope the NVidia RTX drivers won't be too much trouble, I hear they were pretty annoying with support.

Get the proprietary drivers and you should be fine as long as your just playing games, it's some of the other stuff that can be annoying with linux.

 

[LastValsion]

That's KDE Plasma? Holy shit I didn't know you could make it look like that. I riced my laptop's XFCE but it's like a very simple setup with colors and themes. Nice mechbay there.

I am using a plugin to use animated wallpapers from Wallpaper Engine on Steam. That's where it came from.

 

[KaiserMk7]

Hypothetically, I would want to acquire a flash drive for use as installation media and use my external HDD to back up my personal files instead so that I can clear a respectable amount of space for a Linux partition on my notebook HDD without any major risk of data loss, yes?

 

[Varyag]

Hypothetically, I would want to acquire a flash drive for use as installation media and use my external HDD to back up my personal files instead so that I can clear a respectable amount of space for a Linux partition on my notebook HDD without any major risk of data loss, yes?

Correct! Then you would go through the Windows Partition manager and slice off a chunk of space to use. I'd recommend at least 100GB for comfortable use, if you just wanna try out. You can still access the Windows half of the disk through Linux, but not the other way around.

 

[Jaba]

Not sure if it's still the case but i remember one of the devs of it said that the linux version is just in general more advanced than the windows version due to so much being easier to do under linux to the point some of the devs only develop for linux and other devs convert it for windows.

Nice, some "open world" games lags on windows... My laptop is 2014's low end

 

[LastValsion]

 

[DragonMals]

I would be a full time Linux user if I could fix these problems with running it on my gaming PC: When switching a hz from 60 to anything above it, my second monitor breaks. My laptop monitor works fine.

If anyone knew the solution to this, then my life would be happier.

 

[Varyag]

If you're on Wayland (which you should be, I think it's the default now on KDE Neon for most distros) it still seems to have some trouble with varying framerate on multiple monitors. For now, I guess the solution is to keep both on 60Hz, especially if one of them doesn't support it (could it be that?)

 

[secreto7]

@DragonMals @Varyag
From hearing emulator devs (and Linux users) it seems Wayland gives constant problems with that and other things.

 

[diapered]

Hypothetically, I would want to acquire a flash drive for use as installation media and use my external HDD to back up my personal files instead so that I can clear a respectable amount of space for a Linux partition on my notebook HDD without any major risk of data loss, yes?

Yup. Also, regardless of installing linux, if you haven't backed those files up, you should do that anyway. I've been lazy myself with backups lately, but it's because I have a new main laptop and also recently replaced all by drives in my other laptops. One drive was failing health tests (reason to have backups!), and I figured might as well replace/upgrade everything while I was at it ^_^

Then you would go through the Windows Partition manager and slice off a chunk of space to use.

Shouldn't you let the linux installer handle the partitioning/resizing?

You can still access the Windows half of the disk through Linux, but not the other way around.

True.

 

[Varyag]

Shouldn't you let the linux installer handle the partitioning/resizing?

I trust the installer to handle it's own partitioning for Linux, like how it could separate space for swap and root partitions, for instance. I do not trust it to not nuke the preexisting install without explicitly having free space already set up, so I do it from the Windows side. Unless you do everything manually through the installer (which a new user DEFINITELY shouldn't be doing)

 

[aquova]

I would be a full time Linux user if I could fix these problems with running it on my gaming PC: When switching a hz from 60 to anything above it, my second monitor breaks. My laptop monitor works fine.

If anyone knew the solution to this, then my life would be happier.

Can you give additional details about what graphics card you have, what drivers, and if you're on X11 or Wayland?

Interestingly, I've had a lot fewer display issues on Wayland than X11, even being able to have them on mixed resolutions (for a brief time) without problems. I'm on KDE Plasma with two monitors at 180 Hz for a few years now without issue.

 

[Deleted member 7989]

I got my Steam Deck in 2022, and it took me a bit to get used to how things work. Then I tried out Pop_OS! last year, and did a big trial run of desktop Linux. Now, after ANOTHER Windows 11 failure, I decided to try out Nobara. I don't think I'm moving back except for multiplayer crap. It's so much snappier, and being able to customize it this much is so much fun. I did try out Endeavour OS for a bit before I landed on Nobara this time, I don't think I'm cut out for Arch Linux just yet.

 

[irkella irkella]

I use Debian with the Cinnamon DE for a lot of things (movie server, low power retro systems, dual boot on my laptop). Love the simplicity and stability.

Have been thinking about trying Bazzite on my main desktop, but haven't had the time to get that sorted.

 

[Leon]

If you're on Wayland (which you should be, I think it's the default now on KDE Neon for most distros) it still seems to have some trouble with varying framerate on multiple monitors. For now, I guess the solution is to keep both on 60Hz, especially if one of them doesn't support it (could it be that?)

KDE still supports X11/Xlibre, it just defaults to wayland, wayland still has some issues it needs to iron out especially for things like support for the blind or impaired.

Gnome on the other hand doesn't even support it.

 

[DragonMals]

Can you give additional details about what graphics card you have, what drivers, and if you're on X11 or Wayland?

Interestingly, I've had a lot fewer display issues on Wayland than X11, even being able to have them on mixed resolutions (for a brief time) without problems. I'm on KDE Plasma with two monitors at 180 Hz for a few years now without issue.

I have to test out the X11/Wayland Later.

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So, it appears to me that with the system running on the Intel Graphics, everything seems to be working just fine: My monitor is running at 180hz and my Laptop screen is at 144hz, and this is without installing Fedora on Wayland. I'm pretty sure though that when I actually install this on my machine (which I won't until I find a solution), it'll use the NVIDIA drivers to which It'll do the buggy thing that you've seen from earlier.

 

[Leon]

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I have to test out the X11/Wayland Later.

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So, it appears to me that with the system running on the Intel Graphics, everything seems to be working just fine: My monitor is running at 180hz and my Laptop screen is at 144hz, and this is without installing Fedora on Wayland. I'm pretty sure though that when I actually install this on my machine (which I won't until I find a solution), it'll use the NVIDIA drivers to which It'll do the buggy thing that you've seen from earlier.

Well first off, as much as it sucks, use nvidia's proprietary drivers on linux, nvidia's drivers are somewhat notoriously bad on linux but they work fine, the open source drivers are behind.

If you installed your os with kde, then your using wayland by default, x11 or wayland is installed at system install if your using a desktop manager (which if you weren't then we'd be talking about a whole other list of problems).

 

[DragonMals]

Well first off, as much as it sucks, use nvidia's proprietary drivers on linux, nvidia's drivers are somewhat notoriously bad on linux but they work fine, the open source drivers are behind.

If you installed your os with kde, then your using wayland by default, x11 or wayland is installed at system install if your using a desktop manager (which if you weren't then we'd be talking about a whole other list of problems).

I decided to say fuck it, install the Fedora that was working on my system prior to installing it, and for some reason, everything works. 180hz monitor with a 144hz built in screen, changed it to some other hz, nothing broke, I guess it seems that fedora is truly the superior linux distro for me lol

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For some reason though, this is not installing

 

[Leon]

I decided to say fuck it, install the Fedora that was working on my system prior to installing it, and for some reason, everything works. 180hz monitor with a 144hz built in screen, changed it to some other hz, nothing broke, I guess it seems that fedora is truly the superior linux distro for me lol

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For some reason though, this is not installing
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That's related to secure boot, if your pc is not accessable by others you should be fine with that failing, but it can fail even on windows.
What linux distro were you using before that gave you issues btw, it might have been related to the distro's updates.

 

[DragonMals]

That's related to secure boot, if your pc is not accessable by others you should be fine with that failing, but it can fail even on windows.
What linux distro were you using before that gave you issues btw, it might have been related to the distro's updates.

All of the ones that I've tested so far gave me the following:

Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!OS (Second Monitor is hard-locked to 60fps, anything higher results in the screen getting halved
CachyOS, KDE Neon, Kubuntu, Fedora KDE (Second Monitor can work with any fps, but there are a bit of brokenness when making any movement whatsoever (I mention Fedora even tho I say it works better, it still does the effect in some places)

 

[Leon]

All of the ones that I've tested so far gave me the following:

Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!OS (Second Monitor is hard-locked to 60fps, anything higher results in the screen getting halved
CachyOS, KDE Neon, Kubuntu, Fedora KDE (Second Monitor can work with any fps, but there are a bit of brokenness when making any movement whatsoever (I mention Fedora even tho I say it works better, it still does the effect in some places)

It's likely related to nvidia drivers, but unfortunately i can't say for sure as i'm on AMD.

I will say this, ubuntu, linux mint and pop!os are long term support distros aka they don't get bleeding edge updates until they are tested for a while, that said i believe cachyOS does, not sure on fedora.

Garuda, the distro i use, is a arch based distro, arch is, for better or worse, bleeding edge updates, so if there's a fix for your problem it's likely in the arch based distros, though i think cachyOS is also bleeding edge so i donno.

Again i don't know if fedora is LTS or bleeding edge so i can't comment there.
EDIT: oh right, try setting your first monitor to 144hz, i had a problem like that and that fixed it, there is a more permanent fix for 180hz but that will tell you if it's the same issue.

 

[DragonMals]

It's likely related to nvidia drivers, but unfortunately i can't say for sure as i'm on AMD.

I will say this, ubuntu, linux mint and pop!os are long term support distros aka they don't get bleeding edge updates until they are tested for a while, that said i believe cachyOS does, not sure on fedora.

Garuda, the distro i use, is a arch based distro, arch is, for better or worse, bleeding edge updates, so if there's a fix for your problem it's likely in the arch based distros, though i think cachyOS is also bleeding edge so i donno.

Again i don't know if fedora is LTS or bleeding edge so i can't comment there.
EDIT: oh right, try setting your first monitor to 144hz, i had a problem like that and that fixed it, there is a more permanent fix for 180hz but that will tell you if it's the same issue.

I find it obsurd that the Arch-based distros are the best ones for me when they are related to the same community that yells rtfm to other users. For experienced users that are trying to look for help, that's fine, but for anyone who is trying to get into the move and groove of things (especially since pacman to me looks a bit more complicated than rfm and deb combined)