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In the process of migrating my 20+ years of data to Linux. Have been running it off a different disk for a year now. My biggest concern was gaming but Steam re

by prerok 2y ago

In the process of migrating my 20+ years of data to Linux. Have been running it off a different disk for a year now. My biggest concern was gaming but Steam really makes it work seamlessly. Lutrix/GOG is not as seamless but works well enough. Could be better but it works and the crap coming into Windows just pushed the final nail into the coffin. Will be retiring Windows forever in the next month.

rkangel 2y ago
I've had very good results running my GoG library through the Heroic game launcher.
- prerok 2y ago
  Thanks! Will give it a try.
europeanNyan 2y ago
Same. I've always been one to say that I like Windows and it never gave me trouble (apart from Windows ME), but I can't take this enshittification any more. I can't remember when the last time was I opened up the start menu and started typing something and reliably got the App I wanted and knew is installed (since I used it dozens of times already). Gaming, which was always why Windows had to be installed on my desktop, has gotten quite stale lately so my Steam Deck and Anbernic devices have been a blast playing through some nostalgic retro games. It's also quite interesting how stable and uneventful my time (almost 2 years now) with Linux Mint has been. I remember the time when I couldn't wait for new Windows versions to come out. Now? I never want a new one to ever come out again in favor of stability and predictability.
oriel 2y ago
I did this two years ago and had a similar experience. This was on a custom desktop PC. Windows doesnt play well with dual boot, so I had to literally detach the SATA cable to keep it from eating my GRUB bootloader partition. I switched to using the System76 distribution Pop! OS, which bakes in GPU drivers (among other things). I used the rust-based Cosmic desktop, but that choice is a different discussion. On Linux, I was able to run almost every single Windows game well on a Nvidia 3060. Storage was easy, pretty much everything supports FAT reads at a bare minimum, NTFS is possible with the FUSE drivers that are package-installable. Development was easy, multimonitor was easy, suspend was a little wonky on my hardware, sleep was great. Bluetooth ended up taking some serious wrangling for usb devices, about that point is when cli chops come in handy. Wifi was natural if a bit clunky UI-side. All that said, they're still in early days, YMMV.

by prerok 2y ago

rkangel 2y ago

I've had very good results running my GoG library through the Heroic game launcher.

prerok 2y ago
Thanks! Will give it a try.

europeanNyan 2y ago

Same. I've always been one to say that I like Windows and it never gave me trouble (apart from Windows ME), but I can't take this enshittification any more. I can't remember when the last time was I opened up the start menu and started typing something and reliably got the App I wanted and knew is installed (since I used it dozens of times already). Gaming, which was always why Windows had to be installed on my desktop, has gotten quite stale lately so my Steam Deck and Anbernic devices have been a blast playing through some nostalgic retro games. It's also quite interesting how stable and uneventful my time (almost 2 years now) with Linux Mint has been. I remember the time when I couldn't wait for new Windows versions to come out. Now? I never want a new one to ever come out again in favor of stability and predictability.

oriel 2y ago

I did this two years ago and had a similar experience. This was on a custom desktop PC. Windows doesnt play well with dual boot, so I had to literally detach the SATA cable to keep it from eating my GRUB bootloader partition. I switched to using the System76 distribution Pop! OS, which bakes in GPU drivers (among other things). I used the rust-based Cosmic desktop, but that choice is a different discussion. On Linux, I was able to run almost every single Windows game well on a Nvidia 3060. Storage was easy, pretty much everything supports FAT reads at a bare minimum, NTFS is possible with the FUSE drivers that are package-installable. Development was easy, multimonitor was easy, suspend was a little wonky on my hardware, sleep was great. Bluetooth ended up taking some serious wrangling for usb devices, about that point is when cli chops come in handy. Wifi was natural if a bit clunky UI-side. All that said, they're still in early days, YMMV.