• SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    Lots of comments about gaming from people assuming that companies will continue supporting their kernel anticheat on Windows 10 after it hits eol.

    Windows 11 is much more convenient for identity tracking, so they’ll probably push for people to upgrade because Windows is too “insecure” for their games.

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    For the most basic casual PC gamer SteamOS will be a game changer once they add more hardware support for it.

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    The simple fact is there will always be that one little thing that stops windows users fron switching. If 99.999999% of all windows software worked on Linux windows users would say “well ill switch when that extra 0.000001% works”. The fact is when Windows users come to Linux they dont want Linux, they want Windows but not made by Microsoft and the fact is Linux is not that. I would take that one step forward and say that when Windows 10 goes EOL half of people wont care and the other half will get new computers, the amount of people who switch to Linux will be statistically insignificant.

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      You can. Now it’s mostly games with kernel anti-cheat that don’t work.

      For epic and gog you can use the heroic launcher. For ther stuff with an installer, you can use wine to install it and manually add the exe to steam.

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        Ugh I have ONE game that’s 20 years old and does not work on Linux whatsoever. It’s an extremely important game to me because my best friends and I play together. We’re the only people who play it anymore. I can’t live without it, so I’m stuck on Windows for my main game machines.

        My other machines? Linux lawl

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      I know just enough about Linux to know I should have been getting into it when I graduated over a decade ago.

      I also know just enough to know it can do pretty much everything I need, as long as I’m willing to switch to a Linux alternative with similar capabilities.

      However, I am Linux-dumb and deeply set into my windows, to the point where I’m not sure I have the technical savvy to switch.

      From my understanding, Linux works very well, as long as you know what you’re doing.

      I’m sure I’m overestimating the learning curve but it’s still intimidating.

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        I felt the exact same way, still do, but I bought a new drive and installed Linux Mint on it (it’s the most Windows like experience I’ve found). I kept my old windows drive just in case, but I haven’t needed it so far.

        The only time I ever used something that wasn’t Windows was DOS when I was very little.

        It’s definitely overwhelming when trying to get certain things working that aren’t natively supported, but thankfully those are few and far between. There’s also a lot of people in the Linux community that are passionate about it, and tend to be very helpful.

        You can always download what I think is called a live distro, and run it off a thumb drive just to test the waters. Nothing you change will be kept though, and it will be sluggish comparatively.

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        The os itself doesn’t require a whole lot of learning, if you stick to something user friendly like mint cinnamon. Key differences are how you install programs and drivers. File structure is very different. After two years of daily driving mint cinnamon, I find it more difficult to do basic stuff in windows, especially 10. If it feels intimidating, the recommended approach is to try it out on another pc, dualboot, or use it in a virtual machine.

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      Conversely, I’m coming to the conclusion that I could probably live with just a steam deck, instead of a laptop etc. A portable screen, or my projector, my nice Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and I reckon it’ll do everything I really need day-to-day.

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      Honestly, dont install Linux. There is absolutely no reason for you to do so. The fact is Linux will NEVER run all Windows games, it is simply impossible. Furthermore Linux will never run exactly like Windows or look exactly like Windows. So as a Linux user, just install Windows 11.

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    No, it’s not. And I say that as an almost-exclusively Linux users since at least 20 years.

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      What do you mean? My computer has never had Windows installed on it, so the end of Windows 10 support doesn’t affect me at all. I’m not sure what could be more simple than that.

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    So glad I came back to Linux a couple years ago. I only use my windows partition to play a game that won’t work as well in Linux, and that list is pretty small for the games I play. Even BG3 worked great in Mint, using a 6 year old build.

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    the penguin migration was going just fine, until nvidia 570.124.04 dropped, which is when the misery started. :|

    Got to check if I can roll back to earlier version.

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      This is the main barrier for me (other one is migrating a janky access database). I really don’t want to spend my 2 hours free time an evening troubleshooting Nvidia driver issues (4800S series).

      Anyone with this card have an experience to share?

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      Linux is super reliable, and unless you use cutting edge distro, it’s pretty rare than anything breaks. Even Fedora is pretty stable from experience

      The only true problems I ever had (and still has), were with Nvidia. And switching distros ain’t saving you. Linux mint? Breaks on suspend. Nobara? Memory leak. Trying newer versions to see if it fixes it? Where’s my bootloader…

      I do understand that laptop RTX 3070 are not common, but still. I just want it to work, and have cuda on it. Is that too much to ask?

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        unless you use cutting edge distro

        yea well, “arch btw”. Haven’t had issues really, been running it for years on other systems but my gaming pc with nvidia is the only one with issues… because of course it does. :D

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          Never had an issue with Nvidia. But then I’m using an Ubuntu distro because I just want my computer to work and I don’t care about bleeding edge / rolling distros.

          And I will move to Wayland in a few years when all the issues are sorted out, which I suspect is part of people’s problems.

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          Of course. Mileage may vary. On some systems it may always work, on others it’s “what’s broken this week”.

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        Linux is super reliable

        It depends on what you want to do with it, which version of which component you run and a couple of other things. In my own experience, if you want a “super reliable” system, get OpenBSD. Linux has a severe lack of QA, mainly because of its decoupled nature.

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        rtx3090, 5800x3d, wayland, sddm, kde:

        • whole system freezes on boot (with somewhat garbled display) when display manager starts (sddm) - IF >1 displays are plugged in/powered on.
        • no issues if sddm starts with one display, and THEN powering up second. - But this has to be done while in sddm, before logging in.
        • whole system can (with high chance) freeze again on desktop if at any point a screens are connected/disconnected
        • krunner works exactly once, after that it logs errors in journal that some display reference is wrong (the exact wording escapes me atm)

        all these things were fine with 570.86.something - the previous version, which apparently was beta.

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          I see. Then it’s possible that it doesn’t affect older cards. I have GTX 1660Ti and haven’t seen a problem, yet. However I do remember I had to downgrade Nvidia (on tty) a couple years back because it borked my system completely.

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            Entirely possible, dunno. And not like a 3090 is that new anymore either.

            Basically all of the issues mentioned above have been mentioned in various threads over at nvidia’s forums, etc. So they’re not unknown, but kinda wild a released driver has all of these issues whereas the previous beta was seemingly unaffected - feels like someone was bit too triggerhappy to release an untested version to production.

            It’d be nice if I could just drop the nvidia card and swap to amdgpu but… that’d require “a bit” of money so I could maintain same (or better) level of performance - and atm I just don’t want to spend that kind of money. :/

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              Yeah, it’s possible. This is not the first time they did this, probably won’t be the last. Though they solve the issues relatively faster comparing to years ago. That’s something.

              It’d be nice if I could just drop the nvidia card and swap to amdgpu but… that’d require “a bit” of money

              I’m in the same boat but I’ll most likely use this card until it’s dead or really old. I cannot imagine how the people think about that email they got from Microsoft.

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        I’m running nixos unstable. I did get some panics while hibernating with one kernel version, but otherwise it’s been super stable.

        Enabling threadedirqs (real-time feature) on the kernel command line does make the kernel panic on boot though.

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    At work we run some software that while you can get it to run under Linux it’s not worth the effort even for me to bother.

    One supplier is slowly moving towards the runtime being available on BSD at least. They also somewhat decoupled from visual studio in the latest release, while still being mandatory still it’s a step in the right direction.

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      This always falls on its face for work. No one does collaboration as easy as Microsoft and that’s not changing anytime soon. I mean, everyone would have to move all at once. I can move to Linux on my personal devices and it’s not going to change stats one bit.

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        No one does collaboration as easy as Microsoft and that’s not changing anytime soon.

        Anything in M365 works reasonably well in Linux, even when accessed via Firefox. I do it all the time.

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        Collaboration as in what? Programmers use version control or use an IDE with collaborative coding tools like Jetbrains. That stuff is OS agnostic. If you mean office work Google and Infomaniak provide similar tools as MS365.

        Most offices really don’t need Microsoft. They just are stuck in their habits. And MS has a better sales team.

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        Not sure what you mean by “collaboration”. If your are talking about working on documents, spreadsheets, calendar, slides, with your coworkers, sharing, manage access, etc. Google does that pretty well. My company uses everything Google for many years and it’s very good from this perspective. It works absolutely the same from any operating system, Google Chrome is the OS at this point. I am not saying that Google is better than Microsoft as a corporation, just saying that Microsoft has legitimate competitors on the office collaboration market.