Gave up on Windows for LinuxMint
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Well, both of my old Mac's are now running Ubuntu variants, the Mac Pro is on server with the KDE GUI installed, my MacBook Pro (2014) is on Ubuntu LTS. Installed iTunes with Wine to download my music library then installed Audacious so it looks like Winamp for my playback experience. Nostalgia city!!!!
Also discovered Parallels Client (RDP client for Mac) runs like ass on Linux, so I'm using what ships with Ubuntu (Remmina) which runs a lot better.
Also discovered Parallels Client (RDP client for Mac) runs like ass on Linux, so I'm using what ships with Ubuntu (Remmina) which runs a lot better.
They gave me an old 24" iMac at work that they were using to prop open the server closet door. I put an Ubuntu variant on it (forget which one) that is intended for low-spec hardware and it works perfect for streaming music and internet browsing out in my little shop.
The only reason i tolerate Windows (Win10 on my rig) is because gaming is supported on Windows. So when games will be supported on Linux i switch in a heartbeat. I`m using Linux on older pc`s though, improvement over windows that was installed on them before.
Have you looked at SteamOS? It's a Linux based gaming OS that supports tons of games.
Haven`t heard of it no. Does SteamOS have same games as Steam on Windows? I`ve got a lot of games on Steam but also on EPIC and Rockstar Game Launcher.
I still have one laptop on Window 11 but my other computers are using Mint and my wife and I love it. The speed is incredible compared to windows. We will never go back to Windows.
SteamOS was created by Valve to host the Steam platform without Windows. I don't know about the other platforms.
Gaming on Linux is very good nowadays. Steam can be installed on any distribution, Valve has invested heavily in Proton (a translation layer that runs windows programs, essentially a heavily-modified version of WINE) and for many games, they now run just as well as they do in windows. The big exceptions are games with certain DRM/Anti-Cheat, like anything from Riot/EA. You can run other games through Proton without buying them from Steam, of course.
There are many ways to try this, Bazzite is probably what I'd recommend if you're okay with the Fedora/RPM ecosystem.
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As @scrllock noted, it uses a very modified version of WINE to provide compatibility.
Gaming on Linux is a lot better than it has been in the past, but there are still compatibility problems with certain games, it's not the "guaranteed to work" scenario that's the case on Windows.
Former member Rod_Knock informed me of a version of Linux that's designed around gaming, developed by one of the Proton developers. It's based on Fedora. The distro is called "Nobara":
https://nobaraproject.org/
I've tried it on an old ThinkPad and it's pretty good. You fire it up, setup Steam and make a couple of tweaks and you can play a lot of your games that are in your steam account.
That said, gaming is still the reason I'm dd'ing 11 on my gaming rig.
Ironically, the steam program actually works much better in linux on my machine now. In windows it frequently goes unresponsive, have to manually kill the whole thing. On linux it works beautifully, I get higher FPS in a few non-native titles than on windows. Not every game is perfect, I'm not getting rid of the windows install, but I've been doing this for 20+ years, it is mind-boggling to me how much it's improved in the past few years since Valve pushed the steam deck out.
Hmm i see. It`s possible to game on Linux but i also notice we are not quite there yet like on Windows. I hope in near future you can just boot up Linux and Steam and just play like on a Windows pc. Linux is not a bloatware so therefore less memory consuming than Win and that is a neat thing when you play.
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Just a heads up, SteamOS is designed for and is much happier running on recent AMD hardware. It should run fine with an Intel CPU but it may require some knowledge to run well with Intel and NVidia GPUs. But with a recent AMD GPU or even APU you should be good to go out of the gate.
https://store.steampowered.com/steamos
As mentioned, Nobara and especially Bazzite have gotten popular due to their baked-in gaming software and optimizations.
https://nobaraproject.org/
https://bazzite.gg/
CachyOS is the latest darling of the desktop Linux world. While it's not designed specifically for gaming like the distros above, they make it easy to install all the gaming software and optimizations with just a few clicks.
https://cachyos.org/
https://store.steampowered.com/steamos
As mentioned, Nobara and especially Bazzite have gotten popular due to their baked-in gaming software and optimizations.
https://nobaraproject.org/
https://bazzite.gg/
CachyOS is the latest darling of the desktop Linux world. While it's not designed specifically for gaming like the distros above, they make it easy to install all the gaming software and optimizations with just a few clicks.
https://cachyos.org/
Dude that`s awesome, thankes for the tip.
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I’ve tried Mint, it’s okay. CachyOS is very rough around the edges and has a weird package installation system.
My preference is Kubuntu for stable use cases and Fedora KDE for everything else.
My preference is Kubuntu for stable use cases and Fedora KDE for everything else.
