That was the consensus the last time I brought it up (in response to Windows 11 being so shitty). I asked if the transition would be smooth for my non-tech savvy family members. So far no problems; kids run Minecraft and Roblox just fine, Steam handles much of my games and my scanner and printer works, wife made the switch to Libre Office and doesn’t miss Chrome. The only problem I have is getting a driver to work with my ancient Brother HL-5170DN that still is running like a tank for 20 years.
Edit: Had a job for a big print, got a driver to actually print proper, now it just duplicates everything, lol. I miss having projects like this since exiting the professional IT career.
All distro with a good installer using kde plasma, mate or something similar to windows are great, mint, endevour, Ubuntu or even mocaccinoOS. Driver issues should not be a thing for almost all distros, Debian or slack maybe but just becaus.
arch linux is not what i’d recommend for new users. great distro, love pacman, but ubuntu will get you there just as fast and with less headaches. manjaro is an option if you’re adamant about arch.
haven’t had good luck w/ VR with valve index, still a lot of pain points.
It wasn’t my first try, I used arch before. And I would not recommend it to anyone without prior experience or at least software engineering related background.
I feel like buy it for $2 would be better than taking it for free. Had a horrible waiter once, and we decided that tipping then $0.02 was more of a fuck you than not tipping them at all
Battle.net Account != Requiring the Battle.net client.
I’m not the biggest fan of Blizzard/Activision right now because of the shit-show with D4, but OW2 doesn’t require the Battle.net client which is very clear if you just install and run the game.
All you have to do to test this theory out is try a Grand Theft Auto game or just go for Halo. Classic bullshit signing up for shit, having to have a secondary launcher installed. blah blah blah, yadda fucking yadda. Take your friggin’ pick. Rockstar, Microsoft, and now Blizzard. Shit’s pretty much all bought up, doesn’t mean the companies don’t act like they always have with their brands.
I’m with you! Blizzard has been nothing but disrespectful to the Diablo franchise, original devs and players. Not to mention, buying an online-only game is basically renting it. I’d rather just replay the masterpiece that is Diablo 2, which they will never match.
how are you installing it? I’ve never heard of this game and I’m honestly pretty new to Linux, but I’ve had nothing but smooth sailing adding old windows games to steam as non-steam games, then using proton to launch them.
Great to hear, but I’d recommend against manjaro. While it appears to just be arch with an installer and some more preset, it has its own repos that are behind the arch repos. This causes a huge amount of issues that normal arch doesn’t have.
While I haven’t tried garuda yet and installed arch on my own, it seems like it actually does what people think manjaro does: Make arch easy and keep the benefits.
People often claim that Manjaro holds packages for a couple of weeks for “stability” but I’ve never seen the benefit. They tend to just update packages after Arch does and it doesn’t seem like they do any particular stability testing that the Arch community hasn’t done already.
They also tend to break the AUR occasionally for funsies, so that sucks.
EndeavourOS, Garuda, and any of the other Arch derivatives that use the Arch repos and drop some of their own tooling/customization on top should be a better experience for most.
Garuda appears to have some security issues unfortunately, see here.
To quote:
Garuda: They use Chaotic-AUR which automatically and blindly compiles packages from the AUR. There is no verification process to make sure that the AUR packages don’t suffer from supply chain attacks.
Their complaint about chaotic is the exact same that is mentioned 4 paragraphs before as coming from AUR in general, and they also mention the same thing can happen with other distros / package managers… It all loops back around to not blindly trusting everything in the repos. Which loops around to not blindly trusting anything on the internet in general.
Also I’m pretty sure you can use Garuda and avoid chaotic and use standard AUR instead, if you for some reason trust AUR fully but don’t trust chaotic at all. I’d have to double check that about system level packages, but it’s definitely possible with anything you seek out to install after the initial install of the OS.
I use Arch for my daily, and I would highly recommend against it for new users. 99% of the time it’s just fine. 1% of the time some edge case sneaks by and you update before a fix is pushed. In those cases, I’ve had installations be deeply broken, far beyond my expectations of normal users.
For actual recommendations, something Debian based for sure. Vanilla Debian, Mint, or Mint Debian edition. If you wanna live on the edge, Sid is rolling but in my experience was more stable than Arch.
Do you have a secondary monitor? How do you handle sleep? Using laptop? How do you close your lid and get everything to hibernate/sleep? Those are my biggest gripes right now
Two monitors do work (second display is my tv), I tried it couple of times - just worked,but maybe I need to retest.
Currently I have stationary pc. But ten years ago closing lid worked for me on laptop. I think arch wiki has good guidance about this topic. It was not a plug and play experience for sure.
From the top of my head, all these work perfectly on my 5yo Intel laptop and are often found on sale or in bundles.
Baba is You: you know that in every game, there are a fixed set of rules (“physics”), and you must use them efficiently in order to win? In this game, you must change the rules to solve puzzles. Super simple gameplay, tricky to master, really fucks your brain as you need to think outside the box.
Hotline Miami (1 and 2): top-down shooter with impeccable gameplay, level design and soundtrack. Super fast paced, die-retry-die-retry game loop, and great story too. Every level is challenging in its own way which makes it not so repetitive.
Nuclear Throne or Enter the Gungeon: procedurally generated top-down shooters, very similar to each other. Fun pixel-art, never replay the same levels although I guess it could be repetitive after a while.
I bought it and returned it. I’m being very picky here but I didn’t like the idea that a lvl 99 player can just massacre lvl 1. I think that’s why a lot of people were playing the rebound mod which is more random and levels the playing field but it’s also very long. I would prefer if advanced players had it more difficult, not easier.
You are not the ppl that calls just windows a PC are you? Cause I just refuse, my personal computer is my PC, and fuck Microsoft and they attempt to kidnap my PC
There’s a non-zero probability of linux borking your NTFS drive, try to move your stuff to a proper partition, also its far less likely you’ll find weirdo issues.
I’ve had a significantly better experience with EndeavourOS than I ever had with Nobara, or literally any other distro, and the list of them I’ve run through is pretty long. Nobara was good, and I’d be curious to see how its improved, but at this point I’m so happy with Endeavour that I don’t know when I’d ever get around to putting Nobara on bare metal again.
I’ve been working on my CLI skills and knowledge over the past year, and moving to an arch based system was a little confusing for me. Using yay, pacman, and git cloning were a little over my head after being used to apt and flatpak. After the first week, it all started to click, and now I’m fine, and I definitely feel more competent in the terminal, and no longer use any gui front ends for package management.
Mint and Pop had issues, steam would lag like crazy for the first five minutes after launch. Then after updating to the latest version of mint, steam stopped launching period. I’m sure it’s fixed by now, but that’s what drove me to jump ship, and it’s been the snappiest, cleanest experience I’ve had yet. I also love space, and the color purple, so it’s the first distro where I used their native theming and wallpapers, and shit it looks good.
The forum has also been a pleasant experience, the community is very friendly.
I second this, switched back to EndeavourOS after a brief stint with Nobara and I couldn’t be happier. I haven’t really found that solid OS I had been looking for until Endeavour, and I think everyone should give it a shot. They literally lay out everything you need to do after the install to get things up and running with their welcome tool.
Embarrassing, but I never knew that you actually have to activate proton in the steam settings in order to install games which natively don’t support Linux. This kept me from switching completely.
Now I use Fedora with KDE and can also run MS games like AoE without any problem. Even the performance is often a lot better for example in BG3.
To clarify: native Linux support means the game ships with Linux binaries. For non-native games (Windows only) you use Proton. (For some games the Windows version with Proton actually works better than the Linux native version)
The setting you are referring to enables Proton for all games, instead of the selection of games that have a predefined Proton version which has been tested by Valve.
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