I wouldn’t recommend it, but my current setup is I reach into the computer, unplug one SSD and plug in the other. Not the most high-tech dual boot but yeah
I can’t leave them both plugged in because Windows keeps complaining that my drive is damaged and it needs to run a disk check. The reason I don’t set up grub or something else properly is mainly laziness. I use one OS for a project that lasts several months at a time so I don’t switch between them that often. It’s just not worth the time or effort to save two minutes every few months
Probably could, but it’s not worth the time or effort. I switch so rarely that even if it only took five minutes to configure, that’s still more time than I spend switching in six months
There shouldn’t be any configuration, you just push F11 or whatever and select the other boot drive. I still do that when I boot into Windows like once/year.
I’d assumed you’d read my other comment. When I do have both drives plugged in at once, Windows always does a disk check on every startup, which takes a long time and is completely unnecessary. Just switching which device I boot from isn’t a good solution for my computer
As mentioned, I’ve never had that issue. I put the Windows disk in whichever slot it prefers and Linux in another, then configure the BIOS to prefer the Linux drive.
I think it’s doing the disk check because it’s in a different slot than it expects or something.
I have nothing to add except that ED with VR and hotas controllers is one of the best VR spaceflight experiences out there. Dogfighting with that setup is unparalleled. Being able to watch your target as you flip over them to their tail just gets my jimmies jumpin’.
My jam was always turning off flight assist and just tossing a small ship through an asteroid belt. Haven’t played much since Odyssey but I recently got the itch again
I have 4 drives. An NVMe drive with four partitions: 500MB /boot 64GB Swap 100GB / and the rest of the 1TB goes to /home. Then I have a 1TB SSD for games which is mounted to ~/Games. Then I have two 1TB HDDs, one for Music mounted to ~/Music and another for Torrents mounted to ~/Torrents. I also have an 8TB HDD coming which will be another torrents drive
This weekend I finally joined the club of folks that install Mint on their parent’s aging laptops. I’m a Nix/Arch user btw and am very impressed with the ease of use and flexibility that Mint brings to the table.
Yeah, it’s a nice almost out of the box and getting started distro. I have tried Arch and Manjoro about 8 years ago, not for me, nice customisation but it is really too bleeding edge with the rough edges that go with it. After trying a crap load of distros I like the boringness of Mint
Are you running Cinnamon? I was impressed with the customization options out of the box and had to stop playing with it as I wanted to keep things fairly plain. Looking forward to later dropping it on a burner laptop for my own twiddling.
Not sure if this would help, but I’ve found it nice separating my open programs between workspaces. Game on one and other programs in side tabs. Can quickly access the panel by switching workspaces.
Does take a bit of self-adjusting to how it works on Windows as you need to organize in your mind which program is in which workspace.
You have a 16xx series card, Proton 8+ have a problem with these cards (thanks to Nvidia), so switch to an older Proton version like Proton 7, should work.
How is the vrr (gsync) support on linux. On windows gsync ON + vsync ON + Reflex ON will give the least latency and smooth tear free gameplay and you don’t have to manually cap the fps for every game like you do on a amd card.
I thought vsync+gsync still had latency drawbacks at max fps?
VRR works on Linux. Reflex has been available via latencyflex for a while now, but it’s a bit tricky to set up. Looks like an easier implementation is finally becoming a thing.
Gsync on Nvidia was a bit tricky, it can only be enabled on X11 and easily only if you’re just using one monitor. It’s possible to use it with multi-monitor on X11, but it requires extra config. Once it starts working with Wayland, it will hopefully just work.
On AMD and Wayland I just enable VRR in KDE display settings for my main monitor.
I use manghud to set an FPS cap, and since a recent update you can set it to “display and wait” instead of “wait and display” for even less latency when at monitor max FPS, which should be faster than using vsync.
IIRC enabling reflex can actually increase latency in some setups, I’ll try to find the details.
Latencyflex didn’t work any other way except with proton. But installing it and getting it working was not simple. But that wasn’t Nvidias implementation yet.
Interesting, consider my curiosity to be piqued. I’ll try to see which titles see the largest improvements using GE builds. I probably have one or two in that ever growing library I’ll never get close to finish…
you don’t need it if proton is working fine for the games you play. GE’s builds have patches for games that are not yet/will not be upstreamed to proton.
Certain games need proprietary codecs that will not be included in upstream proton because of licensing. GE is a community project and is therefore not subject to the licensing.
Though it’s worth noting these games are still playable without GE, as long as you’re using Steam. Valve will re-encode the proprietary media to another codec, download that as compatdata, and replace when the game calls for the original files.
If you’re not using Steam then yes, or if the game using the proprietary codec isn’t that popular and was recently launched.
Yeah, with the limited time I have left after the two kids, the wife and the job, I admittedly play a very limited selection of games and not for very long nowadays, and those Just Work™ so far. But I also own more games than I’ll ever finish so I’ll probably hit something eventually lol
I undervolted my RX 6700XT using Corectrl. While the tool is good overall, it makes no sense for Gamescope-SteamOS-like setup with Bazzite, so I did something absolutely disgusting and run it in the background using xvfb. Now looks like I can replace it with something far more suited to my needs. Can’t wait to test it
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