Can we stop with this? It was an over hyped slogan and we can give it a rest. People are slowly switching to Linux and that's good enough
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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You don't seem to understand
But I'm an honest man.
I am mid switch, but it's not been smooth or easy. I chose Manjaro and maybe I chose poorly. I am a lifelong techie, and have used Ubuntu and Mint in short stints in the past, but the transition is rough.
I didn't attempt the switch before because I primarily played Destiny 2 and Bungie hates Linux. The enshittification of Destiny drove me away, and in theory the games I am playing now should work. I have had mixed results however.
I play Darktide and Vermintide 2 and heavily use their modding scenes to make them fully playable. Vortex mod manager is a huge bonus for this, and I still haven't been able to set this up.
My Elgato equipment has community support, but has a bunch of steps to get working that I haven't spent the time to fully research or attempt.
I still haven't set up an automatic mount point for my shared NTFS drive to load on boot, both because I don't have a good grasp on the fstab and because Windows does a chkdisk every time I mount it in Linux. Dual access storage still seems iffy as of 2025.
I am going to keep trying, because I hate Microsoft right now more than I dislike the learning curve and limitations. Not sure if that is enough to make this the year of the Linux desktop though.
stupid. Manjaro is dog shit
I still havenβt set up an automatic mount point for my shared NTFS drive to load on boot, both because I donβt have a good grasp on the fstab and because Windows does a chkdisk every time I mount it in Linux. Dual access storage still seems iffy as of 2025.
i've been fine mounting my C drive under linux using ntfs3g under arch linux (similar enough to manjaro) though this was prior to ntfs being natively supported in the kernel, so that may have different consequences, realistically i would advise you to use a network storage for inter device compat since you can run samba or something, which is well integrated into linux and windows (though it's a little fucky in linux, it does work, and it works reliably) It makes life so much easier. Either that or use an external drive that you intend to be intercompat, not running NTFS, but using ext4 or something. That's another decent option.
My best advice to you going forward is be thoughtful about the devices and software you spend time and money on, it's really easy when you're in the windows environment to just use whatever exists, but on linux you do have to spend a bit more time thinking about it, but that's just the nature of the beast.
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As the old Mayans foretold.
If only the Linux desktop stopped getting offended when itβs not treated like a server and has to shut down. βWait, you had audio settings that I was supposed to remember? Cool story broβ¦β
I had this TV box that came with windows on it. After booting I had to turn up the volume and click away a noise warning.
With Linux no more trouble π§
What are you talking about? Didn't you know that only Linux has technical problems?
What distro π³
If you would like to address an audio issue, I'll gladly hijack the thread.
Linux mint, occasionally my audio starts crackling. Only fix is to open terminal and run pulseaudio -k.
Happens maybe twice a day with my system.
That can happen when there's a mismatch between the sample rate your audio device expects and what it receives. One way to fix this is to force the system to only allow one sample rate. I forget which files need to be edited for this, perhaps someone else will know, but you have a list of accepted and fallback sample rates, and you need to delete all except one.
I can't say that it will solve your specific issue, but it solved mine and I had the same symptoms.
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Linux would be cool but the games I primarily play ate only on windows and doesn't play well in VMs, and dual booting just isn't worth the hassle.
what's "ate"? edit: oh it's just a type for "are" isn't it
i would recommend getting an extra ssd, installing a beginner friendly distro (mint or pop for instance) and just boot it up occasionally, see what works, what doesn't. i got into linux like this, gradually, over years
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