How do I make the change less scary? I made my pc like 10 years ago and not looked at it since. I just use it for personal admin now and Rome 2 total war twice a year.
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The easiest way is to buy a used ssd, and dual-boot. Ive heard, always install windows first and then linux.
Done this way, there shouldnt be any problems. If you realize you dont need one of the operating systems, you could just wipe the disk and mount it again.
Hm, the the absolute least scary option would be to try it out on a live bootable USB. That's not difficult, it's the first step before installing pretty much any modern distro.
The second least but slightly more technically advanced would be to get a second hard drive and install Linux on that completely separately from your windows install. The technical part here is your BIOS will have a default boot drive and will boot from there on start up, so you would need to interrupt the boot and select which OS you want.
I personally went with the second option, as dual booting from the same had drive is a minefield with windows, as they have a tendency to wreck the Linux boot part. But when I swapped, I set the default boot to my Linux hard drive to get in the habit of using it, and if I ever need anything from windows nowadays (only VR) I select that on boot.
Before I bought a Steam Deck I had never used Linux but now I really like it, honestly I'm tempted to install SteamOS on my PC as it's only ever used for gaming anyway
Go for Bazzite. It's basically Steam OS but with extra stuff that makes it "just work", even on an Nvidia GPU.
Once Valve releases their official Steam OS, you can always switch to it.
I use Pop!_Os currently. Also has an "nvidia distro" and have a comparable experience of it mostly "just working".
Steam OS, it's not released to the public yet, but I know others waiting for it too.
Same, before steam deck I remembered my literal 15 year old terrible ubuntu experience. Nowardays I can say for from my experience as an ex MF mentioned in OP, is that those MFs think is a linux experience, is just projecting current state of windows.
The problem is that Linux is only ready in certain cases. For me, it isn't there yet, because I can't use it for my gaming machine. Every time this is brought up, Linux enthusiast shrug it off as "no big deal", you can game on Linux, just the games that use kernel level anti-cheat won't work. Well yeah, that's a bit the issue, I still like to play some of those games you see?
Meanwhile, I have Linux Mint running on a laptop that I bring on vacation. I don't game on that one. Then Linux works just as well as any other OS, no issue.
That's not "Linux isn't ready", it's "I still play games from companies that like to fuck with me."
It's fine, and we get it. But Linux isn't ever going to fix that.
Edit: We are seeing a lot more care from companies now that the SteamDeck is popular, so I hope your favorites get some relief.
I've accepted that I'll need a weird rig to play my favorite games that come from developers with shitty practices.
Ironically, mine tend to be Linux rigs emulating Windows to get things just right. But we do what we have to do play our favorite games.
Anyway, I'm not judging you, or your gaming choice.
I'm judging the game developers for choosing shitty tools that make our lives harder.
Ok, I'll bite. I tried Ubuntu a few months ago. Logging into Eduroam was a bit of a process, but eventually I figured it out and it worked. Then one day the internet didn't work and I had no idea why. Something to do with the network drivers. Then I was trying to use OpenOffice (or LibreOffice? The one that came with the OS), and I use Zotero for references. The Zotero plugin had a bunch of glitches that made me not trust it. The Internet (back on Windows) assured me that it worked fine, but it was way glitchier than the Windows version.
The bottom line is that I just need this stuff to work because I don't have time to debug. I love the idea though; maybe I was using the wrong distro.
Idk eduroam works fine on my thinkpad. Other than having to conf some files and not having to install random programs for basic functionality linux offers, its more reliable.
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Tried it again a few months ago when HDR support first dropped in KDE. It didn't work at all. Everything was desaturated and dim. Literally the opposite of what HDR is supposed to do.
I'm giving it another year before I try Linux again. Hopefully the bugs are sorted by then.
I've been using Endeavour with KDE and HDR on for almost a year. I had to install the "vk-hdr-layer-kwin6-git" package and now HDR works on desktop and in mpv/smplayer/haruna for both hdr10 and DV content. Games also work, but they require some steam launch arguments which aren't exactly user friendly.
Ideally this will "just work" in The Futureβ’...
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