Hi all,

I made this post about a year ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/31760258

At the time, I was going to switch a couple laptops over and if all went well, put Linux on my main rig.

I just wanted to provide an update on my own experiences, and wanted to see what other people’s experiences were like.

I put Mint on both my laptop’s, and enjoyed it. Familiar enough to Windows where I could mess around with things, but different enough that I could learn. After 7 or 8 months of rocking Mint, I finally put Bazzite on my main rig. I did during the work week, which on hindsight was a bad idea because I also run Windows on my main rig as my work requires Windows, but I accidentally deleted my Windows bootloader (lol). After an evening of panic, I was able to recover the bootloader, set Bazzite up with dual booting, and it’s been smooth sailing since.

I’m a pretty big gamer, play lots of games with a bunch of friends, and after about 3 months of using Bazzite, I have not run into a SINGLE issue that has prevented me from playing anything. I have been shocked at how smooth everything has been. In the morning, I boot into Windows, work for the day, and then when I’m done I just run boot-windows through Steam or reboot to get into Bazzite and then I’m gaming.

I have done a little bit of tinkering with audio to get my desk mic to work correctly, but it’s been great!

For others who have recently made the switch over, what was your experience like? Any issues? Any tips or helpful suggestions to share?

Cheers!

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I switched to arch on my main rig at the beginning of the year. It was such a bad experience I switched back to windows and I am slowly ordering parts for a new PC that doesnt have Nvidia in it. I run linux on everything except my gaming PC and I was just being a big dumbass. For whatever reason I was trying to run i3 instead of a desktop environment and I started the whole thing by pulling ny laptop dot files down. I couldn’t get anything to launch. My focusrite did work out of the box tho. So I’m going to try again, but first I’m gonna finish my new build. Mainky because I’ll need to test out Sober to ensure they can still play Roblox.

    • D1re_W0lf@piefed.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      If you want to go Arch Linux at, you might want to try CachyOS. It’s been my gaming PC OS for around one year and I’m really happy with the result.

      • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        yeah CachyOS is my go to if I want to use Arch. great distro. If i’m not on NixOS then I’m on Cachy.