Yeah, this was basically my shift away. I still have my windows drive as a backup but I’ve basically moved away. CachyOS covers a lot of bases for me.
IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Every few years I dip my toes in the Linux pool to see how things are going. This weekend I set up a separate drive on my gaming rig to install CachyOS. I haven’t had time to try many games yet, but the ones I have tried run really well. This might be the year I actually make the switch away from Windows.
Katana314@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
scala@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Do it! Join us
IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So far things are looking good. I usually spend a week or so trying to get everything working then usually get frustrated and wipe the install. Usually over something like GPU drivers. This time setup went almost entirely without a hitch. Everything (video, audio, input devices) was working on the first full boot. The only thing I ran into was when I tried to turn on HDR on one of my monitors, everything went black. I had to open a terminal to delete a config file and reboot but it has been fine since. Steam and Proton were part of a single package install. I did have some difficulty getting Steam to set up a library folder on a separate mounted partition, but I got it working.
From here it’s mostly about what games I can get running, and if I need to find replacements for apps I use a lot on Windows, or if Linux versions are available.
All that said, I’m pretty optimistic so far.
scala@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Pretty good list of what works and doesnt. areweanticheatyet.com
Are you using Nvidia? Those apparently have many more issues than AMD GPUs. That being said bazzite comes with lots of preinstalled things like drivers, steam, lutris(for wine) and bazaar for apps.