Lads, I finally made the jump. Over the years, I have tried daily driving various distros of Linux- sometimes dual booting, sometimes on a secondary storage, though always with an intention of returning back to Windows. Not anymore. I installed Bazzite yesterday on my OS drive for my gaming PC. I might switch to SteamOS whenever(if) that comes out.
I was wondering if I would have to mess with Nvidia drivers to enable Gsync. The installation didn’t even ask me about drivers. During the iso download, I picked the Nvidia GPU option, so that would have been pre-configured. Out of all the times I have tried installing Linux, this was the smoothest. It could have been because I wasn’t trying to mess with partitions/dual boot/bootloaders and whatever else. Just Death Star-ed Windows 10 drive during install and was good to go. The installation was super smooth, had no issues. It just works.
The OS takes much less space on my already small SSD drive, allowing me to store CS2 on the SSD rather than on the HDD. Direct improvement on my QoL. Also I am seeing performance gains of ~30fps in Counter Strike 2. I used to get ~130fps on Windows 10, here I am getting ~160fps on a benchmark map. The only game I would miss is PUBG, but to be honest I wasn’t playing it that much anyways (maybe once a month or less).
Do post an update in a few months or so.. Even I could never completely move to linux.. Tried multiple distros, elementary, mint, manjaro, garuda, & pop os was my favorite of them all.. But I could never commit to it and kept moving back to windows..
I so desperately want to move to linux (I used to disro hop every 3 months during college).
But games I play, don’t work so I am stuck with Windows for now.
EA did EA things again, and has added a check for linux and a message that says something like ‘Steam deck not supported’ when running on any linux. So even if you could tinker around to get some games to work earlier, EA has shut that door.
Anticheat not working means no more Apex Legends.
F1 25 is another game I play with my sim rig which I can’t without Windows.
I can give up sim racing if my friends get that yearly rush of Minecraft and we start playing that. That and CS2 are the games I play and that do work normally.
Yea, it is very publisher/developer dependant. EA is a tough one.
SIM racing intrigues me. I never thought of Linux compatibility with SIM rigs. Some quick searches on youtube show that compatibility has reached a good zone. Though F1 might still be an issue for you regardless of hardware.
Can you tell us what problems you weren’t able to solve. Maybe one of us can guide you through it.
Linux requires patience in the early days. Once everything is setup, it should run smoothly without manual intervention. So the initial config and settings play an important role.
Dual boot + work/browse on linux + Games that you cannot play on Linux, play on windows.
I use Linux for everything but gaming now. Some may need applications that they cant live without. For that use windows. Also HDR on windows is easier/better.
What a terrible company. Awful app keeps connecting to internet even in offline mode.
I am used to softwares that are built for windows, the most basic thing like ms office doesn’t exist on linux..
I tried to get wine to work for me, but I never got it working, and after a lot of hassle I just gave up..
I know alternatives exist, but looking up alternatives to everything seemed like more of a headache than a relief..
And sometimes u need something specific and it simply doesn’t exist, like back in the day I was into rooting and modding a lot, miflash didn’t exist on linux, idk if it is available now, but yeah that’s the thing..
Another thing was audio was broken on multiple distros for some reason..
I moved away mostly because of software issues.. That’s why I had asked op to share a long term review considering he was in a similar boat as me, jumping between stuff.. Maybe if the situation is better, I may try linux again
Audio is a solved problem. Just need to make sure to select Pipewire in your audio settings (incase it is not the default).
MSoffice is a Microslop problem. They refuse to offer a linux version. Before 2010, MSO was not available on MacOS either. Libre Office has been a drop in replacement and I have been happy with it since 2011.
You have to remember, Linux is its own OS. Linux can do many things that Windows cannot. If you take sometime to configure your OS, it will last you a long time without crashes. For software alternatives, take a look at https://alternativeto.net/. You can make a small spreadsheet of all the softwares you use, then note down which ones have a native linux version and which ones need an alternative. These open source alternatives often have a windows version too, so you can test them out on windows, to ease your transition experience.
If you need help with setup or configuring, there are many members here who will help you.
