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I’ve been putting off switching because of everything I have setup for work, but next week I have a new laptop arriving and I’ll be wiping the pre-installed windows and chucking probably fedora on it.
Once I have that first one done, I’ll be able to start moving all my others. I have a bunch of Hyper-V VMs that I need to migrate which has been the main cause of my hesitation.
Check fan speed volume before and after linux to see how many background AI scrapers were removed lmao.
I'm not much of a gamer, not because I don't like to game, but because I'm old and have little time for it. That has made Fedora Workstation my preferred desktop/laptop OS for the last 6 years or so. Maybe that's the reason why I just can't understand why people keep putting up with Microsoft's bullshit.
I have tried Endeavour about 4 times over the years, but in trying to 'make it my own' I always end up breaking it badly and come back to Fedora for a stable few months before going on a distro-hop riot all over again. Linux certainly is a lovely drug to be hooked on 😁
I feel you. Ive been going through this loop over and pver again. Ive landed on the fedora based Universal Blue for this reason. Bluefin for my desktop and bazzite for my gaming PCs. Sometimes you just want your system to be stable and get out of your way and i really appreciate thay about fedora.
That was the one Distro that appealed to my wife enough for her to allow me to switch her Windows in her work PC. Now she hates to have to go to her windows laptop to do some taxes shit in our country every month because they only allow excel.
Doesn't one of the office alternatives do .xlsx? Or at least use the web version of excel?
Only Office and LibreOffice do, I but the macros used by our tax authority completely break there, so she's left with the excel option alone.
Go figure, but the web version of excel should work.
According to her, it didn't work. I have no idea what macros those are, and in all honesty, I don't care either, as I don't have to do it (I know that's a douche comment, but here we are). As long as I'm not the one hack g to deal with that crap, I'm not even asking. At the end of the day, that's all she uses that laptop for, the rest is either company hosted or self hosted and she can use it all on her phone or tablet when she's out and about or in her PC when I get home the office.
Yes, I've been experimenting with different Linux distros since 2008 and I was pretty skeptical about "Atomic" distros when they first started buzzing around a few years ago.
However, this past year we've had to make the jump to Linux due to windows 11 shenanigans. But let me tell you. She's got Bazzite and I've had to distro hop different arch distros.
But let me tell you, I am incredibly jealous of the amount of things that "just work™️" on her setup. Things that I've had to track down on obscure forums. Avoiding footguns and landmines.
I used to recommend Ubuntu, then it was Linux Mint, and now, I recommend any Atomic distro that fits your purpose.
I tried Ubuntu first, because I had heard of it, and too many things didn't work. At the time I was still on that other link aggregator platform and the Linux nerds there told me to try Mint and they were right. It just worked and I have happily run that ever since. It does what I do and isn't Microsoft or the overpriced fruit company. I have no urge to distro hop at all. Fussing with my computer isn't fun for me, I just want to use it sometimes. I agree, though, Linux is good and there's something for everyone.
Sweet, I contributed to both those categories.
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I'm doing my part!
"EndeavourOS 0.07%"
Let's goooo! There are dozens of us!!
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Recently tried CachyOS on my HTPC. Couldn't get Sunshine to run. It looked beautiful though and the docs seemed really in-depth. Endeavour (thanks to Arch, I know) is just so stable and fast. Just the right amount of pre-installed stuff like reflector, yay, the firewall-config app for firewalld with sane defaults, nice BTRFS subvolume layout, correct NVidia drivers. Would be nice to have Limine (for BTRFS snapshots) as an option besides SystemD boot and Grub in Calamares but I installed it in addition to SystemD boot. Gaming works tremendously good. Everything else too.
I really can't recall the last time an update went wrong. On both of my machines (one Intel, one AMD, both NVidia).
Sunshine was pretty effortless on cachyos for me, did you install it using pacman?
Yes AFAIK it is in the extra repo, which I'd always prefer to the AUR. Thing is, I tried Apollo beforehand, as I wanted clipboard support, which was probably only available in the AUR. Maybe that borked something with the install. I could install Sunshine though but Moonlight from my main Endeavor install couldn't make any connection even with opening all the wanted ports in the firewall.
Don't want to diss CachyOS. They're sure doing tremendous work for the gaming community and all the default themes for the different WMs and DEs look enticing. I'm sure this was a case of PEBKAC.
You need to install CUDA first, if you have a Nvidia card. Limine is already an option when you install the os.
What's your experience with gaming on endeavourOS been? What games do you play? Any issues with graphics or sound?
Pretty much everything I've tried has worked seamlessly out of the box. Obviously, the same issues crop up as with any other Linux system: you pretty much cannot play kernel level anticheat games, womp womp. I might have installed my video drivers myself, I honestly don't recall, but it's as easy as grabbing them from pacman.
For my particular setup, I'm using an Nvidia card and mostly only use Steam for games, although I have gotten Proton to work with a couple of games outside of Steam.
In case you're new to Linux in general, when I first installed Steam, I noticed I could only play a small fraction of my games and was disheartened, but you just have to turn on the Proton compatibility layer and you're good to go.
I do also have a Windows 11 VM for any compatibility issues, but I honestly haven't booted it up in months.
all-time high
It's 3.2%
I mean, sure, big headline is cool. But it's 3.2%
It's 3.2% of Steam Linux installs. The actual number is higher.
Closing in on 8% if you filter it by "English language only". Chinese speakers overwhelmingly (almost exclusively) use Windows and make up about 30% of all Steam users, which skews the rest-of-world results. And I wouldn't consider 8% of all prospective sales to be a joke, especially since that number only keeps on rising and by the time you've spent a few years writing a game it's likely to be quite a bit more.
Why stop there? If you filter it by “users not using windows” we can get that number over 90%!
Massaging the data to meet your desired stats. Like a politician.
Why not exclude even more countries that mostly use windows and then say "99% of steam users are using Linux*"
~*based on users in Afghanistan only~
Hey! I'll have you know that 100% of steam users * are using linux.
* sample size : me
We should survey the linux_gaming community. That will give us a larger sample size that's definitely representative of the broader trends
3.2% on a gaming hardware survey is fucking insane stats for Linux though. Three years ago that wouldn't have been believable.
I thought about buying a framework 12 for kicks but it's Intel only and for that reason I'm oooout.
It’s not a huge issue for me but I would love to upgrade to an AMD mainboard in the future
AMD marches "against Intel"? Is there some sort of confrontation going on between the 2? Or does this just mean AMD makes good processors and sells better?
I personally just don’t trust Intel. A lot of people just treat them as the default, but if you’ve been following the news for the last few years, there is a lot to be skeptical of quality wise.
if you have been following them for decades you know too
AMD: "Our partners will fry your expensive CPU on some boards."
INTEL: "Our software will fry your expensive CPU on all boards."
The US government has stake in Intel. Don’t trust them anymore.
Well I would like to see something on lunar lake too it very cool CPU Intel made by failed by advertising
I would like more from Intel as well. Not because of a CPU structure or anything, but just because competition is good for the consumer.
