Still very happy with Mint after a month and a half. Highly recommended!
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I've had a Steam Deck for a few years, and it runs Linux. I have come to the conclusion that I could easily switch at any time if I needed to. Windows only has an an advantage when hot swapping between my office and TV dock. Linux just doesn't yet handle desktop resizing on the fly well.
So glad I came back to Linux a couple years ago. I only use my windows partition to play a game that wonβt work as well in Linux, and that list is pretty small for the games I play. Even BG3 worked great in Mint, using a 6 year old build.
the penguin migration was going just fine, until nvidia 570.124.04 dropped, which is when the misery started. :|
Got to check if I can roll back to earlier version.
Linux is super reliable, and unless you use cutting edge distro, it's pretty rare than anything breaks. Even Fedora is pretty stable from experience
The only true problems I ever had (and still has), were with Nvidia. And switching distros ain't saving you. Linux mint? Breaks on suspend. Nobara? Memory leak. Trying newer versions to see if it fixes it? Where's my bootloader...
I do understand that laptop RTX 3070 are not common, but still. I just want it to work, and have cuda on it. Is that too much to ask?
unless you use cutting edge distro
yea well, "arch btw". Haven't had issues really, been running it for years on other systems but my gaming pc with nvidia is the only one with issues... because of course it does. :D
Of course. Mileage may vary. On some systems it may always work, on others it's "what's broken this week".
word. some devices just have angry machine spirits which just can't be pleased.
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Games and especially modding. I'm holding on to 10 until I can't. Then i'll figure out Linux.
tip: Windows 10 21h2 IoT Enterprise LTSC is supported until 2032
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No, it's not. And I say that as an almost-exclusively Linux users since at least 20 years.
What do you mean? My computer has never had Windows installed on it, so the end of Windows 10 support doesn't affect me at all. I'm not sure what could be more simple than that.
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At work we run some software that while you can get it to run under Linux it's not worth the effort even for me to bother.
One supplier is slowly moving towards the runtime being available on BSD at least. They also somewhat decoupled from visual studio in the latest release, while still being mandatory still it's a step in the right direction.
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For the most basic casual PC gamer SteamOS will be a game changer once they add more hardware support for it.
Bazzite wants to say hello
So does Nobara.
You mean Nvidia hardware. Nvidia purposefully sucks overall on Linux. Don't reply with "mine works great" because you're lying or haven't had an issue yet. Fuck Nvidia.
This keeps getting brought up, but the reality is that there is nothing special about SteamOS 3. If people want a SteamOS-like OS (Immutable, Steam/Proton integrated, Steam Big Picture as Primary interface), then it already exists. Chimera, Bazzite, probably others. The only thing Valve could realistically improve on is the installation experience.
SteamOS's only real advantage is that it is hardware restricted. Valve is able to test against a narrow field of hardware and insure a high degree of stability because of it.
I have to make the switch..