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IMO, the hardest part of moving over is relearning a bunch of things you’ve taken for granted. However, Windows has been changing and breaking things at such a rapid pace, that not even my friends who still use it can keep track.
I hate PCGamer’s website. Everytime I get partway through an article, a pop-up shows asking me to sign up to their newsletter. Now the pop-up alone would turn me off of their website, but what happens is the pop-up scrolls the article all the way back to the top of the page. So I completely lose my reading position.
PCGamer isn’t the only site to do this, but I think it’s one of the more popular ones that do.
The other thing that sites do now that earns an instant DNS block on my pihole, is capturing the back action that prevents leaving the site to show a pop-up that says “wait, before you go, check out these other articles” or something along those lines. HELL… NO!
PC Gamer saying this is a good sign though, still one of the most popular special interest magazines that’s not porn
I too, am super brave for switching to Linux from Windows 11.
Joking aside, I love it. My relatively new laptop runs so much smoother on it. W11 always was doing something in the background and making my fan blast even when I wasn’t using it. That’s all gone and it’s a much happier device.
My printer works, my wacom intous tablet works, all my steam games so far work (I haven’t played every single one, but the ones I have played are fine).
Honestly, there was some things I had to troubleshoot at the beginning. I just asked AI and it gave me the terminal commands that I needed to get it done.
10/10 would recommend… if you’re brave.
If people don’t need any specific software and can adapt to the Linux alternatives, like LibreOffice… people will see some distros are now easier than Windows to use… and… you don’t have bad surprises on updates
The biggest problem with Linux has always been windows software imo.
Ditched Windows 11 for Bazzite on my RoG Ally. It is much smoother, more stable and zero problems running games on Steam.
MS may have finally pushed me to home linux. I’m used working with RHEL servers at work.
I recently began casually installing games on my Ubuntu system which I use for work. Apart from sound issues that I have because the drivers currently have issues with my specific hardware, I am surprised how ridiculously easy it was to run games. Steam’s Proton compatibility layer sure does the crucial work. But it’s usually just as simple as install and play.
Worst I had so far was a graphics glitch which was solved by using Proton GE for that title instead. Okay, and Wayland seems to make it hard for games to set the screen resolution and possibly fullscreen mode. But switching to X11 helps to get around such quirks.
how does steam operate on Linux? anything I need to do to port over stuff?
League of Legends still doesn’t support it. Most of my friends play it however shitty and toxic it may be. As long as that remains a fact, I can’t move to Linux unless I want to “sit outside and look at my friends playing together”.
So, so brave…
I just had to sign my own drivers that I compiled locally for VMWare. Even though I use it, it’s not quite ‘everyday’ user friendly
Edit: It is user-friendly and what I am doing is a CSCI college grad level, nothing anyone using basic Linux would ever need to do
I am brave enough to say it: The ocean has water in it.
Praise me for my braveness.
I get the sentiment but the article is more targeted at the PC gaming crowd that isn’t exactly tech-illiterate but probably only knows Linux from memes about it requiring you to recompile a kernel to install Chrome or some other BS like that
I think a good portion of Lemmy and the fediverse already know it’s been at this level for a long while now but I’m excited to see articles like this since it means the tide is turning against Windows for the average user
Yeah, though would be better if the well were not poisoned, misleading perceptions, with words like “brave” and “now”.
but probably only knows Linux from memes about it requiring you to recompile a kernel to install Chrome or some other BS like that
Yeah just look at the article’s comment section (not recommended). Still full of ignorant misinformation. Borderline disinformation IMO.
i think this bravery is worthy of a marble carving. 12 stories tall, of you pointing at the ocean
Pretty sure Trump’s already building one, but I guess you could put this guy’s next to it.
I heard somewhere that by the time the scientific community officially announces life on mars the rest of us will have already concluded that there is life on mars. I feel like this is the same thing.
Because science doesn’t work on circumstantial evidence, but hard proof.
The problem is there’s a large difference between the 50% the average person needs and the 99.9% the scientific community needs. It’s just a different level of proof they’re looking for.
I realize that scientific rigor demands more to assert a claim. I was more commenting on mainstream gamer media embracing Linux after it seems like a well proven option.
Big if true.
How do you live so dangerously, sir? Aren’t you worried about retribution?
Valorant DaddleDew,
Doth proudly proclaim.
Sees that the sea is due
To torrential rain.Dew truly polymath,
Paragon of deep.
Scrolls Lemmy in the bath
And nods right off to sleep.Wtf. MODSSSSS
'zacly.
Best reply.
Next you’ll say the ocean is a soup.
Salt, meat, vegetables–it is soup.
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I was so reluctant to transition to Linux for gaming. I’ve been using Linux since 2007, so I’m not new to the OS.
I took the plunge a handful of months ago, and it is an amazing experience. The games I like to play actually saw performance gains when switching over.
I still dual boot a Win 10 partition for outliers, but so far the only game to get installed there has been BF6, due to the requirements of their anti-cheat.
I also have a spare windows drive for BF6, but it’s so unbelievably mid that in practice I don’t really even play it
I can’t disagree. But a couple of friends and I like to play a few casual bot rounds on Friday nights.
How easy was it to do the signed boot?
Not OP. I’m dual booting Windows and Fedora. Fedora supports secure boot, so everything works out of the box. The only thing that annoys me are the Nvidia drivers. Those need a kernel module that you need to compile yourself. And all kernel modules need to be signed for secure boot.
In theory, it’s still easy: At first, Fedora boots with a precompiled and signed nouveau driver, that supports secure boot - so you can use your PC after the install. When you install the NVidia Driver,
akmodsetc gets setup automatically. Also they automatically generate a key pair for you andmokutilallows you to send that key to your UEFI, so that you can install it on the next boot. So it’s just reboot, load the key once in the UEFI and after the reboot the official driver is running. After every kernel upgrade akmods should automatically recompile the module, sign it with your key (now known by your UEFI) and it just works.In practice… For me it’s a 50:50 if the akmods auto build works. So, after a kernel upgrade, I usually reboot, wait for the build to fail to a Desktop in 1024×768 and then have to open a terminal and type
akmods --rebuild --force. After the build and an additional reboot everything works again.Lmfao it’s a piece of shit, basically I have all three of my drives hanging out of the 5.25 bay on the front of my machine. That way I can easily unplug my 2 Linux drives when I enable secure boot. Otherwise my Linux won’t boot, which fucking sucks to fix. So basically it’s a pain in the ass and BF6 just isn’t good enough for me to spend that effort.
Some distros like Mint support ‘secure boot’ out of the box, so dual booting works fine without any extra work. But I haven’t used Nvidia drivers yet, so idk about that.
It’s funny. I also was very hesitant to make the jump from Windows, but finally did in 2025. I was dual booting for a while until I realized I hadn’t been into the Windows one in months because it was a pain in the ass for various reasons. So I just got rid of it.
I’ve made peace with the fact that I won’t be able to play certain games. Their loss; there’s plenty of other games to buy with my money.
I’ve made peace with the fact that I won’t be able to play certain games. Their loss; there’s plenty of other games to buy with my money.
Same.
I have a backlog of games years long, the fact that I can’t put Battlefield or Valorant on that list doesn’t diminish my ability to play amazing games 24/7 if I wanted.
Expedtion 33, Blue Prince, Hollow Knight, Silksong, Hades 2, ARC Raiders, Helldivers 2, Path of Exile 2, Deep Rock Galactic, etcetcetc.
I have over 200 games in my Steam library and every single one works on Linux. I’ll worry about the 5 kernel anti-cheat games once I get to the end of my list…
I was dual booting for a while until I realized I hadn’t been into the Windows one in months because it was a pain in the ass for various reasons. So I just got rid of it.
A very old familiar story over the past couple decades or so.
I’ve made peace with the fact that I won’t be able to play certain games. Their loss
Yup.
It shall continue being good to see other people get this, taking their power back, ceasing being their games dealer’s bitch.
Same experience here. I’ve used Linux for decades. Always on my servers. Occasionally on a desktop here or there. Tried to daily-drive it on a single computer or laptop many times. Got close a couple times, but ultimately always fell back to Windows when the going got tough, when hardware support wasn’t available or the errors and misconfigurations became too convoluted or I simply fell back into the habit of regularly using programs that simply didn’t work or weren’t available in any form on Linux.
When I came back to it a year or two ago? That experience totally changed. The tables have flipped completely. Linux is now the compatible, straightforward, quickly-fixed, and often even user-friendly option while Windows has turned into a frustrating shitshow of blocking and opting-out of misfeatures and reconfiguring shit that breaks all the time with Microsoft’s ideological “updates”.
Switching to Linux on my grandma’s computer was a breath of fresh air for both of us. Then I switched one of my laptops. I remained impressed. It took some self-convincing, but eventually I got brave enough to switch my main gaming PC/desktop workstation… and with a little bit of work, it was soon perfectly lovely (I’m typing this on it right now). I’ve been running PikaOS, a gaming-focused Debian variant for over a year now and it’s been an utterly fantastic experience. I have zero complaints. Are there still some rough edges? Yes, absolutely, but I don’t mind. I use them to file the callouses off my bash-scripting fingers while I figure out a way to smooth them down.
I’m pretty savvy and experienced with Linux, and I realize it’s probably not ready for everyone yet, but it’s ready for more people than you’d think. For grandma, who only uses web browser and word processor and email, Linux is a straight upgrade in user experience, stability, functionality, everything. For Gamers, everything you need is almost all out there already, thanks to Steam and Wine and Proton and the gaming-focused distros and all the ecosystem that’s built up around that. Ironically it’s the technically competent Windows “Power Users” who might still struggle the most, they won’t have the survival skills they need to operate at the level they expect in a Linux ecosystem yet.
It would also be good enough for a Power User to work at grandma’s level with zero effort, or a Gamer level if they were willing to just blindly follow copy-and-pasted instructions, but that justifiably won’t be enough for them. To work at a Power User level in Linux, you need to learn some different skills. Maybe you can get those on the server side and through stubborn trial and error, like I did, or maybe Linux will eventually get good enough that it’s intuitive to do everything even Windows Power Users want to do eventually. But I don’t think it’s quite there yet for that group. It takes some effort, for sure.
The games I like to play actually saw performance gains when switching over.
Yes. That’s part what got me to let go of my dual-booting habit.
When booted to Windows, I would get tempted to play something (that I had installed on both sides) lazily without rebooting back to Linux, and it would suck.
TBH I don’t understand what’s there even to be reluctant about if you’re already a Linux user. You’ve probably already been dualbooting, it’s not exactly a lot of effort to install Steam or a gog Linux installer.
How shit gaming had been on it, for the majority of it’s lifetime.
Yeah do people not remember the pre proton era? Or before the push in the 2010s that got indie games to support Linux?
Linux gaming has seen wild changes in just the last 5 years.
Yeah for tech savvy people it wasn’t a big deal. Download Windows game on the interwebs, check winehq and then game.
But it wasn’t always plug and play. Also I always was flexible on what games I wanted to play.
Even then, it often crashed or glitched. I mean it was amazing for me at the time anyway, running Windows games on Linux. But nowadays it’s on a different level.
I absolute do remember the pre proton era, but for Linux users it should have been common knowledge that Proton exists and worked pretty well for years. And it’s certainly less effort to try at least a little to get a game working you already own (by looking it up on protondb if it doesn’t work right away) than to boot into Windows specifically for gaming.
I AM VERY BADASS
Yes, so badass, clicking “install” on a Steam game.
If the game is not on Steam or doesn’t have a native Linux port (which is actually worse more often than not) then manually setting up to run through wine/proton is pain the ass.
How many people only play games that this applies to?
There are a lot of people play such such games at least occasionally. And on Windows they just work. The moment gamer try to do this on Linux and realize that it doesn’t, they will go back to Windows.
The paradise of easy gaming on Linux ends the moment you try to leave Valve’s walled garden.
Sure, I understand not wanting to fuck around with WINE manually. But the commenter who said they’re reluctant never even said that they don’t use Steam - why wouldn’t they at least try?
For me, it’s Final Fantasy XI - it’s a million years old and it actually does run fine on Linux, but some of the third party QOL tools I use to make it less painful to play don’t work (or at least I can’t figure out how to get them to work) through Lutris.
