I'm one of those "I'd like to switch but I'm not ready yet" types. I can use Linux, I've run Linux VMs for various things and sometimes had Linux on my secondary PCs, but yeah... Just not quite ready to make the jump for my main one.Start by using WSL for everything so you can try out different distros and if you're ever bothered by what you installed you can just delete it and try a new one takes like 10 minutes.
Start by using WSL for everything so you can try out different distros and if you're ever bothered by what you installed you can just delete it and try a new one takes like 10 minutes.At any rate it's gonna have to wait until my PC is up and running again (got spicy pillowed and won't run without a battery). Already installed a lot of my stuff on my gf's PC (Visual Studio etc), not gonna install a whole ass other OS.
At any rate it's gonna have to wait until my PC is up and running again (got spicy pillowed and won't run without a battery). Already installed a lot of my stuff on my gf's PC (Visual Studio etc), not gonna install a whole ass other OS.
That's why you use WSL so you can run Linux without needing to wipe or dual boot.Is that gonna be any better than a VM?
Is that gonna be any better than a VM?
WSL2 is a VM. WSL1 uses wrappers to pass Linux commands directly to the Windows kernel. Not sure what, if any performance differences there are.Last time I used a Linux VM was to try compiling Loap (open source Lemmings 3D clone) for Linux. Compiled fine, but performance was awful presumably due to the VM not giving full access to the GPU.
Last time I used a Linux VM was to try compiling Loap (open source Lemmings 3D clone) for Linux. Compiled fine, but performance was awful presumably due to the VM not giving full access to the GPU.Proxmox / KVM will let you do hardware passthrough to solve that among other problems, but I dont know about WSL.
I haven't really dived deep into Wine/Proton myself, but uhhh if not for games I wouldn't even still have Windows at allTheres no real diving. You basically just enable Steam Play in settings, then just use Steam like normal, and most games should just work. The main ones that dont are online games with some form of anti-cheat, as these often interpret being ran through DXVK / Proton as cheating.
i kinda wanna switch to linux, but, i game too often and linux isn't good enough for gaming yet IMO.I haven't had any issues with gaming as of recent. When you install Proton-GE, everything on Steam just works. There's also Heroic which serves as a GOG/Epic Games launcher. I've noticed emulators run better, too. I've been playing a lot of Starfield and ESO and they run just as well as they do on Windows.
theres been a lot of progress, but not enough
i can spin up any distro in a VM or use WSL, but if I'm not immersed and using it as my daily driver, theres no point since it will just be aimless exploration and ill forget everything
I haven't had any issues with gaming as of recent. When you install Proton-GE, everything on Steam just works. There's also Heroic which serves as a GOG/Epic Games launcher. I've noticed emulators run better, too. I've been playing a lot of Starfield and ESO and they run just as well as they do on Windows.How does it handle heavily-modded Bethesda games?
How does it handle heavily-modded Bethesda games?Works for me. Getting ModOrganizer 2 set up is a slightly time consuming (one-time only) task that involves copying and pasting terminal commands from a Github page but I have a very heavily modded Skyrim SE installation where everything just works. The same goes for Fallout games. If you play Morrowind there's OpenMW which runs 100% fine and is superior to playing the game's official release.
How does it handle heavily-modded Bethesda games?Can't speak for Bethesda games, but mod support for Linux can be weird
I haven't had any issues with gaming as of recent. When you install Proton-GE, everything on Steam just works. There's also Heroic which serves as a GOG/Epic Games launcher. I've noticed emulators run better, too. I've been playing a lot of Starfield and ESO and they run just as well as they do on Windows.I've heard of things like people getting banned in some online games cause some DRM for the game didn't work properly in Linux and things of that nature. Along with the software around gaming not working the best, although I admit I haven't actually tried with my setup. I mostly just don't want to spend a whole lot of time getting stuff to work
I've heard of things like people getting banned in some online games cause some DRM for the game didn't work properly in Linux and things of that nature. Along with the software around gaming not working the best, although I admit I haven't actually tried with my setup. I mostly just don't want to spend a whole lot of time getting stuff to workYou can search any game on ProtonDB and you can thoroughly find out how well certain games work. There are noob-friendly distros (OS's) that don't require a lot of work. Some are even tailored for gaming and have a lot of useful things preinstalled.
I use Linux at work a ton but at home not so much.
I'm going to be doing a full database export which will take about 2 hours tonight. Normally I would do these exports via some console command from my PC but since it will take 2 hours I'm going to instead do it straight from the Linux VM server that way if anything happens to my computer locally the backup will still run on the Linux VM. Gonna be fun.Just got done. This is all I did on Red Hat Linux.
I prefer Debian based systems over RHEL basedAll the Linux help topics assume Debian commands. Just makes things easier IMO. I've tried both.
I prefer Debian based systems over RHEL basedFor servers, yes. For desktops, I prefer Arch based.
Just got done. This is all I did on Red Hat Linux.MATE/GNOME 2 is still the GOAT desktop environment
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Theres no real diving. You basically just enable Steam Play in settings, then just use Steam like normal, and most games should just work. The main ones that dont are online games with some form of anti-cheat, as these often interpret being ran through DXVK / Proton as cheating.How about mods? Are they easy to install and manage? I love modding games on PC, so that would be a big one for me.
The diving is installing like GloriousEggroll builds of Protom and switching to those to see if they give you better performance, but I think theres like a Proton Manager app or something to do that for you.
How about mods? Are they easy to install and manage? I love modding games on PC, so that would be a big one for me.Therein lies the rub, and it's the main reason I don't run Linux on my gaming PC.
I have heard that Mod Organizer (the best one to use for Bethesda games) is problematic and may not fully work, but I've never attempted it.Mod Organizer 2 works flawlessly for me. You just need to copy a few tedious console commands which allow a game to launch MO2 when launched via Steam, and then you can do whatever you want. I have Skyrim, New Vegas and Fallout 4 modded and everything works fine.
Mod Organizer 2 works flawlessly for me. You just need to copy a few tedious console commands which allow a game to launch MO2 when launched via Steam, and then you can do whatever you want. I have Skyrim, New Vegas and Fallout 4 modded and everything works fine.Thats good to know, thanks.